Calendar

Aug
22
Mon
Chabad Hebrew School of NE Portland Open House! @ Center for Jewish Life
Aug 22 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Chabad Hebrew School of Northeast Portland invites you to join us for our annual open house.

Meet the directors, see our new space, hear about our exciting curriculum, and become part of our little community.

Learn more about Chabad Hebrew School of Northeast Portland at www.JewishNortheast.com/CHS

Sep
20
Thu
“Why commit suicide? After all, ‘Everything he hated was here!’: Philip Roth and Kitaj on Death, Sex, and Love” Roger Porter lectures on Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm

Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj became good friends in London during the ’80s, and the painter influenced Roth in many ways, especially for the title character of Roth’s greatest novel, Sabbath’s Theater. Roger Porter, Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus, Reed College focuses his lecture on Roth and Kitaj’s shared attitudes, or perhaps those of their characters and their painterly subjects, regarding desire, ecstasy, and the inevitable demise. The title of the lecture is a paraphrase of a quote by the protagonist Sabbath on the last page of Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater.