Learn the basics of Improv Theater! Students will learn short-form games that teach the skills of listening and responding, working together as a group to create a story on the spot, and building self-confidence. The class will be working towards a demo that showcases their favorite improv games, and shows off their new comedy chops!
In partnership with Portland Jewish Academy and Northwest Children’s Theater & School
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration; CG202
Using barbed needles to tangle and compact natural wool fibers you will learn to create simple elegant looking 3-D flowers.
No experience necessary. All supplies will be provided.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration; CG203B
Havurah is offering two options for taking the two-session workshops “Having the Conversation: Discussing What Quality Means at the End of Life.”
Option 1: Sundays, Feb. 12 & 26, 10:00 – 11:30 am
Option 2: Thursdays, Feb. 16 and March 2, 7:00 – 8:30 pm.
Many of us spend a great deal of time thinking about how we want to live our lives, but many of us avoid thinking about how we would like our end of life care to go. Havurah will be facilitating a two part workshop in February to help community members begin to think about what quality means at the end of life. Working from The Conversation Project model, we will support each other as we explore this challenging topic.
Prior to the workshops, at 10:00 am on Saturday, Feb. 4, Diane Chaplin will lead a Text & Torah study session at Havurah on “Jewish Traditions of Mourning and the Afterlife.”
The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. Too many people are dying in a way they wouldn’t choose, and too many of their loved ones are left feeling bereaved, guilty, and uncertain. It’s time to transform our culture so we shift from not talking about dying to talking about it. It’s time to share the way we want to live at the end of our lives. And it’s time to communicate about the kind of care we want and don’t want for ourselves. The Conversation Project offers people the tools, guidance, and resources they need to begin talking with their loved ones about their wishes and preferences, before a medical crisis – “at the kitchen table,” not in the intensive care unit.
If you would like to join us, we ask that you commit to both workshops. RSVP here by Jan. 23. The workshops are free for Havurah members, $40 for non-members.
Come celebrate a weekend of learning about the 10 commandments and the mitzvot, especially loving our neighbors as ourselves and loving the Holy One. The weekend begins on Friday, February 17 at 7:30 PM with a musical Kabbalat Shabbat led by Rabbi David Zaslow, Cyrise Beatty Schachter and Rachael Resch, followed by potluck dessert Oneg. On Saturday morning we’ll reconvene for our musical Torah service when Rabbi Sue Morningstar will join us to chant the Ten Commandments.
The Shabbaton will culminate with a catered lunch and Fabrengan with Rabbi David and Cyrise. Lunch is $20 per person and must be ordered in advance by calling 541-488-7716. No walk-ins will be accepted for the lunch.
The Shabbaton is free and open to all at the Havurah Synagogue, 185 N Mountain Ave. in Ashland. Call 541-488-7716 for more info.
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.
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!
Join other families for prayer, singing, conversation and fun followed by an indoor picnic style lunch.
You can now Pre-Order your Hamentaschen so you are ready for Purim!
Purchase online, here or print out an order form from our website and send it in. We’ve got three delicious flavors: fruit, moen (poppyseed), and apricot (nut free). Only pre-orders are guaranteed. Order before March 7th.
Volunteering:
Our Sisterhood is about to embark on the annual hamentashen baking and sale. They have customers from all over Portland who buy these tasty treats and in turn Sisterhood funds many wonderful aspects of our community. Our hardworking bakers are about to start a multi-week process that will eventually make about 30,000 hamentashen! You have never seen anything like it (unless you have previously helped). It’s great fun, and a great community builder. Everyone is invited to help, including children 12 and over. Click here to sign up for a volunteer slot or please contact Charlotte Tevet to volunteer at 503 319-7825 or ctevet2004@yahoo.com.
Portland composers and classical musicians are uniting on President’s Day, February 20, 2017, to present a concert entitled, “Music of Hope and Empowerment.” Music of Hope and Empowerment is a benefit concert to fight hate and promote social justice. All the proceeds of the concert will be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Dr. William Barber’s organization, “Repairers of the Breach,” and Causa Oregon.
Elden Rosenthal representing Southern Poverty Law Center is expected to speak at the event.
The concert will be performed at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 3880 SE Brooklyn Street, Portland Oregon, beginning at 7:30 pm. The program will feature music both new and old. Portland Composers Thomas DeNicola (piano) and Patrick McCulley (saxophone) will be performing their own compositions. Also featured is Stacey Phillip’s woodwind trio, “Prevailing Winds.”
Selections from Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet K. 581, Dvořák’s Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65, Poulenc’s song cycle, Banalités, as well as music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Astor Piazzolla will round out the program, along with a classical Japanese piece by Shingo Ikegami arranged for clarinet and koto. Performers include musicians from Classical Revolution PDX, the Portland Music Collective, String Theory, Trio Musicorum Medicorum, and mezzo-soprano Sadie Gregg.
Admission is via a minimum suggested donation of $10, payable at the door. In lieu of advance tickets, recent donation receipts from any of the benefiting organizations will be accepted for admission. Donation information is: Southern Poverty Law Center (https://www.splcenter.org, enter “Music of Hope and Empowerment” in the tribute field), Repairers of the Breach (http://www.breachrepairers.org/donate enter “Music of Hope and Empowerment” in the instructions or comments field) or Causa Oregon (http://causaoregon.org/donate/ enter “Music of Hope and Empowerment” after In honor of).