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SUMMARY:How We Show Up Closing Panel
LOCATION:Auditorium\, OJMCHE\, 724 NW Davis Street\, Portland\, OR
DESCRIPTION:How We Show Up Closing Panel November 15\, 2026 Admission: $10
  general admission\, $5 for members with code on back of membership card L
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  Email Sunday\, November 15 | 2-3:30pm What does civic participation look 
 like? How has the Jewish community shaped Oregon throughout its history? P
 anelists will discuss these questions and more in a lively discussion expl
 oring Jewish civic engagement in Oregon\, from building towns and holding 
 office to advocating for civil rights\, immigrant communities\, and social
  justice. Speakers include Ellen Eisenberg\, lead advisor to the exhibitio
 n and preeminent Western Jewish scholar\; Ellen Rosenblum\, Oregon’s for
 mer attorney general and first woman elected to the role\; Paul Solomon\, 
 criminal justice advocate and grandson of federal judge Gus J. Solomon\; a
 nd Portland City Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney. This program is presented 
 as part of How We Show Up: Oregon Jews in Civil Society\, An America 250 E
 xhibition . About the Panelists Ellen Eisenberg holds the Dwight and Marga
 ret Lear Professorship in American History at Willamette University. Her p
 ublished work includes five books on American Jewish history and\, particu
 larly\, the history of Jews in the American West\, including National Jewi
 sh Book Award finalist The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and J
 apanese Removal during WWII and a two-volume history of Jews in Oregon\, E
 mbracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians\, 1849–1950 and The Jewis
 h Oregon Story\, 1950–2015. A former federal prosecutor and state trial 
 and appellate judge\, Ellen Rosenblum was first elected as Oregon’s 17th
  Attorney General in November 2012\, and was reelected in November 2016. S
 he is the first woman to serve as Oregon’s Attorney General. As Attorney
  General\, Rosenblum has focused on standing up for the most vulnerable Or
 egonians. Her priorities included consumer protection and civil rights\, a
 s well as advocating for and protecting Oregon’s children\, seniors\, im
 migrants and crime victims\, and those saddled with education-related debt
 . She currently leads Freshfields’ State Attorneys General (State AG) pr
 actice. Ellen and her husband have two children and live in Portland\, Ore
 gon. Elana Pirtle-Guiney was elected as a District 2 City Councilor in Nov
 ember 2024. She has spent her career standing up for working families – 
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