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Jewish Community Orchestra Young Artist Showcase and Silent Auction @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Silent Auction at 2:00 PM, Concert at 3:00 PM

Turina – La Procession du Rocio. Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No. 1 mvmt. 1, Kira Wang, soloist. Mendelssohn – Violin concerto in e minor, op. 64 mvmt. 1, Ian Song, soloist. Smetana – Three Dances from “The Bartered Bride.” Poulenc – Piano Concerto mvmt. 1, Alyssa Shi, soloist. R achmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, op. 18 mvmt. III, Jenna Tu, soloist.

Tickets are available at the door on the day of the concert.

General Admission: $10
Senior Citizens: $8
Students: $5

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Apr

25

Wed

11th Annual Sara Glasgow Cogan Memorial Lecture with Dr. Timothy Snyder (Yale) @ Porland State University - Smith Ballroom

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Apr 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

What: A public lecture by Timothy Snyder titled “Resisting Tyranny: Lessons from the European 20th Century”
When: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 | Doors open at 7:00pm, Lecture begins at 7:30pm
Where: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom (SMSU 355) NOTE: This location has changed
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact: Stacey Johnston | stacey8@pdx.edu | 503-725-8449

Please join us for the 11th Annual Sara Glasgow Cogan Memorial Lecture “Resisting Tyranny: Lessons from the European 20th Century” featuring Timothy Snyder of Yale University. If you would like to RSVP for this event, each individual may fill out the RSVP form online or contact our office at judaicst@pdx.edu.

This event is made possible thanks to the generous support of Professor Emeritus Nathan Cogan, the Cogan Family, and the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.

Cosponsored by the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, The Oregon Historical Society, The Mittleman Jewish Community Center/Portland Jewish Academy, the Russian Flagship program, and the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project.

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Dec

25

Tue

Chinese Food + a Movie @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Dec 25 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

This program has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Tags: chinese food MJCC movie

Jan

14

Mon

Used Book Collection @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Jan 14 – Mar 15 all-day

Support the MJCC and PJA communities by donating books for our annual Used Book Sale.

Book Collection Drive: January 14 – March 15. Donate your used books to the MJCC. Drop off at the front desk. Need a pickup? Email pjabooksale@gmail.com to schedule pickup. No encyclopedias, please.

The Book Sale will be at the MJCC March 31 – April 2
Free and open to the community.

Tags: book collection drive MJCC PJA used book sale

Feb

17

Sun

Family Flicks – An American Tail @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Feb 17 @ 3:00 pm

Family Flicks – An American Tail

Come to the MJCC for an afternoon of family fun! We will be playing a family classic, An American Tail (Rated G), on the big screen. Popcorn and snacks will be provided.

Cost: $10 per family

Tickets: oregonjcc.org/familyflicks

Tags: all ages american tail family flicks movie

Mar

12

Tue

MJCC Author Series @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Mar 12 @ 6:30 pm

MJCC Author Series

Join us for this thought-provoking program that will bring an exceptional line up of authors and special events to our community.

Guest: $8. Member Cost: $5.

Series Pass: $20. Member: $12.

Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 pm

Mary Morris – Gateway to the Moon

From award-winning novelist and memoirist Mary Morris comes the story of a sleepy New Mexican community that must come to grips with a religious and political inheritance they never expected. Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels The Jazz Palace, A Mother’s Love, and House Arrest, and of nonfiction, including the travel memoir classic “Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone.” She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction.

Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30 pm

Mark Sarvas

A son learns more about his father than he ever could have imagined when a mysterious piece of art is unexpectedly restored to him. Of all the questions asked by Sarvas’s Memento Park – about family and identity, about art and history–a central, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large? Sarvas is the author of Memento Park and Harry, Revised, which was published in more than a dozen countries. His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, Bookforum and many others.

Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 pm

Michael David Lukas

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces–potent magic, forbidden love–that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, which was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and has been published in fifteen languages. A graduate of Brown University, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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Mar

13

Wed

MJCC Author Series – Special Event with Mary Morris @ OSU Foundation

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Mar 13 @ 4:00 pm

Author Mary Morris will read from her latest book, Gateway to the Moon, on Wednesday, March 13 at the OSU Foundation in Corvallis.

