Calendar

Apr
1
Sat
MJCC Monthly Mitzvah Project @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Apr 1 @ 8:00 am – Apr 30 @ 8:00 pm

During the month of April, the MJCC and PJA communities will be collecting Art Supplies for Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP). Items can be dropped off in the blue pin located in the MJCC lobby.

Apr
23
Sun
Boker Tov Bunch @ Feldstein Library at Neveh Shalom
Apr 23 @ 9:00 am – 9:45 am

Get some wiggles out with the Boker Tov Bunch playgroup! Come to the Feldstein Library to laugh, play, sing songs, and enjoy the wonderful books in our library. Snacks provided. Drop-ins welcome. FREE!

Cooking for Outside In @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Apr 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join us in the Neveh Shalom kitchen to help cook for 60 homeless teens affiliated with Outside In.

Questions? Call Chris Blair at 503-675-1328 or email Cathy Blair at cathyblair55@yahoo.com

CNS Sisterhood Sunday / Rosh Chodesh @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Apr 23 @ 12:30 pm

Embrace Rosh Chodesh – a women’s sacred time. Join Karen Sharp, herbalist and student of spiritual thought, as we find ways to bring the spiritual themes of each Jewish month to our lives using our senses in different ways.

Mindful Movement with Alexander Technique @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Apr 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Restore your posture, movement, and response to stress. The Alexander Technique improves back, neck, and knee pain, and liberates us from harmful stress patterns.

Instructor: Eve Bernfeld

Sundays, April 23 – May 14

Register: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT309

Holocaust Remembrance Gathering- Honoring Righteous Gentiles @ Havurah Synagogue
Apr 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Apr
25
Tue
Mah Jongg @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Apr 25 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!

Every Tuesday morning from April 25 to May 23.

Register: oregonjcc.org/register; CG301

Apr
26
Wed
Sculpt Yoga @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Apr 26 @ 8:00 am – 8:55 am

Sculpt your body with this new class that combines powerful yoga poses with light weights, therabands and exercise balls to increase strength, tone muscles, and improve flexibility.

Instructor: Tara Atkinson

Wednesdays, April 5 – June 7
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT308

Building Memory: A Creative Conversation about the UK Holocaust Memorial Competition @ Shattuck Hall Annex, Portland State University
Apr 26 @ 4:00 pm
Building Memory: A Creative Conversation about the UK Holocaust Memorial Competition @ Shattuck Hall Annex, Portland State University
The 2017 Lorry I Lokey Program, “Building Memory: A Creative Conversation about the UK Holocaust Memorial Competition” with finalists from Allied Architecture.
What does it mean to remember the Holocaust in the 21st century, particularly after Brexit? Join Brad Cloepfil and Lisa Strausfeld of Allied Works Architecture in a conversation about the UK Holocaust Memorial Design Competition. Allied Works Architecture is one of the ten finalists for this venue, with the winner to be decided in the summer of 2017.This conversation will be co-facilitated by April Slabosheski of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and Professor Clive Knights of the Portland State University School of Architecture. Co-sponsored by the School of Architecture and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. Presented as part of Design Week Portland. This event is generously sponsored by Lorry I. Lokey.

Men’s Club + ALIYAH Sponsored Yom HaShoah Event @ Location TBA
Apr 26 @ 6:30 pm

Neveh Shalom Men’s Club and Wednesday Night School team up to co-sponsor a speaker from the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Location TBA.