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Hadassah! Research in Service to Humanity
Put your imagination, your dreams, enthusiasm and organizational skills to work for Portland Hadassah. Make a difference; help continue to make Portland successful.
To help, contact Event Chairs, Diana Lindemann: diana2504@msn.com or 503-312-2530 or
Carolee Kawer: ceekay1014@gmail.com or 503-657-3928
Have you been wanting to make a tallit for yourself or for your child’s bar/bat mitzvah – or would your teen like to make their own? Would you like to embellish a tallit you already own?
Learn a bit about the religious requirements and history of tallit, how to decide what size of tallit you like, how to choose fabric, and how to get started with designing and planning your tallit. The class will emphasize making the tallit meaningful by incorporating fabrics with personal meaning such as your father’s ties, a grandmother’s crochet doilies, a favorite t-shirt. Learn about the difference between Rabbanite and Karaite tzitzit, and get ideas about how to make tzitzit tying meaningful.
Free to members of Shir Tikvah; non-member fee is $18.
Dive into a fun parent and child crafting class and make your very own Gi-Felted Fish. Learn the basics of needle felting. Specialized barbed needles are used to tangle and compact natural wool fibers into a solid constructed sculpture. Each participant will take home an adorable fishy friend of their own creation. All supplies will be provided. This activity if fun for families of all ages!
COST: $40 PER PAIR.
MEMBER COST: $36.
ADDITIONAL CHILD: $10.
Register at oregonjcc.org/felt
Join us for Congregation Beth Israel‘s fall fundraiser, featuring a Beatles tribute band!
Secrets of the Greatest Generation: stories our mothers never told us
September 20, 2016 talk at 7:15pm
Doors open at 6:30pm to view the exhibit
Ticket Info: Free for OJMCHE Members with RSVP, General Public $5, view of exhibit included
Talk by Suzanne Hertzberg, author of Katherine Joseph: Photographing an Era of Social Significance
When Katherine Joseph died in 1990, her daughter discovered a trove of memorabilia from her mother’s career as a Roosevelt-era photographer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). Joseph photographed union leaders and progressive political luminaries as well as men and women at work in union shops and at play in union-sponsored cultural events. She traveled to Mexico in 1941 on an extended photojournalistic grand tour, returned to New York on the cusp of Pearl Harbor, and went on to document labor’s wartime Home Front efforts. Then, as did millions of American women after the war, she married and left her job to become a full-time homemaker. Closing the door firmly on her remarkable career and accomplishments, she rarely spoke of her past, sharing with her daughter only anecdotal snippets and the occasional photograph. Her path from traditional immigrant upbringing to independence, adventure, and professional success remained essentially a secret for the rest of her life.
Hertzberg embarked on archiving her mother’s work and researching her career, a project that bore fruit as Katherine Joseph: Photographing an Era of Social Significance, for her children to appreciate their grandmother’s accomplishments and for the preservation of an important historical legacy. She found the research process enlightening as she came to know her mother as a young woman—talented, accomplished, playful, adventurous, sexy—who kept her own trove of juicy secrets for nearly half a century. Readers often express that Hertzberg’s book made them think about their own mothers in a new light and sparked their own research journeys. “We have much to learn from the ‘Greatest Generation’ women,” Hertzberg notes, “who were raised not to draw attention to themselves or their accomplishments and who succeeded so well in doing so that we risk losing their legacy.” Yet, Hertzberg cautions, we have a responsibility as historians —even amateur/family historians. “As we learn about our mothers, we must resist the temptation to look at the past through the lens of the present, and when we uncover secrets, we need to contemplate and respect the question of who has rightful ownership of our life stories.”
Selichot Service: Join us for a casual selichot service with lots of discussion
7 pm Musical Havdallah with Rabbi Ruhi Sophia
Followed by 8 pm S’lichot Service
Temple Beth Israel, 1175 East 29th Avenue, Eugene, OR 541-485-7218 info@tbieugene.org www.tbieugene.org
Tradition tells us that the heavens are most open to prayer during the Days of Awe. Our Selichot Service will be held in Havurah’s Bet HaKnesset. We will begin the process of T’shuvah, of resolving those issues that have been heavy on our hearts and minds, and of welcoming the New Year. Please arrive early and bring a pillow to sit on and a candle in a container.
Led by Rabbi Joey and Karen St. Clair. Music by Beth Hamon.
What do you want Rosh Hashana to mean for YOUR child?
Enjoy a family bonding cooking experience – prepare delicious recipes, plan and discuss the Chag with your child.
The Jewish Holiday Culinary Experience is an innovative program for adults and children ages 5-12.