Amanda Mikelberg
By Amanda Mikelberg
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Fast Forward Oregon Jewish Museum Gets Permanent Home
— The nomadic Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will have a new and permanent home next year. The museum’s executive director Judy Margles and board chair Elaine Coughlin announced Wednesday the purchase of a $5 million space in Oldtown at the former location of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. For…
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Fast Forward Ohio Orthodox Synagogue Elects All-Female Board
(JTA) — An Ohio congregation has become what is perhaps the first Orthodox synagogue to elect an all-female slate of officers. At their annual meeting on June 26, the Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue in Lyndhurst, Ohio elected five women to their board. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of the New York-based Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, told…
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