Parent ambassadors connect PJ Library families

BY DEBORAH MOON
PJ Library has hired two part-time parent ambassadors – Sonia Marie Leikam and Ilana Jaffe-Lewis – to help create experiences and connections among the 1,020 young families across the Greater Portland area who receive free PJ Library books each month. 
PJ Library sends m…

JFCS and JFGP Will Walk Beside You

BY JENN DIRECTOR KNUDSEN
Grief affects every part of our lives and can be a lonely road to travel. Due to the ongoing pandemic, coping with grief has been more isolating than at any time in recent memory.
To address individuals’ grief and shore up their ability to cope, Jewish Family & Chi…

StandWithUs taps four students for programs

PHOTOS: Clockwise from top left: High school interns Mazzi Katzen, Suretta Plawner and Ben Rosenfeld, and SWU Northwest high school speaker Aviv Attia. Below right is Rayna Davis, Emerson Fellow at the University of Oregon.

StandWithUs has announced its 2021-22 Kenneth Leventhal High Schoo…

REBOOTED SHULS: Congregations adjust High Holiday plans

PHOTO: “Cannot Predict Now” reads the Magic 8 Ball Rabbi Eve Posen used as a Zoom background for a Neveh Shalom town hall about High Holiday plans. The rabbi views the unpredictability of the Magic 8 Ball as analogous to life in an ever-changing pandemic.

BY DEBORAH MOON

Even before …

REBOOTED BUSINESS: Mother’s Bistro adapts

PHOTO: Even before the new mask mandates, Lisa Schroeder required her staff to wear masks at her reopened Mother’s Bistro & Bar in downtown Portland.

BY DEBORAH MOON
After a year of vacillating restrictions and conditions, Mother’s Bistro reopened June 3 with limited days and hours in a…