Issue Number 17 Volume 49

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Meyers and Special Agent In Charge of the Portland FBI office Robert Jordan were among more than 40 people who read the names of Holocaust victims at Pioneer Courthouse Square April 15, in observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.  read more »

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is Ehud Olmert yielding on the Saudi proposal for Israeli-Arab peace?  read more »

BERLIN (JTA)—Heirs of Germany's Wertheim family have received one of the largest compensation payments ever in Holocaust-related restitution.  read more »

WASHINGTON (JTA)—A pro-Israel Christian group has changed its Web site banner image after learning the photo was doctored.  read more »

The Mittleman Jewish Community Center has planned two events in May to celebrate the successful reorganization and renovation of the center and to honor the many donors who made that possible.  read more »

Michelle Philan is inviting you virtually to walk a mile in her shoes. Actually, make that 26.2 miles.  read more »

For seven weeks this summer, one Lincoln High student will do hard labor in West Africa, likely sweating buckets of ambition as she helps build a secondary school in Likpe Mate, Ghana. She feels lucky to have been chosen.  read more »

Michael Chabon wraps an alternate history of the Jews inside a virtuosic recreation of 1940s-style detective fiction in his new novel "The Yiddish Policeman's Union," his first full-length novel since his Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay."  read more »

Shneur Wilhelm, the 19-year-old son of Portland's Rabbi Moshe and Devora Wilhelm, has created what he believes is the first Jewish prayer CD for preschoolers.  read more »