You can now Pre-Order your Hamentaschen so you are ready for Purim!
Purchase online, here or print out an order form from our website and send it in. We’ve got three delicious flavors: fruit, moen (poppyseed), and apricot (nut free). Only pre-orders are guaranteed. Order before March 7th.
Volunteering:
Our Sisterhood is about to embark on the annual hamentashen baking and sale. They have customers from all over Portland who buy these tasty treats and in turn Sisterhood funds many wonderful aspects of our community. Our hardworking bakers are about to start a multi-week process that will eventually make about 30,000 hamentashen! You have never seen anything like it (unless you have previously helped). It’s great fun, and a great community builder. Everyone is invited to help, including children 12 and over. Click here to sign up for a volunteer slot or please contact Charlotte Tevet to volunteer at 503 319-7825 or ctevet2004@yahoo.com.
Portland composers and classical musicians are uniting on President’s Day, February 20, 2017, to present a concert entitled, “Music of Hope and Empowerment.” Music of Hope and Empowerment is a benefit concert to fight hate and promote social justice. All the proceeds of the concert will be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Dr. William Barber’s organization, “Repairers of the Breach,” and Causa Oregon.
Elden Rosenthal representing Southern Poverty Law Center is expected to speak at the event.
The concert will be performed at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 3880 SE Brooklyn Street, Portland Oregon, beginning at 7:30 pm. The program will feature music both new and old. Portland Composers Thomas DeNicola (piano) and Patrick McCulley (saxophone) will be performing their own compositions. Also featured is Stacey Phillip’s woodwind trio, “Prevailing Winds.”
Selections from Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Dvořák’s Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65, Poulenc’s song cycle, Banalités, as well as music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Astor Piazzolla will round out the program, along with a classical Japanese piece by Shingo Ikegami arranged for clarinet and koto. Performers include musicians from Classical Revolution PDX, the Portland Music Collective, String Theory, Trio Musicorum Medicorum, and mezzo-soprano Sadie Gregg.
Admission is via a minimum suggested donation of $10, payable at the door. In lieu of advance tickets, recent donation receipts from any of the benefiting organizations will be accepted for admission. Donation information is: Southern Poverty Law Center (https://www.splcenter.org, enter “Music of Hope and Empowerment” in the tribute field), Repairers of the Breach (http://www.breachrepairers.org/donate enter “Music of Hope and Empowerment” in the instructions or comments field) or Causa Oregon (http://causaoregon.org/donate/ enter “Music of Hope and Empowerment” after In honor of).
Join Israeli Choreographer Iris Erez in a discussion about her choreography that includes filmed excerpts of recent and past works, followed by a reception and dessert.
Iris Erez is an Israeli dancer, choreographer, and teacher visiting the U.S. as a Schusterman Visiting Artist at Reed College. She has been creating and performing her own choreography in Israel and abroad, including at the Venice Biennale in 2014. She was previously a dancer in Yasmeen Godder’s chamber ensemble and has served as curator for the Jerusalem Modern Dance Festival.
This event is FREE and open to the public. No tickets are required.
A conversation with Rabbi Joshua Stampfer and Rabbi Emanuel Rose, moderated by Rabbi Joshua Rose. Rabbi Stampfer and Rabbi Rose were both living in Israel in 1967 when the Six Day War broke out. In a conversation moderated by Rabbi Joshua Rose, our community’s two rabbis emeriti will reflect back over the five decades since the war and share their thoughts on the events and how history and their own experiences have informed their understanding. Co-sponsored by Congregations Neveh Shalom, Beth Israel and Shaarie Torah, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and Mittileman Jewish Community Center.
Learn the basics of Improv Theater! Students will learn short-form games that teach the skills of listening and responding, working together as a group to create a story on the spot, and building self-confidence. The class will be working towards a demo that showcases their favorite improv games, and shows off their new comedy chops!
In partnership with Portland Jewish Academy and Northwest Children’s Theater & School
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration; CG202
Join us for delicious food, good company, and an intriguing program. This is open to all. Pricing information coming soon.
