Mittleman Jewish Community Center (MJCC) received a bomb threat Monday, March 6th. It was just a matter of time, considering the rash of bomb threats to JCCs and Jewish Academies. Being proactive, the MJCC and Portland Jewish Academy (PJA) administration planned to have an evacuation drill in order to prepare for the possibility that we would receive a bomb threat. The week prior the staff did a walk through of the evacuation route, practicing the shortest routes through the

Quanice's Funeral Last Friday, on a dark and rainy afternoon, Kirsten and I attended a funeral service for Quanice Hayes, the black teen killed by police in early February. Earlier in the week, a Multnomah County grand jury ruled that the Portland police officer who killed Quanice was “justified in his actions” and no criminal charges would be filed against him. At the time of the shooting, Quanice was unarmed and on his knees. He was shot three times. The service was held at