Volume 51, Issue 6

Hadassah’s Annual Hanukah Gift Fair will have unique gifts for all occasions  read more »

The community-wide Young Judaea Winter Camp for students in first through eighth grade returns to Congregation Shaarie Torah Dec. 24-27.  read more »

Portland Jewish musician Michael Allen Harrison will perform a holiday concert to benefit DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital  read more »

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Over the next few years, the Jewish community will face serious challenges.  read more »

DALLAS (JTA)—This year, once again, the Jewish community overwhelmingly supported the Democratic nominee for president.  read more »

JERUSALEM (JTA)—E. Billi Ivry, a personal secretary turned stock broker and a major philanthropist, died at 102.  read more »

Portland’s new professional singing ensemble, the L’Chaim Ensemble, performs its inaugural concert celebrating the songs of Hanukah  read more »

Beaverton physician, musician and composer Jeffrey Olenick’s first symphony will be performed by the Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra Dec. 5 and 6.  read more »

Jewish hip-hop artist Y-Love will perform with Diwon  read more »

One of Israel’s most celebrated authors, Etgar Keret, inspired both admiration and curiosity at two events  read more »

Salem author Ellen Eisenberg will discuss her recently published book, “The First to Cry Down Injustice: Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII,” at two events in the coming month.  read more »

“The Book Thief” by Marcus Zusak is an extraordinary novel about the power of words and reading.  read more »

Thinking about adopting a perky little puppy as a friend for your fluffy cat, but worried that they’ll fight—well, like cats and dogs?  read more »

All right, I’ve got Olivia’s song in my head, “Let’s Get Physical, Physical….”, it’s got such an upbeat, happy mood, and that’s how I think of training dogs, “Let’s Get Pawsitive, Pawsitive…”  read more »

Jewish texts hold in high regard those who care for animals.  read more »

It’s not too soon to think about your income taxes.  read more »

Leonard and Goldie Barde will receive the Oregon Area Jewish Committee’s 2008 Maurice D. Sussman Award at a dinner in their honor  read more »

On Nov. 3, the membership of Congregation Ahavath Achim elected it’s new slate of officers for 2009-2010, effective Jan. 1, 2009.  read more »

Volunteers are needed for four shifts for this year’s Super Sunday, which this year  read more »

The Jewish Review, published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, will be reorganized as an Oregon limited liability corporation.  read more »

Laeh-Maggie Garfield of Eugene, knew about the ITS archives in Germany. She’d tried to trace lost relatives for years.  read more »

The Citizens’ Disability Advisory Committee of the City of Portland, Office of Neighborhood Involvement, honored the Mittleman Jewish Community Center last month for maintaining a warm-water therapy pool available for those suffering a range of disabilities.  read more »

Tova and Noah Kruss may be young, but they already know how to make a difference.  read more »

The Portland Trailblazers and Chabad of Oregon are again teaming up to present Hanukah Jewish Celebration Night on the third night of Hanukah.  read more »

Closed to the public until recently, documentation gathered during concentration camp liberation brings new hope to those searching for lost family.  read more »

Inspired by a summer trip to Israel, when Emma Snyder became a bat mitzvah Oct. 25 at Havurah Shalom she announced she will donate a percentage of her bat mitzvah money to Neve Michael, an Israeli children’s village for abused, neglected and abandoned children.  read more »

After 13 years of worshipping at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in West Linn, Congregation Beit Haverim/SMJC followed God’s instruction in the week’s Torah portion to Abraham to “go forth” and they carried their Torah to its new home  read more »

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The victory by secular businessman Nir Barkat in Jerusalem’s mayoral elections was greeted with relief by Israelis concerned about the increasingly fervently Orthodox character of the city.  read more »

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Political insight, killer in a fight, Yiddishkeit—it’s an inseparable package when it comes to Rahm Emanuel  read more »

WASHINGTON (JTA)—For some Jewish voters, the strangeness of Barack Obama was like a recurring dream: unsettling and then settling in, and then, suddenly, revelatory.  read more »

“These are extraordinarily difficult times, but the goal to fund our causes and to help our fellow Jews remains the same,”  read more »

Dan Florea will share his international sea kayaking experiences Nov. 19 with special emphasis on kayaking trips he offers as a different way to see Israel.  read more »

JERUSALEM (JTA)—This might be your grandparents' federation system, but now it should belong to you.  read more »

BUDAPEST (JTA) -- Hungarian Jewry's central organization is trying to broaden its reach, but it's not doing enough to satisfy some critics.  read more »

NEW YORK (Nextbook) -- A.B. Yehoshua, long recognized as one of Israel's best novelists, has in recent years also emerged as one of its most prominent scolds.  read more »

WASHINGTON (JTA)-The Palestinian Authority, in a brilliant display of public relations, ran Hebrew-language ads this week in Israel's four major newspapers endorsing the Arab Peace Initiative and calling on Israelis to support it, too.  read more »

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed that reality is ever in flux. “You cannot step into the same river twice” he taught, emphasizing that the only constant is change.  read more »