Photo: Les Aigner, Rama Yousef and Rudwan Dawod share their stories as part of “To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives.” Photo courtesy OJMCHE. The exhibition “To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives” is a partnership between the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and The Immigrant Story, in collaboration with Jim Lommasson and…
One might question how a girl that grew up in Zimbabwe, earned a law degree from Oxford and married a diplomat, ended up in Tucson, becoming the executive director of the Jewish History Museum and Holocaust History Center. But the answers unfold when you hear Gugulethu “Gugu” Moyo share her incredible journey, and you…
Every day, the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland and its Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) work on behalf of our Jewish community in Salem. And every year we provide you with an “end of session” report, which will add to the length of this week’s Marc’s Remarks. Marc’s Remarks is a weekly email from Jewish…
PHOTO: Above, Governor Kate Brown ceremonially signs historic bill at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. At right, Sen. Rob Wagner, Gov. Brown, Rep. Janeen Sollman, OJMCHE Director Judy Margles and Bob Horenstein, community relations director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland. Sen. Wagner guided the bill through the state senate and…
PHOTO: AJWS Global Justice Fellows, including Portland Rabbi Eve Posen (center), will be in Washington, DC, in March for an advocacy day to raise awareness and help mitigate the Rohingya genocide. In January the fellows were in Guatemala studying human rights issues in that country. The Jewish Rohingya Justice Network – a coalition of 19…
PHOTO: Anne Frank, 1940. Photo used by permission and copyright ANNE FRANK FONDS Basel, Switzerland. Anne Frank Center joins with legislators to “educate against hate” across the United States Today, only one in five U.S. states mandates that schools include the history of the Holocaust and other genocides in their curriculum. The impact of such…
PHOTO: Hayley Rouselle portrays Anne in the Beaverton Civic Theatre production of The Diary of Anne Frank, which opens March 1. The Beaverton Civic Theatre is hosting two exhibits from the Anne Frank House at their expanded space, The Playhouse, from Feb. 23-March 1 with free conversations programmed throughout the week with speakers ranging from…
