Organize Yourself for Success: For Grades 5 – 8 and 9 – 12
Help your student learn new study skills to maximize their efficiency and decrease stress. This motivation-based approach builds students’ academic confidence and organizational skills.
Instructor: Tina-Marie Baskin
Per Session: Cost: $56. Member Cost: $48.
For Grades 5 – 8
Session II: Mondays
February 3 – March 2
4:00 – 5:15 pm, SI210A
For Grades 9 – 12
Session II: Wednesdays
February 5 – March 4
4:00 – 5:15 pm, SI210B
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Soup to the Streets, Monday, Jan 6, Feb 17, 6:00pm
Congregants come together at Rabbi Kosak’s home to prepare a hot meal and go to the streets to directly feed those that need it the most.
To RSVP, for address, and to donate food supplies, Contact: lrichmond@nevehshalom.org
Join Sylvia Frankel in the lobby for a discussion in Hebrew. Purchase lunch or just enjoy the conversation. Some conversational Hebrew required.
Tuesdays, 12:15 pm
Learn the basics of improv theater! Students will learn short-form games that teach the skills of listening and responding, working together as a group to create a story on the spot, and building self-confidence. The class will create a demo that showcases their favorite improv games, and shows off their new comedy chops!
Tuesdays
January 14 – March 3
3:45 – 4:45 pm, CG205
Cost: $95 per student.
In partnership with NW Children’s Theater
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Krav Maga is a practical form of self-defense. It was pioneered by the Israel Defense Forces from a combination of boxing, wrestling, aikido, judo, and karate. This introductory course, taught by an IDF veteran of the special forces, will focus on providing you with the three pillars of Krav Maga: technique, conditioning, and situational awareness.
Tuesdays
January 7 – March 10
7:00 – 8:00 pm, CG208
Cost: $125. Member Cost: $100.
Drop-in Cost: $15 per class.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
By most indications, modern society is a model of moral progress. Yet when it comes to everyday values, we still grapple with the big ones…
– What are our responsibilities toward the less fortunate?
– How do we fashion a more moral and equal society?
– How can we make a move toward more cohesive family living?
Join us to unpack six of the world’s most cherished values and how they were delivered to humankind by the Torah. By tracing their fascinating journey to the mainstream, we’ll discover a timeless core of purpose, integrity, and clarity in each value—a powerful gift of guidance as we navigate our own daily choices.
Organize Yourself for Success: For Grades 5 – 8 and 9 – 12
Help your student learn new study skills to maximize their efficiency and decrease stress. This motivation-based approach builds students’ academic confidence and organizational skills.
Instructor: Tina-Marie Baskin
Per Session: Cost: $56. Member Cost: $48.
For Grades 5 – 8
Session II: Mondays
February 3 – March 2
4:00 – 5:15 pm, SI210A
For Grades 9 – 12
Session II: Wednesdays
February 5 – March 4
4:00 – 5:15 pm, SI210B
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Benny Morris is a living legend, and part of the essential generation of Israel’s “New Historians.” Using previously unreleased archival information, Morris has been able to present startling understandings of what happened in Israel at critical junctures, such as at the founding of the state in 1948.
Please join us for a fascinating evening with this world-class scholar as he regales us with an evening of “true stories.”
Benny Morris, Ph.D. is one of Israel’s leading historians and public intellectuals. He was born in Israel in 1948 and received his doctorate at Cambridge University. He served in the IDF in infantry and paratroops. He was a journalist at The Jerusalem Post from 1978 to 1990 and was a professor of Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University from 1997 to 2017. From 2015 to 2018, he was a visiting Israel Studies professor at Georgetown University. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University, Munich University, the University of Maryland and Dartmouth College, and was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has also published ten books on Middle East and European history, with a focus on the Arab-Zionist conflict and published articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Guardian, Corriere della Sera, Liberation, Die Welt, and Haaretz.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, PSU Judaic Studies Program, and Benny & Peggy Cukier
Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli folk dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class.
Wednesdays
January 8 – March 11
7:00 – 8:00 pm, CG202
Cost: $100 per person.
Drop-in Cost: $15 per class.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
February 19 – March 8, 2020 at PSU: LINCOLN HALL
A co-production with Artists Repertory Theatre, in association with Portland State University
2:00 pm matinees on Sundays
Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play of 2017. Sholem Asch’s play The God of Vengeance made a splash on Broadway in 1923, when it was shut down and all of the actors were arrested on charges of obscenity for portraying a lesbian romance between a brothel-owner’s daughter and one of the prostitutes. Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Paula Vogel weaves scenes of Asch’s incendiary play with the imagined conversations with the risk-taking company that brought the script to the stage. Indecent is a riveting backstage drama filled with music, groundbreaking Yiddish theatre, and stage magic.