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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

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…