During the month of April, the MJCC and PJA communities will be collecting Art Supplies for Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP). Items can be dropped off in the blue pin located in the MJCC lobby.
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Every Tuesday morning from April 25 to May 23.
Register: oregonjcc.org/register; CG301
Sculpt your body with this new class that combines powerful yoga poses with light weights, therabands and exercise balls to increase strength, tone muscles, and improve flexibility.
Instructor: Tara Atkinson
Wednesdays, April 5 – June 7
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT308
Neveh Shalom Men’s Club and Wednesday Night School team up to co-sponsor a speaker from the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Location TBA.
Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class. Every Wednesday from April 19 to June 28.
Note: No class May 31
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration; CG300
Women of the Wall Executive Director Lesley Sachs will update Portlanders on the rapidly evolving legal battle over women’s rights to pray at the Western Wall. Light dessert reception will follow.
WHEN
7 pm, April 26, Rosh Hodesh Iyar
WHERE
Congregation Beth Israel sanctuary
PRESENTED BY
CBI with the support and partnership of the
Jewish Federation of Greater Portland
INFORMATION
503-222-1069
Are you feeling behind in what you’ve had in mind for your own intentions? Give yourself the gift of a 90-minute “restart.” Reconnect with your goals and intentions that you made earlier this year and decipher what’s important for you. Christine will help you design a personal plan of support for moving forward through the year.
Led by Certified Professional Coach Christine Gilmore.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT311
We are honored to be able to co-host, along with PSU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project, a screening of
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
PSU’s Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 296-8 map
At age 24, Ruth Gruber became a New York Herald Tribune reporter and photographer and the same year was the first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic. A trusted member of the Roosevelt Administration during WWII, she was given a dangerous secret mission. A feminist before feminism, Ruth was never just an observer, she was a participant in the making of history. Run time: 1 hour 13 min
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the same week as this screening. Before the film starts, Rabbi Ariel Stone will lead us as we will take a moment to remember all of those lost during the Holocaust and join together to pledge to work towards “Never Again!” We are honored to have April Slabosheski, Holocaust Educator at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and Julia Reihs, local photographer, videographer, writer and storyteller with us for an engaging talk-back after the film. Attendees will also have a chance to share a reflection for a Together We Remember (TWR) project. TWR is a global month of remembrance and activism for all victims of genocide and mass atrocities.
For more information, visit the film’s website.
Doors at 6:30pm. Film starts at 7pm. PSU’s Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 296-8 map
And please join us for our other films as we continue the Rising Up for Human Dignity 2017 Film Festival. April is widely recognized as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. With that in mind, we’ve teamed up with PSU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project to engage people with a series of films and actions. Each Thursday night, April 6-May 4, will feature a film, along with talk-backs and action opportunities. We want people to walk away from these films, not feeling hopeless, but invigorated and feeling like they can help make change.
All Films start at 7pm – Free Admission!
Check out the whole line up: www.neveragaincoalition.org/rising-up
QUESTIONS?? Contact Amanda Byron, Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project at PSU abyron@pdx.edu or contact Lauren Fortgang or Diane Koosed at neveragaincoalition@gmail.com
The Kindness Commons Presents: Israel 360
About Israel360
Israel360 is a pilot project of The Kindness Commons™ and is housed at Congregation Neveh Shalom, Portland, Oregon.
Israel360 is a series of regularly occurring programs that will consider many aspects of Israel–modern and ancient–from diverse viewpoints and approaches. Some sessions will have a cultural, political or military focus, while other events will examine Israeli history, sociology or the peace process.
In today’s world, any mention of Israel can be contentious, because people arrive at events with pre-formed opinions. To help us grow past this, and to model the Jewish values of shmirat halashon (thoughtful speech), derekh eretz (civility) and makhlokhet l’shem shamayim (directed dialogue), all programs will be facilitated.
At each event, attendees will be reminded of a set of guidelines for participation. The goal is to ensure that dialogue and discussion are respectful and that questions and comments spring from a sense of curiosity rather than a desire to prove a position or score a rhetorical point.
About The Kindness Commons™:
*The Kindness Commons™ is an initiative and gift of Rabbi David Kosak. Like all commons, it provides free access to necessary societal goods. In this case, those goods are the Jewish tradition’s deep wisdom on how to build functional, caring and durable communities. Core components and teachings of The Kindness Commons™ center on:
- Kindness (chesed)
- Civility and caring behavior (shmirat halashon and derekh eretz)
- Rich and respectful conversation and dialogue (makhlokhet l’shem shamayim),
- Mutual responsibility (kol yisrael ma’arivin zeh b’zeh and tikkun olam)
Upcoming Events:
Thursday, March 30, 7:00pm
The Role of Ethics in the Israeli Defense Forces
Thursday, April 27, 7:00pm
Understanding Israeli Borders from Antiquity to Modernity
Thursday, May 25, 7:00pm
Topic TBA
All events are FREE admission. RSVP requested: 503.246.8831 ~ lwoloshin@nevehshalom.org
Sponsorship is sought for future programing. Please contact dkosak@nevehshalom.org for more information.