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Dec
31
Thu
Women in Torah @ Havurah Shalom
Dec 31 @ 7:16 pm – 8:16 pm

“Women in Torah”
Mondays, Feb. 22 & 29; March 7, 14 & 28; April 4 & 18; May 2, 9 & 16
12:00 – 1:30 pm

Register at RSVP@havurahshalom.org with subject line “Women in Torah” by Feb. 8.

This spring, Havurah member Alicia Jo Rabins will guide us through the complicated lives of ten Biblical women. Alicia’s Women in Torah workshop will use creativity and conversation to explore characters from Eve to Yiftach’s daughter. This is the first full-length pilot course of Alicia’s Girls in Trouble curriculum, created around her critically acclaimed Girls in Trouble song cycle (indie-folk songs about women in Torah).

A poet, violinist, and Torah scholar, Alicia created the one-woman show A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which she performed recently at Disjecta. Her new collection of poems, Divinity School, won the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.

With Alicia’s expertise, we will examine these famous and not-so-famous women in ways that might inspire us in moments of struggle and in the context of our own lives. Each of the ten sessions will explore one woman and is relatively independent of the others within the overarching theme of the course.

–Ruth Feldman

This course is free for Havurah members, $15/class for non-members.

Sep
9
Fri
Shabbat in the Park with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Wilshire Park
Sep 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

This summer, P’nai Or is taking it outside! Please join us at 6 pm on Friday, Sept. 9 at Wilshire Park (NE 33rd & Skidmore) picnic area for a very joyful, very musical Kabbalat Shabbat with Reb Yitz. We’ll start with a bring-your-own-picnic at 6 pm, then the service will start around 6:45, followed by an oneg.
Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly 40 years in the Jewish community of Eugene. Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield, z’l.

Oct
2
Sun
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 2 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
3
Mon
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 3 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
4
Tue
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ P'nai Or of Portland
Oct 4 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
11
Tue
P’nai Or Kol Nidre with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
12
Wed
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 12 @ 10:00 am – 7:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Jun
17
Sat
Fourth Annual Lefty Sing Along: The Songs of Cohen & Dylan @ Private Home
Jun 17 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

A fundraiser for P’nai Or and 350PDX, led by Dan Anolik, Joan Glebow, Joel Glick, Lisa Lieberman, Les Milfred, Bruce Morris & Rob Vergun.
We will be singing songs written by the late Leonard Cohen, “The Bard of Modern Judaism” and Bob Dylan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016.
Special guest: Joe Hickerson, folklorist & co-composer with Pete Seeger of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” Joe will lead us in folk songs from which Bob Dylan borrowed melodies for his early compositions.
The sing along will be followed by a short Havdalah service.

Location: Private home in Lake Oswego (address provided upon purchase of tickets).
Donation: $18 plus small service fee. Please buy your tickets right away because seating is limited. Click here to purchase tickets: http://leftysing-along.bpt.me/

Sponsored by the Tikkun Olam Committee of P’nai Or.

 

Dec
1
Sat
Young Adult Latke Ball @ The Eleanor
Dec 1 @ 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm

3rd Annual Portland Young Adult Latke Ball

Join us for the annual Latke Ball! Come celebrate Chanukah with food, friends, games, drinks, and dancing.

Cost: $15/advance, $18/door.
(Includes entry, hors d’oeuvres, one drink ticket, cash bar, live DJ, and more!)

At the The Eleanor* (1605 NW Everett St, Portland, OR 97209)
*Valid I.D. is required at this venue. Must be 21 or older.

Check out the event on Facebook!

Tickets: http://oregonjcc.org/latkeball

Hosted by the MJCC, BB Camp, and Jews Next Dor. In partnership with Moishe House PDX. Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland.