Havurah co-sponsors Jewish Theatre Collaborative presentation of “Kindertransport”
February 24, 2010
Havurah Shalom is pleased to co-sponsor this event:
Jewish Theatre Collaborative partners with Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and the Oregon Area Jewish Committee to present Kindertransport 2010.
Performances February 25-March 21, Thursday-Saturday @ 7:30 PM, Sundays @ 2 pm
Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 Southwest Morrison Street, Portland, OR 97205
Through the play, Kindertransport and planned satellite programming, we can bring community together to examine the historical implications of one girl’s story to reflect on the universals that are playing themselves out on contemporary battlefields.
Kindertransport, by Diane Samuels weaves story of 3 generations of women whose lives are intertwined when 9 year old Eva is sent from Germany to Manchester in 1938. Set in attic of middle aged Evelyn, looking for items for daughter’s apartment, boxes are unpacked, and traumatic memories penetrate her present. Her daughter discovers that her obsessive compulsive and occasionally seemingly PTSD British mother Evelyn was German girl Eva.
For JTC, producing this play is anchored in the moral imperative of the Holocaust Never Again; to draw lessons from the Holocaust and broaden the scope of the conversation from the historical to the present.
Nightly talk backs are planned and audiences will be invited to share their experiences of the play and the experiences they bring to the play. Special guests will participate to broaden the scope of the discussion. Among those on board to join us for talk backs are Holocaust Survivors from OHRC’s Speaker’s Bureau, social worker and academic SAMUEL GIORI, psychologist and academic DR. AART LOVENSTEIN, refugee from Chad and Director of IRCO’s Africa House, DJIMET DOGO and KAYSE JAMA, Somali refugee and Director of the Center for Intercultural Organizing. These conversations build bridges of understanding in the community.
To further its mission, JTC plans free to the public satellite programming. On March 1st, DR. NATAN MEIR will present a lecture on the Vibrant and Diverse Jewish Life of Pre War Europe and the remnants that remained after the war. March 8th, JTC will host The Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project, who will present a reading of Honey Brown Eyes by Stefanie Zadravec about the ethnic violence in Bosnia. And finally, Base Roots , a local African American Theatre Company will present a staged reading of Winter Miller’s In Darfur on March 15th.
Throughout the run of the production, Friderike Heuer’s art exhibit Fugue: Exile, Emigration and Displacement will be showcased at the theatre.
Tickets available @ Jewish Theater Collaborative and 503-512-9582.
An Evening of Memories – Friday March 19 at 8:00 p.m.
February 23, 2010
Enjoy a special 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 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!
Alan Barrish to speak on March 26
February 18, 2010
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. Alan’s been quoted in the New York Times, featured on MTV, and has been in a documentary on the subject. His talk will be a historical feast as he illuminates this now bye-gone world. While there may be a joke or two, this talk will reveal deep insights into this important cultural area.
Alan Barrish happens to be a close family friend of Havurah Shalom member 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 our ancestral roots. While this event a little closer than usually celebrated (with the next week at Pesach) we believe it will be a treat.
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.
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling at Friday Services February 19
February 4, 2010
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling will join us for Erev Shabbat Services on February 19, 8:00 pm
Rabbi Joey hopes you will join us, when Rabbi Mordechai Liebling speaks on “The Great Turning: Individual and Collective Action for a Sustainable Future”. Rabbi Joey says: “Many Jewish thinkers are adept when it comes to addressing “The Past”. Few are as noble and visionary as Mordechai, when it comes to thinking about what it means to be Jewish in “The Future”.
Please join us on this special evening.
Come One, Come All! Purim Celebration
February 3, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 5:00 pm
We celebrate the power of the little guy to come out alive and on top. And all kinds of other twists of fate.
Dancing, singing, parading, fun!!! Don’t forget your costume! Also don’t miss an all star cast performing in this year’s Purim Shpiel (skit): “Nu? Media: Up Close with the Celebrities Who Gave Us Purim”
RSVP by February 24 with your family name and ages of your children
Schedule:
5:00 – 5:45- Games and crafts for ages 10 and under and noshing for all
5:45 – 6:00 – Quick cleanup
6:00 – 6:15 – Maariv Service (Short Evening Service)
6:15 – 6:30 – Costume Parade for everybody who dares
6:30 – Megillah Reading and Shpiel (Skit)
Opportunities for everyone to be involved!!
Participate in the Mitzvot of Purim:
1) Listen To The Megillah (Mikra Megillah)
2) Give to the Needy (Matanot La’evyonim) – Please bring pots and pans and kitchen utensils. Use them to bang during the Megillah to drown out Haman’s name and then donate them at the end of the evening to the Community Warehouse.
3) Give Food Portions to Friends (Mishloach Manot) – please bring a plate of snacks – hamantaschen, fruit, cheese/crackers, etc., to be shared as Mishloach Manot before services start. We are hoping to minimize the need for dishwashing that evening so want to discourage food that needs forks and plates.