Exploding from a small startup school, to filling out our new campus in just a few years, Maayan has shown it is here to stay. For the past eight years, Maayan has proven that combining a high caliber secular education with a Torah true education is a possibility in Portland, OR!
Please join us for our benefit dinner 6 pm Feb. 20th at the MJCC to partner with our mission in shaping tomorrow’s leaders! Proceeds from the evening go directly towards the Maayan scholarship fund.
The evening includes a raffle/auction. Everyprize has its own unique raffle. See a prize you like? Purchase your entries into that raffle. The more tickets you buy to a particular raffle the greater the odds you have to win that prize. The raffles will be drawn at the end of the Maayan Benefit Dinner held at the MJCC on Feb 20.
Maayan is unique. We offer a warm nurturing atmosphere where Jewish children ages 18 mo. – 8th grade and their families of all stripes feel comfortable and welcome regardless of affiliation. Children who receive the Maayan experience cherish their Jewish education and are excited to continue living their lives through the prism of Torah well beyond their years here. Come join the Maayan family and see for yourself!
Film Screening Lies & Miracles: Childhood in a Siberian Labor Camp. Presented in partnership with Congregation Shir Tikvah.
Post screening talk back with the filmmaker, Nancy Margulies and the film’s star, George Landau
Join us for a screening of this timely documentary chronicling the power of living one’s values and discovering the miraculous during the harshest of times. In 1939, World War II broke out as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. About 1.7 million Polish people — targeted for their beliefs and class — were deported to slave labor camps in remote Siberia. More than half didn’t survive. But Mark and Etta Landau, along with their 7- and 9-year-old sons, did.
This is the story that Montana filmmaker Nancy Margulies — George and Henry’s cousin — opens up in the new documentary “Lies and Miracles.” In about 40 minutes, interviews with George Landau and family friend and fellow survivor Irenka Taurek, archival footage and Margulies’ original art skillfully present an experience that drastically changed the course of lives and history.
Israeli Dancing
Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli folk dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class.
Wednesday Evenings,
Dec. 26 – Feb. 27
Cost: $100 Members + Guests.
Drop-in Fee: $15 per class.
Registration information: CG105, oregonjcc.org/registration
Seniors and young families enjoy an inter-generational celebration of stories and songs each Thursday.
Join Kim Schneiderman for this weekly inter-generational story hour for young families with music, PJ Library books, and the residents of Cedar Sinai Park.
Come study and discuss the Bible with Rabbi Isaak at Neveh Shalom.
INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM CLASS
Winter/Spring 2019 Session begins January 17. This 18-week course is taught by members of The Oregon Board of Rabbis, representing a variety of Jewish affiliation. A carefully constructed curriculum includes Jewish history, life cycle events, holidays, ritual and daily practice, theology, study of Torah and contemporary Jewish America. While not a conversion class, most OBR members consider it a prerequisite for students beginning study for conversion. Classes 7-9 pm, Thursdays, at rotating Portland area synagogues, course fee $360 includes class materials. Register online or contact JoAnn Bezodis, Class Facilitator, at 971-248-5465, or by email at info@oregonboardofrabbis.org. Website: http://oregonboardofrabbis.org/introduction-to-judaism-class/
Education Administrator
Welcome Shabbat with Congregation Neveh Shalom’s Rabbi Eve Posen with music and stories. Potluck dinner to follow. Contact Rabbi Eve Posen for location: eposen@nevehshalom.org
Co-sponsored by PJ Library.
Young children (0-5) and their parents celebrate Shabbat with singing, movement, blessings, and storytelling. We will touch on the main highlights of the Shabbat service: wonder, fun, song, listening to the world, dancing, and Torah. Afterward we will enjoy an informal oneg nosh and the chance to play and schmooze. Please RSVP here.
Chag Purim Sameach
Happy Purim!
The CST Sisterhood Needs Your Help This Year!
Our Sisterhood is about to embark on the annual hamentashen baking and sale. We 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! This is a wonderful, community-building endeavor.
Jobs include: rolling dough, shape balls of fruit, knipping the edges of the hamentashen (the best part!), egg washing, baking, packing and more. It’s great fun, and a great community builder. Everyone is invited to help, including children 12 and over.
Lunch is provided free for all volunteers each day of baking. We have aprons available in our kitchen; feel free to bring your own apron if you’d like. Questions? Email sisterhood@shaarietorah.org.
JAM Art Show + Sale
March is Jewish Arts Month but the show starts in late February! Enjoy a rotating exhibit in the MJCC lobby. Members of ORA: Northwest Jewish Artists will answer questions, accept commissions, and sell their art. A portion of the proceeds benefits the MJCC.