Dr. Yosef Rosen, the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Director of Jewish Life and Learning, is back in the classroom.
Rosen is teaching History of Antisemitism this term through Portland State University’s Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies. The course, an upper-divisi…
Early childhood education can be a challenging field; putting “Jewish” in front of that doesn’t change that. Jewish early childhood education is, however, a huge part of Jewish life for many children and their families, as well as the entirety of Jewish community.
“There’s so many families t…
“A day devoted to joy became a day that we struggled to speak about without tears.”
This was Congregation Neveh Shalom Senior Rabbi Eve Posen’s description of that day that a packed ballroom at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center came together to mark exactly three years after its occurre…
Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg explained to the audience assembled at the Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County on Tuesday, Oct. 13, that what they were witnessing wasn’t just a presentation – it was a miracle.
“This is not just a story we read in the news. This is a living miracle that we have the…
Schmoozapalooza, the Senior Prom for seniors hosted by Jewish Family & Child Service, is back for a fourth year.
This year’s event, themed around the “Roaring 20s” is scheduled for this Sunday, Oct. 18, from 1-4 pm at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center in Portland.
“We are once again pa…
A poster spotted on the University of Oregon campus attacking the head of Oregon Hillel has drawn condemnation from campus leaders, elected officials and Jewish community leaders throughout the state.
Early in the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 1, Oregon Hillel Executive Director Lenny Steinbe…
The new (Hebrew) year is shaping up to be one of significant change for Rachel’s Well Community Mikvah.
The mikvah (Jewish ritual bath), owned and operated by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, is now under the management of Dr. Yosef Rosen, the Federation’s Director of Jewish Life …
Sukkahs don’t disappear by magic, and they don’t reappear magically, either.
The Oregon Hillel Sukkah at Oregon State University – the first built at the group’s new premises in Corvallis (See “New space, staff for Ore. Hillel,” Aug. 13, 2026, Page 1) – disappeared the evening of Monday, Se…
While most people know the clarinet’s place in Jewish music primarily by its influence on Klezmer, the instrument is so much more, as Portland’s Rey Abolofia can attest.
He’ll demonstrate the expansiveness of the clarinet’s impact on Jewish music in his aptly titled recital, “The Jewish Cla…
What passes for involvement in public life looks different today than it did in the recent past.
“I think we’ve lost so much of that in in so many different ways over the last decades and years. And I want to reengage and I want to reinvigorate that,” Jewish Federation of Greater Portland C…
Rich Meyer has been part of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s work as long as he can remember.
“As a young kid, I spent a lot of my time tagging along with my parents to Federation meetings,” he said. “I guess I absorbed a lot of that.”
Meyer is co-chair of the Federation’s 2027 …
Since the rise of the digital marketplace of ideas, traditional ideas about civic engagement have fallen by the wayside. Jewish and Hindu groups in Portland are working together to change that.
Avenues to Civic Engagement, a program sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland and…
After launching his career in Jewish community advocacy in the halls of Congress, one of Portland’s own is coming home.
Eli Berne has been named the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s new Director of Governmental Affairs, a role he’ll take up Oct. 1.
“As Jewish communities face securi…
Later this fall, a week before American voters go to the polls in what has been widely billed as one of the most consequential elections in the country’s history, Israeli voters will take their own turn at a historic election.
All 120 seats in Israel’s Knesset (parliament) are up for electi…
ElevatEd, the national partnership to support the next generation of Jewish Early Childhood Educators, is coming to Portland.
Five Jewish preschools in the area are participating in the third cohort of the ElevatEd program, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland Director of Community Program…
