Beit Kayam is no more...
About Beit Kayam (Kayam House)
We found a home!
Beit Kayam is a physical location for Kayam events, as well as a part of the national movement toward cohousing, communal living, and the like. Beit Kayam is on NE Thompson Road in the Eliot neighborhood, near MLK. For the exact address, contact us.
Who Lives at Beit Kayam?
Shoshanna Krall
Shoshanna Krall is 28 years old. She was born in Portland and raised in Salem and Portland, Oregon. She is a teacher, farmer/gardener, and writer, looking to create her own vibrant community within the larger Portland one.
She studied theater arts and environmental studies in college, and spent two and half years working as a naturalist/outdoor educator/teacher in California and Oregon.
Later, she studied farming and Jewish leadership at the Adamah program in northwestern Connecticut, where she learned exactly how vibrant an agricultural Jewish community can be. Ask her about the new moon celebrations, or about the kosher slaughter she attended.
Shoshanna also spent a summer at another Jewish farm and leadership program, our sister "Kayam Farm", in Reisterstown, MD., where she earned a certificate in Jewish Community Gardening and Jewish Environmental Education.
Currently, Shoshanna is (student) teaching second and third grade at a wonderful alternative school in Tualatin, Oregon, and attending graduate school in teaching full time at Marylhurst University.
Claire Polansky
Born in Maryland and raised in several states across America, Claire Polansky counts her constantly changing visual, aural, and emotional landscape among her artistic and spiritual influences. After an impulse to go on Israel Outdoors Birthright trip, she began a passion to reconnect with her Jewish identity. She is currently involved in Machar, a Jewish leadership opportunity which includes text study through the Florence Melton Mini School. Claire is an artist, art educator, and writer. She also works with at-risk youth in the mental health field. She is currently exploring methods of greening the arts and art therapy. She holds a Masters Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy and Counseling psychology from Prescott College in Arizona, where Transpersonal Psychology and Eco-Psychology was an integral part of her coursework and training. She also holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design.
Levi Banner
Angel
I am a longish-haired black lab mix. I just turned six years old, but I still love to play.
I am pretty mellow around the house overall. Naps are my favorite past time. Don't be surprised if I select you as my new best friend and ask you to pet me.
I love my fellow house mates so much that I work hard at protecting them. That is, I bark at the door until my friends introduce me to you.
I enjoy living with Jews because they like to eat and I like to eat too. I eat mostly organic or natural foods, just like my house mates.
Feel free to contact my best friend, Claire, for more information about me. Her e-mail is [email protected].
