Mah Jongg for Beginners
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
November 20 – December 18
Registration information: CG103, oregonjcc.org/registration
Cost: $100. Member Cost: $85.
The OJMCHE series of informal lunchtime conversations. Bring a lunch or buy a brown bag lunch in Lefty’s Cafe and join us in the museum’s auditorium for a lively give and take as we share and explore ideas, experience, and expertise.
Join Kenneth Helphand, Philip H. Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture Emeritus University of Oregon, for a talk on Ghetto Gardens in conjunction with our current exhibition. The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz offers an extraordinary rare glimpse of life inside the Lodz Ghetto through the lens of Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross.
It seems improbable, but gardens were made in the ghettos of Lodz, Warsaw, Kovno and more. Based on research in Poland, Israel and the US this illustrated talk speaks about the creation and meaning of these gardens based on the first person accounts of their creators and witnesses. The talk is based on material in Helphand’s award winning book Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. The OJMCHE Brown Bag lunch is a series of informal lunchtime conversations. Bring a lunch or buy a brown bag lunch in Lefty’s Cafe and join us in the museum’s auditorium for a lively give and take as we share and explore ideas, experience, and expertise.
Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players
Take your game to the next level. It will give your mind a workout!
November 20 – December 18
Registration information: CG104, oregonjcc.org/registration
Cost: $100. Member Cost: $85.
Israeli Dancing
Join us for a fun Israeli folk dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class.
Wednesdays
September 26 – December 12
NO CLASS on October 10 or November 21
Cost: $100 Members + Guests. Drop-in Fee: $15 per class.
Register: CG 100: oregonjcc.org/registration
This class at Congregation Neveh Shalom will be based on Rabbi Kushner’s newest book, Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned about Life. $36, which includes the book.
Register at: 503.246.8831; receptionist@nevehshalom.org
Proceeds with support the Feldstein Library.
Seniors and young families enjoy an inter-generational celebration of stories and songs each Thursday.
Join Kim Schneiderman for this weekly inter-generational story hour for young families with music, PJ Library books, and the residents of Cedar Sinai Park.
Come study and discuss the Bible with Rabbi Isaak at Neveh Shalom.
Join other families at Congregation Neveh Shalom as we explore the narrative of Chanukah through yoga and fun. Stay after for the community dinner and celebration.
Celebrate the festival of lights at Congregation Neveh Shalom in this fun retelling of the Hanukkah story through narration and a selection of pop, rock, and Jewish songs. Bring toilet paper donations to support the Men’s Club Toilet Paper Drive for Neighborhood House. Also remember to bring your own chanukiah to light with the community.
Latke dinner: $18/adults, $12/kids, $54/family max. RSVP for dinner: receptionist@nevehshalom.org
Dinner included with Young Family Shul Pass.
Jewish Heritage Night returns to the Moda Center as the Trailblazers take on the Phoenix Suns on Dec. 6, the fifth night of Hanukkah. Chabad of Oregon and the Portland Trailblazers have partnered to present the event eight times since 2007. Game starts at 7 pm. The night features a pre-game menorah lighting and Hanukkah party in the concourse, limited edition Hebrew Trailblazers T-shirt giveaway and post-game free-throw shots. Tickets: RipcityChanukah.eventbrite.com; group tickets: Rabbi@JewishNortheast.com.
- 5:30 pm – Doors open to the general public to enter the Moda Center, don’t forget to stop by the table at Entry A-5 to get your T-shirt, Meet and Greet with Dreidleman and get in the Chanukah mode!
- 6:25–6:35 pm: Grand Menorah Lighting
- During 1st Timeout of 1st Quarter – Watch for the video of Menorah lighting on Jumbo Tron!
- Immediately following the game – meet at Entry A-15 where Blazers staff will take you down to shoot a free-throw on the Moda Center court following the game.
- & More…..
If you did not buy your tickets yet, there are still a few seats left. You can get your Chanukah Jewish Heritage night seats at RipcityChanukah.eventbrite.com