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INSIDE

Kollel grows – page 2

Community Shabbat
at home – page 2
Book lover revamps
RSM library – page 4
March 2, 2022 / Adar I 29, 5782 Volume 57, Issue 5
Jobs board – page 5
UKRAINE Portland's three day

schools – pages 6-7
Read update on the
efforts to protect and People: BB Camp's
safeguard Ukraine's Koplan feted, new
ZoomCare CMO,
Jewish community. MJCC departure and
~ page 5 more – pages 8-9

Ukraine's Jews Briefs: Covid tests,
need support emergency loans,

Concerns about the well-be- Hand in Hand has seven multi-cultural schools in Israel. OJCYF grant, BBYO,
ing of the Jewish community in Hand in Hand wins spring break camps
Ukraine have accelerated since – pages 10-11
Russia invaded. The Ukrainian
Jewish community needs our Global Pluralism Award Engagement: Singer-
support now. The Jewish Fed-
eration of Greater Portland is BY DEBORAH MOON Siegel – page 11
participating in a continental Hand in Hand, a network of integrated schools in Israel co-found-
special campaign effort to assist ed by Portlander Lee Gordon, won the 2021 Global Pluralism Purim hamentashen,
Jews in the region. So far, JFGP Award for its work promoting a more inclusive and pluralistic so- parties, spiels and
has raised $85,000 to be allocat- ciety in Israel. The award was presented Feb. 23, 2022, in a virtual
ed through JAFI, JDC, World ceremony. (Program on Hand in Hand March 13 – see page 10). other fun – page 12
ORT and others on the ground. Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel, Nama-
One hundred percent of your ti Kenya and Professor Puja Kapai from Hong Kong received the Events: OJMCHE look
donation goes to those in need. third biennial award from the Global Centre for Pluralism. Nearly at Ukraine & Russia,
Donate at jewishportland.org/ 500 organizations and individuals from 70 nations were nominated films, art fest, JAM
ukraine-crisis. for the award. Other finalists include a global LGBT+ movement returns to J – page 13
and groups from Afghanistan, Dominican Republic, Kosovo, In-
Russia’s war on dia, Canada and Malawi. The three winners each received a grant Chaplain: Wired to be
Ukraine explained of $50,000 (Canadian) to further their work for pluralism. hopeful – page 14
“This award reflects pluralism in action,” says former Canadian
The Jewish Federation of Prime Minister Joe Clark, the chair of the Global Pluralism Award
Greater Portland invites you Jury. He added the winners “demonstrate the power of working Column: Don't let
to learn more about the situ- cooperatively to effect change.”
ation in Ukraine at 4-5 pm, Award jury member Bishop Precious Omuku praised the tenacity Whoopi Goldberg or
March 2, on Zoom. and vision of all the finalists. “Ordinary people can affect the world. anyone pigeonhole
Professor Natan Meir will These finalists have made a remarkable contribution to society.” Jews – page 15
provide historical and geo- Meredith Preston McGhie, the Secretary General of the Global
political context for Russia's Center of Pluralism, hosted the award presentation, which was Sign gun violence
attack on Ukraine. He'll held virtually for the first time. She noted that during the pandem-
discuss the complex rela- ic, pluralism has been increasingly under threat around the world. prevention petitions
tionship between the two Before the winners were announced on the livestream on Face- at home – page 16
countries, the ethnic and lin- book, Gordon said, “I feel proud that Hand in Hand has been se-
guistic makeup of Ukrainian lected as a finalist for the Global Pluralism Award, sponsored by Obituaries: Bernstein,
society, and Ukraine’s Jew- the Global Centre of Pluralism in Ottawa, Canada. In the midst Rosenberg, Rostamian,
ish community. of what seems like a never-ending conflict, Hand in Hand’s Jew-
Register for the Zoom link ish and Arab students, parents, teachers and community leaders Buchwalter, Johnston,
at tinyurl.com/2p98kurx. Horwitz – page 16
See PLURALISM, page 10