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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.

Dec
8
Sun
Film Club: Fig Tree @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Dec 8 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Film Club: Fig Tree

Sunday, December 8, 4:00-7:00pm

Join the Feldstein Library Film Club for a special screening of the film Fig Tree.

About the film: During the Ethiopian civil war, a Jewish teenager hatches a scheme to keep her Christian boyfriend from being drafted, as she and her family prepare to flee the country and go to Israel.

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.

Apr
12
Sun
Film Club: A Fortunate Man @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Apr 12 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Film Club: A Fortunate Man

Sunday, April 12, 4:00pm

Watch and discuss interesting films with Congregation Neveh Shalom members and other. This film is about a gifted engineer who flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen’s elite, but the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

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.