During the month of May, the MJCC and PJA communities will collecting Canned Fruit for Shavuot for Neighborhood House Food Pantry. Items can be dropped off in the blue pin located in the MJCC lobby.
In honor of Shavuot, all children are invited to participate in our “Bikkurim” (fruit) parade and fruit drive. Children bring a decorated basket of fruit to services and are a part of a special parade that culminates with them donating their fruit. Fruit will be donated to Neighborhood House! Join us, this event is open to anyone! The fruit parade will be followed by a delicious dairy Kiddush!
June 2 Marilyn Keller and Ezra Weiss premiering excerpts from our new piece for Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble at the Portland Art Museum.
Event is free with museum admission, which is just $5 after 5 pm.
In this Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble “work in progress” performance and discussion event, vocalist Marilyn Keller and composer/pianist Ezra Weiss perform two songs from the upcoming concert work “From Maxville to Vanport,” featuring text by Renee Mitchell. The writer, singer and composer will speak about the project, and take questions from the audience.
This project, which will culminate in a concert-length composition for the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble to be performed in the spring of 2018, tells a fictionalized but historically accurate narrative about two unique places and moments in Oregon’s history, Maxville and Vanport. These two towns, both with significant multicultural populations at a time when Oregon’s constitution banned black residents, tells a part of the state’s history that deserves to be heard. Gwendolyn Trice, Executive Director of Maxville Heritage, will also be on hand to speak about Maxville, Oregon. This event is co-presented by the Vanport Mosaic and the Oregon Historical Society.
Seating is first come first served. Limited seating available. Admission to the Museum is $5 after 5 PM.
Performance will take place is the Stevens Room
Join other families for prayer, singing, conversation and fun followed by an indoor picnic style lunch.
Join other young families for singing, dancing, stories, indoor picnic-style lunch, and Shabbat fun. Held every 1st and 3rd Saturday in Zidell Chapel.
Andrew Forgang, Neveh Shalom congregant and owner of restaurants Little Bird and Le Pigeon, will speak about the restaurant business. Includes a free brunch for members of Men’s Club. $5 donation requested from others.
Join the Wondering Jews community for an enjoyable trip to Bob’s Red Mill. Please send RSVPs to Daniela Meltzer at dmeltzer@nevehshalom.org.
“We invite our community to help us celebrate a new beginning” at the Cedar Sinai Park Annual Meeting.
Come early (6:30 pm) for a tour of the new Harold Schnitzer Center for Living. then attend the annual meeting to honor Toinette Menashe and Eddy Shuldman, and to welcome the new trustees on the Board of Directors. Enjoy a performance by the RSM Choir and a buffet of sweets and savories.
Sculpt your body with this new class that combines powerful yoga poses with light weights, therabands and exercise balls to increase strength, tone muscles, and improve flexibility.
Instructor: Tara Atkinson
Wednesdays, April 5 – June 7
Register: oregonjcc.org/registration Code: FIT308
Borders define and divide us. They can be sites of conflict, and they can be meeting places, where love, compassion, and kindness arise. Think of the threshold of a Jewish home, with its mezuzah affixed aslant there reminding us to love . . . and to compromise, to come together in a mutually agreed upon promise or intention, to make one out of two. In this workshop, we’ll look at the way poems by mostly Jewish writers consider borders of all kinds: political, religious, cultural, historical, and linguistic. The poets whose work we’ll consider include Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai and American-Jewish poet Jacquelyn Osherow, American-Israeli Jewish poet Peter Cole, and Palestinian-Israeli poet Taha Muhammad Ali, whose work has been translated by Cole. Our exploration of the work of others will include a variety of contemplative practices as a way of experiencing the poems deeply. We’ll talk about these poems, and then, based on what we notice in their work, we’ll write our own poems and prose exploring one or another of the borders that we as Jews encounter in our lives. I will also share a couple of poems and works of lyrical prose from my new book, Love Nailed to the Doorpost, and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the conclusion of the workshop.
Register: oregonjcc.org/richardchess