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This class focuses on giving contemporary parents the tools they need to bring holiness into their daily lives. We’ll begin by taking a look at the soul planted within us and how we can integrate it into other aspects of our life. We’ll rediscover the spiritual side of food and eating; and appreciate the wonder of the human body. We’ll explore the many blessings that invoke holiness at bedtime, when we awake, and when we are outside appreciating the wonders of nature. We’ll learn the central core at the heart of every Jewish prayer service. Each class will introduce blessings and prayers with an explanation of their meaning and their accompanying melodies. Come be inspired and have your joy of life expanded and enriched.Taught by Natan Meir. Free to Neveh Shalom members, $36 for non-members. (no class on Oct. 11)

We invite you to join us on Friday, Dec. 30, to welcome Shabbat, spread the light of the Chanukah candles, and share our feelings, fears, and hopes for the difficult times we are facing as a country. For those of us who came together on the Sunday after the election, it was a powerful expression of community, and there have been requests to identify some next steps. It continues to feel premature to launch a specific action plan. Instead, it seems more appropriate to gather in community, listen to how we are doing, and continue conversations about our hopes and fears about areas such as immigrants and refugees, poverty and homelessness, climate change, equity, and gun control.

We will begin by lighting the Chanukah and Shabbat candles, sing some songs, and then spend our time talking and listening. There will not be a formal Friday night service.

Please RSVP here.

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What: A screening of the restored silent film “Hungry Hearts” (1922) preceded by a reception with a choice of three parallel 20-min lectures. Q&A with the composer, David Spear, to follow.
When: Sunday, November 5, 2017 | 5:30pm to 9:30pm
Where: Lincoln Recital Hall (LH 75) | Pocket Lectures in LH 75, LH 21, and LH 37
Cost: Free and open to the public. RSVP requested, but not required.
Contact: Stacey Johnston | judaicst@pdx.edu | 503-725-8449

Join the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies for the Portland premiere of the recently restored and rescored silent film “Hungry Hearts” (1922), filmed on location on New York’s Lower East Side. Based on the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, one of the first immigrant authors to write about American Jewish women for a mainstream audience, the film focuses on the members of the Levin family who emigrate from Eastern Europe to New York City and captures the hopes and hardships of Jewish immigrants in the New World.

The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis restored Goldwyn’s original print, and with generous support from the Casden Institute, a new score was composed and produced by David Spear in collaboration with his students from the USC Thornton School of Music. The new score for “Hungry Hearts” premiered at the 2007 New York Jewish Film Festival in Lincoln Center.

The event will begin at 5:30pm with a “Feast for the Senses and the Mind.” You are invited to sample hors d’oeuvres alongside three “pocket lectures” (20 minutes each) on various aspects of the film’s cultural and historical context. The film will begin at 7:00pm and will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with the lead composer, David Spear, about the process of scoring a historic silent film and breathing new life into “old art”. (Full Schedule Below)

• 5:30 pm      Welcome Reception with Food
  
• 6:00 pm      Choose your own mini-lecture!
  • LH 75 – Marat Grinberg, Reed College
    • “At the Intersection of Screen and Text: American Jewish Culture Before the War”
  • LH 37 – Joseph Butwin, University of Washington
    • “Exile and Return: Anzia Yezierska Finds her Vocation”
  • LH 21 – Amy Borden, PSU School of Film
    
    • “Immigration and Nativism in New York’s Nickelodeon’s”
• 7:00 pm      Hungry Hearts Film Screening
• 8:45 pm      Q&A with David Spear
  • Soundtrack Producer & 2017 Artist-in-Residence

This is the first half of the 2017 Levy Event, which focuses on the nexus between East European Jewish immigrants to the U.S. and twentieth-century American film and music. For information about the second half of the 2017 Levy Event, visit the event page.

This event is sponsored by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies thanks to the generous support of Larry Levy and Pamela Lindholm-Levy. Cosponsored by the PSU School of Music + Theater and the Northwest Film Center.

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

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

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

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

Lend a Hand – Outside In Cooking

Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 12:00pm

Sunday April 26, 2020 at 12:00pm

Meet in the Congregation Neveh Shalom Kitchen to do a mitzvah and help feed homeless teens.

For more information please email: Rick Botney at 8888octopus8888@gmail.com.

Please note:

Programs are subject to change; please contact the office for more information: 503.246.8831 or visit the website at: www.nevehshalom.org

Lend a Hand – Outside In Cooking

Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 12:00pm

Sunday April 26, 2020 at 12:00pm

Meet in the Congregation Neveh Shalom Kitchen to do a mitzvah and help feed homeless teens.

For more information please email: Rick Botney at 8888octopus8888@gmail.com.

Please note:

Programs are subject to change; please contact the office for more information: 503.246.8831 or visit the website at: www.nevehshalom.org