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Jan

25 2021

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Jun

30 2021

Andrea Stolowitz’s great-grandfather kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as…

Mar

1 2021

The Talmud teaches that with the beginning of the month of Adar, we are encouraged to increase our happiness. How do …

Mar

1 2021

JFCS has a NEW virtual group for TIKVAH, its social group for adults with disabilities ages 18+, starting March 1. Th…

Mar

2 2021

Spiraling Through Time: Shmita 2021

5:00PM - 6:30PM  

Online

The next Shmitah year begins Rosh Hashanah. How might we personally and collectively prepare for a year of rest, rese…

Mar

3 2021

The Talmud teaches that with the beginning of the month of Adar, we are encouraged to increase our happiness. How do …

Mar

3 2021

Torah Studies: Timely Classes for Timeless Classics

12:15PM - 2:15PM  

Live via Zoom.

The Torah Studies program was founded to bring you the tradition of classical Jewish learning in a series of enticing…

Mar

3 2021

Natan Meir Lecture: The Cholera Wedding

7:00PM - 8:00PM  

virtual, on Zoom

Natan Meir will explore the history and meaning of a peculiar ritual that emerged among East European Jews in the…

Mar

4 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines Educational Workshop

4:00PM - 5:00PM  

Online

This 1-hour COVID-19 community workshop with Boost Oregon covers the COVID-19 virus, the vaccines available currently…

Mar

4 2021

Rebbe Nachman teaches that G!d is found even in moments so lonely and dark that divine hiddenness itself is hidden.

Mar

4 2021

Join us to celebrate PDX Hillel’s 13th Anniversary.

Mar

4 2021

Intro to Judaism Spring

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Zoom

This 18-week course is taught by members of The Oregon Board of Rabbis, representing a variety of Jewish
affiliation.…

Mar

5 2021

The Talmud teaches that with the beginning of the month of Adar, we are encouraged to increase our happiness. How do …

Mar

5 2021

Community Connection Zoom with JFCS

10:00AM - 11:00AM  

Online

JFCS understands that this is a challenging and often isolating time for many. Every Friday, JFCS is offering a virtu…

Mar

6 2021

A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, the acclaimed one-woman show by Alicia Jo Rabins, has been adapted into a film, to be fe…

Mar

7 2021

OJMCHE Virtual Fundraiser

6:00PM - 8:00PM  

Virtual

OJMCHE Annual Fundraiser is going virtual this year! We look forward to welcoming everyone on March 7th.

Mar

8 2021

The Talmud teaches that with the beginning of the month of Adar, we are encouraged to increase our happiness. How do …

Mar

9 2021

Spiraling Through Time: Shmita 2021

5:00PM - 6:30PM  

Online

The next Shmitah year begins Rosh Hashanah. How might we personally and collectively prepare for a year of rest, rese…

Mar

10 2021

The Talmud teaches that with the beginning of the month of Adar, we are encouraged to increase our happiness. How do …

Mar

10 2021

Torah Studies: Timely Classes for Timeless Classics

12:15PM - 2:15PM  

Live via Zoom.

The Torah Studies program was founded to bring you the tradition of classical Jewish learning in a series of enticing…

Mar

10 2021

JWF's Faces of Resilience

5:00PM - 6:00PM  

JWF Presents Faces of Resilience , A Celebration of the Strength of Women

Mar

10 2021

Coming Together: A Time to Talk about Parenting Children and Adults with Disabilities

 During times of uncertainty,…

Mar

11 2021

Rebbe Nachman teaches that G!d is found even in moments so lonely and dark that divine hiddenness itself is hidden.

Mar

11 2021

Intro to Judaism Spring

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Zoom

This 18-week course is taught by members of The Oregon Board of Rabbis, representing a variety of Jewish
affiliation.…

Mar

12 2021

The Talmud teaches that with the beginning of the month of Adar, we are encouraged to increase our happiness. How do …

Mar

12 2021

Community Connection Zoom with JFCS

10:00AM - 11:00AM  

Online

JFCS understands that this is a challenging and often isolating time for many. Every Friday, JFCS is offering a virtu…

Mar

13 2021

Cedar Sinai Park Annual Benefit

5:00PM - 11:00PM  

Hold the date. Details to follow.

