New Chabad Center fosters Jewish life in Gresham

PHOTO: Rabbi Avrohom and Cheina Dyce and daughters, Chaya Mushka and Rochel.

East Multnomah County, which includes the cities of Gresham, Fairview, Troutdale and Wood Village, has long been a desert when it comes to Jewish programming.
That will change with the opening of Chabad Jewish Cent…

Psychiatrist shares thoughts on pandemic anxiety

BY AMY R. KAUFMAN

In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, psychiatrist Charles Kuttner received a call from a woman who was not his patient.
“I’ve never been quite this anxious,” she said. “Isolation has magnified my loneliness. Time has no boundaries; the future is all uncerta…

Climate change: A call to action

BY DEBORAH MOON

“You have a call to action,” moderator Rob Shlachter told attendees at the Oct. 27 Solomon’s Legacy program on climate change from a legal perspective. “You have to start somewhere.”
Shlachter called Climate Change and the Public Trust, “one of the most important…

The Pearl is gaining an Oasis

A Jewish Oasis is coming to Portland’s Pearl District. Following the August 2020 fire that destroyed the Chabad House and Everything Jewish store near Hillsdale, a fund-raising campaign has allowed Chabad to purchase (with a mortgage) a 2,500-square-foot building at 1218 NW Glisan St.…

Chanukah Gift Shops & Pop-ups

This year, Chanukah begins early on the secular calendar – the evening of Nov. 28 – and continues through Dec. 5. The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland has curated a webpage, 
jewishportland.org/chanukah-resources, jam-packed with resources to help you celebrate this year’s Chanuk…