Excerpt from Marc’s Remarks, Dec. 21, 2018 With a child starting college next fall, I continue to monitor the news about what is happening on college campuses for Jewish students. There continue to be resolutions to have universities divest from companies that do business in Israel, anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise, academic organizations are…
UPDATE JAN. 10: The public cast nearly 17,000 votes for the Top 12 Jewish Star Talent Search finalists! Amazingly, there was a tie in the 14-18 age bracket – so there are SEVEN Jewish Star Grand Prize winners! 14-18 Bracket winners: Ellie Fern (Scottsdale, AZ), Andrew Goldstein (McKinney, TX), Noah Levine (Austin, TX), Marc Luban…
The Oregon Jewish Community Foundations is recruiting its fourth Giving Council Cohort. The deadline for registration is Dec. 27. Who: Career minded Jews in the Portland area interested in a different take on philanthropy What: Participate in the fourth cohort of the OJCF Giving Council, a giving circle. A “giving circle” is a group of philanthropic people who come…
In response to recent serious attempts by faculty at the University of Michigan and Pitzer College to thwart American students from studying in and about Israel, more than 100 national and local organizations on Dec. 4 called on the same 250 college and university leaders who in 2013 issued statements opposing the American Studies Association’s anti-Israel boycott to sign…
Nominations are now open for the 2019 JJ Greenberg Memorial Award, which honors foundation professionals engaged in grantmaking, age 40 and under, who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership in Jewish philanthropy. Nominations are due by 5 pm EST, Jan. 8. The award was created and endowed by JJ’s family, friends and colleagues following his untimely death…
At a time when the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel continues to gain traction on college campuses and is bolstered by intersectionality, the framework linking aggrieved groups in society, author Jerome Ostrov offers a fact-rich and practical resource for Jewish parents to assess these issues on a campus-by-campus basis as they help…
PHOTOS: At the University of Oregon, above, the Israeli Soldiers Tour was greeted with a warm welcome. Below the visiting IDF reservists were greeted by protesters. Photos courtesy of StandWithUs StandWithUs’ “Israeli Soldiers Tour” visited Oregon in October. Chen and Aviv (last names withheld for security) presented programs at Oregon State University, University of Oregon,…
PHOTO: A student studies at Portland State University On Aug. 29 Portland State University announced a $1 million grant through the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, on behalf of Arlene Schnitzer and Jordan D. Schnitzer. This philanthropic investment will create a new scholarship program within the Judaic…
PHOTO: Above, the first Graduation Shabbat of the University of Oregon Hillel supported by a fund created by Millard and Wendy Lesch, at left. A new endowment fund at the University of Oregon Hillel will support two special Shabbat celebrations each year. “We are so very grateful to Millard and Wendy Lesch for establishing…
You could say that Jewish Eugene’s newest spiritual leaders, Rabbi Ozer Moszkowski and Rebbitzen Leah, were fated to come to Oregon together. As infants in South Africa, their mothers were close friends living one apartment building apart. When Ozer was just 3, his family announced they were moving to England, causing a tearful goodbye between…
