Three Jewish artists featured in new Multnomah Village gallery
Three prominent Portland-area Jewish artists are featured in the premiere showing of artists at the Geezer Gallery in Multnomah Village. read more »
Jewish Theatre Collaborative offers new season of readings
Jewish Theatre Collaborative will present Israel Onstage 3, its third season of staged readings of works by Israeli playwrights starting June 29 at Artist Repertory Theatre’s Morrison Stage read more »
I was a boy on the frontlines of Middle East history
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Kai Bird (“American Prometheus”) has written a mostly riveting and intimate memoir about his years growing up in the Middle East as the son of Oregon-born and University of Oregon educated U.S. Foreign Service officer Eugene Bird read more »
Bergman by the sea this month
Maestro Yaacov Bergman will direct and conduct the third annual Soundwaves Summer Music Festival Orchestra this month during its six-day run in Lincoln City. read more »
Learn about PSU’s summer Judaic studies
A summer of Jewish learning at Portland State University will be previewed Sunday, June 13, at “An Afternoon of Jewish Music” read more »
Goldstein novel offers critique of faith
The first lesson I learned from my wise Talmud teacher was that if the text offers you multiple arguments for a conclusion, it is because no one argument is sufficient. So watch out, he said—ten weak arguments are still weaker than one strong one. read more »
PJ Library picks up Schnitzer cousin Charlotte Herman’s book
When her editor told author Charlotte Herman they wanted to submit her children’s book set in Israel to the PJ Library, Herman couldn’t wait to call her cousin Lois Schnitzer in Portland. read more »
JCO readies season’s final concert
The concluding concert of the Jewish Community Orchestra’s current season is a mix of classical and pop, but the centerpiece of the concert is a classical masterwork that will feature a solo performance by longtime JCO veteran Lou Tauber. read more »
Hecht-Levy recycles Oregon’s best art
Bev Hecht-Levy has opened a promising niche in the local art market that appears to be doing well in what has been a troubling period for art merchants. read more »
Oregon Jewish Museum annual affair to celebrate new building
The popular annual Oregon Jewish Museum art auction will be supplanted this year by an alternative event meant to celebrate the museum’s new building in Northwest Portland. read more »
Rebecca Skloot’s first book settles in as New York Times best seller
The daughter of Oregon author Floyd Skloot has published a non-fiction book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” that has found a home on the New York Times best seller list for 10 weeks. read more »
Documentary probes legacy of a Nazi filmmaker
NEW YORK (Tablet)—In 1939, Joseph Goebbels commissioned his favorite film director, Veit Harlan, to make an entertainment suitable for wartime. The result was “Jew Süss,” a historical drama about the Jewish banker Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, who was hanged in 1738 on charges of treason against a German duchy. read more »
Tokat seeks new home for Freedom organ
In 1985, Beatrice Tokat, a lifelong pianist, saw a Freedom organ from the Estey Organ Co. of Brattleboro, Vt., and she fell in love. read more »
Herskowitz, Howard solo at Portland Story Theater fest
Lawrence Howard will present his one-man show “The Adventures of Huckleberry Horowitz” on Friday, May 7, at the Hipbone Studio at 1847 E Burnside. read more »
