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Living in Portland from 1992-98, registered dietitian Chana Kaufman founded and operated the Kosher Connection, a gift basket business featuring kosher foods. Now remarried and living in Israel, Chana Rubin has written a book combining her interests in Judaism and nutrition.

Ice cream, music and friends—is there a better way to kick off summer?

On Sunday, June 1, the three Schneiderman sisters accompanied by Tom Grant on piano will kick off summer at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center with a Sundae Sing-Along at 4 p.m.

Portland’s Profile Theatre, which each season presents the work of just one playwright, will present a full of season of Neil Simon plays when the curtain goes up on its 12th season next fall.

Profile Theatre Artistic Director Jane Unger made the announcement April 28.

It’s hard to believe, but it’s almost 35 years since a small group of students, grandmothers and homemakers got together to try to raise community consciousness about the plight of Jews in the Soviet Union.

Through clandestine visits to Jews in the Soviet Union, demonstrations and protests against visiting Soviet cultural groups, the hosting of former refuseniks and an endless flow of mail and telephone calls to Jews in the Soviet Union, the plight of Jews persecuted because of their Jewish activity and denied permission to leave became an item on the American communal agenda.