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OREGON JEWISH LIFE | JUNE 2012 9 Letter from the Editor Letters to the Editor When I moved from sunny Colorado to the Dear Deborah, Pacific Northwest 20 years ago, it seemed to I want to commend you on the beautiful issues. They are so informative me it rained every day. I missed the semi-desert and I enjoy reading them from cover to cover! Front Range and the Rocky Mountains outside I wondered if you would be interested … in my 5½-year-old grandson's my window. tzedakah project? Jack attends Portland Jewish Academy and his mother, With my sons in preschool, I enjoyed visit- Lauren Goldstein, is on the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater ing the nearby Oregon coast to let them play in Portland. the sand and splash in the waves. As my boys Jack's tzedakah project began in February when his mother returned got older, I started to take them to the alpine from a federation mission to Israel and she told Jack about some children slides and tubing hill at Mount Hood and to in Israel who didn't have as much as he did. Jack ran to his room and asked the coast range for hikes – I didn’t miss my his daddy to help him count the money in his piggy bank. Then he asked Colorado mountains so much anymore.