The Israeli company Watergen has implemented a pilot project, installing a GEN-M water generator at Rocky Ridge Gas & Market (RRGM), located in the Hard Rock Community of the Navajo Nation. The project was facilitated by store owner Germaine Simonson, Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA), StandWithUs, Bright Path Strong (BPS), and 4D Products & Services…
Photo: Congressman Earl Blumenauer at the groundbreaking event of the Blumenauer Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge over I-84. Photo by Pierre Haou, Portland Bureau of Transportation. On June 2, U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), founder and co-chair of the Congressional Bike Caucus, introduced legislation to make federal transportation funding available for communities across the…
Interim Executive Assistant, Angela Deverell is staying on as a regular colleague in her role at Cedar Sinai Park, effective June 30, 2021. Angela was born in Clovis, NM and came to Portland as a child with her parents and siblings via Puerto Rico (her Dad was a career fighter pilot in the Air…
Photo: NEA President Becky Pringle StandWithUs congratulates National Education Association (NEA) members who overwhelmingly defeated a motion attacking Israel at their 2021 Representative Assembly. New Business Item 29 (NBI 29) failed with 23% of the RA voting in favor, and 77% voting against. “We applaud the NEA Jewish Affairs Caucus and all members who spoke…
On June 21, 2021, the Oregon Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association successfully fulfilled its project to put up a billboard with the message to “RISE AGAINST HATE.” On June 29, the billboard was dedicated with a group of directors and supporters of the CCBA. The billboard will be up for several months and is located…
The American Guild of Judaic Art has chosen a piece by Portland glass artist Eddy Shuldman to include in their year-long online Karen Walanka Exhibition titled, “The Power of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Power.” Beth Goldstein and Robin Atlas, Co-Curators shared the following curatorial statement: Dictionary definitions tell us that responsibility is the…
Gregg Semler, president and CEO of InPipe Energy announced that the company has just completed an installation of InPipe’s In-PRV (pressure recovery valve) with Skagit Public Utility District (Skagit PUD) in Mount Vernon, WA. This project was installed at their Division Street booster pump station where they manage water pressure and will now be…
By Michael Donohue and BrieAnna J. Frank, Arizona Republic The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with several law firms, is representing a doctor after she was fired from Phoenix Children’s Hospital following a Facebook post condemning Israel and accusing Zionists of having a “thirst to kill our Palestinian children.” Screenshots circulated online of…
Photo: The research team A scientific breakthrough: Researchers from Tel Aviv University have engineered the world’s tiniest technology, with a thickness of only two atoms. According to the researchers, the new technology proposes a way for storing electric information in the thinnest unit known to science, in one of the most stable and inert…
Photo: Members of the Israel Rescuers delegation gather upon their arrival in the area near the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in the city of Surfside, Florida, on June 27, 2021. (Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images/TNS) By Marie-Rose Sheinerman, Miami Herald Just 72 hours after part of an oceanfront condo collapsed…
