Now that summer is upon us, let’s go and explore our beautiful city together!
Gresham’s newest park sits on 46 acres on top of Hogan Butte. At the top elevation of 930 feet, take in a stunning panoramic view of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier, the Columbia River Gorge and the city of Gresham. We will be walking the interpretive half mile paved, ADA accessible loop and enjoy lunch in the picnic area with views of the forest!
Details listed below:
- 10am – meet at Neveh Shalom to carpool
- 11:00am – meet in the Hogan Butte parking lot
- 11:15am -12:15pm – walk interpretive paved trail
- 12:15pm – gather for lunch. Please bring your own lunch and drinks with you!
- 1:15 pm – Drive back to Neveh Shalom
Please RSVP by Friday, July 13 so that they know how many people to expect, if you would like to carpool and if you are willing to drive. For questions and to RSVP please contact NEW Membership and Engagement Director, Lindsay von Colditz at 503-239-7313, programs@nevehshalom.org
Author/historian, Sig Unander will highlight the life of Claire Phillips Snyder, the only Oregon woman to ever receive the Medal of Freedom. Claire, a native of Portland, was a stage actress whose espionage and humanitarian work as a guerilla leader during World War II brought her fame and international recognition. Learn about her connection with the Mittleman family. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.
Cost: $5 for guest, Free for Members
Join us for a fun, introductory Israeli dance class. All levels are welcome. Six people needed to run class. The class starts July 11 and continues every Wednesday through Sept. 12.
Cost: $100 Members + Guests.
Drop-in: $15 per class
Registration information: CG402, oregonjcc.org/registration
In the Dance Studio
Kabbalah Meditation with Rabbi David Zaslow
Beginning on Thursday, June 21 from 5-6 pm, Rabbi David Zaslow will teach an introduction class in Kabbalah Meditation. Participants will learn to understand the chakra system in Judaism known as Sefirot. Rabbi David will uncover the secrets of Jewish mysticism in simple and accessible language, and in ways that can benefit daily life. Class will take place on four Thursdays: June 21 and 28, July 12 and 19 from 5-6 pm. Class fee is $30 and pre-registration is requested by calling 541-488-7716. Available via live streaming for those unable to attend in person. The Havurah Synagogue is located at 185 N Mountain Ave., Ashland.
Take a walking tour of South Portland through old Jewish neighborhoods. For 20s, 30s, and 40s.
5:30 pm Happy Hour
6:30 pm Tour Begins
Meets at Lair Hill Bistro
2823 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR 97201
In partnership with OJMCHE, JFGP
From now through September, every Friday night (except 4th Friday) at Congregation Neveh Shalom, you can enjoy our beautiful NW summer evenings singing, praying and schmoozing outside on our upper plaza! If weather doesn’t allow us to be outside, we will meet in the Stampfer Chapel.
Please join Congregation Shaarie Torah for a special Shabbat morning service. At this service, we will include new melodies, explore the service with some reflections on the prayers themselves, and chant according to the Triennial cycle of Torah readings. It will be a mix of the beautiful and familiar traditional Shabbat morning service and new ideas and energy. This service meets in the Chapel downstairs on the third Saturday of the month.
Torah Troop for 3rd-5th Graders
1st and 3rd Shabbat every month at 10:00am
Meet in the MAIN service (Stampfer Chapel or Main Sanctuary) for the beginning of the Torah service, and then come out with your friends for a fun and active lesson on the Torah portion (parsha) of the week. Return to the service to help lead Adon Olam, and join the community for lunch!
Join other young families with kids age 0-5 years at Congregation Neveh Shalom for singing, dancing, stories, indoor picnic-style lunch and Shabbat fun.
Willa Schneberg will read from Rending the Garment, other works, and new poems. Rending the Garment was featured in Oregon Jewish Life in 2014.
Carter McKenzie will be coming from the Eugene area to read with Willa from her strong new collection Stem of Us (Flowstone Press, May 2018).
Willa Schneberg is a poet, visual artist, curator and psychotherapist. 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. Willa has read at the Library of Congress, and has been a fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review; Salmagundi, Poet Lore; Bellevue Literary Review; Before there is Nowhere to Stand: Palestine/Israel Poets Respond to the Struggle and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. In February of 2018, she served as a poet-in-residence in Kathmandu.
Carter McKenzie’s work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems, Canary, Sisyphus, Turtle Island Quarterly, The Berkeley Poets Cooperative: A History of the Times, and the poetry anthology Of Course, I’m a Feminist! She is an active member of the Springfield-Eugene Chapter of SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice). Carter lives in a small community in Western Oregon’s Middle Fork Willamette watershed region, which has been her home for the past twenty-three years. Stem of Us is her second full-length book of poetry.
The American poet Muriel Rukeyser described poems as meeting places: “A poem does invite, it does require. What does it invite? A poem invites you to feel. More than that: it invites you to respond. And better than that: a poem invites a total response.” (Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry, p. 11)