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PJA focuses on diversity

    PHOTO: Jewish day schools have increasingly diverse student bodies, including at the Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills, California. (Courtesy of Prizmah) Portland Jewish Academy, a community day school in Oregon with about 180 students, began working on diversity issues several years ago, examining everything from its print educational materials to its…

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Human rights group urges AG Ellen Rosenblum to allow reversal nonunanimous ury convictions

  By JAIMIE DING The Oregonian/OregonLive An international human rights group on Tuesday, March 30, urged Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to lift her opposition to reversing nonunanimous jury convictions — recently declared unconstitutional — against people who have completed their appeals. Since Oregon enacted its law in 1934, juries could convict people of most…

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Top Ten Things You Never Knew About Camp

  Camp has become a staple of the summer season. Each year, millions of children, youth, and adults head to the hills, lakes, valleys, and parks to participate in the time-honored tradition of camp. And, while most people easily conjure up images of campfires and canoes, there is a lot more to the camp experience….

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FIDF Distributes Mishloach Manot for Purim to Soldiers

  Photo: IDF soldiers from the Home Front Command celebrating Purim with Mishloach Manot from FIDF. Photo credit: Boaz Eshtai. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) delivered Mishloach Manot to thousands of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers for Purim this week. Every year, FIDF distributes Mishloach Manot to soldiers from various brigades and battalions…

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Purim and Addiction Recovery

  By Hannah Prager Being Jewish, having family members in addiction recovery, and now working for a treatment center for alcoholism and addiction, I wanted to learn more about Purim, and the commandment to drink. I had the opportunity to (virtually) sit down and learn with Rabbi Dr. Chaim Meyer Tureff to learn about the…