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.
Join other young families for singing, dancing, stories, indoor picnic-style lunch, and Shabbat fun. Held every 1st and 3rd Saturday in Zidell Chapel.
Join us for a bonfire, art projects, music & dance, rustic pita making, active games, an Israeli shuk and – of course – goats! All are welcome (kids ages 0-12 and parents). FREE. No RSVP required. Contact JoAnn Bezodis for more information.
Top presenters from the three Abrahamic faiths will discuss friendship, dialogue, and pluralism in their respective traditions.
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Every Tuesday morning from April 25 to May 23.
Register: oregonjcc.org/register; CG301
Sculpt your body with this new class that combines powerful yoga poses with light weights, therabands and exercise balls to increase strength, tone muscles, and improve flexibility.
Instructor: Tara Atkinson
Wednesdays, April 5 – June 7
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT308
Rabbi David Zaslow will teach a six-session class based on his newly published book “Reimagining Exodus; A Freedom Story.” The biblical Exodus is the most influential liberation and freedom story ever told. It has served as both an inspiration for Puritans, American revolutionaries, abolitionists, Mormons, the modern civil rights movement, and revolutionaries the world over. Participants will not only learn how the story has been used historically by non-Jews, but how in Jewish tradition the Exodus has also been applied to the individual life journey with its enslavements, challenges, liberations, and revelations. This groundbreaking course explores the Exodus as the intersection of this foundational story for Judaism and Christianity.
Fee: $70, including text. Dates: March 29, April 5, 12, May 10, 24 and 31. Wednesdays, 5-6:15 PM. Pre-registration required by calling 541-488-7716.The Havurah is located at 185 N. Mountain Ave. in Ashland. Call 541-488-5146 for more info.
Join as we celebrate Jerusalem Day!
Free
The Ten Commandments are just about everywhere in modern America: in houses of worship and private homes, on the street, the subway and even the interstate. How and Why is the subject of this illustrated talk by the distinguished historian, Jenna Weissman Joselit, author of Oxford University Press forthcoming book, Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments. Join us as she takes the measure of these ancient dos and don’ts and their hold on the American body politic.