Featuring Yossi Abramowitz
All adults and families with children 4th grade and above are invited to attend Congregation Shaarie Torah’s ten year tradition of praying together, learning together and being together. Led by Education Director Dorice Horenstein, this modified services touches everyone’s heart with song, prayers, and discussion galore! Join us for out of the box prayer service!
Preschool families, please join Shaarie Torah for Shirat Yeladim. This program of storytelling, music, mitzvah and experiential learning is geared towards children aged 3-5 years old and their parents.
Join us on the first Saturday of the month at 10:45 a.m.
Join PJ Library for a free weekly story hour for young families with music, crafts and PJ Library Stories!
Free at New Seasons Market-Williams.
A weekly story hour for young families with music and PJ Library books!
Portland Jewish Book Celebration continues
The annual Portland Jewish Book Month celebration was expanded this year to reach beyond one book and one month. The six-month celebration that began last November continues with in March the Mittleman Jewish Community Center hosts its first Authors’ Series. The talks at the MJCC begin with Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett. At 7 pm, March 3, she will discuss her book, Carolina Israelite – How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights. On March 8 at 7 pm, author Jessica Fechtor will share her book, Stir – My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home. Laura Nicole Diamond, author of Shelter Us: A Novel, wraps up the author series at 7 pm, March 15.
Individual event tickets are $8 or $5 for MJCC members; a series pass is $20 or $12 for members. For information and registration for the Authors’ Series, visit oregonjcc.org/authorseries or contact Len Steinberg at lsteinberg@oregonjcc.org.
The Jewish Film Series at the Havurah presents on Wednesday, March 9 at 7 PM Praying With Lior, an engrossing documentary film, about a boy with Down syndrome who has spent his entire life praying with utter abandon. Is he a “spiritual genius” as many around him say? Or simply the vessel that contains everyone’s unfulfilled wishes and expectations? As Lior approaches Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony different characters provides a window into life spent “praying with Lior.” The movie poses difficult questions such as what is “disability” and who really talks to God? Praying with Lior is a family story of triumph, grief and inspiration. Rabbi David Zaslow will lead a discussion following the film. The film is free and open to all. The Havurah Synagogue is located at 185 N. Mountain Ave. in Ashland. Call 541-488-7716 for more info.
Join us for a weekly story hour for young families with PJ Library stories, crafts and music!
A monthly discussion covering a
wide range of topics that will draw
on our experiences.
March’s topic: Purim Torah.
Cafe at the J.
Free and open to the community.
Join PJ Library as we bring back Yad b’Yad with Kim Schneiderman! Inter generational singing and stories at Cedar Sinai Park.