Photo: Survivor and Museum Volunteer Esther Starobin will be one of the speakers at the “How To Talk To Kids About The Holocaust” virtual event. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Western Region Next Gen and Friends presents “How To Talk To Kids About The Holocaust” virtual event on Thursday, November 4, at 5:30…
On August 2-6, a dozen educators from Oregon will gather in Portland to participate in a week-long seminar focused on teaching the Holocaust, and explore ways to integrate instruction on racial and ethnic discrimination in Oregon. The seminar takes place as hate-fueled extremism and attacks on minorities have reached alarming levels in the United…
Photo: Nancy Green Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Director Judy Margles announced a new fund to support Holocaust education throughout the state of Oregon, with a special emphasis on rural areas of the state. The Nancy Green Memorial Teacher Training Fund in Honor of Regina & Sidney Atlas has been established with…
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: From left: Phil Mandel, OJMCHE’s Amanda Solomon, Rep. Janeen Sollman, JFGP CRC Director Bob Horenstein, George Okulitch, and OJMCHE Director Judy Margles at the State Capitol. On May 28, 2019, SB 664, a bill to mandate Holocaust and genocide education in Oregon starting in the 2020-2021 school-year, unanimously passed its final vote on…
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…
Editor’s note: Oregon Jewish Life recently wrote about the effort to mandate Holocaust and genocide education in Oregon. By Janice Weinman Anti-Semitism has been called the oldest form of hatred. In America, we are now witnessing a horrifying escalation of anti-Semitic violence, such as cemetery desecration, vandalization of Jewish schools and synagogues and inflammatory anti-Zionist…
