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…
There are hundreds of chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America across the United States, but Portland’s stands out in a number of ways, as staff from the Anti-Defamation League explained in their DSA Decoded webinar Thursday, Sept. 3, co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater …
Members of Congregations Beth Israel and Neveh Shalom had a unique experience as they filed into Kabbalat Shabbat service the evening of Friday, Aug. 28.
The congregants of Portland’s two largest synagogues filed into the same space.
Nearly 400 of them in total assembled on Neveh Shalom’s …
For the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Fourth Annual Preschool Day of Learning, keynote speaker Dr. Noah Hichenberg suggested something bigger than what might otherwise come out of a professional development program.
“Your children are so smart, so creative, so relentlessly generat…
Cancer is scary. Delving into the realities of genetic predispositions for cancer can also be scary, especially if, like many Ashkenazi Jews, you have a higher-than-average likelihood of carrying certain cancer-linked genes.
Talking about these things shouldn’t be – at least it wasn’t suppo…
Kelly Lyon has loved The Muppets since her formative days. Now, her work on their return to television may net her a second Emmy award.
Lyon, a Portland-based film editor, has been nominated for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming for her work on “The Muppet Show,” an ABC sp…
Rabbi Chaim Wilhelm wanted to do something different for his 40th birthday.
“I wanted to do something for the whole community,” he said.
So, he threw a party. About 70 people came. There was music, sushi, dessert, even a gift for Rabbi Wilhelm.
But what made this party special was that th…
After 33 years in Oregon newspaper, Steve Law decided to give back to his community by getting involved with Friends of Mount Tabor Park. From there, he found the subject of his book.
“Peddlers of Hate: How the Ku Klux Klan Seized Power in 1920s Oregon,” published by Oregon State University…
Summers are often a quiet time of year for Hillels on college campuses. For Oregon Hillel, serving the University of Oregon in Eugene and Oregon State University in Corvallis, it’s been anything but.
For starters, Oregon Hillel is in the closing stages of securing a multi-year lease for pro…
Natan Meir has been appointed the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
Meir will depart from his current position as Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies and Academic Director of The Harold Schnitzer Family…
