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William DeMerrit (left) and Shayna Blass co-star in “Indecent,” the ethnically diverse exploration of
Jewish identity which utilizes a touchstone of Yiddish theater, the 1906 play “The God of Vengeance,”
as the vehicle to explore a vibrant lost history of a piece written ahead of its time.
Diverse Play Explores Jewish Identity
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Paula Vogel’s beautiful play
about Jewish identity, “Inde-
cent,” grapples with themes
of outsiders facing threats to
their freedoms and basic human
rights, apropos in an age when
synagogues face a resurgence of
deadly violence.
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Fire Investigation Underway
Portland Police and
Fire and Rescue are
asking the public’s
help
to
identify
persons of interest
in
a
residential
fire
investigation
involving a three alarm fire at a
home on Northeast Garfield Street
on July 5. Surveillance video
from a neighboring apartment
complex recorded several people
that authorities wish to identify for
the fire that resulted in property
damage and injured two.
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Laureate Dead at 88
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Toni Morrison,
the internationally
acclaimed author
whose
prose
spoke to the
hardship
and
resilience of the African American
experience, died Monday night
at Montefiore Medical Center
in New York, NBC reports. The
88-year-old was the winner of the
1993 Noble Prize for Literature,
2012 Presidential Medal of
Freedom, and author of the novels
“Beloved,” “The Bluest Eyes,”
up as oneself, when one exists
at the margins of privilege and
identity? How does one with-
stand pressure to conform, to
assimilate, to succeed on terms
that function to erase that which
makes us distinct?
It is a struggle familiar to
immigrants and outsiders of
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in
Review
The
all kinds, those of us who have
faced the hazards of annihilation
or demonization or oppression
or genocide. To be accepted--in-
deed, to survive at all--often in-
volves erasing ourselves or our
communities, accommodating
the pressure to blend in and to
validate how the dominant group
defines goodness and success.
“Indecent,” playing at the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival in
Ashland through October, grap-
ples with these questions with
C ontinueD on p age 12
Woman Sues Portland
for Protest Injury
Warren Calls Out White Supremacy
Michelle Fawcett filed a lawsuit
against the city of Portland
Tuesday for injuries she said
she suffered during an Aug. 4,
2018 protest against right-wing
extremists.
The
53-year-old
woman’s claim is that she was
struck in the arm by a flash-bang
grenade, causing third-degree
chemical burns, other physical
injuries, and mental and emotion
distress, stated the lawsuit, which
seeks $250,000 in damages.
Missing Man Found
Rapper Returns to U.S.
“Sula,” “Song of Solomon,” and
many others.
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth
Warren said during a democratic
debate that white supremacy
should be labeled as domestic
terrorism, saying to resounding
applause: “it poses a threat to
the United States of America.”
That comes after FBI Director
Christopher Wray’s assertion to
the U.S. Senate that roughly 100
domestic terrorism-related arrests
since October were connected to
white supremacy.
Gresham Police have successfully
located a missing 67-year-old
man with dementia, James Lee
Rivers, over 30 hours after he was
reportedly last seen. Rivers had
been last seen at the Safeway at
1001 SW Highland Dr. between
noon and 12:30pm Sunday and
was reported found by Gresham
Police by 10:30pm Monday.
Rapper A$AP Rocky returned
to the U.S. Saturday after being
freed from a Swedish jail the
night before, pending a verdict in
his trial. Rocky, whose real name
is Rakim Mayers, is accused with
two others of beating a 19-year-
old man in Stockholm on June 30,
though he’s plead not guilty. The
verdict will be announced Aug. 14.