Issue Number 16 Volume 48

After a five-year hiatus driven by security concerns, Portland Jewish Academy eighth-graders returned to Israel for the capstone program of the Jewish day school.

JERUSALEM (JTA) —Coalition building in Israel is never easy, and after his narrow election victory, interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was finding it particularly tough.

MOSCOW (JTA)—Russian Jewish organizers of a trip for 15 Iranian Jewish women in Russia say they hope the trip will launch contacts between the two communities.

Remodeling of the building occupied by Portland Jewish Academy and the Mittleman Jewish Community Center will begin April 13 with completion expected by the beginning of September.

Nine members of the Oregon Jewish Community Youth Foundation board were among more than 100 Jewish teens from 13 states and the District of Columbia who had their eyes opened to the possibilities of

A unique ceremony of return March 26 marked the formal recognition as Jews for seven people who came together in Phoenix under the auspices of the Association of Crypto Jews of the Americas.

Now is the time to register for summer day camps at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, according to MJCC Day Camp Director Jordana Feves.

BERLIN (JTA)—Can art help us understand the Holocaust, or are there certain topics that shouldn't be touched?

Although Portland has long been home to a vital and always growing Chabad Lubavitch organization, this has been the first year that Chabad's seven-year-old Rohr Jewish Learning Institute has offe

"There's always got to be vigilance on security," said Julie Smith, head of Portland Jewish Academy and Mittleman Jewish Community Center, adding that that vigilance will be doubly impo

The government of Israel and the Jewish Agency for Israel have formed a partnership to enable Jews age 18-30 from North America and around the world to develop a lifelong relationship with Israel by

What really happened with the Exodus? Did it involve an entire nation or a small group of villagers?

After two years of leading the relaunched Maimonides Society to steadily increasing participation, Dr.