ALEFBET: The Alphabet of Memory
OJMCHE’s inaugural exhibit in the main gallery features a visually stunning collection of works by Russian Jewish artist Grisha Bruskin, who is featured in Russia’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. Bruskin’s “The ALEFBET: the Alphabet of Memory” features large-scale tapestries draping the walls of the main gallery accompanied by the artist’s preparatory drawings and related gouache paintings, all referencing Kabbalistic and Talmudic teaching, biblical narratives and Russian folklore.
June 11-Oct. 1, 2017
Tuesday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm
Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 pm
Grand Opening: June 11, noon-4 pm. Free
Tickets and passes are available online at nwfilm.org.
The 25th annual Portland Jewish Film Festival, featuring 18 films, is produced by the Northwest Film Center and co-presented with the Institute for Judaic Studies.
See the full schedule here: https://orjewishlife.com/25th-portland-jewish-film-festival-june-11-25-2017/
The festival celebrates the diversity of Jewish history, culture, identity and film-making, but the films, and the stories they tell, resonate beyond their settings and speak to universal experiences and issues that confront our common humanity.
Exhibition Theme:
This Is Where I Live is a collective photographic portrait of Israel and the West Bank as seen by the people who call this region home. From 2010–2013, photographer Wendy Ewald worked with a total of 14 different communities, providing point-and-shoot digital cameras and mentoring participants as they visually documented their lives. The final exhibition includes 400 images, all of which are testaments to the vitality and variety of the region’s cultural landscape as well as the multifaceted nature of Jewish identity.
Open Tuesday–Sunday, Noon-5 pm.
In the Pearl District, on 8th between Couch & Davis.
Celebrate Pride Weekend with a special Shabbat dinner! All LGBTQ individuals and families with an LGBTQ parent or child are welcome (CNS members and non-members alike). The evening schedule is as follows —
5:45pm: Appetizers
6:15pm: Shabbat Evening Service
7:15pm: Shabbat Diner
Please RSVP to Mel Berwin at mberwin@nevehshalom.org
Celebrate Pride Weekend with a special Shabbat dinner!
All LGBTQ individuals and families with an LGBTQ parent or child are welcome (Neveh Shalom members and non-members are welcome).
5:45pm: Appetizers;
6:15pm: Shabbat Evening Service;
7:15pm: Shabbat Dinner
RSVP: mberwin@nevehshalom.org.
Please join Congregation Shaarie Torah for a special Shabbat morning service. At this service, we will include new melodies, explore the service with some reflections on the prayers themselves, and chant according to the Triennial cycle of Torah readings. It will be a mix of the beautiful and familiar traditional Shabbat morning service and new ideas and energy. This service meets in the Chapel downstairs on the third Saturday of the month.
Torah Troop for 3rd-5th Graders
1st and 3rd Shabbat every month at 10:00am
Meet in the MAIN service (Stampfer Chapel or Main Sanctuary) for the beginning of the Torah service, and then come out with your friends for a fun and active lesson on the Torah portion (parsha) of the week. Return to the service to help lead Adon Olam, and join the community for lunch!
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.