Fun Days off from School
Need something for your kids to do during school breaks? Keep them busy and having fun at the MJCC with sports, swimming, gymnastics, arts and crafts, games, and more! Kids must be potty-trained. Registration open now!
Ages 3-11
Half-Day: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm, Cost: $33. Member Cost: $28
Full-Day: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm, Cost: $60. Member Cost: $50
All campers must be fully potty trained. No exceptions.
We welcome campers from 8:00 – 9:00 am + begin programming at 9:00 am. For half-day campers, check out is at 1:00 pm.
For full-day campers, check out begins at 4:00 pm
and will continue through 5:30 pm.
Schedule for Vacation Day Camp
2019-20 – Register Today!
Oct. 1, 11, 14, 21, 22
Nov. 1, 11, 25, 26, 27
Dec. 23, 26, 27, 30, 31
Jan. 2, 3, 17, 20, 27
Feb. 17
March 13, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
April 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
May 8, 21, 22, 29
Full day: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Half day: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Contact Carli Rosenthal at 503.452.3436.
Intergenerational Trauma Workshop with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD
On Friday eve, November 1 and Saturday, November 2, the Havurah Synagogue hosts Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, PhD, author, Jungian psychotherapist and renowned Jewish scholar and teacher. Rabbi David Zaslow writes, “This is a workshop not to be missed if you are Jewish or from any minority community whose ancestors suffered the trauma of prejudice, anti-Semitism, or racism.” Friday eve, 7:30 PM, short teaching by Firestone. Saturday morning at 10:00 AM teaching followed by lunch and then afternoon workshops. Saturday evening at 7:30 PM Integration session. Fee for the weekend, including Friday eve dessert and light lunch on Saturday is $55 or Pay What You Can. No one turned away. For more info or to register https://havurahshirhadash.org/rabbi-tirzah-firestone-phd/. No walk-ins. The Havurah Synagogue is located at 185 N Mountain Ave., Ashland. 541-488-7716.
Raised in an Orthodox home in St. Louis, Missouri, Tirzah’s spiritual curiosity called her to search beyond the confines of her family’s strict Jewish upbringing. The younger sister of the groundbreaking radical feminist, Shulamith Firestone (The Dialectic of Sex, William Morrow & Co: 1970), Tirzah left home to embark upon a life-changing spiritual odyssey, chronicled in With Roots In Heaven: One Woman’s Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith (Dutton, 1998).
After immersing herself in a wide variety of spiritual practices and world-views, Tirzah returned with fresh vigor to Jewish studies and became a rabbi in a pluralistic and egalitarian Judaism. Her studies in the feminine wisdom tradition and Jewish mysticism yielded The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom (Harper San Francisco, 2003). Her passion to share an inclusive and joyous Judaism led her to serve as a leader in the international movement for Jewish Renewal and on the board of Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Tirzah’s passion for human rights and for the prophetic vision of Judaism led her to Rabbis for Human Rights, North America, now known as T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.
Tirzah earned a masters degree in counseling at Beacon College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1982, and a doctorate in psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California in 2015. Her cutting edge research on the impact and healing of collective trauma draws on the fields of neuroscience, psychology, Jewish literature and mythopoesis. Her groundbreaking work called Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Trauma (Monkfish, 2019) employs interviews, case studies, and her own autobiographical narratives to demonstrate how trauma residue passes from generation to generation and how it can be transformed.
Now Rabbi Emerita of her congregation, Tirzah maintains a private practice in depth psychology, and teaches nationally about modern applications of ancient wisdom and ancestral healing: how to transform patterns of suffering from our past and bring forth clarity, wisdom, and blessings for ourselves and those who come after us.
The blessings of our ancestors, as well as their painful patterns, lie dormant within each of us. We can honor yet transform our ancestral legacies and change the narratives of our lives. Join Rabbi Tirzah Firestone PhD to learn more about your family’s legacy, heal ancestral wounds, and reshape your destiny.
Wounds Into Wisdom, her newest book, makes a compelling case that trauma legacies can be transformed and healed. Fusing contemporary neuroscience, psychology, and ancient Jewish wisdom and values, this work provides a roadmap for Jews, and all individuals and groups with trauma history, who wish to seize the power to change their lives.
