Oct. 9 Young Readers’ Forum with author Steve Sheinkin. Host your neighbors for this 2 pm video chat with this PJ Our Way Author. Join our online forum with Steve Sheinkin, author of the Rabbi Harvey series, Most Dangerous, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon and many…
Sept. 5 Big Truck Day: Listen to the drivers talk about their vehicles up close and personal! Police car, fire truck, antique cars! Eat lunch from vegetarian food trucks in the parking lot. 10 am-1 pm at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, 651 SW Capitol Hwy. Portland. Free. 503-535-3617, oregonjcc.org Sept. 11 PJ Library Back…
B’nai B’rith Camp has assumed management of the BBYO program in the Portland metropolitan area. This expands a three-year-old partnership of a shared BB Camp/BBYO staff position. “With PJ Library and now BBYO, along with our year round in-city programs, summer, family, and adult camping as all part of our portfolio, we’re really serving the…
More than 180 individuals joined the Oregon Jewish Community Youth Foundation on April 20 to celebrate 13 years of teen philanthropy at the OJCYF annual benefit dinner. Forty-five teens from high schools around the metropolitan area participated in the program during this milestone year. This year’s annual benefit dinner, which is unique among teen philanthropy…
On July 10 a formal groundbreaking ceremony at Camp Solomon Schechter launched the start of major construction at the camp. From 60 to 120: The Campaign to Build Jewish Continuity is a $12 million multiyear project, beginning this fall, to refurbish the camp’s facilities over the coming years. Projects include: Chadar Ochel (dining hall), where…
On Aug. 1, Sephardic Adventure Camp, an Orthodox Jewish camp from Washington state, was evacuated from its campsite in eastern Washington due to a nearby forest fire. Consistent with the Jewish value of hachnasat orchim (welcoming guests), Camp Solomon Schechter in Tumwater, WA, extended an invitation and hosted SAC this year Aug. 5-17. Between the…
What Jewish activity brings together diverse students from four cities and nine schools with adult volunteers and awesome youth leaders to work together under the auspices of the United Nations to repair the world and protect it for present and future generations? The answer is Plant for the Planet’s Good Deeds Day Academy. Open to…
This spring several Portland Jewish Academy students were honored in two statewide writing contests – The Oregon Poetry Association and Honoring Our Rivers, both of which publish the winners’ work in an annual publication. “We are PJA Proud of these kids,” says PJA Principal Merrill Hendin. “We really value writing. Our teachers do a great…
From staff and wire reports During a semester in Israel, Ashland High School student Bryce Ennis, 16, has experienced Israeli society as she learns Jewish history from the Torah through the Holocaust and on to the creation of Israel as a modern state. The daughter of Lisa and Steve Ennis, Bryce has spent the spring…
RECURRING EVENTS FRIDAYS Fourth Friday Shabbat Celebration. Rabbi Eve Posen leads this interactive service that welcomes Shabbat through song, stories and a little Torah learning. 5:15 pm at Congregation Neveh Shalom, 2900 SW Peaceful Lane, Portland. Free. RSVP: 503-293-7307 or lconley@nevehshalom.org. SATURDAYS Tot Shabbat: First Saturdays at 9 am in Pollin Chapel, Congregation Beth Israel,…
