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INSIDE
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ISSUE
Song of Miriam honors
June 9, 2021 / Sivan 29, 5781 Volume 56, Issue 13 volunteers – page 2
Summit confronts hate against all Teen vaccines – page 3
BY DEBORAH MOON Rachel Nelson and JCRC Chair Hillels move forward
to new normal – page 4
The May 26 summit, “A Com- Michelle Bombet Minch col-
munity Call to Confront Hate,” laborated with a dozen orga- Moishe House seeks
arose out of the belief that nizations to present a series of
“Hate directed at any one of us webinars on the history of big- young adults – page 5
is hate directed at all of us.” otry in Oregon and then to look
Bob Horenstein has voiced to the future to confront hate Scholarships are
that sentiment many times together. The summit is envi- good for future – page 6
over the past year as a diverse sioned as a launch point for fur-
coalition of partner organiza- ther collaboration in that effort. Vaccinated? Go mask
tions came together to plan the “A broken civil rights move-
summit, which was a half-day ment is the biggest gift we free at the J – page 8
virtual program. The summit could hand the white national-
drew nearly 1,000 registrants. ists,” said keynote speaker Eric National animation
Horenstein, a lead organizer of K. Ward, a longtime civil rights win for PJAer – page 8
the summit, is the Jewish Com- activist and executive director
of the Western States Center.
A Community Call to Confront munity Relations Director of the The noon keynote followed 16 Eastside
Hate keynote speaker Eric Jewish Federation of Greater morning sessions (see page 11). Commons
Ward urged all minorities to Portland. Horenstein, JFGP Di-
unite against discrimination. rector of Intergroup Outreach See CONFRONT HATE, page 11 hires
director
Indoor exhibits are back at OJMCHE! – page 9
BY DEBORAH MOON New BB Camp staff;
The year’s first indoor exhibit OBR's incoming chair
at the Oregon Jewish Museum
and Center for Holocaust Ed- Rabbi Barnett – page 9
ucation will be an invitation to
enjoy the outdoors. OSU student
“Lawrence Halprin, Fountains” government's divisive
celebrates Jewish landscape email – page 10
architect Lawrence Halprin
and his Portland’s Open Space Pride Month – page 10
Sequence, a reinvention of
public space in the city’s first Guest curator Kenneth Helphand stands at the entrance to the
urban renewal district, which “Lawrence Halprin, Fountains” exhibit, which opens June 23 at the The pastoral is
launched the city’s traditions Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Be- the political – page 12
of world-class public space hind Kenneth is a large wall hanging featuring a photograph he
and urban greenspaces. “South took of an actual waterfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains decades Rabbi Rose says
Portland and the Long ago – before he saw the famed landscape architect’s remarkably
Shadow of Urban Renewal,” similar Lovejoy Fountain in the wall hanging at left. Shalom – page 13
a companion exhibit at the
Architectural Heritage Center, The fountains exhibit exam- visitors outside to see the actual Outdoor services at
explores the immigrant ines the evolution of the foun- fountains, just 1.1 miles away. CNS, CBI – page 14
community of Jews, Italians tain plazas, which became sites The exhibit itself is airy and
and others lost to that urban of civic inspiration that inspired inviting for visitors transition- Jobs Board: Neveh
development. OJMCHE and a generation of Portland leaders ing from pandemic closures to
AHC members have reciprocal and international landscape ar- vaccinated reemergence. Shalom, Foundation
free admission to these exhibits. chitects. The exhibit also invites See FOUNTAINS, page 13 School, PJA – page 14