Photo: Oregon Holocaust Memorial. Photos courtesy of Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Six Oregonian women – five of them Holocaust survivors and one the daughter of a survivor – gathered in 1994 to discuss creating a Holocaust memorial in Portland. It would honor all their lost family members and also the multitude…
As part of a philanthropic initiative to make culturally important records available to everyone, Ancestry – the global leader in family history and consumer genomics – has announced the release of two unique Holocaust record collections. These new records will be accessible globally to the public – members and nonmembers alike – on ancestry.com/alwaysremember on…
Photo: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin next to the Passive Seismic Experiment Package with Eagle in the background. Photo by Neil Armstrong/NASA/Creative Commons By Rabbi Julie Schonfeld The Apollo 11 space mission, during which humankind took its first steps on the moon, was so momentous we hardly need an excuse to celebrate it. We do so this…
PHOTOS: Above, Drs. Roque Pugliese and Ivana Pezzoli, wed June 4 in Calabria, Italy. At right, the chuppah under which they exchanged vows sits on an ancient synagogue’s mosaic floor with colorful tiles portraying images of a menorah, a shofar, and a lulav and etrog. Photos courtesy of Shavei Israel For the first time…
PHOTO: Will Lipman, standing right, was a member of the 1891 MAC football team. Team photos courtesy of the MAC archives. In 1891 the MAC was founded by 26 athletes … 9 of them were Jewish By Lori Delman The Multnomah Athletic Club (the MAC) is a private athletic club in Portland founded in 1891….
Photo: Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. Photo courtesy Yad Vashem Five well-known German companies, including the country’s only publicly traded soccer club, are donating 1 million euros ($1.1 million) each to Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial for the development of a facility to preserve, catalog and store Holocaust-related artifacts. Borussia Dortmund managing director Carsten Cramer…
By Paul Finkelman Next week is Presidents Day, an amalgamated birthday celebration for two of our three greatest presidents: George Washington (Feb. 22, 1732) and Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809). We measure presidential greatness by combining challenges each leader faced and his successful resolutions. By this standard, both Washington and Lincoln are always numbered among…
Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz and their team plan to return to Oregon in April to film episodes of the hit series AMERICAN PICKERS throughout the region. The pair hopes to give historically significant objects a new lease on life, while learning a thing or two about America’s past along the way. AMERICAN PICKERS is a…
HISTORIC IMAGES, ABOVE: Alan Zell performing with a skating club at the Lloyd Center in 1965. (OJM5905) AT RIGHT: 1894 Flood at Meier & Frank Building (OJM3270) BOTTOM: Uniformed Neighborhood House dancers performing in gym with onlookers seated around and above on balcony, c 1927. OJM124 Visit the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust…
By Dr. Murray Siegel In case you are missing football already, here is something to think about until the season returns. After the Arizona Cardinals selected quarterback Josh Rosen of UCLA in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft, it was learned that Josh is Jewish and some folks considered what it would be…
