Feb. 22 Community Email
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UPCOMING SHABBAT
Community Minyan Join us this Saturday as leaders and leyners Emily Simon, Shelley Sobel, Marty Brown, Sam Sirkin, Carmella Ettinger, and Arlene Slive help us daven and discuss the Torah portion Mishpatim, which covers laws related to slavery, personal injury, loans, property, and more. LOST BOYS OF PORTLANDIA Wednesday, March 1 Outside the Frame will also premiere its new film about the Right to Rest Act, a bill calling for people not to be criminalized for existing in public, with the awesome organizers from the Western Regional Advocacy Project, Sisters Of The Road, Right 2 Survive, and Street Roots. Hosted by the Tikkun Olam Committee of Havurah Shalom. Free, all ages. Refreshments provided. HOUSING LOBBY DAY Thursday, March 2 Show your support for: - Ending no-cause evictions that make tenants vulnerable to the whims of landlords And if you want the full experience, stay for the House Committee on Human Services and Housing hearing and show your support. Lobby Days will provide you with the tools you need to understand the issues and meet with your legislators. You can tell them how important it is to take action through their votes to end the housing crisis. Car pools: Meet at 10:30 am at the MACG office at St. Andrew Catholic Church, 4940 NE 8th Ave., Portland, OR 97211. RSVP to Bob Brown (rebrown47@gmail.com) with your name and address. OUR LAST KABBALAT SHABBAT WITH RABBI JOEY Friday, March 10 Don't miss our last Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi Joey on Friday, March 10. Our catered vegetarian dinner will be from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, with a musical, celebratory service beginning at 7:30 pm. The service will be led by Rabbi Joey and our talented Havurah musicians Margie Rosenthal, Scott Snyder Steven Sandberg-Lewis, John Duke and Chaim Wolin. RSVP here for the dinner by Monday, March 6. SEND US YOUR FAVORITE DANCE TUNES & RSVP
Havurah Holy Pandemonium Purim Party 4:30 pm - Singing, Spieling (Interactive Purim storytelling) & More! Cheese pizza will be provided (including gluten-free options). Bring a vegetarian salad (please list ingredients) to share, plus drinks (L'chaims) for young & old. Please help us create a playlist for the Purim dance! Tell our DJ your favorite dance numbers! Email song titles to info@havurahshalom.org. Don't wait to RSVP! Please let us know if you plan to join us so we know how much pizza to order. REVENGE, JUSTICE, SURVIVAL & CELEBRATION Wednesdays, March 15, 22, 29 (starting date has changed) Our joyous and beloved Purim and Pesach traditions are mixed with strains of revenge. Complicated questions echo throughout our texts and celebrations: what are the lines between revenge and justice, survival and subjugating others, self-love and selfishness? The Mekhilta, an ancient midrash collection, which tends to be more universalist and human-centered than most, will be our starting place. Taught by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner. Register here by March 8. IT'S YOUR COURTYARD Ceramic Glazing Workshops
Remember how sunny our courtyard can be? Imagine it with two beautiful mosaics on the walls - one near this bench and the other opposite the courtyard door. The last workshops before our new courtyard art mosaics can be installed will be Sunday, March 19. If you created ceramic pieces for the mosaic, please come glaze your ceramic art. If you didn't have a chance to create ceramic tiles for the mosaic, please come glaze tiles that need finishing before the installation. Sign up below for your age range. HAVURAH BOOK DISCUSSION Thursday, March 23 The next book group will meet at Havurah to discuss The Family by David Laskin. This is the story about the author’s own genealogy, which details three different paths that his family members took across the span of 150 years. One branch emigrated to America and founded the Maidenform Bra Company; one branch went to Palestine as pioneers and participated in the birth of the State of Israel; and the third branch remained in Europe and endured the Holocaust. Published in 2013, the book has been very well received, with good reviews. Please come and share you your thoughts and reactions about the book in the company of fellow Havurahniks. Bring a small snack if you like. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. AN EVENING WITH RABBI JOEY & CHARLES MCGEE Friday, March 24
On Friday, March 24, Havurah will host a short Shabbat service followed by a conversation between Rabbi Joey and Charles McGee, co-founder and president of the Black Parent Initiative. This is the first of several events honoring Rabbi Joey as he leaves his decades-long role as Havurah Shalom's rabbi. A short service will be followed by a conversation between Charles McGee and Rabbi Joey facilitated by Steve Goldberg, with a launching point being Michael Eric Dyson's book Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. The conversation will explore the history that Jews and African Americans have in common and the possibilities of supporting each other. You can learn more about Charles McGee here in Street Roots. Please RSVP here if you can come! You can also use the link to RSVP for other events planned for April 20-22 in honor of Rabbi Joey. L'HITRAOT JOEY It's finally, sadly, almost upon us - our farewell and thank you to Rabbi Joey: L'hitraot Joey. It begins with the March 24th service described above and continues with the events listed below. Please RSVP for the events you plan to attend. RSVP here for all of the events except the April 19 screening of “Torah Treasures & Curious Trash.” Please RSVP here for the April 19th movie screening.
