Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Community Conversation: What Does It Mean to Be American? is presented in partnership with Oregon Humanities and community weaver Chisao Hata, this conversation will explore when and how we define ourselves as an “American.” Does knowing the Constitution make us American? Does living on land controlled by the United States of America make us American? […]

Join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for a free guided tour of How We Show Up exhibition and leave inspired to show up in your community. How We Show Up narrates the need to build a better future by including morally difficult histories, such as Jewish participation in settler colonialism, silence […]

One Nation Exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education brings together contemporary artists who explore the ideals and contradictions embedded in the American promise through painting, photography, sculpture, textile, and mixed media. Join for a free guided tour that reflects on how a diverse society strives toward unity while confronting social, […]

Join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for a free guided tour of How We Show Up exhibition and leave inspired to show up in your community. How We Show Up narrates the need to build a better future by including morally difficult histories, such as Jewish participation in settler colonialism, silence […]

Join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for a free guided tour of the One Nation Exhibition that reflects on how a diverse society strives toward unity while confronting social, political, and cultural divisions. The exhibition repeatedly returns to the idea of E Pluribus Unum, meaning “Out of many, one.” Nothing is […]

Presented in partnership with Oregon Humanities and community organizer Wendy Willis, this conversation will explore what it means to “mutually pledge” ourselves to one another today. While the opening of the Declaration of Independence gets the fanfare and the fireworks—“When in the course of human events” and all that—the closing clause contains a quiet promise: […]

Join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education for a free guided tour of How We Show Up exhibition and leave inspired to show up in your community. How We Show Up narrates the need to build a better future by including morally difficult histories, such as Jewish participation in settler colonialism, silence […]