Calendar

Jan
20
Wed
Mah Jongg @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Jan 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Learn to play this ancient game. Registration code: CG201, cost: $85. Member Cost: $72.

Recognizing and Responding to Classroom Bias: About Jews, Judaism and Israel @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet with Jacqueline Regev from the Institute for Curricular Studies to learn about recognizing biases in the classroom and how to respond to them. This is geared towards 8th graders and above and their parents.

Free and open to the community. In partnership with PJA, PAJE.

Jan
21
Thu
PJ Library Story Hour Lake Oswego @ Realty Trust Group, Inc
Jan 21 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am

Join  us for a weekly story hour for young families with PJ Library stories, crafts and music!

Jan
22
Fri
PJ Story Hour Yad b’Yad @ Robison Home-Joseph Solarium
Jan 22 @ 9:30 am – 10:15 am

Join PJ Library as we bring back Yad b’Yad with Kim Schneiderman! Inter generational singing and stories at Cedar Sinai Park.

PJ Library Southeast Story Hour @ Seahorses
Jan 22 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am

 

A weekly story hour for young families with music & PJ Library books!

No story hour on April 29th.

B’kol Echad: A Musical Shabbat at Shaarie Torah @ Congregation Shaarie Torah
Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

 

 

Come add your voice to the chorus of voices at Shaarie Torah as we welcome Shabbat together. Spirited singing, prayers in Hebrew and English, raucous noise and peaceful silence – everything you need to open the gates of Shabbat

Every fourth Friday of the month. A wonderful oneg will follow!

FREE Childcare provided!!!

Jan
23
Sat
Plant for the Planet Academy (United Nations sponsored) in Vancouver, Washington! @ Columbia Springs
Jan 23 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Plant for the Planet, sponsored by the United Nations, is training children and teens to become Ambassadors for Climate Justice at free one-day Academies open to all students ages 8-17.

In addition to providing ongoing activities after the Academy, at Plant for the Planet, youth teach other youth to become Ambassadors who are:

•knowledgeable about the science of Climate Change and Recovery,

•the impacts on people everywhere of the current situation,

•how to plant trees and organize planting parties in order to reach our goal of lowering global temperatures by planting 1,000 Billion trees by the year 2020 (14 Billion already planted!),

•and how to make effective presentations and influence policy.

Since 2007, Plant for the Planet has empowered more than 34,000 children in 50 countries to stop Climate Change in part through planting more than 14 billion trees so far. Academies are an amazing combination of serious and fun, and they provide excellent photo and video opportunities.

We now have two Academies scheduled in our area:

In Vancouver, Washington on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at Columbia Springs

In Portland, Oregon on Monday, January 25, 2016 at Sunnyside Environmental School–this is a day that Portland Public School students have off!

Your local leaders are interested in Plant for the Planet! You will be able to speak to: David Anitok, President of the Oregon Marshallese Community and Board Member and Former President of CANN, Compact of Free Association Alliance National Network; Cecilia Giron, Program Director of Chicas Youth Development, Adelantes Mujeres; Vancouver Mayor Leavitt; and Vancouver Port Commissioner Eric LaBrant.

To learn more and register: ClimateChangeRecovery.org.

Jan
24
Sun
Aaron Kirk Douglas @ congregation Neveh Shalom
Jan 24 @ 4:00 pm

Author Aaron Kirk Douglas presents “Growing Up Twice,” January 24, 4pm, Congregation Neveh Shalom’s Zidell Chapel

We only get one chance to grow up. Rarely do we get a second. Join Aaron Kirk Douglas – gay, mentor, and Jew by Choice — for readings from his new book, “Growing Up Twice.” Readers call it “…a journey of mentorship, of brotherhood, of struggle, of fatherhood, of friendship.” “…packed with raw emotions and inspiration.” Read more: http://amzn.to/1O7b4SA

Jan
25
Mon
Plant for the Planet Academy (United Nations sponsored) in Portland! @ Sunnyside Environmental School
Jan 25 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

Plant for the Planet, sponsored by the United Nations, is training children and teens to become Ambassadors for Climate Justice at free one-day Academies open to all students ages 8-17.

In addition to providing ongoing activities after the Academy, at Plant for the Planet, youth teach other youth to become Ambassadors who are:

•knowledgeable about the science of Climate Change and Recovery,

•the impacts on people everywhere of the current situation,

•how to plant trees and organize planting parties in order to reach our goal of lowering global temperatures by planting 1,000 Billion trees by the year 2020 (14 Billion already planted!),

•and how to make effective presentations and influence policy.

Since 2007, Plant for the Planet has empowered more than 34,000 children in 50 countries to stop Climate Change in part through planting more than 14 billion trees so far. Academies are an amazing combination of serious and fun, and they provide excellent photo and video opportunities.

We now have two Academies scheduled in our area:

In Vancouver, Washington on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at Columbia Springs

In Portland, Oregon on Monday, January 25, 2016 at Sunnyside Environmental School–this is a day that Portland Public School students have off!

Your local leaders are interested in Plant for the Planet! You will be able to speak to: Zach Klonoski, Special Assistant to Portland Mayor Charlie Hales; Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s Field Director for Multnomah and Washington Counties Jagjit Nagra.

To learn more and register: ClimateChangeRecovery.org.

PJ Library Hillsboro Story Hour @ Yo Zone
Jan 25 @ 10:00 am – 10:45 am

A weekly story hour for young families with music and PJ Library books!