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Congrats to Judy Margles @ORJewishMuseum for winning the #WMA2023 Leadership Award! You’ve made such a significant impact on your institution & local community! 🎉✨🏅

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. It celebrates the contributions Jewish Americans have made to this country. Learn more from the @ORJewishMuseum online at buff.ly/3Vxto1Q. #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth

Today's THE day. #SistersInLaw 1st live tour show in Portland, OR. Yesterday I had the thrill of a preview of the @ORJewishMuseum. It reopens June 11 and is definitely worth a visit. Fascinating history and hope for overcoming discrimination. #SIL sold out show tonight.

We're proud to co-host this educational program honoring holocaust remembrance day alongside our incredible partners @MTJewishProject, @HCHSeattle, @JFSSeattle, and @ORJewishMuseum. Join us by registering and #LearntoNeverForget: adl.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Congratulations to the 30 finalists for the 2023 National Medal for Museum and Library Service! 🏅 This is the nation’s highest honor given to museums & libraries that demonstrate excellence in service to their communities. Meet the finalists: imls.gov/news/imls-name… #IMLSMedals

Mazel tov to the @ORJewishMuseum in Portland for earning this well-deserved honor from the @US_IMLS for its critical work educating Oregonians about the atrocities of the past & how those lessons can help create a more inclusive, tolerant future for all: imls.gov/news/imls-name…

November 6 at 1pm PT, We're cosponsoring an in-person screening of Three Minutes a Lengthening, a documentary about three minutes of footage that are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. bit.ly/3sCz3q1

Thank you Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt for speaking out on antisemitism.

@ORJewishMuseum Thank you for elevating our #CurrentEvents resources - your followers may also be interested in joining our 11/3 Webinar "Confronting Hate: The Perpetuation of Hate on Social Media" facinghistory.org/learning-event… #FHTeacher

✨ To bring history to the present, you can request a member of OJMCHE’s speakers’ bureau (ojmche.org/teach-learn/sp…) and someone can speak to your students about the impact of antisemitism on them or their family during the Holocaust.

📚 This resource for addressing current events in your classroom by Facing History and Ourselves: facinghistory.org/resource-libra…

Our Education Team shared these resources with teachers across the region today. If you are an educator or would like to share with an educator in your life, we invite you to review these resources for understanding and teaching about historic antisemitism.

Harley Gaber's photomontages and foreboding echoes of history at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. orartswatch.org/at-the-jewish-…

You are invited to apply for The Immigrant Story Scholarship, a stipend of $1,000 offered to students with an interest in journalism that addresses immigrant and refugee issues. Five scholarships will be given for the calendar year 2023. The Immigrant Story chronicles stories