Mah Jongg for Beginners – now offering 6-week-long session!
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Tuesday Mornings
July 16 – August 20
10:30 am – 12:30 pm, CG400
Cost: $110. Member Cost: $90.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players – now offering 6-week-long session!
Take your game to the next level.
Tuesday Afternoons
July 16 – August 20
1:30 – 3:30 pm, CG401
Cost: $110. Member Cost: $90.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Israeli Dancing
Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class.
Wednesdays, July 17 – September 25 (NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11)
7:00 – 8:00 pm, CG402
Cost: $100 Members + Guests.
Drop-in Fee: $15 per class.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Come study and discuss the Bible with Rabbi Isaak at Neveh Shalom.
Join Congregation Neveh Shalom for their weekly Shabbat outdoors on the plaza! From now through September, every Friday night at 6:15 pm, you can enjoy our beautiful Portland summer evenings singing, praying and schmoozing outside on our upper plaza!
If the weather doesn’t allow us to be outside, we will meet in the Stampfer Chapel.
Torah Troop for 3rd-5th Graders
1st and 3rd Shabbat every month at 10:00am
Meet in the MAIN service (Stampfer Chapel or Main Sanctuary) for the beginning of the Torah service, and then come out with your friends for a fun and active lesson on the Torah portion (parsha) of the week. Return to the service to help lead Adon Olam, and join the community for lunch!
Continue the fun and warmth of Congregation Neveh Shalom’s Tot Shabbat with Kiddush Club. We sing, dance, hear a Torah story and more! 1st Shabbat of the month with Rabbi Eve Posen, 3rd Shabbat of the month with Gershon Liberman. Both followed by Kiddush lunch.
Jonathan Levy is leading a bike ride on Puget Island, WA. The ride will be about 20 miles along flat roads along the bucolic countryside. To reach Puget Island, drive to Westport, OR, and take the ferry to Puget Island. Puget Island has less traffic than Sauvie Island and is often much cooler than Portland in the summer. Contact Jonathan Levy at jal@wysekadish.com to sign up.
Taught by Eddy Shuldman, Judaic artist and teacher.
If you grew up Jewish, it’s probably always been there at your front door. If you’re a non-Jewish Rose Schnitzer Manor resident, you may have wondered about the diverse little gems of art marking most of our apartment entryways.
The mezuzah is one of the more prominent examples of Jewish material culture. The word mezuzah means doorpost, but it has come to mean the parchment scroll placed on the doorpost that is inscribed with verses from Deuteronomy that start with, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One”.It goes on to command us “Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” “Thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.” These are the watchwords of our faith.
Some people believe that the mezuzah provides special protection over the residents of the home where it hangs, and when they pass by a mezuzah some people have the custom of kissing it (usually touching the mezuzah with their hand, then kissing their hand).
Who better to answer all your questions about these lovely pieces of art than our own multi-talented Eddy Shuldman. Our beloved volunteer and arts activist, Eddy will discuss the “Art of the Mezuzah: loving, kissing, binding and teaching”. We’re certain you’ll come away a little more enlightened about a captivating subject.