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Oct
2
Sun
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 2 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
3
Mon
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 3 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
4
Tue
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ P'nai Or of Portland
Oct 4 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
11
Tue
P’nai Or Kol Nidre with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Open your heart with Jewish Renewal
Oct
12
Wed
P’nai Or services with Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin @ Unity Church
Oct 12 @ 10:00 am – 7:00 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music. He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

  • Everyone is welcome
  • Sliding scale donation
  • No ticket required
  • Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
  • More information at www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500
Jun
17
Sat
Fourth Annual Lefty Sing Along: The Songs of Cohen & Dylan @ Private Home
Jun 17 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

A fundraiser for P’nai Or and 350PDX, led by Dan Anolik, Joan Glebow, Joel Glick, Lisa Lieberman, Les Milfred, Bruce Morris & Rob Vergun.
We will be singing songs written by the late Leonard Cohen, “The Bard of Modern Judaism” and Bob Dylan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016.
Special guest: Joe Hickerson, folklorist & co-composer with Pete Seeger of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” Joe will lead us in folk songs from which Bob Dylan borrowed melodies for his early compositions.
The sing along will be followed by a short Havdalah service.

Location: Private home in Lake Oswego (address provided upon purchase of tickets).
Donation: $18 plus small service fee. Please buy your tickets right away because seating is limited. Click here to purchase tickets: http://leftysing-along.bpt.me/

Sponsored by the Tikkun Olam Committee of P’nai Or.

 

Mar
3
Sun
2019 Friends of the Center Brunch featuring Michael Twitty @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Mar 3 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
2019 Friends of the Center Brunch featuring Michael Twitty
Michael W. Twitty: Kosher Soul and The Cooking Gene
Join us for our 2019 Friends of the Center Brunch, the MJCC’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Come hear Michael W. Twitty, a James Beard Winning food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter personally charged with preparing, preserving, and promoting African American foodways and its parent traditions in Africa and her Diaspora and its legacy in the food culture of the American South. Michael is a Judaic studies teacher from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. The Cooking Gene is Michael’s personal mission to document the connection between food history and family history from Africa to America, from slavery to freedom. Initiated in 2011, the project successfully garnered funding and significant media attention in 2012 to initiate a journey known as The Southern Discomfort Tour. Follow him on twitter @koshersoul, and meet him at the MJCC on Sunday, March 3, 2019.
Individual Tickets: $54. Age 36 and under: $36. Table of Eight: $432.
Sponsorships available.
oregonjcc.org/brunch
Apr
16
Tue
Fundraising Dinner from Aviv @ Aviv
Apr 16 @ 5:30 pm

Fundraising Dinner with Aviv

Join the MJCC for a fundraising dinner at Aviv, Portland’s home to delicious vegan Israeli food. The first dinner seating begins at 5:30 pm and the second seating starts at 80 pm. We are pleased to offer each multi-course dinner with an optional wine-pairing featuring Israeli, kosher, and Oregon-local wines. Aviv is donating a portion of the proceeds of this multi-course dinner to the MJCC.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
5:30 pm or 8:00 pm
Aviv 1125 SE Division St., Portland
$45 per person. Wine not included.
$85 per person. Wine included.

Sign up in the MJCC lobby or at https://www.oregonjcc.org/about-us/brunch/party-boards

May
30
Thu
Poker Party with Rob La Forte
May 30 @ 7:00 pm

Poker Party with Rob La Forte

Join Rob La Forte at his office for a night of Texas Hold’em, beer, wine, snacks, and fun.
Thursday, May 30, 2019
7:00 pm
Cost: $50/person

Sign up in the MJCC lobby or at https://www.oregonjcc.org/about-us/brunch/party-boards

Jun
25
Tue
Piano Concert with David Rothman @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm

Piano Concert with David Rothman

Join us for an evening with concert pianist, David Rothman, as he performs works of classical music featuring Beethoven and Schumann.
Tuesday, June 25
7:00 pm
Cost: $10. Member: $5.
Register: oregonjcc.org/pianoconcert