Calendar

Dec
4
Fri
Scholar in Residence at Beit Haverim @ Beit Haverim
Dec 4 @ 7:00 pm – Dec 5 @ 6:30 pm

Kimberly Hartnett, author of the new acclaimed best seller Carolina Israelite, How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights will be our scholar in residence for a three part program.

Shabbat Service, Dec. 4, 7 pm at Beit Haverim.  Topic: Who was Harry Golden and why was he so central to the history of American Jews and to our own lives?

Torah Study, Dec. 5 , 10 am at Beit Haverim.  Questions and Dialogue with Kimberly Hartnett

Havdalah, Dec. 5, 6:30 pm at a private residence. Address will be given when you RSVP at beithav.org or call 503-568-1241

This program is established through a gracious gift by Jo-Ann and John Moss

 

Apr
21
Sat
Casino Night @ Celebrate Conference Center
Apr 21 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Beit Haverim is having a Casino Night including Black Jack, Craps and Roulette.   It should be fun and tasty! There are some spectacular prizes, including:  a weekend at a beach house, Blazer tickets, a private party at Portland distillery, restaurant gift cards, wine tastings, Timber tickets, ice skating and bowling parties, clothing store gift cards and more!

Everyone is welcome, and the more we have, the more fun it will be.

 

Sep
20
Thu
“Why commit suicide? After all, ‘Everything he hated was here!’: Philip Roth and Kitaj on Death, Sex, and Love” Roger Porter lectures on Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm

Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj became good friends in London during the ’80s, and the painter influenced Roth in many ways, especially for the title character of Roth’s greatest novel, Sabbath’s Theater. Roger Porter, Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus, Reed College focuses his lecture on Roth and Kitaj’s shared attitudes, or perhaps those of their characters and their painterly subjects, regarding desire, ecstasy, and the inevitable demise. The title of the lecture is a paraphrase of a quote by the protagonist Sabbath on the last page of Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater.