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.
Portland Center Stage at The Armory features The Pianist of Willesden Lane in a return engagement after sold out crowds during is 2016 run in Portland.
This true story of a young musician separated from her family when she was sent from Vienna to London on the Kindertransport is surprisingly uplifting.
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On the U.S. Bank Main Stage
based on the book The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen adapted and directed by Hershey Felder Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitzkrieg, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true and inspirational story of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish musician whose dreams are interrupted by the Nazi regime. In this poignant show, Grammy-nominated pianist Mona Golabek performs some of the world’s most stunning music as she shares her mother’s riveting true story of survival. Pianist is infused with hope and invokes the life-affirming power of music. |
Join the MJCC and a dozen other Jewish organizations and synagogues from our community as we march together at Portland PRIDE.
Meet between 8 – 10 am on NW Everett between 8th and Broadway. Join us for bagels, nosh and coffee at 9:00 am. Swag will be available. See you Sunday!
The 2017 Portland PRIDE theme is “We ARE the Change!”
Pride is the tangible and VERY visible representation of LGBTQ progress and power. Whether we call it a march or a parade, when Portland’s downtown streets fill with tens of thousands of people claiming their space and celebrating who they are-who WE are-make no mistake, that is power and that is change. We ARE the Change!
PRIDE Partners
B’nai B’rith Camp, Cedar Sinai Park, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation Kol Ami, Congregation Neveh Shalom, Congregation Shir Tikvah, Jewish Family & Child Service, Mittleman Jewish Community Center, Moishe House, Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, PDX Hillel, Portland Jewish Academy & Portland’s UnShul
Sponsor: Jewish Federation of Greater Portland
Please celebrate the Silver Anniversary of the Portland Jewish Film Festival with a reception in the Andre Stevens room prior to the screening of “Fanny’s Journey.” An article in the June/July issue of Oregon Jewish Life mistakenly referred to a reception on June 11.
Prior to the reception there will be a 4:30 pm screening of “Body & Soul” and “Strange Fruit.”
For a complete PJFF schedule, visit https://orjewishlife.com/25th-portland-jewish-film-festival-june-11-25-2017/
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Registration code: CG 403
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
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
Summer Day Camp party!
Thursday, June 22
4:00 pm