Tuesday Sanctuary Committee Meeting & Book Discussion Group

July 14 Dorot in the Park, July 15 Israeli Scholar in Residence

Havurah Sanctuary Committee Meeting
Tuesday, June 27
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Havurah Shalom

This will be an important meeting! Havurah is making plans with the folks at the Clara Vista apartments in Cully, and we need to discuss how we will be able to support the community. We will also hear about the rapid response training and important work needed to oppose some initiative petitions that we might see in 2018. Please attend. Questions? Email Kathy Gordon at farvergordon@gmail.com.

Above photo is from the movie "The Zookeeper's Wife."

Book Discussion Group

Tuesday, June 27

7:00 - 8:30 pm

Havurah Shalom

Phil Walters will lead a discussion of The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman. This is a riveting and tragic non-fiction work drawing upon the unpublished diary of Antonina Zabinski and her accounting of her life during World War II with her husband Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo. The couple became active in the Polish underground resistance and risked their lives to shelter more than 300 Jews in the zoo, saving them from deportation from the Warsaw ghetto to the camps. Please RSVP here.

Dorot Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck Picnic in the Park
Friday, July 14
5:30 - 8:30 pm

Laurelhurst Park Picnic Area D

Near SE Ankeny & Cesar Chavez

Please join our Dorot musicians, Tanja Lux, Sarah Shine, Gabe Adoff & Jacob Mandelsberg, as we bring our family-friendly, musical Dorot service from the sanctuary to the beautiful grounds of Laurelhurst Park. Please bring a veggie dish to share and your blankets to spread as we welcome Shabbat in true summer-style. Who knows ... we just may break into a camp-style song session while we're at it. Kiddos and parents are welcome to bring a music-making instrument and/or spirit!!  We have Picnic Area "D" reserved from 4:00 pm until closing, and the site contains five picnic benches. For questions, contact jmandelsberg@gmail.com or sarah.shine@gmail.com.

RSVP here.

Photo above is of Emanuel Ben-David and his wife, Connie.

Emanuel Ben-David, Scholar In Residence

Saturday, July 15
10:00 am - 3:30 pm (service, lunch, presentations)

Havurah Shalom
 

Havurah is honored to welcome Emily Simon's good friend from Ashland and Israel, Emanuel Ben-David, as our Scholar In Residence on Saturday, July 15. He will lead morning services at 10:00 am, join us for a potluck vegetarian lunch afterward, then give two presentations on Israel in the afternoon.

Being a native Israeli, Emanuel notices nuances in Hebrew, and as a result his teachings have great depth. He is studying for the rabbinate, and he and Emily have led services together in Ashland. His "day job" in Israel involved the technical side of Israeli military defense.

In the first afternoon presentation, at 1:30 pm, he will share “Ten Commandments” that humorously examine the characteristics of the "typical" Israeli and, by extension, of the country at large. The commandments examine some of the driving forces and origins that have made Israelis who they are and explain how they came to be that way. Each of the ten points is supported by examples and facts, many of which come from Emanuel’s personal experience.

In the second presentation, at 2:30 pm, Emanuel will unveil his personal experience working for decades for Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, one of the major three Defense Contractors in Israel. Among the technologies and products he describes are the Iron Dome and David’s Sling, two of the three layers of Israel’s Missile Defense Architecture. He will also give an example of how defense technology is transposed to the medical arena to provide life-saving breakthroughs.

All are invited to the morning service and potluck lunch or the afternoon presentations, or both the morning and the afternoon. Please RSVP here.

Photo below is a cool photo of Havurah this past winter. Hard to imagine today, with the temperature soaring over 100!

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825 NW 18th Ave, Portland, OR 97209
503-248-4662

Havurah Shalom
825 NW 18th Ave
Portland, OR 97209

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