ALEFBET: The Alphabet of Memory
OJMCHE’s inaugural exhibit in the main gallery features a visually stunning collection of works by Russian Jewish artist Grisha Bruskin, who is featured in Russia’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. Bruskin’s “The ALEFBET: the Alphabet of Memory” features large-scale tapestries draping the walls of the main gallery accompanied by the artist’s preparatory drawings and related gouache paintings, all referencing Kabbalistic and Talmudic teaching, biblical narratives and Russian folklore.
June 11-Oct. 1, 2017
Tuesday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm
Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 pm
Grand Opening: June 11, noon-4 pm. Free
Delve into biblical and midrashic text to finding meaning from Jewish traditions that relate to our modern lives. Taught by Mel Berwin.
Join other families for a fun Shabbat hike at Tryon Creek State Park. FREE and snacks will be provided. More info: eposen@nevehshalom.org.
Free Meet some critically acclaimed and well known authors in person, get an autograph, ask questions, and get inspired! Let’s keep books alive! A fun filled family day, and it’s free!
Parking: 21810 Willamette Drive (Behind Legacy Medical Group building)
There will be lots of children books, Poetry, Health, Romance, Spiritual/ Self-Help, History, Memoirs, Horror/Thriller, Sci-Fi, Comics, Humor/Satire, Young Adult, Fantasy, Art, and so on.
For more information about list of authors and guest authors speaking time, visit: www.veronicaesagui.net
So far twenty-four authors have signed up for the West Linn book festival, and I have taken the liberty of attaching the flier on those speaking and also a list of the names of the authors attending, including their websites. It’s kind of interesting that some of the authors are older than me, one of them is 95 and quite a few are in their 80’s. I feel like a child next to them
At least three of the authors are Jewish, including book fair organizer Dr. Veronica Esagui, and will share their books at the fair.
Book festival organizer Veronica Esagui grew up in Portugal as a minority among less than 20 Jewish families in a largely Catholic country, and came to the United States in 1962. Dr. Esagui will be speaking at 12:30 and a “Free Spinal Analysis and Counseling” will be offered. Dr. Veronica is the international critically acclaimed author of The Scoliosis Self-Help Resource Book (English and Japanese). She is also the author of Veronica’s Diary series, Age of Innocence, Braving a New World, Awakening the Woman Within, Angels Among Us and The Gift and, Aged to Perfection (play).
www.veronicaesagui.net
Ruth Lindemann will be speaking at 1:30. She was born in 1933 in Vienna, Austria, and
came to US in 1940. Ruth lives in Portland. She has been a lecturer on the speaker’s Bureau for the Holocaust Resource Center in Portland, OR and recently at the
Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Her book
“To Survive Is Not Enough” is a historical fiction based on the collection of hundreds of stories told to Ruth over the last fifty years.
https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Not-Enough-Ruth-Lindemann
| Sylvia Miller is pleased to announce the launch of her new book, Art & Soul…creative journaling from the inside out. |
| Sylvia Miller maintains her studio and residence in Lake Oswego, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.
An award winning published artist, Sylvia works skillfully in all styles from representational to abstract designs. She is best known for her spontaneous on-location watercolor paintings. |
www.sylviamillerwatercolor.com
“This event, which I started nine years ago in my parking lot, was so successful that the following seven years I organized it at the Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland as The NW Annual Book Festival. After seven years I donated it to 9Bridges a writers group in Portland and they have been running it since then,” says Dr. Esagui. “I guess I miss the fun of putting a book festival together and decided that I would put one on again but since so many authors have signed up to participate it has taken over the parking lot next to me, which is the reason for two addresses.
Take a walking tour of South Portland through old Jewish neighborhoods with other 50+ walkers.
Wednesday, August 16; 5:30 PM Happy Hour, Tour begins at 6:30 PM
Meets at Lair Hill Bistro – 2823 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR 97201
Please call or email to register.
In partnership with MJCC, OJMCHE, JFGP
Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class.
Register code: CG401
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Join Sarah Rohr on Thursday evenings from 7:30-8:30 at Neveh Shalom as she guides you through physical movements and practices to explore, compliment and exalt your heartfelt prayers. For both beginners and students with experience. $10 sliding scale, a portion of the proceeds will benefit ALIYAH. More info: sarah.e.rohr36@gmail.com
Jack “Yankl” Falk (clarinet/vocals) joins with Christina Crowder (accordion) and Charles Casimiro (bass) for an evening of Carpathian klezmer, Hasidic chant, Hungarian and Moldavian dance tunes and raucous Yiddish drinking songs. As a bonus, Yankl will share liturgical invocations to guard against the dangerous weirdness that has enveloped us of late.
Yankl Falk and Christina Crowder have toured throughout Europe with the Budapest-based Jewish roots ensemble, Di Naye Kapelye. Their recordings have been praised for their energetic interpretation of Carpathian Jewish music, drawn from the group’s extensive research with vanishing Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe. This concert marks their first Portland appearance in more than 15 years.
Since launching the Sunday morning Yiddish Hour in 1979, Yankl Falk has been at the center of Yiddish culture in Portland. He performs internationally with Don Byron’s acclaimed Music of Mickey Katz and has worked with Klezmocracy/DoinaGroove, Hora Tzigane, Oomph Intercontinental, Black Cat Orchestra, and other Northwest musicians. He has been profiled by the New York Times for his 30 years as an itinerant High Holidays cantor, including several years at the US Naval Academy (“Anchors Oy Vey”).
Lake Oswego native Christina Crowder is a highly sought-after accordionist in New York and beyond, performing regularly with leading klezmorim including Margot Leverett, Alicia Svigals, and Walter Zev Feldman. During her 10 years in Hungary and Romania, she interviewed and recorded elderly Romanian violinists who had played for Jewish communities before World War II. Her recent research explores connections between Jewish, Bessarabian and Greek music.
Please join Congregation Shaarie Torah for a special Shabbat morning service. At this service, we will include new melodies, explore the service with some reflections on the prayers themselves, and chant according to the Triennial cycle of Torah readings. It will be a mix of the beautiful and familiar traditional Shabbat morning service and new ideas and energy. This service meets in the Chapel downstairs on the third Saturday of the month.