“Wounds into Wisdom is for anyone who has suffered trauma, either directly or in a family whose generational trauma is buried. It helps readers uncover suffering and use it to help others―the final stage of healing…” ―Gloria Steinem
Torah Troop for 3rd-5th Graders
1st and 3rd Shabbat every month at 10:00am
Torah Troop allows families at Congregation Neveh Shalom to move into the main sanctuary while still enjoying youth-oriented activity. At 10:00am, families meet in the main service. After the beginning Torah service, youth join their friends for a lesson on the Torah portion (parsha) of the week with adult leaders, and come back to help lead the Adon Olam at the end of the service.
As always, we end with our community for lunch!
Join us for a FREE fun and exciting evening with ORA’s talented artists. Be the first to preview and purchase the artists’ new and affordable art, including photography, fabric, fused glass, jewelry, paintings, pencil drawings, pottery, wood, sculpture, quilts and more. Refreshments will be available.
You can purchase art before the main event on Sunday the 3rd.
Women’s Philanthropy Three part Financial Empowerment Series
Sept. 5, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Adulting All of those questions you’re afraid to ask! (i.e., How do I make a budget? How do I manage my debt from student loans to credit? Can I save for the future now? Create a personalized financial action plan.
Nov. 3, 9:30 am -11:30 am, Transitions Planning for life! How do you financially prepare for death, divorce, losing a job, having a baby, needs of your children from throwing a bar/bat mitzvah to college, to paying for a wedding? What do you need to know about insurance? Create a personalized action plan.
Dec. 8, 9:30 am -11:30 am Retirement How do I take care of myself and those that follow me? Who should you talk to help you with estate planning? How do you prepare to avoid widow worry? 401k/IRA, insurance 101 and asset management. Create a personalized action plan.
All three locations to be determined (tbd).
Sign up for one or all. Registration details available starting March 18.
Questions contact: Wendy Kahn, Associate Director of Financial Resource Development, wendy@jewishportland.org
You won’t want to miss the 14th Annual art exhibit and sale in the MJCC Ballroom (admission is free). Hosted by ORA – Northwest Jewish Artists, the only arts organization devoted to promoting art created by Jewish artists in Oregon and Washington. Perfect for Hanukah and hostess gift needs.
Once again we’ll have a great event! Many local crafters and artisans will have their products for sale. Here is a sample of who will be selling their goods.
Crunchy Mamas – Natural Skin & Body Care
Eileen’s birdhouses – Handcrafted from Repurposed Items
Or for the Door – Fused Glass Mezuzot and Other Designs
Merriment – Gift Jars & Vintage Jewelry
Funky Flowers by Flory – Hand-sewn Cloth Flowers & Jewelry
Needlecrafts and Creatures – Purses & Sand-Filled Creatures
Sarah Schladweiler – Handmade Glass beads /Jewelry
Brother & Sister Crafters – Journals, Encouraging Notes, Trinket Bowls, Woodwork
Hawleywood Unique Creations – Creative Woodworking
Dreamscape Studio – Origami earrings & jewelry, Folded Book Art, Etc.
Craftastic Divas – Crochet Hats, Jewelry, Signs, Hair Flowers
Cassandra Kogut – Bath & Body Products
Elementree Jewelry – One-of-a-Kind Jewelry
The Hat Place – Hand Knit Hats, Ear-Warmers, Cowls, Scarves
Annie M’s Unique Designs – Handmade aprons, bags, totes, doll clothes, etc.
Cherry River – Handcrafted CBD Infused Bath and Beauty Products
Things So Fine by Kathy – Sterling Silver & Gemstone Jewelry
You’ve done your DNA, gotten your results, but don’t recognize any names and don’t know what to do next? Or have you been working on building out your family tree but need help to research your family? Where do you begin? How to get additional information if you’ve hit that brick wall? This will be geared to help both newbies and those who have been working to build their family tree for many years.
Laurel Smith, past president of the Genealogy Forum of Oregon will present a mini “boot camp” to get everyone started. Contact: 503-997-1685, jgsoregon@gmail.com.
Cost: The program is free to JGSO members. We request a $5 contribution from non-members. That fee can be applied to a membership should you decide to join JGSO at this meeting.
Please come early if you would like help from other genealogists.
Jack “Yankl” Falk (clarinet/vocals) and Christina Crowder (accordion) spent years on tour with the Budapest-based Jewish roots ensemble, Di Naye Kapelye. Please join us (and bassist Charles Casimiro) for a rare evening of Carpathian klezmer, Hasidic chant, Hungarian and Moldavian dance tunes, raucous Yiddish drinking songs, and much more.