Please join us for the 13th Annual Gus & Libby Solomon Memorial Lecture featuring Annie Polland, Executive Vice President of Programs & Interpretation at New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
What: A public lecture by Annie Polland, Executive Vice President of Programs & Interpretation at the Tenement Museum: “Tenement Stories: New York’s Jewish Lower East Side”
When: Thursday, January 25, 2018
Where: Smith Ballroom (SMSU 355) at PSU
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact: Stacey Johnston | stacey8@pdx.edu | 503-725-8449
This event is made possible thanks to the generous support of Richard Solomon and Alyce Flitcraft. Cosponsors include the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland and the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
Rabbi Eve welcomes Shabbat with music and stories, potluck dinner to follow. Contact Rabbi Eve for location: eposen@nevehshalom.org.
Co-sponsored by PJ Library.
Baruch Morris is back, and so is “Israeli-Style” Kabbalat Shabbat! Join P’nai Or of Portland for Baruch’s first service as our returning Spiritual Leader on Friday January 26 at 6 PM. P’nai Or meets at 9750 SW Terwilliger Blvd (formerly St Mark Presbyterian Church, across from Riverdale HS.) Services will be led by Baruch, our “Levite Corps” of vocalists and musicians, and will feature kavanot by Maggidah Cassandra Sagan. “Israeli-Style” means that we will do Kabbalat Shabbat BEFORE dinner, hence the early start. So come straight from work! “Israeli-Style” means that we will sing our way through all of the Kabbalat Shabbat psalms and piyutim (hymns) and still be done with services in a little over an hour. “Israeli-Style” means that no one eats alone and everyone will have a place to go for dinner – either hosting friends or going to a friend’s house for dinner. Don’t be shy! “Israeli-Style” also means you can call your friends and invite yourself to their house for dinner – or invite them to your house. (And while there is no need to make this into a state dinner, “American-Israeli Style” means you might arrange to go out to dinner with friends if it is just too much to have company after a long week.) If you would like help finding a dinner invitation, or you are looking for more guests at your Shabbat table, please email Gayle Lovejoy at admin@pnaiorpdx.org. And finally, “Israeli-Style” means singing at your Shabbat table! We’ll send you home with one or two zemirot (songs) to make your meal more festive. Come welcome Shabbat with P’nai Or.
Celebrate the start of 2018 by being a part of Get Your Game On! CNS Auction 2018!
We are putting together a memorable event filled with surprise guests; delectable food; out of this world, one of a kind, silent and live auction items; a heart-warming mitzvah moment video; and much more.
This year’s theme is all about sports and we are TEAM CNS!
By purchasing tickets, becoming a sponsor, volunteering or donating items you are helping us sustain our wonderful programming, allowing us to provide financial aid, outreach to those in need and strengthing our community.
To purchase tickets and to get involved, please visit: https://nevehshalom.org/auction2018
or contact programs@nevehshalom.org.
Join the Neveh Shalom Shomrei Teva group for the annual Tu B’Shevat hike at the Hoyt Arboretum.
Shomrei Teva Combined Tu b’Shvat Seder/Hoyt Arboretum Hike
Contact: Jordan Epstein: yaakovm@comcast.net.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Special Program
Film Screening: Scandal In Ivansk
Most of Jews in the Polish town of Ivansk were killed by the Nazis, and the headstones in the Jewish cemetery were plundered for construction purposes. The film chronicles a group of descendants of Ivansk Jews who restore the town’s cemetery, retrieving what headstones they can. When they commission a plaque that includes the word “collaborator,” a national scandal is unleashed. This eye-opening documentary strives to understand why much of the nation won’t accept “collaborator” to describe Polish people who aided the Nazis and benefited from the genocide of Jews.
Sponsored by Bincha’s Fund of OJMCHE in memory of Bincha Nozyczka and in partnership with Never Again Coalition.
The Rohingya are a majority Muslim ethnic minority who have been ruthlessly oppressed by the Myanmar military, suffering indiscriminate killings, forced evacuations, rape, and other forms of violence. 300,000 Rohingya have been forced to flee their homes since August. The UN has called it a “textbook example” of ethnic cleansing. Others have called it genocide. We can all agree that brutal persecution of the Rohingya people must stop.
Join us to learn about the history of the conflict and present state of affairs from Yusaf Iqbal, President of Americans for Rohingya. Rabbi Joshua Rose, Congregation Shaarie Torah, will offer a reflection on a Jewish view of the crisis, and Professor Amanda Byron, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (HGS) Project at PSU, will briefly review the history of genocide. Postcards urging members of the Senate and Congress to take action to end this crisis will be available for attendees to sign.
The program is jointly sponsored by the Oregon Board of Rabbis, the Never Again Coalition, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, and the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project at PSU.
Read here the New York Times Sunday opinion piece “Is This Genocide?”
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Registration Code: CG200
Take your game to the next level. It will give your mind a workout!
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Registration code: CG201