During the month of May, the MJCC and PJA communities will collecting Canned Fruit for Shavuot for Neighborhood House Food Pantry. Items can be dropped off in the blue pin located in the MJCC lobby.
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
Join us for the next installment of the Wondering Jews: Tea at Two series with guest speaker Katie Cantrell from the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. Katie will explore the practices of factory farming from a Jewish ethics perspective.
Gain information and tools to help you embrace healthful eating without feeling overwhelmed or deprived. End the stress of preparing home cooked meals by learning how to effectively plan in a way that saves money while you say goodbye to toxic foods.
Instructor: Hilary Conway, Nutritional Therapist
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT302
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
Rabbi David Zaslow will teach a six-session class based on his newly published book “Reimagining Exodus; A Freedom Story.” The biblical Exodus is the most influential liberation and freedom story ever told. It has served as both an inspiration for Puritans, American revolutionaries, abolitionists, Mormons, the modern civil rights movement, and revolutionaries the world over. Participants will not only learn how the story has been used historically by non-Jews, but how in Jewish tradition the Exodus has also been applied to the individual life journey with its enslavements, challenges, liberations, and revelations. This groundbreaking course explores the Exodus as the intersection of this foundational story for Judaism and Christianity.
Fee: $70, including text. Dates: March 29, April 5, 12, May 10, 24 and 31. Wednesdays, 5-6:15 PM. Pre-registration required by calling 541-488-7716.The Havurah is located at 185 N. Mountain Ave. in Ashland. Call 541-488-5146 for more info.
Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class. Every Wednesday from April 19 to June 28.
Note: No class May 31
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration; CG300
A monthly discussion covering a wide range of topics that will draw on our experiences.
May’s Topic: Pirkei Avot/Imahot: Wisdom for our time
Located in the Cafe at the J
Free and open to the community
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
triangle productions! presents a reading from its Outreach program
THE BROWN PAPER BAG SERIES
Four one-act plays, chosen out of several dozen “anti-lynching” plays written between 1916 and 1934, are being presented through spring of 2017 in the Portland Metro area. In light of recent violent acts against people of color, our collaborating professional artists are committed to sharing these plays in ways which elicit greater understanding of yesterday’s events relating to today’s environment.
BLUE-EYED BLACK BOY will play at Congregation Beth Israel on Monday May 15 at 7:00 PM. Pauline Waters is alarmed to learn that her son has been arrested for brushing up against a white woman on the street. Police have dragged him to the jail, and the Waters family is terrified that Jack will be lynched. This short, powerful play is a staged reading, directed by Andrea White. Andrea was featured on the cover of Oregon Jewish Life in October 2015. Cast includes Portland favorites Arlena Barnes, James Dixon, Andrea White and Josie Seid. A discussion with the artists will follow the reading.
“Can one then separate the dust? Will mankind lie apart,
When life has settled back again; the same as from the start?” – Georgia Douglas Johnson, “Common Dust”