Calendar

Oct
21
Sat
Tiferet Shabbat @ Congregation Shaarie Torah
Oct 21 @ 9:15 am – 12:15 pm

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 @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Oct 21 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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!

Kiddush Club for K-2nd Grade @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Oct 21 @ 10:15 am – 11:30 am

Join other families for prayer, singing, conversation and fun followed by an indoor picnic style lunch.

Oct
22
Sun
OJMCHE Exhibit Tours @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Oct 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
OJMCHE Exhibit Tours @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education | Portland | Oregon | United States
OJMCHE has exhibition tours every Wednesday at 1 pm.
Tours are free with admission and members, of course, can always visit for free. Come early or stay after and enjoy lunch in the museum’s Lefty’s Cafe!
Please join OJMCHE for weekly public tours of the newly reopened museum galleries. Tours last one hour and are lead by museum staff.
Exhibits Oct. 19, 2017-Feb. 4-2018:
I AM THIS: Art by Oregon Jewish Artists, curated by Bruce Guenther, has been organized to showcase work by four generations of artists born Jewish, associated with or living in Portland, and navigating the complexity of aesthetics and self, making and being. The exhibition provides a platform to explore the role of identity and religion in modern art, as first articulated in the writings of the mid-century American art critic Harold Rosenberg.
Munich to Portland, A Painting Saves a Family: On view in OJMCHE’s East Gallery are two paintings by German artist Otto Stein that tell a complex and mysterious story of a family’s desperate flight from Nazi Germany. One painting was left in Germany — traded for a life-saving visa to Switzerland, while the other accompanied a German Jewish family, the Engelbergs, in their eventual immigration to the United States. After an international search in 2016 the two paintings on view at OJMCHE, both haunting, dusky portraits of an unknown young woman, were brought together.
Oct
24
Tue
Israel Film Series: Teen Night @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Oct 24 @ 7:00 pm

Teen Night: The Golden Pomegranate: Mazal, a Jewish child-bride from Yemen, preserves her religion, culture, family and unique art, amid the harsh, violent conditions of Jerusalem and the Holy Land during the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. A mother of two and a young widow, she supports her family through her skills as a jeweler. She survives the danger and violence of living in the Old City of Jerusalem. She heads a family of extraordinary, unforgettable characters, and grows old with strength and determination, remaining true to her traditions and ideals.

Final film in the MJCC’s  Israeli film series Tuesday nights in October! A discussion will follows the film.

Per film: $8. Member Cost: $5

Film Series Pass: $20, Member Cost: $12

Register: oregonjcc.org/film

In partnership with IJS

Oct
25
Wed
MJCC PDX Business Breakfasts @ Hotel Lucia
Oct 25 @ 7:00 am – 9:00 am
PORTLAND’S MITTLEMAN JCC LAUNCHES 

BUSINESS BREAKFAST SPEAKER SERIES

Business & Community Leaders to Offer 

Insights on Issues Important to Oregon

Offering the Greater Portland community greater
insight on business and social trends impacting the city, the Mittleman Jewish
Community Center
 (MJCC) announces the PDX Business Breakfasts, a series of three
informational and networking breakfasts that will feature local leaders who will share
their insights and visions on the issues facing the Rose City.

“Portland’s growth offers both tremendous opportunities to our business
communities, as well as challenges that are affecting everyone,” said Steve Albert,

executive director of the MJCC.  “We feel it’s important to our constituent base, and to
business leaders as a whole, to help increase awareness of these issues in a comfortable
atmosphere that stimulates dialogue and understanding.”

The first breakfast, to be held October 25th at Hotel Lucia (400 SW Broadway in

downtown Portland) from 7:00 to 9:00 am, will feature barge builders turned
real estate magnates, Jay, Charlene and Jason Zidell of Zidell Marine Corp, who
will discuss how the changing Portland landscape influenced their decision to alter
their course of business.  Tickets are priced at $36; series sponsorships are available.

While the initial series is set for three breakfast events (additional dates and guest

speakers are still being finalized), the MJCC is planning to continue hosting topical
business networking events. “We feel it’s important to gauge the response to these
initial events and then make adjustments for maximum impact moving forward,” said Albert.

For more information on the MJCC or its PDX Business Breakfast Series, please contact

Saul Korin, MJCC development director, at skorin@pjaproud.org or 503.244.0111

Tiny Talkers – Baby Sign Language Classes @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Oct 25 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Sign, Sing & Play (ages 9 months-approximately 2.5)

EACH class offers a chance to learn and discover for you and your child and also includes numerous strategy tips, ideas and specific demonstrations of how to teach certain signs- especially abstract ones which are more challenging to teach without proper guidance.

Registration code: CG103

Register at: www.oregonjcc.org/register

Tiny Talkers – Baby Sign Language Classes @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Oct 25 @ 11:15 am – 12:00 pm

Music, Movement & Signing for preschoolers (ages 2-5)

Little movers and shakers ages 2-5 and their caregivers will sing, dance, hear stories and learn some sign language in this lively interactive class.

Cost: $15/family

Register at: www.oregonjcc.org/registration

Registration code: CG104

OJMCHE Exhibit Tours @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Oct 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
OJMCHE Exhibit Tours @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education | Portland | Oregon | United States
OJMCHE has exhibition tours every Wednesday at 1 pm.
Tours are free with admission and members, of course, can always visit for free. Come early or stay after and enjoy lunch in the museum’s Lefty’s Cafe!
Please join OJMCHE for weekly public tours of the newly reopened museum galleries. Tours last one hour and are lead by museum staff.

Exhibits Feb. 16- May 27

Vedem: The Underground Magazine of the Terezin Ghetto

Vedem Underground examines the literary magazine written by Jewish teens imprisoned at Terezin, a Nazi camp in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. Using pop-art graphics, drawings and paintings, and the prose and poetry, these brave adolescents secretly wrote and illustrated the longest-running underground magazine in a Nazi camp. Vedem (Czech for “In the Lead”) documented their voices with defiance, humor and heartbreak. The exhibition breaks down their 800 original pages and reconstructs them in the form of a contemporary magazine. Curated by Rina Taraseiskey and Danny King.

To Tell The Story: The Wolloch Holocaust Haggadah

On view in the East Gallery: Commissioned by Helene and Zygfryd B. Wolloch, The Holocaust Haggadah is richly illustrated with lithographic prints by David Wander and calligraphy by Yonah Weinreb that link the story of liberation from ancient Egypt to the Holocaust.

Israeli Dancing @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class.

10 week class

No class on 11/22

Register at: www.oregonjcc.org/registration

Registration code: CG 101