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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.

ojmche.org | 503-226-3600

The Waterfront Blues Festival (July 1-4 at Portland’s Tom McCall Park) was founded by a Jewish boy from Buffalo, NY, who learned firsthand how much a mitzvah can mean to a hungry person after he was robbed when he arrived in New York City to pursue a music career. Delmark Goldfarb produced the first five festivals, which have benefitted the Oregon Food Bank since the second year. It was Del’s idea to create a family-friendly music event in a Portland park in 1987. Last year the 28th annual festival raised $869,214, providing about 2.6 million meals for Oregonians facing hunger.

Oregon Food Bank’s Waterfront Blues Festival celebrates the Fourth of July each year with a spectacular display of fireworks … the largest July 4 fireworks display in Oregon.

This year’s festival features:

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
DR. JOHN & THE NITE TRIPPERS
JJ GREY & MOFRO
JIMMIE VAUGHAN & THE TILT-A-WHIRL BAND featuring LOU ANN BARTON
LIV WARFIELD & THE SPECIAL HORNZ
MACEO PARKER
ZZ WARD
FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE
CURTIS SALGADO BAND
The SOUL REBELS
SAMANTHA FISH
CHUBBY CARRIER & THE BAYOU SWAMP BAND

California Honeydrops
Indigenous
The Record Company
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Liz Vice
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Leo Bud Welch
Polyrhythmics
Los Straitjackets
AYRON JONES & THE WAY
Grace Love & the True Loves
and many more TBA!

Volunteer Program
Oregon Food Bank
503-282-0555 Ext. 272

Oregon Food Bank
7900 NE 33rd Dr.
Portland, OR 97211-1918
503-282-0555
www.oregonfoodbank.org

Join Shomrei Tevaniks for a guided tour of the new Willamette Falls Legacy Project in Oregon City.  Afterward we’ll go to the nearby Camassia Natural Area for a short hike, including time for a picnic lunch.  Meet at Neveh Shalom at 9:15am to carpool and return by 2:45pm.  Bring your lunch and water.  We’re limited to 15 people so register now.  Questions or to RSVP: contact Jordan Epstein or 503-245-6580.