Kabbalah Meditation with Rabbi David Zaslow
Beginning on Thursday, June 21 from 5-6 pm, Rabbi David Zaslow will teach an introduction class in Kabbalah Meditation. Participants will learn to understand the chakra system in Judaism known as Sefirot. Rabbi David will uncover the secrets of Jewish mysticism in simple and accessible language, and in ways that can benefit daily life. Class will take place on four Thursdays: June 21 and 28, July 12 and 19 from 5-6 pm. Class fee is $30 and pre-registration is requested by calling 541-488-7716. Available via live streaming for those unable to attend in person. The Havurah Synagogue is located at 185 N Mountain Ave., Ashland.
Take a walking tour of South Portland through old Jewish neighborhoods. For 20s, 30s, and 40s.
5:30 pm Happy Hour
6:30 pm Tour Begins
Meets at Lair Hill Bistro
2823 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR 97201
In partnership with OJMCHE, JFGP
From now through September, every Friday night (except 4th Friday) at Congregation Neveh Shalom, you can enjoy our beautiful NW summer evenings singing, praying and schmoozing outside on our upper plaza! If weather doesn’t allow us to be outside, we will meet in the Stampfer Chapel.
Please join Congregation Shaarie Torah for a special Shabbat morning service. At this service, we will include new melodies, explore the service with some reflections on the prayers themselves, and chant according to the Triennial cycle of Torah readings. It will be a mix of the beautiful and familiar traditional Shabbat morning service and new ideas and energy. This service meets in the Chapel downstairs on the third Saturday of the month.
Torah Troop for 3rd-5th Graders
1st and 3rd Shabbat every month at 10:00am
Meet in the MAIN service (Stampfer Chapel or Main Sanctuary) for the beginning of the Torah service, and then come out with your friends for a fun and active lesson on the Torah portion (parsha) of the week. Return to the service to help lead Adon Olam, and join the community for lunch!
Join other young families with kids age 0-5 years at Congregation Neveh Shalom for singing, dancing, stories, indoor picnic-style lunch and Shabbat fun.
Willa Schneberg will read from Rending the Garment, other works, and new poems. Rending the Garment was featured in Oregon Jewish Life in 2014.
Carter McKenzie will be coming from the Eugene area to read with Willa from her strong new collection Stem of Us (Flowstone Press, May 2018).
Willa Schneberg is a poet, visual artist, curator and psychotherapist. She has authored five poetry collections including In The Margins of The World, recipient of the Oregon Book Award, and her latest volume, Rending the Garment. Willa has read at the Library of Congress, and has been a fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review; Salmagundi, Poet Lore; Bellevue Literary Review; Before there is Nowhere to Stand: Palestine/Israel Poets Respond to the Struggle and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. In February of 2018, she served as a poet-in-residence in Kathmandu.
Carter McKenzie’s work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems, Canary, Sisyphus, Turtle Island Quarterly, The Berkeley Poets Cooperative: A History of the Times, and the poetry anthology Of Course, I’m a Feminist! She is an active member of the Springfield-Eugene Chapter of SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice). Carter lives in a small community in Western Oregon’s Middle Fork Willamette watershed region, which has been her home for the past twenty-three years. Stem of Us is her second full-length book of poetry.
The American poet Muriel Rukeyser described poems as meeting places: “A poem does invite, it does require. What does it invite? A poem invites you to feel. More than that: it invites you to respond. And better than that: a poem invites a total response.” (Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry, p. 11)
Featuring Vocalists: Lisa Lieberman, Leslie Ginalette, Jordan Ackerson and Michael Severson singing a delightful mix of jazz standards, pop, and folk tunes.
Michael Severson on piano – Graham Lampe on bass.
Appetizers and beverages provided.
Doors open 6:30 pm
$15 in advance
$20 at the door
Seating is limited, Kindly reserve your seat via paypal to:
lisalieb@comcast.net (Indicate Friends & Family to avoid service charge)
Lisa Lieberman
Music has always been central to Lisa’s life. Starting guitar at age 12, she delved into folk music, while singing in high school and college choirs. Lisa sang in a high school rock band, and a folk/soft-rock trio during graduate school, playing rhythm guitar. She began studying voice again in 2009, and rediscovered her love of the standards in a PCC vocal jazz class. In 
2013, Lisa placed first in the Oregon Jazz Society’s amateur vocal contest. She enjoys growing her craft, also loving the comraderie of the local jazz singing community.
Leslie Ginalette
Leslie studied classical music at Trinity College of Music in London where she earned a post-graduate certificate in Opera Performance. Life moves us along in stange ways and after a brief stint in the opera minor leagues she went back to her profession as a designer. She currently is a co-owner and the creative director of Amber Lotus Publishing. While opera singing was long behind her, the desire to sing never left. Five years ago on an impulse she took a jazz vocalist class at PSU and she has been singing jazz ever since. Leslie is so grateful that the joy of making music is once again in her life.
Jordan Ackerson
Jordan began soloing in school talent shows at age 8, while performing in many choirs for several years. He began studying voice at the age of 14. In his 20’s, he continued performing as a featured soloist, and in the PCC Voices of Soul choir. In 2015, he became a vocal artist in United by Music North America, performing locally, regionally, and nationally. UBMNA spreads the message of inclusion and acceptance of diversity through the joy of music. Jordan loves to sing, and especially values the importance of touching peoples’ hearts with optimism.
Michael Severson
Michael is a versatile pianist, conductor, and composer. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from Lewis & Clark College where he studied with great Portland pianists Randy Porter and Susan Smith. He is often performing alongside jazz vocalists, as well as teaching up-and-coming singers in classes at Portland Community College and Clark College in Vancouver. He also enjoys singing and conducting choral music at Lewis & Clark College and Blueprint Ensemble Arts, as well as teaching privately through Chordination Music.
Graham Lampe
Graham has been playing bass for 12 years. He started very young due to growing up in a music store owned and operated by his father. He plays jazz, funk, and rock but is open to and experienced in playing other types of music, as well. He plays with the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra, his school’s orchestra, takes private lessons, and plays with many different bands in Portland. This Summer, he is headed to Victor Wooten’s music nature camp in Nashville then on to Stanford’s Intensive Jazz Immersion workshop. He is really pleased to be playing for the house party.
Portland’s Sephardic congregation Congregation Ahavath Achim recommends seeing the film TREZOROS.
Using never-before-seen pre-war archival footage and first-person testimonies, TREZOROS: THE LOST JEWS OF KASTORIA chronicles the Jewish life and culture of Kastoria, a picturesque lakeside village in the mountains of Northwestern Greece, near the Albania border. Here, Jews and Greek Orthodox Christians lived together in harmony for more than two millennia until World War II, when this long and rich history would be wiped out in the blink of an eye.
TREZOROS (the Ladino/Judeo-Spanish term of endearment meaning “Treasures”) takes us from the joyful innocence of the pre-war years through the heartbreaking struggles of the Holocaust, to a unique place in time and history of a Greek Jewish culture lost forever.
Please join us at Congregation Neveh Shalom for an Erev Tisha B’Av Service.
This year, because of Shabbat, Tisha b’Av observance is delayed until the 10th of Av. Seudat Shlishit (The Third Meal of Shabbat) followed by Havdallah, Ma’ariv, and Eicha reading.