Call for Photos – Submit Your Best Israel Pics!
Send in your best photo you took while visiting Israel by April 17 to be displayed at our community photo exhibition. Email a high resolution copy to lsteinberg@oregonjcc.org with a note about when and where it was taken.
All submissions will be on display at the MJCC from April 24 – May 31
Each month the MJCC and PJA communities will collect items for the monthly mitzvah. Drop off items in the blue bin in the MJCC lobby. Check the display for how you can participate and donate to these worthy causes.
This project reflects the Jewish commitment to Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), providing opportunities to give back to our community.
Please drop off items in the blue bin in the MJCC Lobby.
March
Pillows for Purim and Used Household Items for low income families transitioning into housing
• Community Warehouse
Northwest Film Center will showcase and celebrate its 43rd international and regional storytelling through film. The 10-day festival will take place on March 6-15, 2020 at various locations. Some goals of the Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) are, “to gather film lovers and makers, have people be open to new ways of creative expression, and shine a spotlight on artists who go against the status quo.”
Portland International Film Festival organizers hope that patrons will embrace the idea of Cinema Unbound for the first time. Through this concept, PIFF aims to challenge how cinematic stories are told. 2020 also features renowned visiting curators, esteemed guests, industry leaders, and jury members in attendance—all of whom represent major film festivals, museums, and distribution companies around the globe.
Here’s information about the festival from Northwest Film Center:
Ticket information listed below:
Advance Tickets: The Northwest Film Center, 934 SW Salmon St, Portland, OR 97205 Opens March 1 — daily from 12 noon – 6 p.m. Advance tickets by phone at (503) 276-4310
Festival Passes: Currently available for sale here
Members of the Northwest Film Center’s Silver Screen Club get discounts or free entry (at the Director level and above) to Festival screenings. To learn more about membership click here
Admission prices: $14 General; $12 Portland Art Museum Members, Students, Seniors; $10 children (12 years and younger); $9 Silver Screen Club Friends, Supporters, and New Wave.
Opening Night Film and Party: $25 general; $20 Silver Screen Friends, Supporters, and New Wave. PLEASE NOTE: Attendees can purchase tickets to Opening Night for either the Whitsell Auditorium or Cinema 21 location. Opening Night party to follow in the Portland Art Museum’s Fred & Suzanne Fields (Sunken) Ballroom.
Watch for the Portland Jewish Film Festival, produced by the Northwest Film Center, coming in June.
Every March, the city’s top restaurants offer three-course meals for a great price, making it the best time to experience one of the nation’s most talked-about culinary destinations – affordably. Travel Portland donates money to the Oregon Food Bank for each reservation made through the OpenTable links listed here. Scroll down the list to see the participating restaurants and their featured menus (which are subject to change).
Monday evening, March 9, in the Sanctuary at HCC.
Here’s a taste of what we’ll have:
– Purim Carnival and pizza for kids downstairs for the first hour! (Adults encouraged to come, too!)
– Costume parade procession up to the Sanctuary for a puppet show!
– Finger-food noshin’ and hamantaschen in the upstairs lobby!
– A singalong Purimspiel in the Sanctuary!
– All the usual Purim mishugas (craziness)!
We’ll add more details here each week leading up to the party!
Join us for a vegetarian pasta dinner and an all-ages Shpiel.
Guest Tickets
$8/individual
$25/family of four
(Members have a separate RSVP link – see your Week’s Worth)
This year’s Purim shpiel will be like nothing you’ve seen (or heard) at Shir Tikvah before!
As is befitting our times, we’ll make you laugh, possibly bring tears to your eyes, and hopefully inspire you to stand and fight (peacefully) for human rights. Suitable for all ages, come and join us for a Les Miz inspired Purim shpiel .
Bring a beverage, a noisemaker, and hamantaschen to share and enter
Hamantaschen Contest
Young Family Pajama Purim Celebration
Monday, March 9, 2020 at 5:15pm
Don’t feel like getting all dressed up for once? PERFECT! Come in your PJs and join other young families for special Purim activities before the main festivities.
5:45pm Dinner followed with a Pajama Purim Celebration
Main Festivities start at 6:30pm Main Festivities: The Whole Megillah reading with musical entertainment between chapters (no charge)
Everyone is welcome. Young and young at heart, families, singles, couples, grandparents, cousins, Uncles and Aunts, etc . . .
Dinner: $14/Adult, $7/Child, $42/Family Max. *This dinner is included with the Young Family Shul Pass. You will still need to RSVP.
For more information Contact: Rabbi Eve Posen eposen@nevehshalom.org
RSVP for dinner at: tinyurl.com/CNSPurim5780
Come one, come all, for a night of joy, masquerade, and the story of the courageous individuals from long ago whose valor saved the Jewish people. We will have pizza, Megillah chanting, spieling, and more. Be sure to visit the Alter Rocker’s adults-only table to fulfill the mitzvah of being unable to tell Mordechai and Haman apart. Wear a costume if you have one, or pick out something from Havurah’s collection. Bring your famous hamantaschen to share.
Our evening’s schedule: 6:00pm dinner and games, 6:30pm spieling and Megillah. The program ends at 7:30pm, but everyone is welcome to stay, dance, and continue the party!
Come join Shaarie Torah for a night of Purim fun for all ages! Free carnival, games, prizes, treats, raffles and a full Megillah Reading. Dinner and beverages available for purchase. Co-sponsored by the Men’s Club,
Main Sanctuary Oh, what a beautiful schpiel! CBI’s tradition of Purim hilarity continues with our annual retelling of the Purim story—this year inspired by Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma. People will say we’re in love with this show…and they’ll be right.