Join us for our 8th day of Passover service, our Yizkor service.
Registrations are now being accepted to Ashland Havurah’s Annual Women’s Potluck Passover Seder on Saturday, April 11 at 5:30 PM. The Seder ritual will celebrate liberation, springtime, rebirth, and the power of joining forces as women to create a Sukkat Shalom, a canopy of peace, in the world and a commitment to sisterhood and connection to the Divine Feminine energies. The Seder will be led by Rabbi Sue Morningstar, Cyrise Beatty Schachter, Devorah Zaslow, the Rev. Norma Nakai Burton of Unity of Ashland with chanting by Prema Mayi. Register by April 2 for the Early Bird Discount – $20 per adult, $10 per full-time student/women 18 and under. Pre-Registration is required. Space is limited. Call 541-488-7716 for more info or to register or log onto www.havurahshirhadash.org to download a registration
Listen to the Jewish Community Orchestra perform music by Medelssohn, Magnard and Berlioz.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Auschwitz survivor and 2015 Elie Wiesel Award-winner Thomas Buergenthal will speak at Oregon State University in Corvallis as part of the university’s annual observance of Holocaust Memorial Week, April 13-21.
Born in Slovakia in 1934, Buergenthal recounted his survival of Auschwitz in the memoir, “A Lucky Child.” After coming to the United States he became a prominent legal scholar, specializing in international law. He has served as a judge on several panels that have dealt with human rights issues, including 10 years of service on the International Court of Justice.
Buergenthal will speak at 7:30 p.m. April 21 in the Austin Auditorium at the LaSells Stewart Center, 875 S.W. 26th St., Corvallis. His talk will focus on his experience during World War II and his perspective on international law’s role in combatting persecution and protecting human rights.
For the first time in the event’s 29-year history, Holocaust Memorial Week this year will be expanded to include an event in Portland. Buergenthal and OSU faculty members will participate in a panel discussion on religious and human rights at 7 p.m. Monday, April 20, at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, 6651 S.W. Capitol Highway, in Portland. Other panelists are Rena Lauer, Amy Koehlinger, Stuart Sarbacker and Paul Kopperman of OSU.
Holocaust Memorial Week is presented by the School of History, Philosophy and Religion in OSU’s College of Liberal Arts in association with the City of Corvallis and School District 509-J. All events are free and open to the public. This year’s program includes a special focus on human rights and women’s rights.
Other Holocaust Memorial Week events are:
- Human rights lawyer Gabriela Rivera of Guatemala will speak about sexual violence against indigenous women in Guatemala at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in the C & E Auditorium in the LaSells Stewart Center.
- A virtual “tour” of Auschwitz will be presented by OSU philosophy instructor Marta Kunecka at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the Horizon Room in the Memorial Union at OSU. Kunecka conducted tours of the concentration camp while in graduate school in Krakow, Poland, and will recreate the experience using visual aids.
- “Watchers of the Sky,” a documentary film about Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the C &E Auditorium in the LaSells Stewart Center.
- Elizabeth Heineman, a feminist historian who has written extensively on the subject of women in Nazi Germany, will be giving a talk entitled “Human Rights Law and the Issue of Violence against Women,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in the C & E Auditorium in the LaSells Stewart Center.
- Two academic conferences, the Social Justice Conference and the International Health Symposium, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in the Journey Room in the Memorial Union, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 17, in the Snell International Forum at OSU. Students will present papers on topics such as violence against women, gender rights and human rights, LGBTQ rights and acceptance, and the relationship between gendered violence and genocide. For more information on the conferences, visit http://liberalarts.
oregonstate.edu/sjc.
For more information about the events, visit http://oregonstate.edu/dept/
Living our later years to the fullest! Let’s talk about everything: adult children, physical changes, emotional issues, losses, letting go, and more. Facilitators: Muriel Adler, Dorothy Dworkin, Carol Price (retired clinical social workers and group leaders).
Mar. 18, Apr. 1, 15, 29, 1:00-2:30 pm
$20 (G:$32) CG206
Gather as a community for a commemoration ceremony and the viewing of the movie, A Secret
Wednesday, April 15
Doors open at 5:00 pm; Film at 5:30 pm
COCC, Campus Center, Wille Hall
Following the movie, please join a discussion about the contemporary situation for Jews in France led by Dr. Jessica Hammerman Associate Professor of World History at Central Oregon Community College, followed by memorial service led by Rabbi Johanna Hershenson.
Presented by COCC Jewish Students Club and COCC Historical Club
No class on April 8th, due to Passover.
Wednesday Night School at Shaarie Torah for Middle and High School students
Every Wednesday (except for major holidays) from 6:00 to 8:15
For more information email Dorice at education@shaarietorah.org
The Oregon Board of Rabbis Presents Yom Hashoa: The Holocaust, memory and the Future
Yom Hashoah is the day set aside in the Jewish calendar to remember those six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and to honor the lives of survivors.
Portland’s Jewish community will come together to hear personal stories from survivors, reflect on the meaning of remembrance for the next generation, and commemorate the six million with music and prayer.
Wednesday, April 15, 7:00 p.m.
Greil Marcus, renowned rock critic, Rolling Stone contributing editor, and author of Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces, The Old Weird America and A History of Rock ‘N’ Roll in Ten Songs, as well as the essay that inspired Soul Harmony, “The Deborah Chessler Story” will review and discuss the newly discovered first live recordings of The Orioles:
Sonny Til and the Orioles Live in Chicago 1951.
Greil Marcus’s presentation is free and open to the public.
Young children (0-5) and their parents will celebrate Shabbat with singing, movement, blessings, and storytelling. We will touch on the main highlights of the Shabbat morning service: wonder, fun, song, listening to the world, dancing, and Torah. Afterwards, we enjoy an informal oneg nosh and the chance to play and schmooze. Led by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner.