Sun, Nov 10, 9am-12pm brunch and talk
The Forever Letter Writing Experience
Connect with ourselves and those we love, as we learn to share our stories and write as we would like to be heard. You don’t have to be a writer. You don’t have to love to write or know who you are writing to. Show up and be yourselves. Bring your favorite pad, pen, or notebook, and we will provide brunch.
Complimentary brunch provided with RSVP.
RSVP at: nevehshalom.org/scholar-in-residence
or contact: receptionist@nevehshalom.org, 503.246.8831. Seating is limited.
About Rabbi Elana Zaiman
Rabbi Elana Zaiman, the author of The Forever Letter is the first woman Rabbi from a family spanning six generations of Rabbis. She’s also a chaplain and travels throughout the US and Canada as a Scholar-in-Residence, speaker and workshop facilitator.
Through empowering stories, sample letters and writing tips, Rabbi Zaiman serves as our guide on a journey into Forever Letters, what they are, why write them, and how they can deepen, heal and uplift our relationships.
Elana lives with her husband and son in Seattle.
“More than any time in our recent history, it’s critically important for families to come together and share their love and support of one another. Elana Zaiman’s The Forever Letter offers tools, guidelines, and examples for grandparents and parents to share their love, respect, and values with the next generation.”
–Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul
This event, including all meals, is underwritten by the Stan and Ethel Katz Briller Jewish Education Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation and the Yoni Suher Fund of Congregation Neveh Shalom.
** This event, including all meals, is underwritten by the Stan and Ethel Katz Briller Jewish Education Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation and the Yoni Suher Fund of Congregation Neveh Shalom. **
Please note: Programs are subject to change; please contact the office for more information: 503.246.8831 or visit the website at: www.nevehshalom.org.
Outside In Cooking
Sunday, Nov 10, Dec 8, 12:00-2:00pm
Meet in the Congregation Neveh Shalom Kitchen to do a mitzvah and help feed homeless teens.
Info: Rick Botney, 8888octopus8888@gmail.com.
Please note: Programs are subject to change; please contact the office for more information: 503.246.8831 or visit the website at: www.nevehshalom.org
This event is free with museum admission.
Featuring music by Leonard Bernstein with a special guest appearance and remarks by Bernstein’s daughter Jamie Bernstein.
BRAVO transforms the lives of underserved youth through intensive orchestral music instruction emphasizing collaboration, promoting self-confidence, and creating a community where children thrive. Inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela, BRAVO will establish in Oregon a network of youth orchestras for social change serving both urban and rural communities with a high concentration of poverty.
Jamie Bernstein is an author, broadcaster, filmmaker and concert narrator. In addition to writing her many articles and concert narrations, Jamie travels extensively, speaking about music as well as about her father, Leonard Bernstein. Jamie’s film documentary, “Crescendo: the Power of Music” has won numerous prizes, and is now viewable on iTunes. Jamie’s memoir, Famous Father Girl, was published by HarperCollins in June of 2018, and was released in paperback in June 2019. More about Jamie’s multifaceted life can be found on her website: jamieberns
Veterans Day Middle School Reach for the Sky
November 11, 8AM-6PM
Let your middle schooler run, jump, and reach for the sky at Sky High, Portland’s premier indoor trampoline park! Other surprises await your campers with our very own daring BB Camp Escape Room in the afternoon!
Transportation Drop Off/ Pick Up Locations:
The Camp Office 9400 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy #200, Beaverton OR 97005
Drop Off: 8:00am-8:30am
Pick Up: 5:30pm-6:00pm
The Hollywood Fred Meyer 3030 NE Weidler St, Portland, OR 97232
Drop Off: 8:00am-9:00am
Pick Up: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Cost:
$65/per Camper
$45 /per Camper with More Friends = More Fun Discount
(BRING A FRIEND that is new to BB Camp and receive a discount off of the event registration fee for your child and their friend!)
Register at https://bbcamp.org/veterans-day-middle-school-reach-for-the-sky-event/
For more information please contact Jacson Lee at jlee@bbcamp.org (503) 496-7449
Youth Zoo Hunt
Veterans Day, November 11, 8AM-6PM
Let your K-5th graders get in touch with their wild side when BB Camp takes them for a fun filled day at the world famous Oregon Zoo! Exciting activities include scavenger hunts (with a BB Camp twist), exhibit activities, and fun with friends!
Transportation Drop Off/ Pick Up Locations:
The Camp Office 9400 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy #200, Beaverton OR 97005
Drop Off: 8:00am-8:30am
Pick Up: 5:30pm-6:00pm
The Hollywood Fred Meyer 3030 NE Weidler St, Portland, OR 97232
Drop Off: 8:00am-9:00am
Pick Up: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Cost:
$65/per Camper
$45 /per Camper with More Friends = More Fun Discount
(BRING A FRIEND that is new to BB Camp and receive a discount off of the event registration fee for your child and their friend!)
Register at https://bbcamp.org/veterans-day-youth-zoo-hunt-event-registration/
For more information please contact Alex Mansfield at amansfield@bbcamp.org (503) 496-7449
Fun Days off from School
Need something for your kids to do during school breaks? Keep them busy and having fun at the MJCC with sports, swimming, gymnastics, arts and crafts, games, and more! Kids must be potty-trained. Registration open now!
Ages 3-11
Half-Day: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm, Cost: $33. Member Cost: $28
Full-Day: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm, Cost: $60. Member Cost: $50
All campers must be fully potty trained. No exceptions.
We welcome campers from 8:00 – 9:00 am + begin programming at 9:00 am. For half-day campers, check out is at 1:00 pm.
