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Mar
13
Sun
Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Mar 13 @ 12:00 pm – Jun 19 @ 5:00 pm

Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist

Opening Reception: Sunday March 13, noon-4 pm; Free
Special Screening of the Film, Ahead of Time: noon (Limited Seating)
Seats offered on a first-come first-served basis.
Educators’ Open House: Tuesday, March 15, 4:30-5:30pm
Free: RSVP Required
Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist celebrates the remarkable life, vision, and heroic tenacity of a twentieth-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the world’s youngest PhD, Ruth Gruber is now in her 104th year. The photographs in this exhibition span more than fifty years, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Gruber’s vintage prints, never before exhibited, will be presented alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives.
This exhibition is on loan from the International Center of Photography.
May
17
Tue
The Skin of Our Teeth @ Artists Repertory Theatre
May 17 @ 7:30 pm – Jun 19 @ 2:00 pm

The Skin of Our Teeth
by Thornton Wilder

Artists Rep’s The Skin of Our Teeth includes 3 to 10 Community Guest Stars in walk-on roles for every single performance and employs massive multimedia projections, live video feed and a cornucopia of masks. This is a play in three acts and runs approximately 2 hours, 30 minutes, including two intermissions.

 

This comedic masterpiece takes on the entirety of history, with one ordinary American family who lives through it all. Dad’s just invented the wheel, Cain is throwing rocks at the neighbor kid, mammoths and dinosaurs lounge in the family room and mom frets about how to get all those animals on the boat two by two. Through Ice Ages, biblical floods and political conventions, the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey perseveres. With a huge cast and time-set across the ages, this theatrical allegory captures the human spirit – of brilliance, idiocy and ultimately sweet survival.

WHEN: May 17-June 19
WHERE: Artists
Repertory Theatre,
1515 SW Morrison St., Portland
TICKETS: 503-241-1278 or artistsrep.org

May
20
Fri
PJ Story Hour Yad b’Yad @ Rose Schnitzer Manor--Goodman Dining Room
May 20 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am

Join PJ Library as we bring back Yad b’Yad with Kim Schneiderman! Intergenerational singing and stories at Cedar Sinai Park.

PJ Library Southeast Story Hour @ Seahorses
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am

 

A weekly story hour for young families with music & PJ Library books!

No story hour on April 29th.

A Little Shabbat @ Congregation Shaarie Torah
May 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
WANT TO DO SHABBAT BUT HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN WHO FALL ASLEEP EARLY? 

Congregation Shaarie Torah & PJ Library Present:

A Little Shabbat at Shaarie Torah

Join Rabbi Josh Rose and Dorice Horenstein for a lively Shabbat full of singing, greeting, stories, eating and new friends.  Come welcome Shabbat together with our young community. Appropriate for families with children in preschool, 2 years and older.

Free and open to all, no prior knowledge/Hebrew required
Interfaith families welcome!

3rd Friday of the Month
5-6:30 pm

 

May
21
Sat
Tiferet Shabbat @ Congregation Shaarie Torah
May 21 @ 9:15 am – 12:15 pm

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.

May
22
Sun
ALIYAH Lag B’Omer celebration @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
May 22 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

The Neveh Shalom ALIYAH Jewish Learning Program welcomes all families to our annual Lag B’Omer outdoor back-to-nature festival.  Fire, food and fun will be had.

More information at: 503.246.8831; mberwin@nevehshalom.org.  FREE and open to all.

PJ Library NE Story Hour @ New Seasons Market-Williams
May 22 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am

Join PJ Library for a free weekly story hour for young families with music, crafts and PJ Library Stories!

Free at New Seasons Market-Williams.

 

May
23
Mon
PJ Library Hillsboro Story Hour @ Yo Zone
May 23 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am

A weekly story hour for young families with music and PJ Library books!

May
24
Tue
Book Talk: Growing up Twice @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
May 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us as author Aaron Kirk Douglas describes his experience as a gay man mentoring through Big Brothers Big Sisters, and the risks and rewards of mentoring a troubled young Latino boy. In the process, they both gained stability and insight into their lives.

Register: oregonjcc.org/growingup