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Purim Festival 2019 @ MJCC

Mar 17 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

COME ONE COME ALL – Annual Purim Festival 2019

Celebrate Purim in style! Enjoy awesome activities, a fun show and a puppet Megillah story.

Magic Show for All Ages, Costume Contest, Indoor Playground, Puppet Show, Craft, Food Drive and Volunteerism, Carnival Booths, Cotton Candy and Purim Storytelling

At the MJCC – 6651 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219

Co-hosted by Portland Kollel, PJ Library, and the MJCC

A Night on Broadway: Neveh Shalom’s Annual Auction 2019 @ Congregation Neveh Shalom

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Mar 17 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATE!

The CNS 2019 Auction will be here before you know it! There are many ways you can be a part of this community-wide effort by purchasing tickets, becoming a sponsor, volunteering, or donating items. All funds raised help sustain our wonderful programming, allow us to provide financial aid, outreach to those in need, and much, much more! For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit: nevehshalom.org/auction2019

or contact programs@nevehshalom.org.

Oregon Botanical Artists Opening Reception @ Rose Schnitzer Manor on the Cedar Sinai Park campus

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Mar 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Cedar Sinai Park and the Oregon Society of Artists cordially invite you to an opening reception celebrating an exhibit of works created by our state’s botanical artists. The focus of this colorful show will be original pieces by members of Oregon Botanical Artists and Oregon Society of Artists students of botanical art. Enjoy refreshments and view Rose Schnitzer Manor’s ongoing involvement with Oregon’s visual arts.

PIFF: Redemption @ Cinema 21

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Mar 17 @ 6:00 pm

Directed by Yossi Madmoni, Boaz Yehonatan Yacov

Israel • 2018 • 104 mins. • In Hebrew with English subtitles

Madmoni and Yacov’s deeply emotional spiritual journey highlights the necessity of family and friends, even if that means painfully coming to grips with one’s past transgressions. Single father Menachem (Moshe Folkenflick), whose daughter Geula (Emily Granin) is diagnosed with cancer, must find a way to pay for costly treatments despite eking out a simple existence without much cash flow. Enter Menachem’s former, marginally popular band, for which he was lead singer. In an effort to raise funds, the band gets back together and rekindles their old fire. But, as the recently-religious Menachem finds out, redemption is not so easily earned in this uplifting yet realistic tale of the bonds that connect us all. Winner, Best Actor, 2018 Karlovy Vary Film Festival; winner, Audience Award, 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival.

Filmography: The Barbecue People (2003), Melanoma My Love (2006), Restoration (2011), A Place in Heaven (2013)

Sponsored by the Institute for Judaic Studies

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Partners Portland @ MJCC Cafe

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Mar 18 @ 7:45 pm – 8:40 pm

Every Monday night, come together and study our heritage and Torah. No matter what background or affiliation, join together and let’s unite!

Come and join, bring a study partner or you can request one at https://portlandkollel.org/partners/

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Mah Jongg for Beginners @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Mar 19 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Mah Jongg for Beginners

Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Tuesday Mornings
March 5 – April 2
10:30 am – 12:30 pm, CG202
Cost: $100. Members: $85.

Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Mar 19 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players

Take your game to the next level and become an expert!
Tuesday Afternoons
March 5 – April 2
1:30 – 3:30 pm, CG203
Cost: $100. Members: $85.

MJCC Author Series @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Mar 19 @ 6:30 pm

MJCC Author Series

Join us for this thought-provoking program that will bring an exceptional line up of authors and special events to our community.

Guest: $8. Member Cost: $5.

Series Pass: $20. Member: $12.

Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 pm

Mary Morris – Gateway to the Moon

From award-winning novelist and memoirist Mary Morris comes the story of a sleepy New Mexican community that must come to grips with a religious and political inheritance they never expected. Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels The Jazz Palace, A Mother’s Love, and House Arrest, and of nonfiction, including the travel memoir classic “Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone.” She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction.

Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30 pm

Mark Sarvas

A son learns more about his father than he ever could have imagined when a mysterious piece of art is unexpectedly restored to him. Of all the questions asked by Sarvas’s Memento Park – about family and identity, about art and history–a central, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large? Sarvas is the author of Memento Park and Harry, Revised, which was published in more than a dozen countries. His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, Bookforum and many others.

Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 pm

Michael David Lukas

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces–potent magic, forbidden love–that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, which was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and has been published in fifteen languages. A graduate of Brown University, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST @ Zidell Hall at Rose Schnitzer Manor on the Cedar Sinai Park Campus

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Mar 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST: A FREE LECTURE SERIES AT ROSE SCHNITZER MANOR

Cedar Sinai Park cordially invites you to join us at Rose Schnitzer Manor for a timely lecture on the Middle East. Rabbi Joshua Stampfer, Rabbi Emeritus at Nevah Shalom, will speak on the topic “How Israel Was Created.” He will talk about the forces that led to the decision by the United Nations to establish a State of Israel, the tactics that were used in the war and how Israel succeeded in winning.

Story Swap, Stories of Resistance @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

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Mar 19 @ 7:00 pm

Mike Murawski, Portland Art Museum and Judy Margles, OJMCHE and Bobbin Singh, the Oregon Justice Resource Center and Erin McKee, co-founder of the OJRC and the Co-Director of our Immigrant Rights Project.

Everyone loves a good story and in 2019 with the help of storyteller Cassandra Sagan, Maggid-Educator, OJMCHE is going to be storytime headquarters. Cassandra will be working with community members from across cultural and social service agencies to polish their stories for sharing and the audience will also have the opportunity to share in an open mic segment. The series includes Immigration Stories, Family Stories, and Stories of Resistance.

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