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Apr 4, 2024

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Passover eats and treats in Portland for 2024

Editor’s Note: Additional information is being added to this article as it becomes available.

By KERRY POLITZER

For The Jewish Review

It’s Passover season, one of the most delicious times of the year. Here is our round-up of where to buy the tastiest holiday treats for 2024.

Are y…

Mar 27, 2024

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Our values compel us to move away from fossil fuels

By BRIAN ROMER, HANK KAPLAN, and RACHEL NELSON
Recently, the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland voted to stop investing our reserve funds in fossil fuels, a Jewish values-aligned step that continues our local Federation’s leadership on climate. 
The Federation Board took t…

Mar 27, 2024

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'Once in a lifetime' - one year later

By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review A year ago, 200 Portlanders headed out on what proved to be the adventure of a lifetime. All clad in matching blue shirts, the participants in the PDXIsrael 2023 mission had been anticipating the adventure – some for as many as four years. The journey…

Mar 27, 2024

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Melamed looks 'Inside the Middle East' at MJCC

By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review At long last, Avi Melamed arrived at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, in the flesh, to talk about what’s happening in Gaza, Israel and the surrounding region. The author of “Inside The Middle East” and the founder of the organization that…

Mar 27, 2024

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Kesser Israel's Purim gifts take on extra meaning

By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review Congregation Kesser Israel’s mishloach manot baskets are a major production each Purim; a thematically prepared box of joy given out to the congregation’s members and others in fulfillment of one of Purim’s mitzvot. With this being the first Purim…