Calendar

Sep
9
Wed
Older But Wiser @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Sep 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Rose Schnitzer Manor residents poetry/photo exhibit and photography by Carole Glauber in the MJCC lobby during September.

Reception Tea and Reading

Rosh Hashanah Parent Workshop @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Sep 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Awakening your Senses for a New Year – a Rosh Hashanah workshop for parents. The Jewish New Year is a time to awaken our senses and revitalize our outlook for the year ahead. Find out how to enrich your own experience while bringing greater meaning to your family traditions. Learn ways to encourage exploration and creativity in your own and your children’s High Holiday experience. A thought-provoking and fun experiential evening for all, regardless of level of Jewish knowledge or know-how. Led by Rabbi Eve Posen and Leah Conley, Director of Early Childhood Education. Contact Jennifer to RSVP or for questions.

Sep
11
Fri
PJ Library Connection Adventures presents Tot Shabbat at Pioneer Hall in Ashland @ Pioneer Hall
Sep 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

PJ Library Connection Adventures presents our first Tot Shabbat at Pioneer Hall in Friday, September 11 at 5:00 PM. Cyrise Beatty Schachter will lead with story, song and movement. A light dinner will be provided. Families of children 6 mos – 8 years of age are invited to participate. Come connect with other young families raising Jewish children. RSVP to PJLibrarySOregon@gmail.com with your name and number of adults and children who will be attending. Thanks to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for their generous grant to fund Connection Adventures in Southern Oregon.

Sep
12
Sat
Torah Yoga for Toddlers and Preschoolers @ Congregation Shaarie Torah
Sep 12 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Congregation Shaarie Torah and PJ Library Portland present:
Torah Yoga.

This months theme:
Rosh Hashanah – creation of Mishpachat Haolam, our world family

Join Rachel Stern as she engages with our toddlers and Preschoolers, accompanied by their parent. Begin the year with Rosh Hashanah spirit – lets greet our world Family this Shabbat – Stretch out with Torah yoga and do the creation story!

Every 2nd Saturday of the month.

Sep
13
Sun
Erev Rosh Hashanah @ West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Sep 13 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Join Kol Shalom Community for Humanistic Judaism for a  warm welcoming, human-centered, inspiring ceremony which reflects the great Jewish traditions and offers a meaningful alternative for all Jews and intercultural families. – All bodies are welcome.

Oneg to follow service.

$10.00 Adult members  / $10.00 Young Adult (19-25)  / $25.00 Adult non member

Children through high school free. / Child care available free of charge.

 

 

 

First Annual Gesher Rosh Hashanah Seder
Sep 13 @ 4:30 pm

 

First Annual Rosh Hashanah Seder at Gesher

An intimate celebration held in the quietude and beauty of the rabbis’ home surrounded by forest.
So, it’s been a while since you’ve connected with something Jewish and you’re thinking,”High Holy Days are here?” with something like dread rather than awe. You know, they are called the “days of awe,” but every time you’re thinking about High Holy Days in synagogue, you’re thinking there’s a guarantee of long services and overwhelming boredom. Well, here’s an alternative. We (Rabbi Laurie and Rabbi Gary) a’re calling it “a Rosh Hashana Seder.” It’s a version of our passover-seder-as-theater concept.

It will be a feast. There will be fun, humor and depth. You will be replenished, and have an opportunity for renewal. An experience of renewal, without long services.

We want you to go to shul, if you’re used to it. There is an important spiritual experience to be had there, especially if you understand the inner meaning of the prayers and the import of the day. If you are not in the category of affiliated and connected, however, here is an alternative that you might just — one day — import into your own home. That’s all we propose doing: inviting you to our home, so that you can experience an impetus to creating your own home. We’ll have ample opportunity for spiritual connection and you’ll have time to meet fellow travelers, but we want you to join us on a journey that is not unlike the Passover journey — only this one isn’t from winter to spring and from slavery to freedom; this is a journey from summer to fall, from reflection to renewal. We are following a Sephardic Jewish custom in doing this; they’ve celebrated Rosh Hashana Seders for generations. We will be adding our own inimitable Gesher stamp, which means fun, drama, nourishment, joy, and deep reflection.

RSVP is necessary at www.ourjewishhome.org.  Suggested Donation: $36 for adults; $18 for children.  No one is turned away for lack of funds.

Larger contributions to Gesher to support this celebration are much appreciated.

Erev Rosh Hashanah at Neveh Shalom @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Sep 13 @ 6:15 pm

high holy days
High Holiday services at Neveh Shalom, an open and egalitarian community, are led by Rabbi David Kosak, Cantor Deborah Bletstein and Rabbi Eve Posen. We offer lively young child services as well as k-6 appropriate family experiences. We welcome all to experience the New Year with Neveh Shalom. Ticket Required.

Read our High Holy Day Information online – http://nevehshalom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/HHD5776.pdf

For ticket information and to order a ticket call 503.246.8831

Membership information at http://nevehshalom.org/membership/

Family Service Erev Rosh Hashanah at Neveh Shalom @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Sep 13 @ 6:15 pm

high holy daysAll age family service.

High Holiday services at Neveh Shalom, an open and egalitarian community, are led by Rabbi David Kosak, Cantor Deborah Bletstein and Rabbi Eve Posen. We offer lively young child services as well as k-6 appropriate family experiences. We welcome all to experience the New Year with Neveh Shalom. Ticket Required.

Read our High Holy Day Information online – http://nevehshalom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/HHD5776.pdf

For ticket information and to order a ticket call 503.246.8831

Membership information at http://nevehshalom.org/membership/

Jewish Encounter Erev Rosh Hashanah @ Providence St. Vincent Hospital
Sep 13 @ 6:30 pm

Join the Jewish Encounter and Rabbi Arthur Zuckerman for the High Holy Days. Rabbi Zucky will lead Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Services that are open to all at Providence St. Vincent Hospital, 9205 SW Barnes Road, Portland, OR 97225.

Erev Rosh Hashanah with P’nai Or @ Unity Church
Sep 13 @ 6:45 pm – 9:30 pm

Open the Gates and Enter the New Year with P’nai Or and Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin

Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin is a composer, singer, cellist and guitarist. He served as a Hazzan and Rabbi for nearly forty years in the Jewish community of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.
Music is at the very heart of his spiritual life and he seeks to connect with the transcendant realms of Spirit as well as the depths of the human heart through his music.
He has performed in concerts with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach z’l and was for many years the musical partner of Reb Aryeh Hirschfield z’l.

Everyone is welcome
Sliding scale donation
No ticket required
Childcare available by advance registration: admin@pnaiorpdx.org
More informationat www.pnaiorpdx.org or 503-248-4500