For full-day campers, check out begins at 4:00 pm
and will continue through 5:30 pm.
Schedule for Vacation Day Camp
2019-20 – Register Today!
Oct. 1, 11, 14, 21, 22
Nov. 1, 11, 25, 26, 27
Dec. 23, 26, 27, 30, 31
Jan. 2, 3, 17, 20, 27
Feb. 17
March 13, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
April 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
May 8, 21, 22, 29
Full day: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Half day: 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Contact Carli Rosenthal at 503.452.3436.
Find Your Future Workshop
Organize Yourself for Success: For Grades 5 – 8 and 9 – 12 NEW!
Help your student start the school year off right by learning new study skills to maximize their efficiency and decrease stress. Focus on time management, prioritization, goal setting, and binder organization. This motivation-based approach builds students’ academic confidence and organizational skills. Instructor: Tina-Marie Baskin
SESSION 1, FOR BOTH GROUPS OF YOUTH GRADES 5 – 8 AND 9 -12 HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
For Youth Grades 5 – 8
Session II: Mondays
October 21, 28, November 4, 11
4:00 – 5:15 pm, SI102B
Cost: $56. Member Cost: $48.
For Youth Grades 9 – 12
Session II: Tuesdays
October 29, November 5, 12, 19
4:00 – 5:15 pm, SI103B
Cost: $56. Member Cost: $48.
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration
Soup to the Streets
Monday, Nov 11, Dec 9, 6:00-9:00pm
Congregants come together at Rabbi Kosak’s home to prepare a hot meal and go to the streets to directly feed those that need it the most.
contact: lrichmond@nevehshalom.org To RSVP for address and to donate food supplies
Please note: Programs are subject to change; please contact the office for more information: 503.246.8831 or visit the website at: www.nevehshalom.org.
A Talk with Jamie Bernstein on her memoir Famous Father Girl, a memoir of growing up Bernstein in conjunction with the exhibition Bernstein at 100 and Jewish Book Month. The book won several awards as Best Book of 2018. “The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir.”
About Jamie Bernstein
Jamie Bernstein is a writer, narrator, broadcaster and film maker who has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her knowledge and excitement with others.
Inspired by her father Leonard Bernstein’s lifelong impulse to share and teach, Jamie has devised multiple ways of communicating her own excitement about orchestral music. Beginning 15 years ago with “The Bernstein Beat,” a family concert about her father’s music modeled after his own groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts, Jamie has gone on to design, write and narrate concerts for worldwide audiences of all ages about the music of Mozart, Copland, Stravinsky, and many others.
Jamie travels the world as a concert narrator, appearing everywhere from Beijing to London to Vancouver. A frequent speaker on musical topics, Jamie has presented talks around the world, from conferences in Japan to seminars at Harvard University. In Spanish-speaking locations such as Madrid, Sevilla, and Caracas, Jamie narrates en español – thanks to her Chilean-born mother, Felicia Montealegre, who raised her children to be bilingual.
In her role as a broadcaster, Jamie has produced and hosted shows for radio stations in the United States and Great Britain. She has presented the New York Philharmonic’s live national radio broadcasts, as well as live broadcasts from Tanglewood.
Jamie is the co-director of a film documentary, Crescendo: the Power of Music — which focuses on children in struggling urban communities who participate in youth orchestra programs for social transformation inspired by Venezuela’s groundbreaking El Sistema movement. The film has won numerous prizes on the festival circuit, and is now viewable on iTunes. More about Crescendo: the Power of Music can be found at http://www.crescendofilmdoc.com
Jamie has also directed her father’s chamber opera, Trouble in Tahiti, in various locations around the country, including the Moab Music Festival, Festival del Sole in Napa, CA, and last summer at Tanglewood.
Jamie’s memoir, Famous Father Girl, was published by HarperCollins in June of 2018, as the Leonard Bernstein centennial celebrations were at their peak all around the world. The paperback was released in June of 2019.
Jamie also writes articles and poetry, which have appeared in such publications as Symphony, DoubleTake, the Nation, Opera News, and Musical America. She also edits “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter about issues and events pertaining to her father’s legacy.
More about Jamie’s multifaceted life can be found on her website: jamiebernstein.net
MJCC Author Series Events 2019-2020
Film Screening and Conversation with Author Aimee Ginsburg Bikel
Join us for an engaging evening featuring a screening of legendary Theodore Bikel’s z”l critically acclaimed documentary film, In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem, followed by a lively audience discussion with Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, widow of Theo, and Director of The Theodore Bikel Legacy Project.
Monday, October 28
7:00 pm
Cost: $10. MJCC Member Cost: $8.
Register: oregonjcc.org/bikelfilm
Co-sponsored by the Kostiner Cultural Education Fund and Portland State University’s Judaic Studies Department
Talk with Jamie Bernstein
Join us for a talk with Jamie Bernstein on her memoir, Famous Father Girl, in conjunction with the exhibition Bernstein at 100! and Jewish Book Month. Jamie Bernstein is a writer, narrator, broadcaster, and filmmaker who has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her knowledge and excitement with others.
Monday, November 11
7:00 pm
OJMCHE Members Cost: $12.
General Public Cost: $15.
Register: ojmche.org/tickets/a-talk-with-jamie-bernstein
Held at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Organized by the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education with support from the Mittleman Jewish Community Center and Institute for Judaic Studies
SAVE THESE AUTHOR SERIES DATES FOR 2020!
January 15 – Josh Frank
May 5 – Yousef Bashir
Check back for more details, soon to come!