12017-02-02T13:54:27-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Nessim Menashe in front of his shoe store5Born on the Isle of Rhodes in 1887, Nessim Menashe came to Portland in 1909. By 1914, he had established a shoe repair shop in Northwest Portland, which he operated until 1921media/OJM03274w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:14:19-07:001914-1921Jewish Businesses Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T13:48:59-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Morris Mensor of the New York Store in Jacksonville, OR5Morris Mensor owned and operated a general merchandise store in Jacksonville, OR. As the father of nine sons and eight daughters, Morris never had a problem finding help in the store.media/OJM01540w.jpgplain2017-05-03T15:05:04-07:001880Jewish Businesses Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKorey Jackson94cd93e587a0b4a5263c90ec4f2facaa0c913083
12017-02-02T13:58:59-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Ida Loewenberg, head worker at Neighborhood House4Ida Loewenberg was born in 1872 to a wealthy Portland family. She trained as a social worker in New York and became the head worker at the Neighborhood House, where she remained for thirty-three years. She developed programs designed to help new immigrants of every religion and nationality adjust to their new life in America. She taught classes on English and Judaism, as well as Americanization classes for young children.media/OJM03671w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:15:42-07:001930Ida Loewenberg Papers, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:14:43-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Matilda and Ben Selling outside their home in NW Portland3Ben Selling was an active member of the community. He served as President of the Oregon Senate, and at one point filled in for the Oregon Governor, making him the first Jewish Governor in the United States. He ran for the United States Senate in 1912, losing by a few hundred votes to Harry Lane. From 1901-1917 hevolunteered with his friend Sig Sichel for the IRO (Industrial Removal Office), which was instrumental in bringing new Jewish immigrants from overcrowded conditions on the east coast to settle in the west.media/OJM05396w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:20:31-07:001925Rae Selling Berry Papers, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:30:59-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Shirley Tanzer interviewing Dora Levine3Shirley Tanzer (right) interviews Dora Levine in 1969 as part of the background research for "Whatever Happened to Old South Portland?"media/OJM01448w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:18:13-07:001969Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:16:21-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Governer Julius Meier3Julius Meier served as Oregon's Governor from 1931to1935. He advocated for development of the Bonneville Dam and promoted the founding of the Oregon State Police, Oregon Liquor Control Commission, and the Columbia River Highway. He was a strong supporter of the labor movement.media/OJM02498w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:22:08-07:001935Julius Meier Papers, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T13:41:39-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Julius, Delia, and Sylvan Durkheimer and others in open car3media/OJM03539w.jpgplain2017-04-26T12:28:36-07:001911Durkheimer Family Papers, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T13:50:54-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Billy Hasson at the Mayo & Hasson Fruit Stand in SW Portland3Billy Hasson holding up a bunch of grapes at the family fruit stand in Yamhill Market.media/OJM03243w.jpgplain2017-04-26T12:32:56-07:00n.d.Jewish Businesses Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:13:15-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29President Taft and Mayor Simon in Open Car3Portland Mayor Joseph Simon seated in an open car with President Howard Taft on the President's visit to Oregon in 1909.media/OJM01359w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:19:45-07:001909OHS10715 Oregon Historical SocietyKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:27:38-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Harry Glickman with Trail Blazer Buck Williams2Portland native Harry Glickman and his partners established two professional sports teams: the Portland Trailblazers basketball team, the only major league professional sports team in Portland, and the Portland Buckaroos hockey team.media/OJM03312w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:31:12-07:001990Harry Glickman Collection Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T15:10:10-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield of Congregation P'nai Or of Portland playing guitar2Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield singing and playing guitar. His two year old son Dov stands behind him also playing a guitar.media/OJM06530w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:50:30-07:002009Jewish Review Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:44:54-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29NCJW Portland section president Jean Rustin, with a group of children at the Iris Day Court Head Start Program in Albina2Children's advocacy and Head Start were two of the main focuses of the National Council of Jewish Women, Portland Sectionmedia/OJM02350w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:33:58-07:001971National Council of Jewish Women, Portland Section Records, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:17:14-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Henry J. Berkowitz of Congregation Beth Israel2Henry Joseph Berkowitz served as rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in Portland from 1928 until his death in 1949 from a rare disease he contracted while serving in the US Army as chaplain during the Second World War.media/OJM07230w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:23:18-07:00Congregation Beth Israel Records, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:32:13-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Holocaust survivor Jake Kryszek adds a shovelful of dirt to the burial of remains at the Holocaust Memorial2Members of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial committee traveled to Poland in 2004 to collect ashes and soil from each of the killing camps for burial at the memorial site.media/OJM08850w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:52:10-07:002004Oregon Holocaust Memorail, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:49:10-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Stampfer with Israel President Zalman Shazar in 19672Rabbi Stampfer with Israel President Zalman Shazar in 1967. Sitting in chairs next to each other, Rabbi Stampfer leaning toward him from the right.media/OJM09407w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:37:02-07:001967Congregation Neveh Shalom Records, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:18:15-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Judge Gus Solomon2Gus Solomon was born in 1906 in Portland to Eastern European immigrants. He attended law school at Columbia and Stanford and practiced law in Portland. President Harry Truman appointed him as a United States District Court Judge. In 1935, he helped organize the American Civil Liberties Union in Oregon, and