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Meet restaurateur Lisa Schroeder, Portland’s unofficial Jewish mother in chief

Mother’s Bistro & Bar is a Jewish establishment more in concept than cuisine, devoted to that time-honored Mosaic tradition of mother worship. JTA’s Gil Shefler reports.

Amid Portland’s Jewish population surge, community leaders try to lure the young and hip

Oregon’s bike-friendly capital of cool discovered recently that it had twice as many Jews as previously thought. Can Portland’s Jewish institutions attract the newcomers to Jewish life? JTA’s Gil Shefler reports.

Converting a happy pig into a kosher cow: A Memphis fundraising story

How the Margolin Hebrew Academy turned to Corky’s, a famed barbecue joint featuring a pig as its mascot, for a fundraising appeal.

In Cape Town, colonial Jewish history and botanic wonders await

Child Survivors Return Home

From church choir to Jerusalem, a couple’s interfaith journey

Philanthropist Tad Taube wants Polish Jewry remembered for life, not death

How Do You Say “Cooking Show” in Yiddish?

Presidents Conference taps ADL’s Sugarman as chairman

Brewing up a new connection to Lag b’Omer

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