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.
Enter your best Cheesecake recipe in this fun food lovers contest for Shavuot! Vote for your favorite! Non-Kosher entries are accepted.
Recipes due: Friday, May 26h to Len Steinberg at lsteinberg@oregonjcc.org
Entries Due: 2:00 PM day of event
Tasting/Judging: 5:15 – 6:15 PM, Winner announced immediately and recipe shared with community.
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
Join us for an evening of Shavuot fun with Morah Leah Conley. There will be singing, stories, and other activities to help open our hearts and accept in the Torah. $5/child. Free for adults. Please RSVP to lwoloshin@nevehshalom.org
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.
In honor of Shavuot, all children are invited to participate in our “Bikkurim” (fruit) parade and fruit drive. Children bring a decorated basket of fruit to services and are a part of a special parade that culminates with them donating their fruit. Fruit will be donated to Neighborhood House! Join us, this event is open to anyone! The fruit parade will be followed by a delicious dairy Kiddush!
June 2 Marilyn Keller and Ezra Weiss premiering excerpts from our new piece for Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble at the Portland Art Museum.
Event is free with museum admission, which is just $5 after 5 pm.
In this Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble “work in progress” performance and discussion event, vocalist Marilyn Keller and composer/pianist Ezra Weiss perform two songs from the upcoming concert work “From Maxville to Vanport,” featuring text by Renee Mitchell. The writer, singer and composer will speak about the project, and take questions from the audience.
This project, which will culminate in a concert-length composition for the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble to be performed in the spring of 2018, tells a fictionalized but historically accurate narrative about two unique places and moments in Oregon’s history, Maxville and Vanport. These two towns, both with significant multicultural populations at a time when Oregon’s constitution banned black residents, tells a part of the state’s history that deserves to be heard. Gwendolyn Trice, Executive Director of Maxville Heritage, will also be on hand to speak about Maxville, Oregon. This event is co-presented by the Vanport Mosaic and the Oregon Historical Society.
Seating is first come first served. Limited seating available. Admission to the Museum is $5 after 5 PM.
Performance will take place is the Stevens Room
Join other families for prayer, singing, conversation and fun followed by an indoor picnic style lunch.
Join other young families for singing, dancing, stories, indoor picnic-style lunch, and Shabbat fun. Held every 1st and 3rd Saturday in Zidell Chapel.
Andrew Forgang, Neveh Shalom congregant and owner of restaurants Little Bird and Le Pigeon, will speak about the restaurant business. Includes a free brunch for members of Men’s Club. $5 donation requested from others.