in 1936, he successfully appealed to the Oregon State Bar to sponsor a Legal Aid Committee. During the Second World War, he was one of the chairmen of the Oregon Committee to Aid Relocation to help the Japanese internees return to their homes.media/OJM04336w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:24:01-07:001950Gus and Libby (Willer) Solomon, Oregon Jewish Museum CollectionKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:33:30-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Director Judith Margles and Board President Craig Wollner Signing Kearney Street Building Lease2The Oregon Jewish Museum moved at the end of 2009 to 1953 NW Kearney Streetmedia/OJM06529w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:53:11-07:002009Oregon Jewish Museum RecordsKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:50:05-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Shaul Stampfer Speaking at Portland Rally for Soviet Jewry2Shaul Stampfer in plaid sport coat with hand held microphone standing on the back of a pickup truck that has a banner affixed to it reading, “Portland Rally for Soviet Jewry”media/OJM04788w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:38:40-07:001970Goldie and Rabbi Joshua Stampfer Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:20:47-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Joshua Stampfer blowing a shofar in front of Congregation Nevh Shalom's building on Peaceful Lane2Rabbi Stampfer arrived in Portland in 1953 to serve as rabbi at Congregation Ahavai Sholom. He oversaw the merging of that congregation and Neveh Zedek to create Congregation Neveh Shalom in 1962.media/OJM09415w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:26:39-07:001965Congregation Neveh Shalom records, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:34:57-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Angel Ball guests Harriette Mesher, Leah Nepom, Millie Gold, Ceil Heims, and Lois Maizels2Women donated clothing to the group's thrift shop to qualify for tickets to the ballmedia/OJM02306w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:53:54-07:001968Gift of National Council of Jewish Women, Portland Section Records, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T15:01:13-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Yossi Shallman lighting Shabbat candles at SukkahPDX2Sukkah PDX, an international design competition held at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, brings together community members for evening events in the winning sukkahs.media/OJM09705w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:45:05-07:002013Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:25:18-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Yonah Geller2Rabbi Yonah Geller arrived in Portland in 1960 to serve as rabbi of Congregation Shaarie Torah. While quite a few Jewish institutions thrived in Portland at the time, he was the only Orthodox rabbi.media/OJM03661w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:29:35-07:001965Rabbi Yonah Geller Papers, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:39:59-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Rose, Rabbi Kim Stoloff, and Cantor Judith Schiff with Torah2Among the growing number of female clergy in Oregon were Cantor Judith Schiff (right) and Rabbi Kim Stoloff (left) of Congregation Beth Israel, pictured here with Rabbi Emanuel Rosemedia/OJM08810w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:56:23-07:002001Congregation Beth Israel Records, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T15:02:06-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Alisha and Jacqueline Babbstein in the Pomegranate Sukkah at SukkahPDX2Two visitors to the Sukkah PDX design competition seated at night in a lit sukkah shaped like a pomegranate.media/OJM09707w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:46:07-07:002014Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:26:07-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Augusta (Gussie) Reinhardt with Neil Goldschmidt2Neighborhood activist and Kesser Israel stalwart Augusta "Gussie" Reinhardt poses with Mayor Neil Goldschmidt at a 1976 Jewish National Fund Dinnermedia/OJM06626w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:30:09-07:001976Augusta Reinhardt Papers, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:41:43-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Bat Mitzvah of Miriam Aschkenasy2By the 1980s, it had become common for girls to read from the Torah on their bat mitzvah services at many congregations. Here, Miriam Aschkenasy celebrates her bat mitzvah at Salem's Temple Beth Sholommedia/OJM07052w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:56:55-07:001984Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T15:03:41-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Moshe Willhelm lights the Hanukkah Menorah in front of the Aleph Bet School2Hanukkah at Chabad. Rabbi lights large menorah in front of the school. A sculpture was created outside the school with a large oil burning menorahmedia/OJM07775w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:47:08-07:00Jewish Review Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:26:47-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Arlene Schnitzer at the Fountain Gallery2With her mother, Helen Director, and good friend, Edna Brigham, Arlene Schnitzer opened one of Portland's first art galleries. Schnitzer, an art student at the time, recognized that Portland lacked exhibition space and sales opportunities for local artists. The Fountain Gallery, named in honor of the nearby Skidmore Fountain, quickly became one of the region’s largest and most influential commercial galleries. The Fountain Gallery distinguished itself as one of the first galleries in the Northwest to exhibit artworks by internationally recognized artists, Northwest artists, as well as special exhibitions of African art and Japanese prints.media/OJM01984w.jpgplain2017-05-03T12:30:42-07:001950Jewish Businesses Collection, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T15:04:47-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbis Laurie Rutenberg and Gary Schoenberg Gesher celebrating Passover in costumes2Rabbis Laurie Rutenberg and Gary Schoenberg Gesher lead a group of adults and children out doors.media/OJM06906w.jpgplain2017-05-24T12:48:14-07:002004Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust EducationKeenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:42:43-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Richard and Maurine Neuberger1Richard and Maurine Neuberger were the first married couple to serve together in the Oregon legislature, he in the senate, she in the housemedia/OJM01615w.jpgplain2017-02-02T14:42:43-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:44:01-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Vera Katz1Vera Katz during her term as Speaker of the House for the Oregon Legislature, 1985-1990. In 1992, she was elected to the first of three terms as Portland's mayormedia/OJM08670w.jpgplain2017-02-02T14:44:01-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29
12017-02-02T14:47:21-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29Rabbi Joey Wolf and family attending Havurah Gay Pride Service1Image of Joey Wolf, family and congregation. Wolf is seen in the middle surrounded by a close group singing.media/OJM06639w.jpgplain2017-02-02T14:47:21-08:00Keenan Ward2cdcd8d7f43837000f1c46b62b720aeba303ca29