By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review As the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Good Deeds Month winds to a close, to call it a “good month” may risk understatement. “It was a great way to get the word out about the new Jewish Volunteer Corps and connect people both to our…
By ROCKNE ROLL
The Jewish Review
Dorice Horenstein didn’t think she would write another book.
After publishing “Moments of the Heart,” her award-winning debut, Horenstein had plenty going on. But the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic forced everyone to make a lot of challenging choices,…
By JESSICA ANDERSON
In the last few years, Jewish high school students (and their parents) contemplating college choices are realizing there are new considerations in examining Jewish life on campus. Since Oct. 8, 2023, Jewish life on college campuses has, in some cases, been very altered, a…
By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review On Saturday, Apr. 5, busloads of demonstrators unloaded on to the sidewalk of Southwest Beaverton Hillsdale Highway to protest proposed budgetary measures by President Donald Trump and Republican leadership in Congress – a sight not unusual in Portland,…
By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review At the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s latest K-12 Parent Advocacy, held Monday, Apr. 7 at Congregation Neveh Shalom, Danielle Frandina pointed out a fundamental problem. “A lot of people don’t understand antisemitism and they don’t…
