Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist
Seats offered on a first-come first-served basis.
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
Jewish Food: Justice, Cuisine and the Sacred
The First Annual Eugene Jewish Food conference is devoted to the exploration of classical Jewish sources on Agriculture, Food Production, Cuisine and Foodways, in addition to Sabbatical Principles of Food Justice, Cuisine and Nutrition, Gender and contemporary notions of Eco-Kosher. Our goal is to provide an educational forum to launch a discussion within the Jewish community and the larger Lane County population on key issues in Jewish Food Studies as it intersects with the Sacred and the Good Life from a variety of perspectives.
With the participation of Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubinstein, Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin, Rabbi Maurice, Rabbi Joshua Rose, the organizers of Tuv Ha’aretz, Alan Adese, David Kamrat, and YOUR voice.
Sponsored by the Oregon Jewish Culture Project: Co-Directors: Rabbi Jonathan Seidel and Ahavah Oblak
The annual Ovarian Cancer Medical Update on Monday, June 20 will focus on ovarian cancer information including the latest developments in diagnosis and treatment. There will also be a segment on genetic counseling and testing.
Dr. Lisa McCluskey, MD, is the featured speaker along with an expert on genetic counseling, Becky Clark, MS, CGC. This event is presented in conjunction with Compass Oncology.
Register now for this free event: Ovarian Cancer Medical Update
Shabbat on the Plaza and Sisterhood Installation
Friday, June 24, 6:00 PM
Congregation Beth Israel Temple Lawn (1972 NW Flanders)
Congregation Beth Israel’s cherished summer tradition continues with a Shabbat on the Plaza Service honoring the WRJ/Beth Israel Sisterhood’s incoming leadership and the tireless work and countless volunteer hours Sisterhood logs in support of our community.
In the early 1900s, Eastern European and Sephardic Jews settled in South
Portland.
It was a close and largely self-contained neighborhood. There were kosher
butcher shops and bakeries, a Jewish orphanage and an old age home, social
activism and immigrant benevolent societies. There were schools, a library
with Yiddish books, and the Neighborhood House, a community focal point
with Hebrew lessons, citizenship classes and a medical clinic.
In 1958, Portland voted to create the South Auditorium Urban Renewal
District and bulldozers demolished 54 blocks of the immigrant community.
Despite this, today there are intact reminders of the way life used to be. Based on
her books A Walking Tour of Historic Jewish Portland,The Immigrants’ Children:
Jewish and Italian Memories of Old South Portland, and Stories From Jewish
Portland, Polina Olsen shows you places that remain as she shares first-hand
memories of people who grew up in the neighborhood.
$10 per person, all proceeds are donated to the Jewish Federation of Greater
Portland. RSVP and learn the starting location at ojfas@comcast.net.
B’nai B’rith Camp’s
Friends and Family day
Mercaz opening.
June 26, 11am-3pm
Join us for a day of celebration!
Spend the day enjoying camp activities (water sports, zip line, ropes course, swimming, etc…) and celebrate the grand opening of our new central programing building, the Mercaz Campus Center! Lunch will be served at noon followed by opening Ceremony at 1:30pm.
Please e-mail jbenjamin@bbcamp.org to RSVP with the number of people attending.
Sunday, June 26 / 5:30 pm / Tickets: $54 per person / Sponsorship Levels Available
The Shaarie Torah Men’s Club will present the Harry R. Nemer Award to Shelly Klapper at the annual Service Award dinner. Since joining Shaarie Torah Shelly has devoted countless hours of involvement in numerous fundraising projects benefiting all of us at Shaarie Torah. Without his “behind the scenes” volunteer work, two remodel projects may not have come to fruition. He currently serves on the Congregation Shaarie Torah Fundraising Committee.
The Men’s Club encourages you to mark your calendars for June 26, 2016 and plan to attend this yearly event. For information regarding tickets or becoming a sponsor of the Harry R. Nemer Service Award Dinner please contact the synagogue office at 503-226-6131, or visit: shaarietorah.org/nemerdinner2016
The museum presents “Every Minute Counts – Photographs by Katherine Joseph.” Katherine Joseph was born in the Ukraine and immigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century. After a childhood in El Paso and Chicago, she made an adventurous move to New York City to pursue a passion for photography. She landed a job as staff photographer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, where she explored the relationship between worker, machine and the industrial environment. In 1941 she embarked on a photojournalistic expedition to Mexico to demonstrate the durability of the “Americar” manufactured by the Willys – Overland Motor Company. Joseph continued to document American workers on the home front after returning to New York. At the end of the war, like millions of American women of her generation, she set aside her camera to marry and raise a family. Katherine Joseph’s photographs display a profound respect for the fundamental dignity of the people she brought into focus. This is the first public exhibition of her work.
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