During the month of April, the MJCC and PJA communities will be collecting Art Supplies for Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP). Items can be dropped off in the blue pin located in the MJCC lobby.
Congregation Neveh Shalom is introducing a periodic program known as our Tefilla Lab. At occasional services and in workshops, we will introduce the community to different melodies, niggunim and other innovations. The goal is to provide a space for experimentation where we can try out what prayer forms might deepen our kehilla’s experiences. Our hope is that some of these experiments will yield results that we can incorporate more regularly into our communal Shabbat spirituality.
Please note: the Tefilla Lab service on April 1 will be the main Shabbat morning service for the congregation.
Join other families for prayer, singing, conversation and fun followed by an indoor picnic style lunch.
Good Deeds Day is an annual celebration of community volunteering that takes place on a Sunday with millions of participants around the world doing good together. Also with a special volunteer opportunity just for 6-12th graders: J-Serve! All projects take place at the MJCC.
Projects available all day and are family friendly!
Pre-registration required at www.jewishportland.org/gooddeedsday
Come and help create traditional burial clothing, which will then be used by the Chevra Kavod haMet for their work. No sewing skills necessary! Sewing machines welcome.
Chronic inflammation can lead to a variety of issues in the body. Eating an anti-inflammatory diet can relieve arthritis and joint pain, clear up skin conditions, help normalize body weight, address digestive issues and improve the quality of your sleep. Learn how easy it can be to change your life through diet by eating clean, whole food.
Instructor: Hilary Conway, Nutritional Therapist
Registration: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT300
An Inspirational Women’s Passover Experience
Monday, April 3rd 6:30pm, Birnbach Hall
Join Rabbi Eve Posen for an intimate evening of insight and inspiration as we gear up for Passover.
This year’s theme is: We were slaves, now we are free.
Delectable appetizers, desserts and wine provided by Ta’eemmm.
$18/person. RSVP: tinyurl.com/WomensPassover5777 or call 503.246.8831
Using examples from her latest novel, Seven Stitches, acclaimed author Ruth Tenzer Feldman will explore the craft of writing fiction and nonfiction and methods for keeping your mind flexible. You are welcome to sit back and listen to the conversation or to join a hands-on workshop on character and points of view.
Community forum and panel discussion on the ongoing events facing our country and the increasing wave of bomb threats received at Jewish institutions.
Steve Goldman, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Branch, FBI
Officer Brian Hubbard, Criminal Intelligence Unit, Portland Bureau of Police
Rabbi David Kosak, Senior Rabbi, Congregation Neveh Shalom
Brian Plinski, Office of Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici
Prof. Steven M. Wasserstrom, Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies and Humanities, Reed College
Billy J. Williams, United States Attorney for the District of Oregon
More speakers may be added after printing
Free and open to the community
Congregation Ahavath Achim, in cooperation with the Sephardic Cultural Center of Oregon, will present the 10th Annual Sephardic Winter Film Series, a compilation of film screenings with Sephardic content, to be shown on the first Tuesday of each month, beginning November 2016 through April 2017. Film screenings are FREE to the public, (a modest voluntary donation is suggested but not required). After each film is screened, a discussion period will follow with a prominent local personality to lead the discussion. A Sephardic dessert and tea will be provided during the discussion period.
Final film:
April 4, 2017
The Ballad of the Weeping Spring. Musical instruments take the place of guns and an Iranian symphony takes the place of a gun fight in this clever, emotional homage to The Magnificent Seven. In this drama, a dying man’s last wish sends his oldest friend, Tawila, on a grand adventure to find the best symphony players around for a final performance of “The Ballad of Weeping Spring.” But will a guilty secret undo all of Tawila’s hard work? Winner of 4 Israeli Academy Awards, plus 5 nominations including Best Film, and winner Best Music at Jerusalem Film Festival.
Hebrew with subtitles, 105 minutes, 2012, Film by Benny Toraty, Discussion speaker: Charles Levy
Films shown FIRST Tuesday of each month at 7PM. Admission & Sephardic dessert are FREE.
Sponsors: Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, National Council of Synagogue Youth (NCSY),
Albert J. & Esther Menashe, Richard & Judi Matza, Charles & Jo Levy, Ron & Pam Sidis, Renee Ferrera,
Eve Stern & Les Gutfreund, Michael Menashe
For information call David 503-892-6634 or jewishfilmportland.org