Her novel alternates between late medieval Spain and Portugal during the traumatic time of the Inquisition, and a very small town in New Mexico in 1992. The modern New Mexican characters are Catholics with peculiar habits. Nobody in town eats pork but they don’t know why. It is likely they are the descendants of conversos, Jews who converted during the Spanish Inquisition. The story weaves a connecting thread from the Iberian Peninsula to Mexico City and then on to the original settlers who moved into what is now the American Southwest. Five hundred years later, a young amateur astronomer wonders about the secret of the town he grew up in: Entrada de la Luna, or Gateway to the Moon.

Morris’ previous work, The Jazz Palace, won the Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award for important contributions to the understanding of racism in 2016. She also writes short stories and travel memoirs. Her many novels and story collections have been translated into six languages. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

Doors open at 4:00 PM to meet and greet the author. A one-hour author reading and discussion will follow beginning at 4:30 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free.

Co-sponsored by the Beit Am Jewish Community and the MJCC. Grassroots Bookstore will be there with copies of the paperback edition of Gateway to the Moon for sale and author signing.

Tags: author series beit am jewish community free gateway to the moon mary morris MJCC

Mar

19

Tue

MJCC Author Series @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Mar 19 @ 6:30 pm

MJCC Author Series

Join us for this thought-provoking program that will bring an exceptional line up of authors and special events to our community.

Guest: $8. Member Cost: $5.

Series Pass: $20. Member: $12.

Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 pm

Mary Morris – Gateway to the Moon

From award-winning novelist and memoirist Mary Morris comes the story of a sleepy New Mexican community that must come to grips with a religious and political inheritance they never expected. Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels The Jazz Palace, A Mother’s Love, and House Arrest, and of nonfiction, including the travel memoir classic “Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone.” She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction.

Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30 pm

Mark Sarvas

A son learns more about his father than he ever could have imagined when a mysterious piece of art is unexpectedly restored to him. Of all the questions asked by Sarvas’s Memento Park – about family and identity, about art and history–a central, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large? Sarvas is the author of Memento Park and Harry, Revised, which was published in more than a dozen countries. His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, Bookforum and many others.

Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 pm

Michael David Lukas

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces–potent magic, forbidden love–that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, which was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and has been published in fifteen languages. A graduate of Brown University, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Tags: author series MJCC

Mar

26

Tue

MJCC Author Series @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

Tickets

Mar 26 @ 6:30 pm

MJCC Author Series

Join us for this thought-provoking program that will bring an exceptional line up of authors and special events to our community.

Guest: $8. Member Cost: $5.

Series Pass: $20. Member: $12.

Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 pm

Mary Morris – Gateway to the Moon

From award-winning novelist and memoirist Mary Morris comes the story of a sleepy New Mexican community that must come to grips with a religious and political inheritance they never expected. Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels The Jazz Palace, A Mother’s Love, and House Arrest, and of nonfiction, including the travel memoir classic “Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone.” She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in literature and the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction.

Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30 pm

Mark Sarvas

A son learns more about his father than he ever could have imagined when a mysterious piece of art is unexpectedly restored to him. Of all the questions asked by Sarvas’s Memento Park – about family and identity, about art and history–a central, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large? Sarvas is the author of Memento Park and Harry, Revised, which was published in more than a dozen countries. His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, Bookforum and many others.

Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 pm

Michael David Lukas

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces–potent magic, forbidden love–that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, which was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and has been published in fifteen languages. A graduate of Brown University, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Tags: author series MJCC

Mar

31

Sun

Used Book Collection + Sale @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center

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Mar 31 – Apr 2 all-day

Used Book Collection + Sale

Support the MJCC and PJA communities during our annual Used Book Sale. Find thousands of books at great prices!

Book Collection Drive: January 14 – March 15. Donate your used books to the MJCC. Drop off at the front desk. Need a pickup? Email pjabooksale@gmail.com to schedule pickup. No encyclopedias, please.

Book Sale: March 31 – April 2
Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Monday 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Tuesday 8:00 am – 7:00 pm

Free and open to the community.

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