Young children (0-5) and their parents celebrate Shabbat with singing, movement, blessings, and storytelling. We will touch on the main highlights of the Shabbat service: wonder, fun, song, listening to the world, dancing, and Torah. Afterward we will enjoy an informal oneg nosh and the chance to play and schmooze. Please RSVP here.
Art & Spirit: Find Your Power Hebrew Letter
An art workshop that explores the mystical aspects of the Hebrew Alphabet, as we create a beautiful collage of our chosen letter. Instructor: Shirona Lurie.
Cost: $18 Members + Guests.
Register at: oregonjcc.org/artandspirit
In partnership with ORA: Northwest Jewish Artists
Israel Film Series: Lost Boys of Portlandia – special added screening at Congregation Kol Ami
Meet local Israeli filmmaker and Executive Director for Outside the Frame, Nili Yosha, who was featured on the October 2016 cover of Oregon Jewish Life. OTF was founded with the idea of helping homeless youth value themselves as productive members of society and create films about issues that matter to them and share them with the public. In a riff on Peter Pan, homeless youth of Portland, OR, debate if and how to return to mainstream society while creating their own film version of the iconic story.
Documentary – 24 min.
Yosha, along with the young adults she works with, will be present for discussion after the screening.
Cost: $8. MJCC/Kol Ami Member Cost: $5.
Register: oregonjcc.org/film
Supported by Institute for Judaic Studies
Mussar with Rabbi Joshua Rose
Mussar is an approach to self-awareness and personal development that is grounded in deep reflection on Jewish texts and on spiritual practices that guide us toward greater control over our thinking and behaviors.
Monday, September 17
Monday, October 8
Monday, November 12
Monday, December 10
2:30 – 3:25 pm. Free and open to the community.
In partnership with Congregation Shaarie Torah
Get Fit Israeli Dance with Dorice Horenstein
Tuesdays, Oct. 9-Dec. 11 (no class Nov. 20)
Weekly beginning and intermediate level Israeli dance class helps you get in shape, learn new moves, and listen to fun, Israeli music.
$90 for 9 weeks or $12/week drop-in. Contact JoAnn at: jbezodis@nevehshalom.org
- 9:15 am: Beginning Level—learn Israeli dance steps for novice dancers, lower impact workout.
- 10:15 am: Intermediate Level—for those familiar with basic Israeli dance and ready for higher impact workout.
Infant Feeding Support Group
Connect with other nursing parents to share the joys and challenges of breastfeeding. Join the group if you are breastfeeding, formula feeding, pumping, bottle feeding or supporting a breastfeeding parent. Get answers from Lara Greenberg, a board certifed lactation consultant (IBCLC). Healthy snacks and activities for older siblings provided. Five people needed to run class.
Tuesdays,
October 30, November 6, 13, 27. NO CLASS: November 20
Cost: $20 Members + Guests.
Drop-in: $6 per class
Registration information: CG106, oregonjcc.org/registration
The White Elephant Archive, Setting No. 3 explores the legacy of the Holocaust from the perspective of the third generation living in Austria today. In this intensely personal, one-man production Eduard Freudmann uses his family’s archive–which includes poems written by his grandfather while imprisoned in concentration camps–to explore his family’s silence about the Holocaust, and his own attempt to understand the burden of this legacy through art. Reflecting on the politics of Holocaust commemoration in Austria, and larger questions about how to speak of a horror once its witnesses are gone or silent, this production provides a rare and important glimpse into the experience of the third generation living in Europe, and the impact of trauma across generations.
Eduard Freudmann is an award-winning multimedia artist specializing in video, performance and public installations. His most recent work “The Monument May Be a Forest” (2016), was selected as the winning design of the controversial competition “From Those You Saved,” which will commemorate the Polish Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw. Freudmann’s work has been presented globally in international exhibitions, art biennials and festivals, including the OFF-Biennále Budapest, and is Senior Artist at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he researches and teaches Trans-disciplinary Art. Freudmann’s work explores the politics of commemoration and history, aesthetical perspectives on the archive, and the mediatization of the Holocaust. He is especially interested in historical-political commemorations in public spaces, both official and unofficial, and approaches to writing microhistories, including the transmission of family histories.
This performance of The White Elephant Archive, Setting No. 3 is made possible by the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria and Federal Chancellery of Austria.
Five Book of Moses, Crash Course, Decoded and MITZVAfied
Led by Rabbi Amster
Did you always wish you knew the five books of Moses better? Well, here is your chance to educate and familiarize yourself in all the major events that take place in the Torah.
More info:
– Learn the 5 books of Moses in 5 weeks.
– Know all major events in the entire Torah
– Get in-depth knowledge of the Torah’s life (changing) messages and how to find the hidden gems
– The Mitzvot? Yes! we will visit and expand on the Mitzvot as they appear inside of the Torah
Chai Baby + PJ Library Indoor Playground
For parents/caregivers and their children up to 5 years old. Play. Meet friends. Run. Have a Kosher snack. Sing + listen to stories. Have a blast!
Second Wednesday of each month
September 12
October 10
November 14
December 12
Free and open to the community.
In partnership with PJ Library, Chai Baby, Portland Jewish Academy
Wholistic Peace Institute presents a fundraising dinner to support the Torah for Justice, Torat Tzedek.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman is internationally recognized as a leading advocate for human rights and social justice in the Middle East. He is the Founder & Director of Torat Tzedek and the former Director of Rabbis for Human Rights – the largest human rights NGO with over 300 rabbi members, in the Middle East.
He is a Harvard Graduate and received his Rabbinic Ordination at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Having sustained beatings and stabbings, and bravely arguing land use cases in front of the Israeli Supreme Court, he has managed to survive extremely taxing and dangerous work, and continues to exhibit resilience for peaceful, non-violent resolution of these decades long conflicts.
Wholistic Peace Institute presents a fundraising dinner to support the Torah for Justice, Torat Tzedek, an NGO that defends the human rights of all Israelis and those under Israeli control, advocating for Palestinians, socioeconomic justice for Israelis, African asylum seekers, and Israel’s Negev Bedouin citizens. Rabbi Ascherman is a well-known leading human rights advocate and symbol of hope to many Israelis and Palestinians. The lecture and dinner is in conjunction with the 10th Annual Harold Schnitzer Spirit of Unity Awards brought to Oregon by Educating for Peace, the Wholistic Peace Institute. This Student Peace Leadership Program awards and recognizes middle and high school peace clubs for their important work in our communities and brings international and national human rights experts into our Oregon School System. Come hear Rabbi Ascherman explain how “in the human rights field we must have one foot in the grassroots and the other among the decision and opinion makers.” Field work provides the necessary knowledge and moral voice for being able to successfully go to the courts, the Knesset, the public, the international community, and/or to the press. He will explain the tactics he is effectively using to move toward equitable outcomes and social justice in the region and why it is important to teach about human rights in the schools today.