Learn the basics of Improv Theater! Students will learn short-form games that teach the skills of listening and responding, working together as a group to create a story on the spot, and building self-confidence. The class will be working towards a demo that showcases their favorite improv games, and shows off their new comedy chops!
Thursdays starting Oct. 13 – December, no class Nov. 24; 3:45 – 4:45pm
Cost: $95/student; CG 108
In partnership with PJA and the NW Children’s Theater and School
Grab your friends and join us for Teen Night of the Israel Film Series! This is a chance for teens to watch a film with a topic geared to them. There will be a discussion following the film.
The Other Son: Complex repercussions face two families — one Israeli, one Palestinian — after learning that their sons were accidentally switched at birth.
oregonjcc.org/teenscreen
5-9 PM ON SELECT SATURDAYS:
Nov 5, Dec 3, Jan 7, Feb 4, Mar 4, Apr 8
Come hang out with your BB Camp friends on a Saturday night and give your parents the night off! We will go bowling, eat pizza, do Havdalah and other surprises!
Open to all K-6th Graders | $25 per child, $5 sibiling discount
Drop off and Pick up at BB Camp Office
9400 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, #200
Contact Alex at amansfield@bbcamp.org
503.496.7444 X7015
Register at bbcamp.org/kids-night
Join Eve Levy for a three part mini-series. Topic TBA.
Join for a chic playdate for moms & tots with music & movement, stories & crafts ages 0-3 years old.
Free of charge and open to all!
RSVPor for more information: www.PortlandJewishPreschool.com
or
Contact Mimi Wilhelm mimi@portlandjewishschool.com, 503.977.7850
A project of The Gan – Portland Jewish Preschool in conjunction with PJ Library Portland
Discuss the book The Marriage of Opposites at this event sponsored by Congregation Shaarie Torah.
This event is part of the 6th annual Many Stories, One Community: Portland Jewish Book Celebration focusing on one book in November – The Marriage of Opposites by best-selling author Alice Hoffman.
Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites explores growing up on St. Thomas in the early 1800s in a Jewish refugee community. Rachel dreams of a life in Paris, but instead she is married off to save her father’s business. When her husband dies and his nephew arrives from France, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France, Camille Pissarro.
Pageturners discuss The Marriage of Opposites . Sponsored by Friends of the Library.
This event is part of the 6th annual Many Stories, One Community: Portland Jewish Book Celebration focusing on one book in November – The Marriage of Opposites by best-selling author Alice Hoffman.
Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites explores growing up on St. Thomas in the early 1800s in a Jewish refugee community. Rachel dreams of a life in Paris, but instead she is married off to save her father’s business. When her husband dies and his nephew arrives from France, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France, Camille Pissarro.
Join Rabbi Spivak for a this series through the laws and statutes of Shabbat.
Learn the basics of Improv Theater! Students will learn short-form games that teach the skills of listening and responding, working together as a group to create a story on the spot, and building self-confidence. The class will be working towards a demo that showcases their favorite improv games, and shows off their new comedy chops!
Thursdays starting Oct. 13 – December, no class Nov. 24; 3:45 – 4:45pm
Cost: $95/student; CG 108
In partnership with PJA and the NW Children’s Theater and School
“From humanitarian relief to Holocaust rescue: Tracy Strong Jr. and the fate of Jewish refugees in southern France.”
Sponsored by OJMCHE and the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project at PSU
Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Previously he taught for 25 years at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of eight books and has served as an expert witness in war crimes trials in Australia, Canada, and Great Britain and has also served as an expert witness in two Holocaust denial case.