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Due to space considerations, morning services will be limited to members only. Please join us on Yom Kippur afternoon. (There is no charge for services, but donations are gratefully accepted.)

Yom Kippur Afternoon Services:

2:00 pm – Discussion based on Rabbi’s recommended reading for the year
3:00 pm  – Kirtan Musaf (afternoon) Prayers
6:00 pm – Nei’lah (closing) Prayers

We’ll enjoy a potluck meal supplied by our members immediately following the end of afternoon services. There will be an $18 fee for attending this event – you will be contacted with more information after you register for the afternoon.

Kol Shalom Community for Humanistic Judaism invites you to an interactive and moving service incorporating the wonderful, haunting Kol Nidrei sung by cantorial soloist David Maier and then performed by cellist Jerry Bobbe.  -All bodies are welcome.

Potluck Break – Fast dinner 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.

 .Reservations suggested, but not required. Sign up online

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 be working towards a demo that showcases their favorite improv games, and shows off their new comedy chops!

Thursdays starting Oct. 13 – December, no class Nov. 24; 3:45 – 4:45pm

Cost: $95/student; CG 108

In partnership with PJA and the NW Children’s Theater and School 

Purchase your Arba Minim, sukkot accessories and decorations.

Pre-order at http://www.portlandkollel.org/order

The MJCC proudly presents the 3rd Annual Israeli Film Series featuring three extraordinary films with special guests. Each film was selected for its quality and ability to excite, delight, enlighten, provoke and/or move viewers to tears or laughter. You will not want to miss out on these films! Co-sponsored by the Institute for Judaic Studies.

Film – TBA

Day off school? Join us for BB Breaks!
9am -5pm on:
Oct 14, Nov 9-11 & 23, Dec 23 & 26-30, Jan 16, Feb 20

Come have fun with BB Camp!
Spend the mornings running and playing at PDX
Sportscenter and go on a field trip in the afternoon.

For 1st-6th graders | $55 per child per day
RSVP at bbcamp.org/bb-breaks

Complimentary early and late care available.
Pick up and drop off are at our Beaverton office
9400 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy #200

Contact Alex for more information at
amansfield@bbcamp.org
503.496.7444 x7016

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.

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7-9:30 pm: The MJCC, 6651 SW Capitol Hwy., Portland, hosts Pissarro, Pinot & Palette: Impressionism and Beyond. Local artist Jeffery Hall will talk briefly about how his work relates to The Marriage of Opposites. Following the discussion, participate in a two-hour creative art instruction session led by Hall. He will guide you to explore your inner artist in an informal, no-pressure environment. Transform a blank canvas into a finished representation to take home with you at the end of the night. There will be a $36 charge with reservations required.

This event is part of the 6^th annual Many Stories, One Community: Portland Jewish Book Celebration focusing on one book in November — The Marriage of Opposites by best-selling author Alice Hoffman.

Sukkot: This seven-day festival (eight days in the Diaspora) celebrates the abundance of the fall harvest and commemorates the 40 years the Jewish people wandered in the desert after the exodus from slavery. The sukkah, a temporary three-sided dwelling covered with leafy branches, gives the holiday its name. The sukkah is a reminder of the temporary dwellings our ancestors in ancient Israel used for shelter in the fields during the harvest, as well as the booths they lived in for 40 years in the desert. The festival has two additional main symbols: the lulav and etrog. The lulav consists of palm, myrtle and willow branches bound together. The etrog is a citron, a yellow citrus fruit that looks and smells like a bumpy lemon. It is traditional to bless the Four Species (the lulav and etrog held together) while waving them towards the four compass points, heaven and earth on each day of the holiday except Shabbat.

Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah (Oct. 24-25) The days immediately following the end of the festival of Sukkot are the semi-independent holidays Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Some liberal congregations celebrate both in one day as Atzeret-Simchat Torah. These two holidays formally end the season of the High Holy Days. The Torah is a central symbol of Simchat Torah as we read the final verses of Deuteronomy, then immediately recommence the cycle by reading the opening verses of Genesis. The celebration of the annual cycle includes marching around the synagogue with Torah scrolls and flags.