Mar

14 2021

Passover Dessert Making with Hadar Kedem

11:00AM - 12:00PM  

Online

Join us for an incredible live Pesach dessert making with local baker extraordinaire Hadar Kedem. She’ll be teachin…
Mar

14 2021

Pre-Passover Food Drive

12:30PM - 2:00PM  

In preparation for Passover, clean out your pantry and donate your hametz (non-kosher-for-passover foodstuffs) to a…

Mar

14 2021

A Passover Gift from our Federation family to yours...join the experts at Haggadot.com to learn how to enhance your v…

Mar

15 2021

JFCS has a NEW virtual group for TIKVAH, its social group for adults with disabilities ages 18+, starting March 1. Th…

Mar

16 2021

Spiraling Through Time: Shmita 2021

5:00PM - 6:30PM  

Online

The next Shmitah year begins Rosh Hashanah. How might we personally and collectively prepare for a year of rest, rese…

Mar

16 2021

Teen Mental Wellness Forum

6:00PM - 7:00PM  

Online

Join us as we hear from teens and young adults who share how they've weathered the storm. A Mental Health professiona…

Mar

16 2021

 

 

With Pesach right around the corner, we’ll all be pulling out our favorite family recipes for gefilte f…

Mar

16 2021

Delve into the mystical approach to the Seder night and Haggadah.
This class will follow some of the deep patterns th…

Mar

17 2021

How to Hold a Zoom Seder (again)

12:00PM - 1:00PM  

via Zoom; link at www.bethisrael-pdx.org/joinus

 

Last spring, it was a scramble to get ready for the Passover holiday in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now…

Mar

17 2021

Torah Studies: Timely Classes for Timeless Classics

12:15PM - 2:15PM  

Live via Zoom.

The Torah Studies program was founded to bring you the tradition of classical Jewish learning in a series of enticing…

Mar

17 2021

Robert Siegel (former Senior Host of NPR’s All Things Considered for 31 years) interviews Jonathan Greenblatt…

Mar

17 2021

Virtually Limitless: Our Shared Shelf
National Women’s Philanthropy Monthly Book & Author Series

Third Wednesday o…

Mar

17 2021

Pesach Seder Primer

8:00PM - 9:00PM  

Online

"Don't think that you are the only one that doesn't know what is flying at the seder"

The Passover Seder is designed…

Mar

18 2021

Cost: Free. $18 suggested donation. 

Register: www.oregonjcc.org/pdxbiz

Featuring:
Ezra Holbrook, Alberta Street P…

Mar

18 2021

Rebbe Nachman teaches that G!d is found even in moments so lonely and dark that divine hiddenness itself is hidden.

Mar

18 2021

Intro to Judaism Spring

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Zoom

This 18-week course is taught by members of The Oregon Board of Rabbis, representing a variety of Jewish
affiliation.…

Mar

18 2021

Join the local Jewish community for Uncovering the Hidden History of Jews and Antisemitism in Oregon.

To Register: h…

Mar

18 2021

The Essential Haggadah Lesson

8:00PM - 8:30PM  

Online

The Essential Haggadah Lesson: The #1 thing every parent (and Jew) must learn about the Haggadah

Visit https://www.k…

Mar

19 2021

Community Connection Zoom with JFCS

10:00AM - 11:00AM  

Online

JFCS understands that this is a challenging and often isolating time for many. Every Friday, JFCS is offering a virtu…

Mar

21 2021

Rabbi Laurie Rutenberg and Rabbi Gary Schoenberg  have delighted in cooking festive Passover Seders for thousands of…

Mar

21 2021

Make this your family's sweetest Passover yet by joining in a Family Chocolate Seder with Dr. Sharon Pollin!
Registe…
Mar

21 2021

IDF servicemen and women without immediate family in Israel are honored in Israel as Lone Soldiers. Naomi Shapiro rec…

Mar

21 2021

Passover Storybook Trail

2:00PM - 4:00PM  

Laurelhurst Park

Chabad of Northeast Portland is excited to present a Passover Storywalk Trail!

