Bring your Students to OJMCHE!
Class Visits Include Exhibit Tours
We’ve designed our docent guided tours for students to be 90 minutes. Included in a visit to Pointing the Way: The Art of the Torah Pointer and Surviving Remnants will be a special tour of the exhibit gallery paired with a few select short videos about the history of the Holocaust in the Crimean Peninsula and an Eastern European town called Simferopol.  Students will have time during the tour for a contemplative writing response exercise related to the theme of bearing witness. 
This tour ties in with current K-12 Common Core standards in several content areas, including the CCSS for Literacy in History/Social Studies. Please contact us with questions and accommodation requests.
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Ask us about scholarships for bus transportation both inside and outside of the Portland metro area.
Pointing the Way: The Art of the Torah Pointer and Surviving Remnants
November 15, 2015 – February 28, 2016
Pointing the Way: The Art of the Torah Pointer
This exhibit comprises a remarkable collection of antique and contemporary Torah pointers, known by the Hebrew word yad, literally “hand” in English. Created by artists from different ages and cultures and of diverse materials these yads chronicle the timeless, universal aesthetic guide in reading the Torah. 
Surviving Remnants – Photography by Elizabeth Collings of Damaged Crimean Torah Scrolls 
In 1941, the Nazi army captured the Crimean city of Simferopol. Simferopol had been the center of Jewish life in Crimea for centuries and by the Second World War approximately 23,000 Jews lived there. 
Within the year they massacred more than 14,000 residents – mostly Jews, Russians and Roma. The photographs in this exhibit trace several Simferopol Torah scrolls and their history including their condition after a 1990 medical delegation from Oregon returned with them from the Soviet Union. more>>
Schedule a Group Tour

Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist
Traveling Exhibit from the

International Center for Photography 

March 13 – June 15, 2016
Educator's Open House:Tuesday, March 15, 4:30 – 5:30pm
Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist celebrates the remarkable life, vision, and heroic tenacity of a twentieth-century pioneer and trailblazer. The photographs in this exhibition span more than fifty years, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus in 1947, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. more>>
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Featuring An Educator and Student Rate

Confronting Extremism: The State of Hate Today

November 8, 2015, 1:00 - 4:00pm
No Person Will Be Turned Away for Inability to Pay

Portland State University Campus
Hoffmann Hall 1833 SW 11th Ave. | Special Event

Ticket Info: General: $20; Educators and Students with I.D: $8

Join OJMCHE for our Fall Symposium, a film screening of the 2014 film HATE followed by a conversation with the director and other guest speakers. 

Featuring special guest Nadav Eyal, acclaimed Israeli journalist and director of HATE, a documentary dramatically depicting the resurgence of antisemitism in Europe. A screening of HATE will be followed by a discussion in which local panelists reflect on the challenges posed by racism, extremism, hate groups and hate speech in our community. more>>
Available All Year
Request a Holocaust Speaker For Your Classroom
The Speakers' Bureau is comprised of Holocaust survivors, refugees and descendants who are trained to share their family stories with students and other groups. See the list below to learn about some of the current speakers. Call us at 503-226-3600 to speak with our education staff about the full listing of available speakers.
Bugs Bunny Voice Artist
Mel Blanc, circa 1960. OJM00270
Learn About Oregon Jewish History
Our group tours are designed to meet the needs of your group, whether you are visiting as a group new to Jewish traditions and culture or have first-hand experience.  A trained museum educator will lead your group through our gallery and speak about the history of Oregon’s Jewish community. more>>
Students on Group Tours will learn about celebrated Portland icons such as: 

Visit the Oregon Holocaust Memorial
OJMCHE offers guided tours of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Washington Park during the school week and on Sundays upon request. 
Our trained docents are able to accommodate groups of various sizes and often guide groups of students from Oregon and SW Washington schools. more>>
Ask about scholarships to pay for bus transportation.
Traveling Museum Trunk
A Year in the Life: The Oregon Jewish Immigrant Experience
The OJMCHE is pleased to offer, at no cost, a powerful enrichment program for 3rd-5th grade classrooms. This program satisfies Oregon State Benchmarks for learning in a variety of areas, including social studies, history, English, art, math, and geography.
  • The trunk is housed entirely in a replica steamer trunk. We focus on the story of 19-year-old Chaim, a fictional account of his first year in the United States, with all its attendant challenges and new adventures. Set in 1904, we follow Chaim’s adventures through the months, looking to many of the typical experiences of an eastern European immigrant of that era. Students in your classroom will hold ceremonial and historical objects while learning about the cultural life of Oregon's earliest Jewish settlers. more>>
South Portland Walking Tour
OJMCHE offers walking tours of Portland with a focus on Jewish immigrant history. 
Participants will tour Old South Portland by walking through streets while hearing stories about the century old neighborhood. This tour includes highlights such as South Portland Library, Meade Street Shul (the old Kesser Israel building) and Neighborhood House, which was the social heart of Lair Hill and is where today students of the Cedarwood Waldorf School still learn in the historic building.

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