12th of March 2012 / Serving Oregon & Southwest Washington since 1959

FINAL EDITION: Review lived up to its mission

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With this edition, the Jewish Review comes to the end of its 53 years of service to a family of readers in Portland, across Oregon and in southwest Washington.  read more »

SPECIAL SECTION

New era begins in reporting of Jewish community news

With the closure of the Jewish Review comes a new era in communication within the Jewish community.  read more »

New school honors two couples Feb. 11

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By Ma’ayan HaTorah, a new community day school in Portland, will be honoring two families at a Saturday night celebration Feb. 11  read more »

Matchmaker, matchmaker find me a volunteer online

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Volunteers are the lifeblood of Jewish Portland’s synagogues, schools, senior facilities and social services. There are thousands of opportunities to do a mitzvah, whether that act of goodness takes a day or a lifetime.  read more »

Arts & Letters »

Book sale, poetry reading benefit Jewish Academy

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This year’s used book sale to benefit the Portland Jewish Academy library will kick off with a reading by Claire Warton, parent of two PJA middle school students.  read more »

Two new exhibits at OJM

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The Oregon Jewish Museum will host an opening reception 5:30-7:30 p.m., Jan. 18 for two new exhibitions—one focusing on women’s suffrage and the other a collection of artwork looking at the realities of wartime.  read more »

Wire »

Friedman steps back from Israel lobby remark

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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said that he should have used a more “precise term” when he wrote that congressional ovations for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.”  read more »

Israelis focus on Beit Shemesh violence aimed at women

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For several years now, the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh has been the site of on-again, off-again religious violence.  read more »

Formal ceremonies required for Israeli religious soldiers

Orthodox Israeli soldiers must attend formal military gatherings at which women sing, but can be excused from informal social gatherings  read more »

Local News »

Region’s Reconstructionists invite community to explore how ‘place’ impacts identity

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On Jan. 29, Havurah Shalom invites the community to join members of Pacific Northwest Reconstructionist congregations for a Jewish Day of Learning—Yom Iyun.  read more »

Riverdale seniors from PJA heal world in India

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Three Portland Jewish Academy graduates who are now seniors at Riverdale High School were part of a 12-student group from Riverdale that spent three weeks in India  read more »

Layla Smackdown: ‘Roller derby is my temple’

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Any day of the week here in Portland that you happen to run into Alix Zimmermann—two final n’s, the Jewish spelling, she says—right away you hear in her voice traces of her native Lawn Guyland.  read more »

Opinions »

A half century and then some of the Jewish Review

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Portland 1959. Not the scene we know today. Not according to a 1957 survey taken by the Jewish Welfare Federation of Portland, now known as the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland. Out of a population of 570,000, they said, 7,892 were Jews.  read more »

Review’s last editor continued paper’s traditions

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When Paul Haist arrived at the Jewish Review in 1992, the paper announced he would “continue to serve the Jewish community with high quality journalism.”  read more »

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