The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education explores the legacy of the Jewish experience in Oregon, teaches the universal lessons of the Holocaust, and provides opportunities for intercultural conversation. OJMCHE challenges our visitors to resist indifference and discrimination and to envision a just and inclusive world. The purpose of this page is to share information about Museum programs and resources within the Oregon community as well as to share relevant articles and information about Jewish culture nationally and internationally. This includes a wide range of topics including trends in the museum field, antisemitism, Oregon Jewish history, and Holocaust history. Towards these goals, we welcome your contributions to our timeline wall about issues that are consistent with the Museum's mission. We aim to keep our timeline wall open and welcoming to many people who share a diversity of viewpoints and perspectives. Towards that goal, we reserve the right to remove posts and comments that violate our stated guidelines. Please remember the following guidelines when posting comments on our timeline wall:
1. Do not use vulgarity or threaten or abuse others.
2. Challenge ideas and opinions, but refrain from attacks against groups or individuals.
3. Repeated posts to our timeline wall may be treated as SPAM and deleted; repeat offenders will be banned.
5. Posts that promote misleading or historically inaccurate information will be deleted.
6. Do not use language which denigrates or disparages any cultural group or disenfranchised population. This page does not condone hate speech and hateful comments will be deleted. Please direct concerns and suggestions regarding the Museum's exhibitions and programs to [email protected]. In October 2017 OJMCHE moved into a new permanent home at 724 NW Davis Street on Portland's North Park Blocks. The museum opens to the public in our new location in June 2017. Beginning July 1, 2014, the Oregon Jewish Museum merged with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center to become the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, the Pacific Northwest’s only Jewish museum, was founded to examine and preserve the cultural heritage of one of Oregon’s earliest immigrant groups and to bring innovative traveling exhibitions to the region. In 1996, the Museum acquired the archives of the Jewish Historical Society of Oregon, comprising major collections of organizational records, family papers, photographs and ephemeral materials dating from 1850 to the present—the largest collection of the documented and visual history of Oregon’s Jews. Today this collection forms the core of the museum archives and is available to researchers, students and scholars. The Oregon Jewish Museum endeavors to build a dynamic institution that embraces Jewish identity and community, illustrating, by example, the ways in which a community with traditional roots preserves, teaches, and lives by its values as a distinct minority. We believe in the power of culture to build and engage community in a flexible and dynamic way, using the lens of culture to shape dialogue about historical and contemporary issues.
