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Feb. 12, 2019
A Woman Called Golda. PART ONE OF TWO. Ingrid Bergman gives her Emmy Award winning performance of one of the most famous women in modern history. From Milwaukie, Wisconsin, she harbored an incredible dream to help the people of Israel build a new homeland. Through hardship, war, and countless sacrifice Golda survived to become Israel’s first female Prime Minister. Her stunning story reminds us of how one person can make a notable difference. An all-star cast of accomplished actors completes this film. English language, 110 minutes, Color, Producer: CBS, 1982. Speaker: TBA
March 5, 2019
A Woman Called Golda. PART TWO OF TWO (also see above). This feature is part two of a continuation of the feature film of Feb 12, 2019. 99 Minutes.
Ingrid Bergman gives her Emmy Award winning performance of one of the most famous women in modern history. From Milwaukie, Wisconsin, she harbored and incredible dream to help the people of Israel build a new homeland. Through hardship, war, and countless sacrifice Golda survived to become Israel’s first female Prime Minister. Her stunning story reminds us of how one person can make a notable difference. An all-star cast of accomplished actors completes this film. English language, 110 minutes, Color, Producer: CBS, 1982. Speaker: David Tver
April 9, 2019
The Women’s Balcony. Discover Israel’s #1 film of the year, featuring a cast of Israel’s biggest stars! An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power. Hebrew Language, 96 minutes, 2016, Produced in Israel, Speaker: Judy Margles
Films shown SECOND Tuesday of each month at 7 PM
ALL SCREENINGS AT: 3225 SW BARBUR BLVD., PORTLAND OR 97239
Sponsors: Jewish Federation, NCSY, Oregon Kosher, Albert J. & Esther Menashe, Richard & Judi Matza, Ron & Pam Sidis, Renee Ferrera, Eve Stern & Les Gutfreund, Michael Menashe
Mel Bochner: Enough Said from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Mel Bochner (b.1940) consistently probes the conventions of painting and language. Bochner’s text-based works will be on view.
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundations, this body of recent works, 2007-2018, challenge audiences to reflect on the nature and structure of everyday language. Curated by Bruce Guenther, adjunct curator for special exhibitions, the exhibition explores language as image and idea through Bochner’s long-held interest in complex printmaking techniques.
“Bochner’s historic use of language and words as both a linguistic system of inquiry and as a formal visual vocabulary of his painting practice has found new focus in the last decade through the artist’s intense engagement with printmaking and his exploration of the relationships of words as image, text, voice and thinking,” says Guenther. “He plumbs English and Yiddish for language’s power to establish identity, to command respect, or to attack in works of unpredictable emotionality and humor.”
“Mel Bochner is one of the most important conceptual artists of our time. His word art makes us smile, laugh, frown and jeer – but always forces us to think,” says Jordan D. Schnitzer. “He seduces us with emotions, words and phrases that we all have used. Whether we laugh or frown experiencing his art, we are forever moved.”
Born in 1940 to an Orthodox family in Pittsburgh, the artist attended Hebrew school and was exposed to art early through his father, who was a sign painter with a workshop in the family’s basement. Displaying an early talent for drawing, Bochner participated in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s innovative children’s art classes, eventually winning a scholarship to Carnegie Melon University.
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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.
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists with social practice artist, Shoshana Gugenheim
Tools for Collaboration: Please bring a laptop and power source & a selected artist about whom you will be writing & reference materials to help you with your entry/edits (details below)
WHAT: OJMCHE in partnership with social practice artist, Shoshana Gugenheim, will host an International Women’s Day Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and/or edit Wiki pages for Jewish women artists. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively enter 18 new Jewish women artists into the canon. Support will be provide by experienced local Wikipedians who will be on site to teach and guide the process. This edit-a-thon will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participants will have an opportunity to select an artist/s ahead of time or on site. Lists of recommended artists and research materials on select Jewish women artists will be provided.
WHY: Gugenheim writes, “As a feminist amidst a growing, even thriving, worldwide community of Jewish feminists and our supporters, I recognize that the global community of women continues to be underrepresented as culture makers and contributors to the canon of cultural history. This is evident across the arts and influences the way women are recognized (or not) in the canons of encyclopedic knowledge. A Wikipedia edit-a-thon for (but not only by) Jewish women artists aims to increase Jewish women artists’ visibility in the Wikipedia archives thereby achieving a broader global impact regarding these women’s important contributions.”
*Pre-registration is preferred but not required. We will have a form for you to fill out soon!
See how Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons are impacting the world one word at a time. A Feminist Edit-a-Thon Seeks to Reshape Wikipedia, The New Yorker.
Learn more about Art + Feminism here.
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
Rabbi Gary Ellison, who was the rabbi at TBS for 11 years, has offered to teach a 10-part class that he offered at Willamette University for all those who feel they would benefit from an introduction to Judaism course.
If you are interested in this course, please contact Rabbi Eli at rabbi@tbsholom.org.
This class will require a serious commitment from students: $200 for TBS members ($300 for non-members) and attendance at all 10 classes. There will be one textbook (Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy, $35 new/$8.50 or more used) required for the course.
Needs-based scholarships will be available upon request.
Class will begin on Sunday, January 27 at 11:00 am.
Art + Spirit Workshop
Willa Schneberg, poet and ceramic artist, will join us for a two-hour workshop based on poems by Jewish poets that are in part inspired by biblical texts. Discussion, prompts, visualizations
and opportunities to write, sketch, move and imagine will be provided.
Cost: $18.
Tickets: oregonjcc.org/art-spirit
In partnership with ORA: Northwest Jewish Artists
Join Congregation Neveh Shalom for a discussion of the book Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman. Afterwards we will screen the film by the same name. Info: kgoldhammer@nevehshalom.org or https://nevehshalom.org/event/pages-and-pixels-call-me-by-your-name/.
Mussar with Rabbi Joshua Rose
Mussar is an approach to self-awareness and personal development that is grounded in deep reflection on Jewish texts and on spiritual practices that guide us toward greater control over our thinking and behaviors.
Mondays: January 14, February 11, March 11
2:30 – 3:25 pm
Free and open to the community.
In partnership with Congregation Shaarie Torah