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A year later, Texas synagogue hostages cope, carry on By BOBBY ROSS Jr. (AP)

Photo: News 360 TV COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — A year ago, Jeff Cohen and three others survived a hostage standoff at their Reform Jewish synagogue in this Fort Worth suburb. Their trauma did not disappear, though, with the FBI’s killing of the pistol-wielding captor, 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram. Healing from the Jan. 15, 2022,…

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Please act now!

Dear Colleagues, As you may have read in the news yesterday, Senate Republicans released a massive stimulus plan to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to help businesses having trouble staying afloat. We need to make sure that nonprofits, such as Jewish Federations and their partner agencies, receive this aid to ensure our work across the…

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Hate in the city

Photo: Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks about charges against a group of alleged members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. It has been a very long few weeks… Mala Blomquist, our editor for both Oregon and Arizona Jewish Life magazines, was one of the nationwide targets of hate crimes carried…

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Kidney donor needed

PHOTO: Cindy Meyer (center) with her daughters, Angie, 38, and Alicia, 32.   Vancouver, WA, resident Cindy Meyer needs a kidney and she faces long odds. Cindy has 99% antibodies, which means that the antibodies in her blood would react to and reject the kidney from 99% of the U.S. population. That means Cindy needs as…

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New citizens sworn in at OJMCHE

PHOTOS: New U.S. citizens, family and friends celebrate after a naturalization ceremony held at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Photos by Paige Stoyer of The Immigrant Story The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education was the perfect setting for somber and joyous celebration on June 20 as the U.S….

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StandWithUs changes conversation in Northwest

PHOTO: This year StandWithUs combined its Israel in Focus student conference with a community conference on Combating BDS. The joint conference in Los Angeles drew many participants from the Pacific Northwest. From left are Roland Roth, SWU Northwest managing director; Noa Raman, SWU Northwest campus director; Shayla Norris-York, Portland State University; Roz Rothstein, SWU co-founder…