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Jan 6, 2021

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No sign of hate crime in fire at Beth Israel

Fire investigators from the Portland Police Bureau and Portland Fire and Rescue are asking for the public’s help investigating a suspicious fire at a building on the grounds of Congregation Beth Israel in Northwest Portland. 
“There is no indication that this was an anti-Semitic event,â…

Jan 6, 2021

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A new chapter in Israel

PHOTO: Rather than spend another year of college online, Jesse Rothstein (in mask) headed for Israel on a Masa Journey. Here he joins other Masa participants at the Kotel (Western Wall).

BY JESSE ROTHSTEIN

When I was sent home from Chapman University in Orange, Calif., in March 2020, we we…

Jan 6, 2021

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Applications open for teen science camp in Israel

PHOTO: Second from left, Mitchell Kaiser, from Vancouver, Wash., participated in SciTech in 2013.  

BY DEBORAH MOON

Local high schoolers with an aptitude in STEM are invited to apply for SciTech 2021, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology’s summer international science research ca…

Jan 6, 2021

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Exploring, volunteering in Israel with JNF

BY OLIVER TWAIN

As a student at the University of Oregon, I moved home in March to finish the term virtually. If I’m being honest, I didn’t love taking my courses from home.
I had been to Israel on the Alexander Muss program for a semester during my junior year in high school. One of my…

Jan 6, 2021

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Fertile Ground Fest offers Window into Elder World

BY DEBORAH MOON
A humorous play on elder advocacy by Portland Jewish playwright Darlene Zimbardi comes to the virtual world in February as part of the Fertile Ground Festival of New Work 2021.
A program of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance, Fertile Ground will present 37 projects for the 12…