Six Day War 50th Anniversary Presentation:
50 Years Later: What Does Jerusalem Mean in Our Lives?
What does it mean for the Jewish psyche that we control The Old City, The Temple Mount, The Tomb of the Patriarchs, Rachel’s Tomb for the first time in 2000 years? What do these places mean in Jewish thought, and how can it affect our relationship to holiness?
February 24 at 6:00 pm at the MJCC.
Experience and enjoy the remarkable story of our pioneer heritage! Kerry Tymchuk, Director of the Oregon Historical Society, will host a screening of The Jewish Frontier. This OPB film uses rare historical photos, footage, and interviews with people statewide to tell the story of Oregon’s Jewish pioneers. In addition to viewing and discussing the film, we will have a guided look at documents and artifacts housed at OJS that illustrate the experience of Oregon’s earliest Jewish settlers.
Portland Hadassah presents….. an evening with the author:
featuring Letty Cottin Pogrebin
HOW TO BE A FRIEND TO A FRIEND WHO’S SICK
“I’m sure you already know how to “be friends” when it means catching up over lunch… But when a pal or loved one falters physically or mentally–when they’re hobbled or hurting, when your role in the relationship is no longer easy or obvious, when your interests and exchanges are not entirely reciprocal, and your once-easy conversation tips jarringly toward matters of crisis and pain–you may have to find new ways of being together, new means for you to be helpful…” (Pogrebin, 2014).
A founding editor and writer for Ms. Magazine, Ms. Pogrebin is also the author of eleven books, including How To Be A Friend To A Friend Who’s Sick. Pogrebin’s advice about friendship and illness — infused with sensitivity, warmth, and (believe it or not) humor–is interwoven with boldly candid stories from her own journey through the land of the sick and her sometimes imperfect interactions with friends of hers who are sick or suffering.
Start reading now, and then join us for a fabulous evening with Letty!
Cost: $36
Fundraiser for Hadassah’s world class Breast Cancer Research Marlene; honoring survivors and fighters!
See what youth experiencing homelessness have to say for themselves.
What: Outside the Frame, in collaboration with the Tikkun Olam Committee of Havurah Shalom, presents The Lost Boys of Portlandia, a documentary featuring the real lost children of Portland. Homeless youth debate if and how to return to mainstream society while creating their own film version of the iconic story of Peter Pan. The evening will include a panel discussion with the filmmakers.
We will also premiere “Rest, not Arrest,” our new film for the Right to Rest Act. Oregon Legislators Piluso, Dembrow, Greenlick, Nosse, Power and Frederick have joined forces to introduce a new bill designed to end discrimination against people experiencing homelessness. HB 2215 prohibits law enforcement from arresting or ticketing people for resting, sitting, eating, or engaging in other basic life-sustaining activities in public.
A trailer for The Lost Boys of Portlandia is here: https://vimeo.com/188246795
Private link to film (24 minutes) available upon request.
Who: Outside the Frame empowers homeless and marginalized youth to educate the public about issues they face by producing films with youth that convey their experience. We help youth become directors of their lives, rather than character actors, by providing a much needed creative outlet, technological training and a sense of dignity and possibility that is contagious and visible to the public.
Why: “On its surface, it’s a film about the making of a film, but the backdrop is flooded with one of Portland’s most pressing social issues.” – KGW-TV
“This legislation, HB 2215, is crucial towards stopping the tidal wave of criminalization. If we can beat back these ordinances in Oregon, then we can continue to win in other states and actually build a future where we can all thrive.” Coral Feigin, Director of Community Organizing at the Western Regional Advocacy Project.
FREE, all ages event
Event Sponsored by: Tikkun Olam Committee of Havurah Shalom, Oregon Film, KBOO Community Radio, New Seasons.
Contact: Nili Yosha, 503-664-8344. nili@otfpdx.org. Outside The Frame is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Learn the basics of Improv Theater! Students will learn short-form games that teach the skills of listening and responding, working together as a group to create a story on the spot, and building self-confidence. The class will be working towards a demo that showcases their favorite improv games, and shows off their new comedy chops!
In partnership with Portland Jewish Academy and Northwest Children’s Theater & School
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration; CG202