A Humanistic Spin on the Festival of Lights, with Dreidel Spinning, Singing, Group menorah lighting with all the flames ABLAZE, Jelly doughnuts, and Latkes, Latkes, Latkes!!!!! (Our dreidels are always playful, we love to dance and spin, a happy celebration, come join us, if you can.
Havdalah In Pajamas With Rabbi Eve Posen
Saturday, December 12, 5:30pm, Birnbach Hall, Congregation Neveh Shalom
Join Young families at Congregation Neveh Shalom for a fun night in pajamas! Enjoy a kid friendly dinner, Havdalah, crafts and a milk and cookie story time. What wacky pajamas will Rabbi Eve wear? Find your favorite footies (adults too!) and get ready for the perfect family night with wee ones.
Open to all and geared toward families with kids: babies through age 6.
$12 adults, $7 kids, $42 max per family
Tickets here: tinyurl.com/pjhavdec
Co sponsored by Portland PJ Library
Kugel or Keegal? Enter your best recipe in this fun contest and vote for your favorite! Non-kosher entries are accepted.
Entries due: Monday, Dec. 14 at 6:15 pm
Judging/tasting: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
SHALOM SENSATIONS FOR BABIES
FOR YOUR BABY 0-24 MONTHS
Bring your baby to explore their senses!
FREE!
Sessions also on Nov 19 & Dec 17
Time: 2:15-3:15 pm
Shalom Sensations for Babies introduces you and your baby to a world of rich and varied sensory experiences in a creative and enjoyable environment to encourage learning and development.
Shalom Sensations gives your child a rich sensory experience and for you to meet other Jewish parents. Through the many activities, your baby will explore through their senses (e.g. visual, auditory and tactile) and discover inner peace (Shalom). By enhancing physical contact (massage, touching, cuddling, rocking and climbing) your baby will develop confidence and a build a positive parent-child connection. Early experiences with a variety of sensory activities promote the development of language, social emotional and physical skills.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE
PLEASE RSVP HERE
FOR QUESTIONS OR MORE INFORMATION,
EMAIL ESTHER FISCHER AT EFISCHER@MAAYANPDX.ORG
WANT TO DO SHABBAT BUT HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN WHO FALL ASLEEP EARLY?
Congregation Shaarie Torah & PJ Library Present:
A Little Shabbat at Shaarie Torah
Join Rabbi Josh Rose and Dorice Horenstein for a lively Shabbat full of singing, greeting, stories, eating and new friends. Come welcome Shabbat together with our young community. Appropriate for families with children in preschool, 2 years and older.
Free and open to all, no prior knowledge/Hebrew required
Interfaith families welcome!
3rd Friday of the Month
5-6:30 pm
Come add your voice to the chorus of voices at Shaarie Torah as we welcome Shabbat together. Spirited singing, prayers in Hebrew and English, raucous noise and peaceful silence – everything you need to open the gates of Shabbat
Every fourth Friday of the month. A wonderful oneg will follow!
FREE Childcare provided!!!
Arts and crafts, games, bouncy house, dancing, snacks, pool float, and count down to 2016 at Noon! Free!
12:30 – 2:00 pm, Pool Float Party
“Women in Torah”
Mondays, Feb. 22 & 29; March 7, 14 & 28; April 4 & 18; May 2, 9 & 16
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Register at RSVP@havurahshalom.org with subject line “Women in Torah” by Feb. 8.
This spring, Havurah member Alicia Jo Rabins will guide us through the complicated lives of ten Biblical women. Alicia’s Women in Torah workshop will use creativity and conversation to explore characters from Eve to Yiftach’s daughter. This is the first full-length pilot course of Alicia’s Girls in Trouble curriculum, created around her critically acclaimed Girls in Trouble song cycle (indie-folk songs about women in Torah).
A poet, violinist, and Torah scholar, Alicia created the one-woman show A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which she performed recently at Disjecta. Her new collection of poems, Divinity School, won the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.
With Alicia’s expertise, we will examine these famous and not-so-famous women in ways that might inspire us in moments of struggle and in the context of our own lives. Each of the ten sessions will explore one woman and is relatively independent of the others within the overarching theme of the course.
–Ruth Feldman
This course is free for Havurah members, $15/class for non-members.
A weekly story hour for young families with music and PJ Library books!