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Introduction to Judaism Course @ various local synagogues

Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

This 18-week course is taught by members of The Oregon Board of Rabbis, representing a variety of Jewish affiliations. 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.

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Fourth Fridays with Congregation Neveh Shalom’s Rabbi Eve (age 0-6) @ Contact Rabbi Eve for location

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Oct 26 @ 5:15 pm

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.

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Celebration of Art @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center: Ballroom

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Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Join us for a fun and exciting evening that brings together ORA’s talented artists, plus free food and beverage tastings. Be the first to preview and purchase the artists’ new and affordable art, including photography, fabric, fused and stained glass, jewelry, paintings, pencil drawings, pottery, wood, sculpture, quilts and more. You can purchase art before the main event on Sunday the 28^th.

Co-sponsored by MJCC, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, and ORA:Northwest Jewish Artists

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Celebration of Art @ Mittleman Jewish Communnity Center:Ballroom

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Oct 28 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm

You won’t want to miss the 13^thAnnual art exhibit and sale in the MJCC Ballroom. Hosted by ORA – Northwest Jewish Artists, the only arts organization devoted to promoting art created by Jewish artists in Oregon and Washington. Perfect for Chanukah (December 2^nd) and hostess needs.

Co-sponsored by the MJCC, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, and ORA:Northwest Jewish Artists

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Tue

Get Fit Israeli Dance @ Congregation Neveh Shalom

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Oct 30 @ 9:15 am – 10:15 am

Get Fit Israeli Dance with Dorice Horenstein

Tuesdays, Oct. 9-Dec. 11 (no class Nov. 20)

Weekly beginning and intermediate level Israeli dance class helps you get in shape, learn new moves, and listen to fun, Israeli music.

$90 for 9 weeks or $12/week drop-in. Contact JoAnn at: jbezodis@nevehshalom.org

9:15 am: Beginning Level—learn Israeli dance steps for novice dancers, lower impact workout.
10:15 am: Intermediate Level—for those familiar with basic Israeli dance and ready for higher impact workout.

Infant Feeding Support Group @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Oct 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Infant Feeding Support Group

Connect with other nursing parents to share the joys and challenges of breastfeeding. Join the group if you are breastfeeding, formula feeding, pumping, bottle feeding or supporting a breastfeeding parent. Get answers from Lara Greenberg, a board certifed lactation consultant (IBCLC). Healthy snacks and activities for older siblings provided. Five people needed to run class.

Tuesdays,
October 30, November 6, 13, 27. NO CLASS: November 20

Cost: $20 Members + Guests.
Drop-in: $6 per class

Registration information: CG106, oregonjcc.org/registration

Mah Jongg for Beginners @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Oct 30 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Mah Jongg for Beginners

Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!

Registration Information: CG101, oregonjcc.org/registration

Cost: $100. Member Cost: $85.

Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Oct 30 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players

Take your game to the next level!

Registration Information: CG102, oregonjcc.org/registration

Cost: $100. Member Cost: $85.

Israel Film Series @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Oct 30 @ 7:00 pm

Israel Film Series

Calling all filmgoers! Join us for an array of Israeli films focusing on the topic of homelessness. A discussion with Q&A will follow each film, please see film details for specifics. Films to be announced soon!

Lost Boys of Portlandia
Wednesday, October 10
7:00 pm

Meet local Israeli filmmaker, Nili Yosha and Executive Director for Outside the Frame. In a riff on Peter Pan, homeless youth of Portland debate if and how to return to mainstream society while creating their own film version of the iconic story.

Diplomat
Tuesday, October 16
7:00 pm

The Hotel Diplomat in Jerusalem was once a five-star hotel. For nearly 20 years it is home to 600 immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Never having integrated into Israeli society, its residents have created their own little island, secluded from the outside world.

Zrubavel
Tuesday, October 30
7:00 pm

The personal dramas of the immigrant Zrubavel family and the universal intergenerational cultural struggles that come with assimilation are depicted in this first feature film made by Ethiopian Israelis.

Purchase tickets at oregonjcc.org/film

In partnership with the Institute for Judaic Studies

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Oregon Jewish Voices @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

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Oct 30 @ 7:30 pm

Started in 1999, this annual event features readings by prominent Oregon Jewish poets and writers. The writers in the 2018 program, who span a range of genres will share selections from their work in OJMCHE’s auditorium. This year’s writers are Ken Gordon, Tracy Prince, Donna Prinzmetal, Joshua Safran, and Hillary Tiefer. The curator and founder of this annual event Willa Schneberg is the emcee for the evening.

Started in 1999, this annual event features readings by prominent Oregon Jewish writers. The five writers in the 2018 program, who span a range of genres including fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and essays, will share selections from their work in OJMCHE’s auditorium.

This year’s featured writers: 

Ken Gordon is the owner of Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen, a pioneering artisan Jewish delicatessen with two locations in Portland, Oregon, and one at Portland International Airport. Ken opened the first location in 2007 in response to the Pacific Northwest’s lack of the food he grew up with in his native New York City. He is partly responsible for a resurgence in the U.S. of the Jewish deli. Though self-acknowledged as a non-religious Jew, he feels that opening a Jewish delicatessen in Portland more than makes up for it. He wrote a health and fitness column for The Oregonian.

Tracy J. Prince, PhD, is an Affiliated Research Professor at PSU’s American Indian Teacher Program. She is the author of Portland’s Goose Hollow and Culture Wars in British Literature(with a chapter on British Jewish writers) and co-author of Portland’s Slabtown and Notable Women of Portland. She has spent over two decades teaching and writing about race, gender, and social equity issues in humanities, urban studies, and English departments in Turkey, Canada, and the U.S. and has spent research time in England, Australia, South Africa, and France. She is currently working on Might Oughta Keep Singin’, a book about the music of the South.

Donna Prinzmetal is a poet, psychotherapist, and teacher. She often uses writing to facilitate restoration and healing in her psychotherapy practice. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Prairie Schooner, The Comstock Review, The Cincinnati Review, and The Journal. Her first book, Snow White, When No One Was Looking, was published with CW Books in May of 2014.

Joshua Safran is an Orthodox Jew, author, attorney, and nationally recognized advocate for survivors of domestic violence. His memoir, Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid  (Hachette), about his childhood on the dark side of the Age of Aquarius, was called a “beautiful, powerful memoir . . . reminiscent of David Sedaris’s and Augusten Burroughs’s best work: introspective, hilarious, and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly starred review). His legal odyssey to free an incarcerated survivor of domestic abuse from prison was featured in the award-winning documentary Crime After Crime. Safran’s essays have been published in Salon, The Daily Beast, Utne Reader, and Huffington Post, and his story has been heard on the BBC, NPR, PBS, PRX, CBS, and Authors at Google.

Although originally from the East Coast, Hillary Tiefer considers herself an Oregonian. She has a PhD in English and is a former college professor. Her short stories have been published in several journals, among them: Descant, Blue Moon Literary and Art Review,Grey Sparrow Journal, Mission at Tenth, Poetica Magazine, Red Rock Review, and Juxtaprose Literary Magazine. Lily’s Home Front is her debut novel.

Willa Schneberg is a poet, visual artist, curator, and psychotherapist in private practice. She has authored five poetry collections, including In The Margins of The World, recipient of the Oregon Book Award, and her latest volume, Rending the Garment. In February of 2018, she served as a poet-in-residence in Kathmandu. She founded and curates Oregon Jewish Voices with Judy Margles. This is the 19th season, and Willa will emcee this year’s event.

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