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Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt, left, shakes hands with Pope Francis during their meeting in the Vatican on April 20, 2015. Pope Francis called on Christians to stand united with Jews to defend themselves against discrimination and persecution. The Pope made the call during a meeting with a 30-member delegation from the Conference of European Rabbis on Monday at the Vatican. The highest leader of the Catholic Church cited the "troubling" anti-Semitic movements in Europe, in his address to rabbis who met with him in anticipation of the 50th anniversary in October of the "Nostra Aetate," the Second Vatican Council's declaration on...

Portland's NBC television affiliate, KGW, today carries on its Web site an Associated Press story about a county sheriff. It's now alleged he "knew of the child abuse problems that drove former Governor Neil Goldschmidt from an active public life in 2004." The child abuse "problem" was detailed in the May 7, 2004 Seattle Times: "Former Oregon Gov. Neil Goldschmidt admitted yesterday he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl when he was 35 and mayor of Portland, and said he is resigning all his public and private positions to 'rebuild my life.'" The Times article noted Goldschmidt "became...

PORTLAND -- A reporter for Willamette Week, the Portland alternative weekly, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Nigel Jaquiss exposed a sexual relationship between former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt and an underage girl while Goldschmidt was Portland's mayor in the 1970s. The 14-year-old girl was his children's babysitter. The revelation drove Goldschmidt, a high-level consultant and power broker, from public life. Tears came to Jaquiss' eyes when he heard the announcement Monday. He said it was a terrific honor he never thought would be his. Jaquiss is a former Wall Street stock trader who moved to Portland eight...

Last week, a well-respected online business publication provided yet another possible link between Neil Goldschmidt and the Texans who recruited him to take over Portland General Electric. On Oct. 28, Bloomberg News published an account of Texas Pacific Group's struggle to buy Oregon's largest utility. The story quoted Richard Blum, a San Francisco investor who has been a business partner and hiking companion of Texas Pacific CEO David Bonderman for the past decade. Blum is no stranger to acquiring heavily regulated businesses in Oregon--nor is he a stranger to Goldschmidt. Correspondence obtained by WW from the state archives shows that...

Lars Larson is breaking the news that Kerry met with former governor and self admitted pedophile, Neil Goldschmidt. The Kerry campaign has known for months that Goldschmidt is toast in Oregon, but on his last trip here, Kerry had dinner with the pedophile. Lars has had many different confirmations of the meeting including a policeman who was assigned to Kerry's patrol. Listen into Lars' show by clicking on his web site and getting more breaking details. Goldschmidt had raped a fourteen year old girl for three years while the thirtyfive year old was mayor of Portland.

June 16, 2004Was Goldschmidt Involved With Another Girl? PORTLAND, ORE. - New reports are surfacing that former Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt may have had another sexual relationship with a girl in the 1970s and that he has been the subject of a probe by child abuse investigators. About a month ago, a call came into the Multnomah County Child Abuse hotline alleging that Goldschmidt had been sexually involved with another young girl decades ago. This, in addition to the 14-year-old teenager he admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with during the same time and while he was serving as...

A former confidant of Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he discussed Neil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of an underage girl with Kulongoski years before the governor named Goldschmidt to run Oregon's university system. The account by Fred Leonhardt challenges Kulongoski's assertions that he was unaware of the abuse until the day before Goldschmidt publicly revealed it on May 6. The governor has since stated that he never would have chosen Goldschmidt for the higher education job had he known of the abuse. Kulongoski declined to be interviewed for this story, and his office disputed the account of Leonhardt, who was a speechwriter...

Oct. 4, 2003 UN, Iran form plan to show nuclear program peaceful By ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran Representatives of the UN nuclear watchdog have left Iran after reaching "total agreement" on measures to prove the country's nuclear program is peaceful, Iran's representative to the IAEA said Saturday. Ali Akbar Salehi said the International Atomic Energy Agency delegation left Tehran on Friday "with complete satisfaction." "The two sides reached total agreement and approved a plan of action on the basis of which we will work together on a timetable to achieve the expected results," Salehi told The Associated Press. The IAEA...