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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

Oct
26
Thu
IMPACT @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Oct 26 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Federation Women Make an IMPACT!

Women’s Philanthropy welcomes producer, Nancy Spielberg https://www.facebook.com/whowillwriteourhistory/ to present at IMPACT. Women’s Philanthropy provides a place in the Portland Jewish community for all women.  We represent the diversity of women from all ages and stages of life.   Women are thoughtful, powerful and caring as individuals and make a difference when we collaborate and unite…we have IMPACT! Join us October 26 @ 7 pm at the MJCC and make your IMPACT!

Meditations of the Heart with Sarah Rohr @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Oct 26 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join Sarah Rohr on Thursday evenings from 7:30-8:30 at Neveh Shalom as she guides you through physical movements and practices to explore, compliment and exalt your heartfelt prayers. For both beginners and students with experience. $10 sliding scale, a portion of the proceeds will benefit ALIYAH. More info: sarah.e.rohr36@gmail.com

Oct
28
Sat
Bossa PDX @ Christo's Pizzeria
Oct 28 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Enjoy some great pizza and classic bossa nova with Bossa PDX. This outing of the Portland-based Brazilian jazz group will feature Kerry Politzer on keyboard and vocals, Whitney Moulton on electric bass, Ryan Meagher on guitar, and Joe Manis on flute and saxophone.

Jazz musician Kerry Politzer is also a food columnist for Oregon Jewish Life.

Nov
1
Wed
Community Mikvah opens @ Rachel's Well
Nov 1 all-day

Rachel’s Well Community Mikvah officially opens today. Requests to use the mikvah are required four days in advance.

A mikvah is a Jewish sacred space designed to support Jewish ritual life and personal transitions.
As a community mikvah, Rachel’s Well welcomes both traditional and contemporary immersions. Rachel’s Well is a project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland in partnership with the Oregon Board of Rabbis. Scheduling, memberships and general information is available on the federation’s website.

Tiny Talkers – Baby Sign Language Classes @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Nov 1 @ 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