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Mar
22
Fri
Hike Israel with TBS @ Israel
Mar 22 @ 9:24 pm – Mar 29 @ 10:24 pm
Temple Beth Sholom of Salem,  has initiated this trip that will be operated by the Israel Experts tour company. We extend an invitation to congregations throughout the Pacific Northwest to join the trip.
What: An eight-day hiking tour of the Israel National Trail/Shvil Israel. Each day we shall hike four to seven miles. The last hike will be a 10-miler. Our walks will include the Negev, the central portion of the Trail, and the Galilee.  We shall hike part of the Golan trail on Day 7 and bird watching on Day 9 in Hula Lake, in the upper Galil during the migration season. We shall be accommodated in hotels with an option to camp out on two of the evenings.
When: March 22-30, 2019. This corresponds to Spring break for Oregon’s school districts.
Misc: $2020 for a group of 20 will include food, accommodation, transport, guide service, and two group airport transfers. Transportation to and from Israel is not included. Participants are responsible for obtaining their own transportation to and from Israel.
A more detailed description and link to the trip’s YouTube channel may be found at https://israelexperts.formstack.com/forms/hiking_trip.
Mar
24
Sun
Salem: Intro to Judaism @ Temple Beth Sholom
Mar 24 @ 11:00 am

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.

“Go Beyond Pinot” Wine Tasting at Cellar 503 benefiting the MJCC @ Cellar 503 Tasting Room
Mar 24 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Go Beyond Pinot Oregon Wine Tasting

Taste at least six different wines, enjoy snacks, and receive detailed descriptions of each wine to take home. Provided by Carrie Wynkoop of Cellar 503
Sunday, March 24, 2019 | 5 – 7 pm
Cellar 503 Tasting Room, 4407 SW Corbett Avenue, Portland
Cost: $40/person

Mar
25
Mon
Spring Break Theater Camps @ NW Children's Theater & School
Mar 25 – Mar 29 all-day

Spring Break Theater Camps: Half and full day camps from NW Children’s Theater & School. Mythology Busters, Musical Mash-ups, and more options.

Partners Portland @ MJCC Cafe
Mar 25 @ 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/

Mar
26
Tue
Mah Jongg for Beginners @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Mar 26 @ 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.

Register: oregonjcc.org/registration

Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Mar 26 @ 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.

Register: oregonjcc.org/registration

MJCC Author Series @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Mar 26 @ 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.
Mar
27
Wed
Israeli Dancing @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Mar 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli dance class. All levels welcome.
Six people needed.
Wednesdays
March 27 – June 26
No class 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/22 due to holidays
7:00 – 8:00 pm, CG300
Cost: $100 Members + Guests

Register: oregonjcc.org/registration

Rosellen Brown, introduced by Elinor Langer @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Mar 27 @ 7:00 pm

Rosellen Brown has published eleven books – novels, short stories, poetry, essays – and has lived in almost as many places – New York, Boston, San Francisco, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Texas and, currently, Chicago. At this event Brown will read from her newest novel, The Lake on Fire, published in October 2018 to rave reviews. After many years on the faculty of the University of Houston and more than a dozen summers leading the Spoleto (Italy) Writers’ Workshop, Rosellen Brown now teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Elinor Langer is the author of Josephine Herbst (1983) and A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in the United States (2003), which grew out of an issue-length report for The Nation in 1990.