The Soul of the Matter ~ Who Are You?
This program will offer coffee and Krispy Kreme donuts to nourish your soul… plus:
Soul Searching: Where’s the Soul & Afterlife in the Bible?
11:30 pm, with Rabbi Ken Brodkin
As Jews, we often hear about the eternal soul and the afterlife. Oddly enough, they don’t seem to be mentioned in the Bible. Join us for an in-depth learning session as we look one layer below the surface of the Bible. Delve into the sources and discover a deeper part of yourself!
Panel Discussion: Who Are You?
12:30 am, with Dr. Rivka Berzow, Dr. Charles Kuttner & Rabbi Chanan Spivak (moderated by Rabbi Brodkin).
Join us for a candid conversation as a rabbi and two health professionals explore the nature of the soul and human spirituality. How do we know if we have a soul? Could this simply be an idea that humans fabricated? If we do have a soul, what does that mean for our real day-to-day lives?
Followed by a full night of learning and Neitz (sunrise) Minyan at 4:45 am!
Please join Congregation Neveh Shalom for Shavuot Morning Service, followed by Kiddush Lunch.
Please join other young families for some Shavuot fun! There will be yoga, snacks and connection. Click here to RSVP for yoga.
Following the young family program, there will be a communal dinner*.
Click here to RSVP for dinner.
*Included with the young family shul pass, RSVP still required.
Please join Neveh Shalom for a special Shavuot cooking demo by former chef Rabbi David Kosak and head chef of Shalom Y’All and the Mediterranean Exploration Company, Kasey Mills. The demos will be intermixed with rich stories about international Jewish cuisine.
Dinner will follow.
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Please join Congregation Neveh Shalom for Shavuot Morning Service and Yizkor, followed by Kiddush Lunch.
Join us as Cedar Sinai Park’s great friend Eddy Shuldman conducts our Shavuot Yizkor service with the flair, warmth and interactive style she is known for. We recite Yizkor only four times a year so plan to be with us.
On Shavuot, also called “Yom HaBikkurim,” the Festival of the First Fruits, Jewish farmers used to bundle their first fruits and take them to the Temple as an offering. Connect with this practice and give back to the community through the Bikkurim Parade at Kesser Israel.
In the Bikkurim Parade children will carry their fruit baskets, meet the Rabbi, donate their fruit, and sing a song. Special Shavuot Crowns will be distributed at Kesser Kids’ Time that morning.
Monday, June 10 | Kesser Kids’ Time – 10:30 am | Parade – 12:00 pm
Mah Jongg for Beginners
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Tuesday mornings
May 28 – June 25
10:30 am – 12:30 pm, CG303
Cost: $100. Members: $85.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players
Take your game to the next level!
Tuesday afternoons
May 28 – June 25
1:30 – 3:30 pm, CG304
Cost: $100. Members: $85.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
The rise to power of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s was amplified by institutionalized propaganda and suppression of truth. Today, challenges to free expression of truth are threatening democratic values in the U.S. and around the world. Following a lecture by Professor Steven Wasserstrom (Reed College) on the repression of truth through organized propaganda, Dr. William Weitzer (Leo Baeck Institute) and Dr. Friderike Heuer will join him on a panel to discuss from the similarities and differences between then and now.
About Friderike Heuer: Born in post-war Germany and trained as a lawyer, Friderike Heuer immigrated to the US in 1981. She received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the New School for Social Research in 1986. After teaching for 15 years at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Lewis & Clark college and doing research focused on memory for emotional events, she retired in 2004 to pursue her interest in the photographic arts. Her montage work has been shown in both solo and group exhibits. She was a co-founder of Zeitgeist NW, an organization dedicated to bringing contemporary German culture to the Pacific Northwest. She writes for Oregon Arts Watch and also a daily blog dedicated to cultural and political discussion of national and European issues.
About Steven M. Wasserstrom: Steven M. Wasserstrom is The Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities at Reed College in Portland, where he has taught since 1987. His books include Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam, (1995) and Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos (1999). In 2003 he selected, edited and annotated The Fullness of Time: Poems by Gershom Scholem. The second edition, Greetings From Angelus Poems by Gershom Scholem was published in 2018. All Religion Is Inter-Religion, Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom, with editors Kambiz GhaneaBassiri and Paul Robertson is forthcoming in July 2019. Wasserstrom has been an invited Fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), an Invited Scholar at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (Berlin), and member of the Working Group on Messianism, The Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought (Princeton). He is presently working on a study of Hans Blumenberg’s philosophy as the expression of a German Jew.
About William H. Weitzer: William H. Weitzer, Ph.D. became the executive director of the Leo Baeck Institute in January, 2013. Dr. Weitzer, formerly the Executive Vice President at Fairfield University in Connecticut, has over 30 years of experience in academic administration, budget and finance, fund raising, community relations, and program evaluation. The Leo Baeck Institute is a research library and archive that documents the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also including documents dating back to the middle ages. It was founded in 1955 as a repository for the books, papers, photos and documents that were salvaged from Central Europe after World War II and donated to the Institute. Dr. Weitzer succeeded Carol Kahn Strauss, who has become the Institute’s International Director.
Presented by The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin and The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education