Calendar

Sep
20
Wed
Rosh Hashanah with Rabbi Goldie Milgram & Chazan Bruce Morris @ Unity Portland
Sep 20 @ 6:30 pm – Sep 22 @ 4:00 pm

Please celebrate High Holy Days at P’nai Or.
Services will be led by Rabbi Goldie Milgram and Chazan Bruce Morris​.
No charge for seats.

Erev Rosh Hashanah: Wednesday, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m. at Unity of Portland
Rosh Hashanah Day 1: Thursday, Sept 21, 10 a.m. at Unity of Portland
Rosh Hashanah Day 2: Friday, Sept. 22, 10 a.m. at St. Mark
Tashlich and Erev Shabbat Potluck Picnic: Friday, Sept. 22, 5 p.m. at George Rogers Park
Erev Yom Kippur: Friday, Sept. 29, 6:30 p.m. at Unity of Portland
Yom Kippur: Saturday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m. at Unity of Portland
High Holy Day Services will be led by Rabbi Goldie Milgram and Chazan Bruce Morris

Unity of Portland, 4525 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215
St. Mark, 9750 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR 97219
George Rogers Park, 611 S State St, Lake Oswego, OR 97034

 

Rabbi Goldie Milgram is best known as the “rebbe-on-the-road,” for her travels world-wide as a seeker and teacher of Torah and Jewish spiritual practices. “She helps us to bring heart and soul to our involvement in Jewish life.” –Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (זצ”ל)​

Unity of Portland, 4525 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215
St. Mark, 9750 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR 97219
George Rogers Park, 611 S State St, Lake Oswego, OR 97034

Nov
28
Tue
Living While Dying – A Documentary Film by Cathy Zheutlin @ Clinton Street Theater
Nov 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Personal Debut of Living While Dying
A story of life. A story of death. Finding joy in the journey.
Admission by donation, suggested $5-10 
 
Join filmmaker & P’nai Or member Cathy Zheutlin on a journey to discover how to come to terms with mortality.
“Death kept showing up. So I picked up a camera to document my friends with terminal illnesses, and sought the advice of a death walker and Aboriginal elder in Australia. Now death prompts my conversations with my beloved 91-year-old mom. Living while dying is a wholehearted look at vulnerability and courage as baby boomers reclaim the end of life.”
Co-sponsored by P’nai Or of Portland
Sep
20
Thu
“Why commit suicide? After all, ‘Everything he hated was here!’: Philip Roth and Kitaj on Death, Sex, and Love” Roger Porter lectures on Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm

Philip Roth and R.B. Kitaj became good friends in London during the ’80s, and the painter influenced Roth in many ways, especially for the title character of Roth’s greatest novel, Sabbath’s Theater. Roger Porter, Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus, Reed College focuses his lecture on Roth and Kitaj’s shared attitudes, or perhaps those of their characters and their painterly subjects, regarding desire, ecstasy, and the inevitable demise. The title of the lecture is a paraphrase of a quote by the protagonist Sabbath on the last page of Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater.

Mar
10
Sun
Art + Spirit Workshop @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Mar 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Art + Spirit Workshop

Willa Schneberg, poet and ceramic artist, will join us for a two-hour workshop based on poems by Jewish poets that are in part inspired by biblical texts. Discussion, prompts, visualizations and opportunities to write, sketch, move and imagine will be provided.

Cost: $18.
Tickets: oregonjcc.org/art-spirit

In partnership with ORA: Northwest Jewish Artists

Apr
16
Tue
Portland Film Premiere – Chavruta: A Drummer’s Bat Mitzvah @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Apr 16 @ 7:00 pm

Join us for the Portland premiere of this 15-minute documentary short by Jodi Darby. The film follows two Jewish Portland artists, drummer/writer/environmentalist Lisa Schonberg and musician/writer/Jewish educator Alicia Jo Rabins, as they prepare for Lisa’s adult bat mitzvah. The word chavruta refers to the traditional partner-style study of Jewish texts; over the course of one year, the two women delve into a grassroots, feminist, distinctly Portland course of study.

Free, but suggested donation of $5 at the door.

7:00 pm at the MJCC.

Aug
1
Thu
Art + Spirit Workshop: Entering into the Shiviti @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Aug 1 @ 6:30 pm

Art + Spirit Workshop: Entering into the Shiviti

Through the traditional Jewish art form known as the Shiviti, we will study, contemplate and enter into artistic expression. Please bring the medium of your choice — visual and expressive arts, songwriting and composing, sculpture, glass, fabric arts and more. A half-hour talk on the history, mystical practice and examples of traditional and contemporary forms will be followed by Q&A, Shiviti gazing, time to create your own Shiviti art work and debriefing.

Rabbi Dr. Goldie Milgram is an artist, educator, author and spiritual guide honored by the Covenant Foundation and National Jewish Book Council for her innovative programs, books, and resources. Her new book release is Wisdom from Reb Zalman: Embracing the Jewish Spirit (Reclaiming Judaism Press).

Thursday, Aug. 1
6:30 pm

Cost: $18.
Register: oregonjcc.org/artandspirit
In partnership with ORA

Dec
1
Sun
ORA Holiday Art Sale @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Dec 1 – Dec 6 all-day

Looking for a great holiday gift? Local artists from ORA will be in the MJCC lobby all week selling all forms of artwork.
Sunday – Friday, December 1 –  6

Dec
14
Sat
Young Family PJ Havdallah @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Dec 14 @ 5:15 pm – 7:30 pm

Young Family PJ Havdallah

Saturday, December 14, 5:15-7:30pm

Young families say goodbye to Shabbat in our PJs with dinner, stories, art and fun at Congregation Neveh Shalom

$30/family or included with the Shul Pass with RSVP required.

RSVP: nevehshalom.org/pjhavdallah

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

Jan
21
Tue
Film Series: Saving the Dead Sea Documentary @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm

The Dead Sea is dying. Since 1976, its level has dropped more than 100 feet, leaving the coastline pockmarked with thousands of sinkholes. NOVA follows scientists, engineers, and political leaders who have come up with a daring plan.
Tuesday, January 21
7:00 pm

Free and open to the community.
Sponsored by Jewish Federation of Greater Portland

Apr
24
Fri
CNS Family Shabbat Experience at Camp Solomon Schechter
Apr 24 @ 4:00 pm – Apr 26 @ 2:00 pm

CNS Family Shabbat Experience at Camp Solomon Schechter

Friday-Sunday, April 24-26, 2020

Families with children ages 0-3rd grade join together for a fantastic weekend at Camp Solomon Schechter. Together we’ll celebrate Shabbat with family friendly services, activities and games. Adults will have time to relax as well. Located on the beautiful grounds of Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, WA we’ll enjoy the natural surroundings throughout Shabbat.

Pricing includes: shared cabin, Friday dinner, three meals and two snacks on Saturday and a Sunday brunch.

CNS Members & Foundation School Families: Adults: $150 each; Children 5-11: $100/child; Children 2-4: $45/child. Kids under 2: FREE; Max per family: $500.

Non-Members: Adults: $180 each; Children 5-11: $120/child; Children 2-4: $60/child.

Kids under 2: FREE; Max per family: $600.

Scholarships available.

RSVP at: tinyurl.com/CNSFamilyCamp2020.

To help with the planning of our incredible weekend,

or learn about scholarships that are available,

please be in touch with Rabbi Eve: eposen@nevehshalom.org