Support the MJCC and PJA communities by donating books for our annual Used Book Sale.
Book Collection Drive: January 14 – March 15. Donate your used books to the MJCC. Drop off at the front desk. Need a pickup? Email pjabooksale@gmail.com to schedule pickup. No encyclopedias, please.
The Book Sale will be at the MJCC March 31 – April 2
Free and open to the community.
Monthly Mitzvah Project – February
Each month, the MJCC and PJA communities will collect items for the monthly mitzvah. These projects reflect the Jewish commitment to Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), providing opportunities to give back to our community.
Please drop off items in the blue bin in the MJCC Lobby.
February – Lunch + snack items for Portland Backpack
A Shabbaton/Weekend with acclaimed musician, author, and teacher, Joey Weisenberg. He will enliven our spirits and lead us in intimate prayer and joyous song. Sunday, he will lead a very special singing workshop. Join Shaarie Torah for this once in a lifetime experience!
Schedule of events:
Friday Services (led by Joey Weisenberg, Rabbi Rose and Cantor Vitells) are open to the public – followed by dinner (tickets required for dinner)
Friday Services begin at @6:30pm followed by dinner *
Saturday Services @ 9:15 am – followed by Kiddush lunch (open to the public, no tickets needed)
Saturday Afternoon Singing Circle @ 4:30 pm with snacks* (Program starting at 5pm)
Sunday Workshop @ 10:00 am * (9:30 am bagels)
*Please see ticket prices below for these starred events.
Ticket Prices:
For members: Fees apply only for Shabbat dinner
For non-members: whole weekend: $36 per person includes dinner, services, afternoon with artist and singing workshop
Friday Night Shabbat Dinner:
Members: $12/adult; $8/child
Non-members: $15/adult; $10/child
Saturday Afternoon Singing Circle – light food & drink:
Free for members
$10 non members
Sunday Singing Workshop (10am-12pm)
Free for members
$18 non members
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Contact the office if you would like to attend and cost is a barrier.
Thank you to our contributing community partners: Mittleman Jewish Community Center & Havurah Shalom.
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!
Continue the fun and warmth of Congregation Neveh Shalom’s Tot Shabbat with Kiddush Club. We sing, dance, hear a Torah story and more! 1st Shabbat of the month with Rabbi Eve Posen, 3rd Shabbat of the month with Gershon Liberman. Both followed by Kiddush lunch.
Brivele is a Seattle-based anti-fascist klezmer folk-punk trio, who braid together oral history, Yiddish language, contemporary and old-country musical genres, American vaudeville, and visual arts.
Brivele is pronounced “BREE-veh-leh” (בריוועלע) and means “Little Letter” in Yiddish.
Brivele is a discontented punky-klezy trio of Yiddishists, a little letter for you—
Love letters, letters about home—where it got lost, where it might be now—and letters fomenting revolution!
Letters travel—through time, over borders— they pick up dirt, and aromas, and fingerprints. They get stolen and censored, burned and salvaged, sewn into our clothes. Our songs are palimpsest in that way too, they travel long-ways in bits and pieces, through us, to you!
We are discontented, sometimes silly, never slick, always cheeky. We draw from a long tradition of Diaspora-proud struggle, ‘cuz the World to Come is gonna be right here, where we are. It is a world that does right by all the folk.
We sing always with a bissel Yiddish, because sometimes Yiddish says it best, and because we are the grandchildren or great-grandchildren, or great-great-grandchildren of Yiddish, so it tastes familiar and unfamiliar at once. We sing it like the mixed-up, impure Yids we are and strive to be.
Rabbi Gary Ellison, who was the rabbi at TBS for 11 years, has offered to teach a 10-part class that he offered at Willamette University for all those who feel they would benefit from an introduction to Judaism course.
If you are interested in this course, please contact Rabbi Eli at rabbi@tbsholom.org.
This class will require a serious commitment from students: $200 for TBS members ($300 for non-members) and attendance at all 10 classes. There will be one textbook (Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy, $35 new/$8.50 or more used) required for the course.
Needs-based scholarships will be available upon request.
Class will begin on Sunday, January 27 at 11:00 am.
A Jewish Studies Sampler with Rabbi Jonathan Seidel PhD
Four Surveys of Intriguing and Slightly Mysterious Topics:
- The Dead Sea Scrolls Today
- Kabbalah – New Approaches and Discoveries both Scholarly and Popular
- Jewish Magic: Amulets, Healing and Transformation
- The Jewish Role in the Development of Science both Empirical and Mystical
Sundays: February 17, March 31, April 28, May 12
1:00 pm
Cost: $15. Register: oregonjcc.org/jewishlearning
Family Flicks – An American Tail
Come to the MJCC for an afternoon of family fun! We will be playing a family classic, An American Tail (Rated G), on the big screen. Popcorn and snacks will be provided.
Cost: $10 per family
Tickets: oregonjcc.org/familyflicks
Every Monday night, come together and study our heritage and Torah. No matter what background or affiliation, join together and let’s unite!
Come and join, bring a study partner or you can request one at https://portlandkollel.org/partners/