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Celebs Support Eco-Friendly Jewish Campus in Booming Portland
Brand-new day-school facilities in a unique Oregon city proud of its 'weirdness'
Portland, Oregon - In the month of September, children across the country begin the new school year, excitedly meeting new teachers and classmates. The children at Chabad's Maimonides Jewish Day School and The Gan–Portland Jewish Preschool in Portland, Ore., however, returned to something quite different: a new school.
Dubbed the Campus of Jewish Life, the new school imbues the youthful energy and ethos of Portland. Redesigned with elements of the original school building, was constructed to minimize the school’s carbon footprint, making it the first Jewish Preschool in Portland to be certified as eco-friendly.
In a testament of community reciprocity, celebrities, including well-known Jewish actor Elliott Gould voiced his personal support for the school in a video. “When you have the vision, the commitment and the sheer chutzpah to lift an old house from its foundation and build a new school around it,” Gould said, “then it’s obvious that quality Jewish education can be found right here, right now, and for many generations to come.”
Eliott Gould as a youngster
When William Shatner saw the video, the actor, quickly filmed a response, teasing his friend Gould, especially on the latter’s pronunciation of the state’s name, which sounded like “Ahregon.”
Captain Kirk alias William Shatner
A 2010 census discovered that there were some 47,000 Jews in the city, twice as many as had previously been estimated. Since then, the Jewish community in Portland has scrambled to engage this influx of young, largely unaffiliated crowd drawn by the city’s unique quality of life, summed up by the now-famous slogan, "Keep Portland Weird."
”The nine Chabad Centers and 11 families of emissaries together with the school are poised to engage this young and growing Jewish population,” says Rabbi Moshe Wilhelm, director of Chabad of Oregon.