Event: Mah Jongg
When: Sun, Feb 28 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Description: Please join us for Mah Jongg. Bring your mah jongg card and a snack to share.

Event: IT Committee Meeting
When: Tue, Mar 2 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Event: Morning Minyan
When: Wed, Mar 3 8:30 am – 9:00 am
Description: Please join us for Morning Minyan

Event: Havurah High School
When: Wed, Mar 3 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Classes are taught by Ben Anderson-Nathe

Event: Havurah Middle School
When: Wed, Mar 3 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Classes are taught by members of the Middle School committee.

Event: Spirituality for Skeptics
When: Wed, Mar 3 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: That which is written in our Siddur, prayerbook, is an important piece of Jewish prayer but it is only part of the picture. What about the myriad of other personal utterances, yearnings, requests, praises that did not make it into the prayerbook? What about other forms of Avodah, devotion/worship, which Jews have created? Together we will open ourselves up to some core questions: What are the relationships between humans, the world, divinity, the rest of nature? How do we talk to and about that which we don’t understand? How do we call forth our best human selves? How do we come to give thanks, feel reverence and abundance? Why ‘pray’, anyways? We will study a variety of expressions of Jewish ‘prayer’ in English, including some familiar and some lesser known texts.
Instructor: Deborah Eisenbach-Budner.
Register by January 20.

Event: Dorot Service
When: Fri, Mar 5 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Casual and family-friendly services to welcome Shabbat. Services are followed by a vegetarian potluck dinner. Please RSVP to the Havurah office and let us know if you will bring a main dish or a salad/side dish and dessert.

Service will be led by Emily Gottfried.

There is no 8:00 pm service on this day.

Event: Community Minyan
When: Sat, Mar 6 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description: Please join us for Community Minyan. A vegetarian potluck lunch usually follows.

Event: Hebrew Class
When: Sat, Mar 6 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Description: Hebrew classes for youths meet right before Shabbat School.

Event: Shabbat School
When: Sat, Mar 6 3:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Description: Classes are led by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner and Shabbat School parents.

Event: Mah Jongg
When: Sun, Mar 7 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Description: Please join us for Mah Jongg. Bring your mah jongg card and a snack to share. Teaching table available on this day.

Event: Havurah Music Night
When: Sun, Mar 7 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Is music one of your favorite things about Havurah? Do you enjoy getting together with others to sing? If so, please join us on Sunday, March 7 from 7 – 8:30 pm to learn new songs and sing some favorites. We will focus on Passover and Shabbat songs, and hope that this will be the first of many evenings of music at Havurah.

Event: Morning Minyan
When: Wed, Mar 10 8:30 am – 9:00 am
Description: Please join us for Morning Minyan.

Event: Havurah Middle School
When: Wed, Mar 10 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Classes are taught by members of the Middle School Committee.

Event: Havurah High School
When: Wed, Mar 10 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Classes are led by Ben Anderson-Nathe

Event: Spirituality for Skeptics
When: Wed, Mar 10 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: That which is written in our Siddur, prayerbook, is an important piece of Jewish prayer but it is only part of the picture. What about the myriad of other personal utterances, yearnings, requests, praises that did not make it into the prayerbook? What about other forms of Avodah, devotion/worship, which Jews have created? Together we will open ourselves up to some core questions: What are the relationships between humans, the world, divinity, the rest of nature? How do we talk to and about that which we don’t understand? How do we call forth our best human selves? How do we come to give thanks, feel reverence and abundance? Why ‘pray’, anyways? We will study a variety of expressions of Jewish ‘prayer’ in English, including some familiar and some lesser known texts.

Instructor: Deborah Eisenbach-Budner.

Register by January 20.

Event: Erev Shabbat Service
When: Fri, Mar 12 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Description: Service Leader: Andy Waxman

Event: Community Minyan
When: Sat, Mar 13 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description: Please join us for Community Minyan. A vegetarian potluck lunch usually follows.

