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OJMCHE Annual Meeting & Exhibit Opening

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education members packed the museum’s theater for OJMCHE June 29 annual meeting. Out-going president David Newman (inset) announced that the museum was close finalizing the  purchase a permanent home for the museum, news that was confirmed on July 6 (see story). The meeting was also the opportunity to…

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Tour first “Green House Home” in Oregon

Oregon’s first long-term care residence created in partnership with the innovative Green House Project  will open in late July at the campus of Cedar Sinai Park in Southwest Portland. It is the first of four 12-resident households, with the rest to be completed early in 2017. CSP is currently scheduling community tours to take place…

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ISRAELI EYES ON JUPITER ORBITER

Photo of Jupiter courtesy of NASA’s NSSDCA Photo Gallery   From the Weizmann Institute of Science On July 4, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will be entering orbit around Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System. Its extended trip – more than 2 billion kilometers over nearly five years – will be over, but its work…

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White House picks Israeli companies for GES 2016

PHOTO: Shown at Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016, from left, are SolCold CMO Gadi Grotes, BwareIT founder Konstantin Berezin, Sonorapy head of business development Noemie Alliel, PresenTense Israel CEO Guy Spigelman, Mercu-Removal founder-CTO Zach Barnea, Sensilize cofounder Robi Stark, Waseem Abu Salem of Loop, and Sesame Enable cofounder Oded Ben Dov.   By Abigail Klein Leichman…

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Aliyah season kicks off

Fifty-one new immigrants from the North America, including 15 soon-to-be IDF lone soldiers, landed in Israel June 29 on a Nefesh B’Nefesh group aliyah flight. “This flight is the kickoff of our summer aliyah season during which we are expecting close to 2,000 olim to arrive from North America,” said Nefesh B’Nefesh Executive VP Zev…

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Ambassador explores AMIT’s Education Innovation

PHOTO: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro  with AMIT students and teachers. RA’ANANA, Israel – U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro visited AMIT’s state-of-the-art Gogya Education Innovation Center recently to see the latest innovations in the way that education and training are being taught to more than 32,000 students throughout the country. AMIT is Israel’s…

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HEALTHCARE LEADERS GATHER AT Rambam’s “STATE OF THE HEART” CONFERENCE

PHOTO: Rambam “State of the Heart” 2016 Summit participants observe a simulated surgery in one of the underground’s operating theatres in Rambam’s underground 2,000 bed hospital.   Haifa, Israel – Leading researchers, healthcare professionals and supporters gathered at the Rambam Health Care Campus for its annual healthcare summit recently where they showcased some of the…