Celebrate the beginning of summer with Shabbat in the Park on Friday evening June 12. Bring your own picnic, chairs, grill (if that is your thing), AND your musical instruments. Our Hazzan, Baruch Morris, will be at our reserved picnic area at 5:30 PM and hopes to see most of you by 6:00 for dinner. Services will start around 7:15 to 7:30-ish and we should be done no later than 9. We will be at Wilshire Park picnic area A, near the same shelter P’nai Or uses for the Labor Day picnic (approximately NE 35th and Skidmore).
Hazzan Baruch says, “I’ve been with the mystics in Tzfat (where Kabbalat Shabbat originated) as they looked to the hills at sunset, but our grass is greener and our trees are taller, also a perfect setting for welcoming Shabbat!” Hope to see you there.
Check out the newest congregation in the state. The lower Columbia region is forming Congregation Beit Salmon (yes salmon, not shalom, in honor of being in the salmon capital of world). The congregation invites anyone coming to the north coast to join them for a Shabbat service and oneg. Astoria’s first Shabbat services in about 50 years will be June 13. Services begin at 11 am and are followed by an oneg at Fellowship Hall of the Peace Lutheran Church (at Exchange and 12th in Astoria). The next day at 11 am at the church, participants will decide what events they would like to see over the summer. Hebrew Union College third-year rabbinic student Abram Goodstein will be in town June 9-Aug. 9 to lead services, family programs and a Wednesday night study group. For more information, call Ann Goldeen at 503-791-4611 or anngoldeen@gmail.com
Young families are invited to a Free Bagel Brunch in Lithia Park. On Sunday, June 14th from 10 AM till noon at Cotton Memorial in Lithia Park join Rabbi David Zaslow, Devorah Zaslow, master storyteller, Cyrise Beatty Schachter and Bella Feldman for a free bagel brunch with storytelling and songs for young children. Connect with other Jewish and Interfaith families and learn how your children ages 6 months to 8 years of age can receive free Jewish books each month as part of a Jewish literacy program. New and participating PJ Library families are invited. Raffle Drawing to win a prize basket! To RSVP (required by June 11) or for more information call 541-488-7716 by June 11, to enable us to provide ample food for everyone!
Music by Jacques-Francois Halevy, Rubenstein, and Tchaikovsky. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students Children under 6 are free. Tickets at the door.
Oregon Jewish Life magazine presents the opening night reception for the 23rd Portland Jewish Film Festival. The reception at the Portland Art Museum from 5:30 to 7, June 14, precedes the screening of the first film in festival – Magic Men.
The comedy begins at 7 pm at the Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park, Portland.
The opening night reception will include drinks and ice cream desserts created by Jared Goodman founder of Morgan St Theater Dessert Club. The reception is open to everyone attending the opening night show.
“Northwest Film Center is pleased to partner with Oregon Jewish Life on the opening festivities for the Portland Jewish Film Festival,” says NWFC Executive Director Bill Foster. “This is a great opportunity to expand our connections with Portland’s Jewish community and to celebrate the fantastic films in this year’s Festival.”
OJL Publisher Bob Philip says he is pleased to once again participate in the festival. “I am excited to see the new collection of movies for the film festival,” says Bob. “The diverse selection and excellent quality of acting in the annual event always excites me to attend.”
For the past two years, Jared has offered a monthly menu of three ice cream sundaes paired with storytelling. Last year he added Sundae Cycles: A Jewish Year in Ice Cream, five events in which “Culinary meets spiritual meets Jewish meets social,” says Jared. “For example, on Passover I told the story of my grandfather and his passion for matzo brei and then I flipped a match brei in front of the guests.”
Jared is now taking his ice cream business mobile. “Serving farmers markets and restaurant districts, city parks and street fairs, the Pedal Parlor is a roving ice cream social bringing thoughtfully composed ice cream desserts to the people of Portland,” he says.
“I am very excited to bring inspired ice cream treats to the film festival!”
Current Events with Bob Horenstein
Bob Horenstein, Director of Community Relations and Allocations at JFGP, is a regular contributor to the Jerusalem Report Magazine. Hot Topic: The Rise of Anti-Semitism on College Campuses. What is happening and what can be done?
Thursday, June 18
noon-1 pm at the MJCC
Grab some lunch at Cafe at the J and join us for some enlightenment on this pressing subject. Free
Join a group of interested individuals to learn Talmud.
Campers, families, alumni, future campers, and friends are all welcome at
BB Camp’s Family & Friends Day!
Saturday, June 20th, 2015
10:00am – 3:00pm
Join us for Shabbat Services, 10:00-11:00 AM
Camp Activities, 11:00 AM- 3:00 PM
Lunch Served, 12:00 PM
B’nai B’rith Camp
Otis, Oregon
The June Siddur study class will cover the Sh’ma, which in this case means the “Sh’ma Yisrael …” sentence, the v’ahavta, v’haya im shamoa, and the tzittzit section. This is considered one of the most important parts of our prayer service.
We’ll discuss the nature of the oneness of God as proclaimed in the Sh’ma and how the paragraphs of the Sh’ma relate to the key themes of creation, revelation, and redemption. In the process, we’ll learn what we are really saying each time we say “Amen.”
The class will be in the classroom at St. Mark’s, Sunday, June 21, 4:00 to 5:30 PM. The discussion will be based on Chapter 4 in “My People’s Prayer Book, Volume 1,” but all are welcome even if you do not have a chance to read the material in advance.
2015 OJMCHE Annual Meeting. 11:45 am at Multnomah Athletic Club, 1849 SW Salmon St., Portland.
Guest Speaker: Ellen Eisenberg, Dwight & Margaret Lear Professor of American History, Willamette University: Whatever Happened to Old South Portland? The Creation of Historical Memory” Professor Eisenberg, author of two forthcoming books on Jewish Oregonians, shows how urban renewal and a community musical transformed our understanding of Jewish history in Oregon.
$25 per person
Reservations: 503-226-3600 or www.ojmche.org