Basketball is not always thought of as a particularly Jewish sport. Dolph Schayes, likely the best Jewish basketball player in history, is not remembered in the same way as Sandy Koufax or Hank Greenberg. But looking more closely, there’s something there.
“The idea of coaching a basketb…
Phoebe Potts was a “professional Jew,” as she describes herself, long before she was professionally funny. But the comedian has been funny since long before she was professionally anything.
“I was raised by journalists and Jews,” the Brooklyn, N.Y.-native said, “so you had to tell…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland hosted its latest K-12 Parent Advocacy Night Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Congregation Neveh Shalom because even if the volume of incidents in schools has diminished, the problem has not disappeared.
“So far this year, it has been a little bit quieter. Th…
Because of the different organizational formulas between the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars, in 2025, more than a week separates Oct. 7 and 22 Tishrei; days that were the same two years ago when Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza. What a difference a week makes.
No good reporter wants to be the story.
It’s baked into us as professionals that the news – the people we cover, the things that our readers care about, the issues and events that matter to them – is more important than us and our egos. Unfortunately, the spotlight sometimes finds us.…
Though she’s a lifelong Seattleite, Karen Treiger’s family lineage has roots in some of the early days of Portland’s Jewish community. She’s coming to Portland to talk about them and more.
Treiger’s latest book, “Standing on the Crack: The Legacy of Five Jewish Families from Sea…
Lindsay Gottlieb knows how to make an impact.
Her first season as the head women’s basketball coach at the University of California, Santa Barbara--her first head coaching job--she won a conference championship. In her second year at her next head job, at UC Berkeley, she made the NCAA Fi…
The Spertus Center for Jewish Learning and Leadership, the Chicago-based center for Jewish adult education, is bringing Dr. Dean Bell to Portland for a pair of presentations Wednesday, Oct. 29 at Congregation Neveh Shalom. The first, a Lunch and Learn session for Jewish communal…
The High Holy Days begins with Rosh Hashana, marking the beginning of the new year according to Jewish calendar reckoning.
This season also marks the beginning of another new annual cycle, one which so much of the other events chronicled in these pages relies on: the Jewish Federation of Gr…
It was estimated in the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s 2023 Community Study that 80 percent of Portland’s Jews are not members of a synagogue or congregation. But everyone needs a rabbi from time to time.
For Portlanders, that rabbi is Rabbi Sarah Rensin, who became Portland’…
One of the classic traditions of Rosh Hashana is enjoying apples dipped in honey – a physical manifestation of the traditional wish for a happy and sweet new year. The liquid half of this treat occupies a unique space in kashrut, the dietary laws expounded in the Torah.
Jessica Anderson, …
Conversations around antisemitism on college campuses have taken on national prominence since the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel. At Portland State University, those conversations had already been happening for some time. “We definitely started, however many years ago, at the bottom…
More than 90 early childhood educators and administrators gathered at The Jennifer Barnum Luria Early Childhood Center at Congregation Beth Israel for the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland's Third Annual Preschool Educators Day of Learning Wednesday, Aug. 20. Attendees heard a keynote ab…
Summer is the time for many activities – gardening, baseball, and the Jewish Federations of North America’s campaign leadership mission.
Wendy Kahn, the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Chief Development Officer, and Jack Birnbach, the co-chair of the annual campaign, were prep…
Jewish foodies rejoice – Portland once again has Jewish deli fare.
Bubbie’s Deli, a pop-up within Mother’s Bistro downtown, has rolled out a menu of deli favorites to fill the void that owner Lisa Schroeder saw and felt compelled to address.
I, too, have felt the lack,” Schroeder s…