Sunday, March 21st at Laurelhurst Par…

Mar

21 2021

Candy Seder

March 21, 2021, 4:00 pm, Zoom

Join BB Camp and Congregation Beth Israel to preparer your family for P…

Mar

21 2021

LIVE on Zoom!
 
Abby Stein is the tenth-gen­er­a­tion descen­dant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Has…
Mar

22 2021

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Mar

26 2021

SPRING BREAK WITH BB CAMP

9:00AM - 4:00PM  

BB Camp
B'nai B'rith Camp
OTIS, OR 97368

SPRING BREAK WITH BB CAMP

Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm
March 22-26, 2021

A 5-day Spring Break Program for kids ages 5…

Mar

22 2021

Though most American Jews will sit down for Seder in a position of relative security and privilege, we will then read…

Mar

24 2021

BB Camp Spring Break Family Days!

11:00AM - 2:00PM  

BB Camp
BB Camp
OTIS, OR 97368

Join us for BB Camp Spring Break Family Days!

Wednesday, March 24, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM

Friday, March 26, 11:00 AM-…

Mar

24 2021

Torah Studies: Timely Classes for Timeless Classics

12:15PM - 2:15PM  

Live via Zoom.

The Torah Studies program was founded to bring you the tradition of classical Jewish learning in a series of enticing…

Mar

24 2021

Shalom Bayit on Erev Pesach (and beyond...): How to observe Erev Pesach on Shabbat and keep your shalom bayit intact …

Mar

25 2021

BB Camp Town Hall

4:00PM - 5:00PM  

ONLINE

OR

Join BB Camp’s next Town Hall Meeting!
Every last Thursday at 4 PM PT:
Jan 28, 2021 04:00 PM
Feb 25, 2021 04:00 PM

Mar

25 2021

Rebbe Nachman teaches that G!d is found even in moments so lonely and dark that divine hiddenness itself is hidden.

Mar

25 2021

Intro to Judaism Spring

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Zoom

This 18-week course is taught by members of The Oregon Board of Rabbis, representing a variety of Jewish
affiliation.…

Mar

26 2021

Community Connection Zoom with JFCS

10:00AM - 11:00AM  

Online

JFCS understands that this is a challenging and often isolating time for many. Every Friday, JFCS is offering a virtu…

Mar

26 2021

Spring Break Family Days at BB Camp

11:00AM - 2:00PM  

B'nai B'rith Camp
BB Camp
OTIS, OR 97368

Join us for BB Camp Spring Break Family Days!

Wednesday, March 24, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM

Friday, March 26, 11:00 AM-2:…

Mar

27 2021

 

Virtual Passover Seder for Adults and Older Children - Open to the Community

with Gesher’s Rabbis Laurie Rutenberg…

Mar

28 2021

Families with Younger Children Seder at Noon

12:00PM - 12:45PM  

Online

Rabbi Laurie and Rabbi Gary of Gesher in Portland will lead a Seder for Families with Younger Children

On Sunday, Ma…

Mar

28 2021

PDX Hillel Second Night Seder

5:30PM - 7:30PM  

Online

Join PDX Hillel for a student-led, second night virtual seder. All students from all campuses across the country are …

Mar

28 2021

Virtual Community Seder

5:30PM - 7:00PM  

Online

Rabbi Ruhi Sophia is leading a virtual Community Seder the second evening of Passover. Enjoy a short seder with the…

Mar

28 2021

Join your CNS Kehillah for a 2nd-night seder on Zoom using the Haggadah created by and for our congregants. We’ll u…

Mar

28 2021

Join us for a Passover Seder focusing on liberation for our intersecting identities as people who are LGBTQ, Women, B…

Mar

29 2021

Adult Education Presents: The Story of the Haggadah | via Zoom –

12:00PM - 1:00PM  

via Zoom; link at www.bethisrael-pdx.org/joinus

 

Join Rabbi Cahana for a Passover Lunch and Learn (you provide the lunch; we provide the learning), brought to you by…

Mar

29 2021

JFCS has a NEW virtual group for TIKVAH, its social group for adults with disabilities ages 18+, starting March 1. Th…

Mar

30 2021

The Central Coast Community Seder - Virtual Event
Tuesday, March 30, 5:30PM
In the true spirit of Passover, BB Camp …