Celebrating Rosh Hashanah, or the Jewish New Year, looks much different now for chef Risa Lichtman than it did in her youth. She grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, where the Jewish community was so prominent that the public school system observed the High Holidays. Families would go to pick up round loaves of challah from the neighborhood bakery and attend shul.
These days, Lichtman lives in Portland, where Jewish businesses are few and far between. Around 3 percent of Greater Portland is Jewish, compared to the eight or nine percent of New York City, home to 25 percent of the country’s Jews. In recent years, the city
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