Event: Hebrew Class
When: Sat, Mar 13 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Description: Hebrew Classes for youths meets right before Shabbat School.

Event: Shabbat School
When: Sat, Mar 13 3:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Description: Classes are taught by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner and Shabbat School parents.

Event: Daylight Saving Time Begins
When: Sun, Mar 14 – Sun, Mar 14

Event: Mah Jongg Tournament
When: Sun, Mar 14 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Neveh Shalom- 2900 Southwest Peaceful Lane Portland,97239

Event: Shabbat School Fourth Grade Class at Transition Projects
When: Sun, Mar 14 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Description: The 4th Grade Class will serve a meal at the transition projects.
Location: Rodney Glisan Transition Projects

Event: Hakol Deadline
When: Mon, Mar 15
Description: Please submit any materials you would like to include in the April Hakol.

Event: Talmud Lite
When: Tue, Mar 16 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description: Meets twice a month (Tuesdays, downtown office) with Rabbi Joey Wolf for a user-friendly, informal, provocative glimpse into the world of Talmud, Jewish codes. The group is studying Tractate Bava Metzia, legal discussions pertaining to agreements and contracts entered into between employers and employees, lenders and borrowers of equipment, and the parameters of good-faith sales transactions. What are the moral and ethical constraints involved in commerce? No Hebrew knowledge is necessary and all are welcome. Just get yourself downtown twice a month at lunchtime! Location: Please contact the Havurah office for location

Location: Please contact the Havurah office for location.

Event: Steering Committee Meeting
When: Tue, Mar 16 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Event: St. Patrick’s Day
When: Wed, Mar 17

Event: Morning Minyan
When: Wed, Mar 17 8:30 am – 9:00 am
Description: Please join us for Morning Minyan.

Event: Havurah Middle School
When: Wed, Mar 17 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Classes are taught by members of the Middle School Committee.

Event: Havurah High School
When: Wed, Mar 17 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: Classes are taught by Ben Anderson-Nathe

Event: Spirituality for Skeptics
When: Wed, Mar 17 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Description: That which is written in our Siddur, prayerbook, is an important piece of Jewish prayer but it is only part of the picture. What about the myriad of other personal utterances, yearnings, requests, praises that did not make it into the prayerbook? What about other forms of Avodah, devotion/worship, which Jews have created? Together we will open ourselves up to some core questions: What are the relationships between humans, the world, divinity, the rest of nature? How do we talk to and about that which we don’t understand? How do we call forth our best human selves? How do we come to give thanks, feel reverence and abundance? Why ‘pray’, anyways? We will study a variety of expressions of Jewish ‘prayer’ in English, including some familiar and some lesser known texts.

Instructor: Deborah Eisenbach-Budner.
Register by January 20.

Event: Global Poverty Movie Night
When: Today 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Description: On March 18th, at 7:00 pm we will screen
“Pray the Devil Back to Hell.”

This movie chronicles the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their country. The movie will be followed by discussion and suggestions to include a global poverty message to your Passover Seder.

Location is TBD.

Event: Erev Shabbat Service/Evening of Memories
When: Fri, Mar 19 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Description: Service Leader: Adela Basayne

Enjoy a special evening of Shabbat celebration followed by a reading of works by members of the Havurah “Memoir Writing from a Jewish Perspective” workshop led by Rob Freedman. After our normal services, members of the Memoir group will read short pieces that explore the nature of memory, both joyful and traumatic. Above all else, these readings are brave and true, and close to the bone. As writers and Jews, we celebrate the word.

Readers will include:
Ruth Tuttle
Andrine de la Rocha
Mario Castellar
Anne Lebwohl
Adela Basayne
Sandi Meyer
Sivia Kaye
Ed Reckford 
Diane Chaplin
Fufkin Vollmayer

Oneg to follow services. Please join us!

