Second Fire in 5 Days Burns Chabad Jewish Center in Portland, Ore.
Marcy Oster, JTA
August 20, 2020
The fire is believed to be the result of an electrical issue.
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Jewish Journal
March 5, 2015
Until recently, Jo Borkan was thinking about leaving Portland.
Portland preschool pushes boundaries of Jewish outdoors education
Jewish Journal
December 29, 2014
Even on a cold, gray and rainy morning, the children from the Gan Shalom Collaborative School are outside, seated under a wood-framed shelter topped by corrugated plastic.
Three teens shot outside Portland, Oregon, high school
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December 12, 2014
Three teenagers were shot and wounded on Friday near a Portland, Oregon, alternative high school, police said, and officers were searching for a suspect who ran from the scene following the gunfire.
Portland-area paper to shut down
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2011
An Oregon Jewish paper, The Jewish Review, will close in January after publishing for more than 40 years.
Jazzman Frishberg charts own tuneful territory
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August 13, 2008
One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-\’80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material.
Just a Theory
Amy Kaufman
May 13, 2004
In a sea of competitors, 17-year-old Ilya Gurevich of Israel is alone in the field of theoretical physics. All the other teenagers competing in the physics division at this year\’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair have entered projects in practical physics, Gurevich said, but he stuck with the theoretical.
\”The world\’s largest science fair,\” formerly known as the Westinghouse Competition, is taking place at multiple locations May 9-15, including the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
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