Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

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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 ab

Photos from Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education's post 06/11/2026

Our construction crew and our favorite installation team Artech have been busy hanging paintings, erecting panels, and building our Wish Wall at the museum!

Deinstallation requires incredible care and skill. The mixture of imagination and ex*****on, planning and hammering, always amazes.

Join us on Sunday June 28, from 3 to 5pm, for the Public Opening of both new exhibitions, “One Nation” and “How We Show Up: Oregon Jews in Civil Society, An America 250 Exhibition.”

Find more details at the link in our bio.

06/08/2026

Thanks to for featuring our new exhibit, How We Show Up: An America 250 exhibition.

"How We Show Up: An America 250 Exhibition explores the ways Jewish Oregonians have participated in public life, tracing a long tradition of civic engagement shaped by leadership, service and advocacy. The exhibition spans Jewish civic life in Oregon from roughly the 1840s through the early 21st century and deliberately reaches beyond Portland, although the city features prominently as the historic center of Oregon Jewish life." — Preview

All are welcome to our public opening, Sunday, June 28, 3 – 5pm

Featured image: OJM04788, Shaul Stampfer Speaking at Portland Rally for Soviet Jewry, 1970

06/07/2026

Happy summer vacation! Add a visit to OJMCHE to your weekend plans. Admission is free 11am – 4pm Sunday!

Photo from the OJMCHE archive: OJM11468, B'nai B'rith Camp Girls Cabin Photo circa 1960s

06/04/2026

Happy Pride Month from Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education! Join us in celebrating LGBTQIA+ pride and remembering the intersectional lived experiences of Jews and the LGBTQIA+.

Shoutout to the who performed the beautiful concert at OJMCHE (featured in this post) as part of our Outliers & Outlaws exhibition in 2025. Their next concert "Q***r Joy is our Resistance" is coming up later this month!

06/03/2026

Join us in Old Town tomorrow night, June 4, for First Thursday! Free admission 4 – 8pm.

For the second time this season, OJMCHE will welcome visitors to the museum for free, as part of First Thursday. Come by. Say hi. See how a museum looks while it transitions previous exhibitions to upcoming exhibitions.

It's also a great time to revisit our core exhibits including Human Rights After the Holocaust. This core exhibition explores why and how human rights abuses, hatred, racial injustice, and genocide continue to happen and, simultaneously, illustrates the ways that hope and action are essential to our endeavors.

06/02/2026

What can the history of N**i persecution of LGBTQ+ people teach us about confronting discrimination today?

Join us on Zoom on June 16, 12–1 PM, for “Never Again is Now: Learning from LGBTQ+ History to Fight for the Future.

In this free virtual Lunch and Learn, Dr. Jake Newsome, an award-winning scholar and Founder of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, will share 10 key lessons from LGBTQ+ history that can help us better understand today's challenges and build more inclusive communities.

Participants will also gain practical tools for addressing homophobia and transphobia in their own communities.

Presented in partnership with the Holocaust Center for Humanity and the Pink Triangle Legacies Project.

RSVP at www.ojmche.org/events/never-again-is-now-learning-from-lgbtq-history-to-fight-for-the-future/

05/23/2026

Join us in the museum this Sunday, from 2-4, for an immersive, sound-based ritual exploring personal and collective grieving, healing and belonging, and connectivity and care.

Valenca Valenzuela, Aaron Robinson, and other ceremonialists and musicians from will lead this unique ceremony and close our incredible week of events around ’s exhibition “Without End: Recent Work on Grief.”

So, why grief? And who is The Lantern? Valenca Valenzuela and Aaron Robinson fill us in.



05/20/2026

For Jewish American Heritage Month, our Museum Educator Daniel Sauter shared a few of his favorite books, and the value of reading itself.

Daniel is a lifelong reader, passionate about Jewish fiction and history, can read Yiddish, and even spent time learning at the Yiddish Book Center!

What did he recommend?




05/14/2026

Close out Jewish American Heritage Month with Jew Oughta Know Part II with Jessica Rehfield, an hour of fun and surprising stories of Jewish-American innovators and influences in popular culture.

Sunday, May 31 @ 2pm
$5 admission, free for members

05/13/2026

Our gallery will be activated in a whole new way for the closing ceremony for In this Sand: Seven Days of Collective Care. Members of the public are invited to join and ceremonialists from for a special closing ritual exploring themes of personal and collective grieving, healing and belonging, and connectivity and care.

The Lantern is an inclusive, intergenerational gathering place that offers connection, grief support, healing, and belonging. Learn more at TheLanternPDX.org.

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724 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR
97209

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm