Last month it was rain. This month it is heat! Due to extreme weather, Shabbat in the Park has been cancelled.
When your bluegrass band can’t make it due to the temperature, you know it’s time to celebrate Shabbat at Home. We want all of our congregants and their guests to stay cool and healthy, so there will not be evening services at the synagogue on Friday the 19th.
Shabbat on the Plaza and Food Carts
Friday, August 19, 6:00 PM
Temple Lawn
Come to Congregation Beth Israel for a musical outdoor Shabbat Service and stay for some of Portland’s finest food carts. We’ll gather for services on the Temple lawn in the beautiful Portland sunshine and then linger for great food and greater company!
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.
In the early 1900s, Eastern European and Sephardic Jews settled in South
Portland.
It was a close and largely self-contained neighborhood. There were kosher
butcher shops and bakeries, a Jewish orphanage and an old age home, social
activism and immigrant benevolent societies. There were schools, a library
with Yiddish books, and the Neighborhood House, a community focal point
with Hebrew lessons, citizenship classes and a medical clinic.
In 1958, Portland voted to create the South Auditorium Urban Renewal
District and bulldozers demolished 54 blocks of the immigrant community.
Despite this, today there are intact reminders of the way life used to be. Based on
her books A Walking Tour of Historic Jewish Portland,The Immigrants’ Children:
Jewish and Italian Memories of Old South Portland, and Stories From Jewish
Portland, Polina Olsen shows you places that remain as she shares first-hand
memories of people who grew up in the neighborhood.
$10 per person, all proceeds are donated to the Jewish Federation of Greater
Portland. RSVP and learn the starting location at ojfas@comcast.net.
Chabad Hebrew School of Northeast Portland invites you to join us for our annual open house.
Meet the directors, see our new space, hear about our exciting curriculum, and become part of our little community.
Learn more about Chabad Hebrew School of Northeast Portland at www.JewishNortheast.com/CHS
Join the fun and get messy! Children ages 0-5 must be accompanied by an adult.
Moishe House Without Walls (MHWOW) empowers you to build Jewish community as you envision it by planning and hosting programs for your peers. Thanks to a grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, the MHWOW is now open to any Portlander 22-32 year old. It is normally only available to Moishe House Resident Alumni and Moishe House Retreat Participants.
The session will be lead by Terry Wunder from MH HQ, and then you will receive support to host up to two events a month and with up to $150 subsidy for each.
This event is specifically for people 22-32 who wish to become MHWOW hosts and will cover the details about how to use the online system, submit receipts, etc.
All current MHWOW hosts are very much encouraged to attend as well. You are the rock stars pioneers and we need you to share your insight and wisdom. There will be light food and drink for all!
Last Day of Camp is a full, all-inclusive weekend, at BB Camp on beautiful Devil’s Lake in Lincoln City for adults ages 23-35. Whether you got to experience Jewish summer camp as a kid or not, now’s your chance. All you have to do is show up ready to kick back, relax and enjoy an incredible weekend with friends old and new. Price $150 ($175 after June 25) VIP packages available from $225-$325 (private rooms)
More details at www.lastdayofcamp.com
For more questions about Last Day of Camp, contact Jessica Benjamin at jbenjamin@bbcamp.org.
