Jewish Family & Child Service was in the middle of a three-year strategic plan to enhance its programs for, and awareness of, services for children and families when COVID-19 changed reality. Now a new outreach and communications team led by Deputy Director Susan Greenberg is poised to help…
Educators start getting vaccinated and families hear from three principals about school re-opening plans.
Portland’s Jewish community has helped at-risk youth living at the Neve Michael Children’s Village in Israel for two decades; when COVID lockdowns exacerbated the stress on families, Portland stepped up again.
On Dec. 29, 114 people on the Cedar Sinai Park campus received their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Those receiving vaccines included 65 CSP staff and 49 residents in the four households of the Harold Schnitzer Center for Living and post-acute care patients in Robison Jewish…
The convergence of the economic and health crises caused by COVID and the rise of extremism have pummeled local restaurants and small businesses this year. In response, a Shop Local movement seeks to keep those businesses viable. Recent vandalism at three Middle Eastern/Israeli-style…
