Calendar

Dec
31
Thu
New Years at Noon @ MJCC
Dec 31 @ 11:30 am – 2:00 pm

Arts and crafts, games, bouncy house, dancing, snacks, pool float, and count down to 2016 at Noon! Free!

12:30 – 2:00 pm, Pool Float Party

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.

Jan
4
Mon
PJ Library Hillsboro Story Hour @ Yo Zone
Jan 4 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am

A weekly story hour for young families with music and PJ Library books!

Jan
8
Fri
PJ Story Hour Yad b’Yad @ Robison Home-Joseph Solarium
Jan 8 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am

Join PJ Library as we bring back Yad b’Yad with Kim Schneiderman! Inter generational singing and stories at Cedar Sinai Park.

PJ Library Southeast Story Hour @ Seahorses
Jan 8 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am

 

A weekly story hour for young families with music & PJ Library books!

No story hour on April 29th.

SHABBAT AROUND THE WORLD: Shabbat Marrakesh @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Jan 8 @ 6:15 pm – 8:30 pm
SHABBAT AROUND THE WORLD: Shabbat Marrakesh

Join Rabbi Kosak and Cantor Bletstein of Congregation Neveh Shalom  for a musical Shabbat featuring the sounds and cuisine of the Jews of Morocco.
Services start at 6:15pm followed by a delicious Moroccan feast

Dinner price:
$18 /Adult $22 /non-member, $10 /kids under 12 or $56 /family max(two adults and kids)
RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/shabbatmarrakesh or call our office 503.246.8831

Jan
10
Sun
Installation of Rabbi Kosak as Neveh Shalom’s Senior Rabbi @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Jan 10 @ 3:00 am – 4:30 am

Sunday, January 10, 2016 3pm
Congregation Neveh Shalom announces the Installation of Rabbi David Kosak as our Senior Rabbi. All are invited to be part of this significant moment in our congregation’s history. Service of installation with reception to follow. Congregation Neveh Shalom Main Sanctuary.

Free, but RSVP requested – http://www.tinyurl.com/kosakservice

Jan
11
Mon
PJ Library Hillsboro Story Hour @ Yo Zone
Jan 11 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am

A weekly story hour for young families with music and PJ Library books!

Jan
12
Tue
Mah Jongg @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Jan 12 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Learn to play this ancient game. Registration code: CG201, cost: $85. Member Cost: $72.

Sephardic Film Fest: 24 Days @ Ahavath Achim
Jan 12 @ 7:00 pm

January 12, 2016

24 Days. A tense and timely thriller, 24 Days tells the heart-breaking true story of the 2006 kidnapping of 23-year old Ilan Halimi from his Paris suburb by a group calling themselves “The Gang of Barbarians”. This film follows a massive police manhunt and nightmarish ordeal as the clock runs against time. A film of racial tension and anti-Semitism that continues to make headlines in France in these times of terrorism.

French with English subtitles, 110 minutes, Winner of Jerusalem Film Festival. Speaker: Charles Levy

 

Films shown second Tuesday of each month at 7PM. Admission & Sephardic dessert are FREE.

Sponsors: Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, National Council of Synagogue Youth (NCSY),

Albert J. & Esther Menashe, Richard & Judi Matza, Charles & Jo Levy, Ron & Pam Sidis, Renee Ferrera

 

For information call David 503-892-6634 or www.jewishfilmportland.org