To help with planning, greeting, baking or lunch, contact Debbi at debbinadell@gmail.com. IT'S IN OUR HANDS - REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE CRAFT FAIR
Purchase beautiful hand-made items to benefit local nonprofits. Delight in the creativity of your community. Bring your checkbook, cash, and/or open heart! Download a flier here. And please RSVP here! PORTLAND HOMELESS FAMILY SOLUTIONS (PHFS) What does one experience as a volunteer with Portland Homeless Family Solutions at their Goose Hollow evening shelter? The good feeling of knowing you are helping families in need; direct service volunteering locally; joining with other Havurah volunteers on a monthly basis; stretching past your comfort zone. In addition, PHFS offers training for volunteers working with those experiencing trauma in their lives, as well as three "Solution Salons.” The trauma workshop is a full day and is based on the latest understanding of homelessness. The salons are attended by volunteers from around the city who, like you, come to learn more about the issue of homelessness. There is a guest speaker with experience in the field - sometimes someone who has experienced homelessness in his/her own life. These salons are short, well paced, and packed full of information. Lunch is provided by a non-profit group that works with homeless folks, teaching them cooking skills. Curious about Goose Hollow? Have you been thinking about this project for awhile? Start with an orientation. It's just one hour at the shelter: 1838 SW Jefferson.
For more information about this Tikkun Olam sponsored project please contact Gloria Halper: losninos6@gmail.com IN THE COMMUNITY Dare I Call You Cousin The “Dare I Call You Cousin” exhibition includes poems, photographs and videos compassionate to the struggle of Israelis and Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. You can see it at West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 8470 SW Oleson Rd, before and after services, from 9:30 to 10:30 am, and noon to 1:00 pm, on Sundays in February. "Dare I Call You Cousin" is a collaboration by three artists: Portland poet and Havurah member Frances Payne Adler, Jerusalem photographer Michal Fattal, and Tel Aviv videographer Yossi Yacov. "Seven Stitches" & "Pointe, Claw" Havurah member Ruth Feldman will read from her new novel "Seven Stitches" at Broadway Books on March 1, and she will join Havurah member Amber Keyser at Annie Bloom's Books on April 20, where both authors will read from their new novels.
Weekend In Quest The 11th annual Weekend in Quest, a Shabbaton (study weekend), will be held March 3-5 in Astoria, Oregon. It is sponsored by The Institute for Judaic Studies of the Pacific Northwest in Portland and co-sponsored by Havurah Shalom. The scholar-in-residence is Professor Roger Porter, Emeritus Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. Professor Porter’s program is entitled “Who is the Jew?” Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare and Philip Roth. For more information, to download a brochure and to register, go to http://weekendinquest.org and/or contact Havurah member Mimi Epstein at mimiepstein42@comcast.net. Ritual Unmoored Opening, Wednesday, March 22 Ritual Unmoored features six noted Oregon Jewish artists who fashion vessels, abstract or figurative sculptures, and wall pieces, to reimagine the ritual object, and other traditional forms. Sponsored by the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and Portland State University’s College of the Arts and organized by Willa Schneberg, the exhibition includes work by Patricia Berman, Linda Bourne, Betty Feves, Kenneth Pincus, Willa Schneberg, and Maria Simon. Pacific NW Reconstructionist Shabbaton Register online here for the Pacific NW Reconstructionist Shabbaton Weekend, May 5-7. Celebrate Shabbat at Camp Solomon Schechter with members of the five Pacific Northwest Reconstructionist congregations!
See the attached flier for more details. |