Event: Community Minyan
When: Sat, Mar 20 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description: Please join us for Community Minyan. A vegetarian potluck lunch usually follows.

Event: Tot Shabbat (New Date)
When: Sat, Mar 20 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Description: Young children (Ages 0-5) and their parents celebrate Shabbat with singing, blessings, storytelling. Informal potluck oneg follows.

Event: “Far-breng’-en!” and CD Release Party
When: Sun, Mar 21 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Description: Come celebrate the Rebbe ~ Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield, zt”l, of blessed memory ~
and enjoy an evening of music, dance, art, film, poetry, storytelling and much more!

Sunday, March 21st, 5:30 p.m.
at Havurah Shalom

To benefit the Southwest Community
Health Center and P’nai Or of Portland

at the door – Kids free!
Light snacks and dinner available for purchase.

Sponsored by Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield Legacy Trust and Congregations P’nai Or and Havurah Shalom

For more information please visit: www.rebaryeh.com or call (503) 679-7978

Event: Morning Minyan
When: Wed, Mar 24 8:30 am – 9:30 am
Description: Please join us for Morning Minyan.

Event: Erev Shabbat Service
When: Fri, Mar 26 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Description: Service Leaders: Emily Simon and Cantor Barbara Slader

Guest Speaker: Alan Barrish

On Friday night, March 26, at Erev Shabbat Services we will have a very special guest speaker. Alan Barrish
is an expert on the “borscht belt” and the old Jewish hotels in Sullivan County –  (he’s been quoted in the New York Times, featured on MTV, and has been in a documentary on the subject) His talk will be historical as he has an amazing sense of this now bye-gone world and although there may be a joke or two, this talk is not designed to be a joke-off.  

Alan Barrish happens to be a close family friend of Emily Simon who will be leading the services, with Barbara Slader leading the music. Come and enjoy exploring a different world, and definitely not mitzrayim as we pay homage to ancestral roots a little closer than usually celebrated the next week at Pesach.

Alan is a co-founder and present secretary of the Catskills Institute: An Organization to Promote Research and Education on the Significance of the Catskill Mountains for American Jewish Life and the Director of the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library in Monticello, New York Last year, he wrote a review of David Stradling’s book, “Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills” for the Business History Review.

Event: Jesse Paul’s Bat Mitzvah
When: Sat, Mar 27 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description: Please join us in welcoming this young person to our community.

Event: Office Closed
When: Tue, Mar 30
Description: The Havurah office will be closed in observance of Passover.

Event: Office Closed
When: Wed, Mar 31
Description: The Havurah office will be closed in observance of Passover.

Event: Morning Minyan
When: Wed, Mar 31 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Description: Please join us for Morning Minyan. Half an hour early in observance of Passover.

Event: April Fool’s Day
When: Thu, Apr 1

Event: Early Erev Shabbat Service
When: Fri, Apr 2 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Description: Service Leaders: TBA

Join us for an early service on the First Friday of every month. Please note that most early services will be Dorot services. There is no potluck dinner following the service and no 8:00 pm service.

Event: Community Minyan
When: Sat, Apr 3 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description: Please join us for Community Minyan. A vegetarian potluck lunch usually follows.

Event: Hebrew Class
When: Sat, Apr 3 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Description: Hebrew classes for youths meets right before Shabbat School.

Event: Shabbat School
When: Sat, Apr 3 3:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Description: Classes are led by Deborah Eisenbach-Budner and Shabbat School Parents.

Event: Begin with Aleph: Learn to Read Hebrew
When: Sat, Apr 3 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Description: This course is for beginners – even those who have “begun” more than once, focusing on basic reading competency. We will also uncover bits of Judaism that are only accessible though its original language. Our text has optional on-line home practice. Some preliminary familiarity with the Hebrew letters will be helpful; contact Deborah Eisenbach-Budner, instructor, for preparation.

Register with the Havurah office.