Calendar

Sep
13
Thu
Brown Bag Lunch Conversation with Professor Steven Wasserstrom @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Sep 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

A Conversation with Professor Steven Wasserstrom, Moe & Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies and Humanities, Reed College about Holocaust denial and the limits of free speech.

The OJMCHE series of informal lunchtime conversations with scholars, museum professionals, historians, and others. Bring a lunch or buy a brown bag lunch in Lefty’s Cafe and join us in the museum’s auditorium for a lively give and take as we share and explore ideas, experience, and expertise.

Oct
5
Fri
Brown Bag Lunch: Eli’s Town @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Oct 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Join photographer Elliot Burg as we discusses his photographs on view in the East Gallery (starting Oct 4). In early 2017, photographer Elliot Burg decided to seek out and capture images of the place in Eastern Europe where his Jewish grandfather and namesake Eli (pronounced “Ellie”) had come from. The exhibition is the story of that journey.

OJMCHE kicks off a series of informal lunchtime conversations with scholars, museum professionals, historians, and others. Bring a lunch or buy a brown bag lunch in Lefty’s Cafe and join us in the museum’s auditorium for a lively give and take as we share and explore ideas, experience, and expertise.

Nov
8
Thu
Brown Bag Lunch Discussion with Rosalyn Kliot @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Nov 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

This month featuring Speaker’s Bureau member Rosalyn Kliot, who will share her story, from origins in Vilna and Lodz, to life in Oregon today. This event is part of the 2018 Portland Jewish Book Month series on David Fishman’s The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis.

The OJMCHE series of informal lunchtime conversations. Bring a lunch or buy a brown bag lunch in Lefty’s Cafe and join us in the museum’s auditorium for a lively give and take as we share and explore ideas, experience, and expertise.

Dec
2
Sun
Chanukah Donuts + Dancing @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Dec 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Hanukkah Donuts + Dancing

Make decorations for your home, take part in Israeli dancing, and eat some delicious sufganiot (jelly donuts) at this family-friendly Hanukkah celebration.

Cost: $10 per family.

Register: oregonjcc.org/donuts

Dec
4
Tue
Brown Bag Lunch: Ghetto Gardens @ Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Dec 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

The OJMCHE series of informal lunchtime conversations. Bring a lunch or buy a brown bag lunch in Lefty’s Cafe and join us in the museum’s auditorium for a lively give and take as we share and explore ideas, experience, and expertise.

Join Kenneth Helphand, Philip H. Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture Emeritus University of Oregon, for a talk on Ghetto Gardens in conjunction with our current exhibition. The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz offers an extraordinary rare glimpse of life inside the Lodz Ghetto through the lens of Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross.

It seems improbable, but gardens were made in the ghettos of Lodz, Warsaw, Kovno and more. Based on research in Poland, Israel and the US this illustrated talk speaks about the creation and meaning of these gardens based on the first person accounts of their creators and witnesses. The talk is based on material in Helphand’s award winning book Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. The OJMCHE Brown Bag lunch is a series of informal lunchtime conversations. Bring a lunch or buy a brown bag lunch in Lefty’s Cafe and join us in the museum’s auditorium for a lively give and take as we share and explore ideas, experience, and expertise.

 

Dec
12
Thu
Dad’s Night Out – Chanukah @ Congregation Neveh Shalom
Dec 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Dad’s Night Out – Chanukah

Thursday, December 12, 7:30-9:30pm

Planned by a group of guys who like having a reason to head out, get to know other dads, and have a drink with clergy. Open to all dads raising Jewish kids. Any stage of parenting.

$5 suggestion

RSVP: programs@nevehshalom.org.

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.

Dec
22
Sun
Chanukah Donuts + Dancing @ Mittleman Jewish Community Center
Dec 22 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Chanukah Donuts + Dancing

Make crafts + decorations for your home, take part in Israeli dancing, and eat some delicious sufganiot (jelly donuts) at this family-friendly Chanukah celebration.
Sunday, December 22
2:00 – 4:00 pm

Cost: $10 per family. $5 for individual adult.
Register: oregonjcc.org/donuts