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Share Your Light: CNS Chanukah Party
Share Your Light: CNS Chanukah Party Sunday, December 21 3:00pm-5:00pm Let's gelt together for a lively afternoon of Chanukah celebration! Don't miss the fun as our CNS kehillah comes together for an afternoon brimming with joy, connection, and festive spirit for all ages. There's something for everyone, including a latke bar, community candle-lighting, games, arts & crafts, cookie-decorating, and music. Don't forget to bring toilet paper or winter hats/gloves for our winter Tikkun Olam drives! Register here
Family Fourth Friday Shabbat w/ Rabbi Eve
Offsite4th Friday of every month | 5:15pm | Offsite Rabbi Eve Posen leads this interactive home service that welcomes Shabbat through song and stories for families with children 0-10. Click here to RSVP and receive location details.
Documentary-screening: “The Road Between Us”
Documentary-screening: "The Road Between Us" Sunday, January 11 | 2:00-4:00pm | Stampfer Chapel RSVP Here! Combining new interviews with footage from October 7, 2023, award-winning documentarian Barry Avrich recounts how retired general (and two-time CNS Scholar in Residence) Noam Tibon journeyed from Tel Aviv to the Nahal Oz kibbutz seeking to rescue his son and his family from Hamas attack. WINNER - People's Choice Documentary Award Toronto International Film Festival 2025 FIVE STARS! "A deeply human story ... Read More
Family Fourth Friday Shabbat w/ Rabbi Eve
Offsite4th Friday of every month | 5:15pm | Offsite Rabbi Eve Posen leads this interactive home service that welcomes Shabbat through song and stories for families with children 0-10. Click here to RSVP and receive location details.
Hinenu: Israel at 10 Million
Hinenu: Israel at 10 Million Wednesday, January 28 | 7:00-8:30pm Register Here Join us for a conversation with author, photographer, and former Portland-Native/CNS congregant, Dave Shlachter, as he presents his exciting new work. Hinenu: Israel at Ten Million is a new photography and oral-history book capturing Israel through the lives of 100 people at the exact moment the country reached a population of ten million. Created during wartime and deep national uncertainty, the project pairs ... Read More
Art, Heart, and Soul: Handmade Collage Journals
Art, Heart, and Soul: Handmade Collage Journals Thursday, January 29 | 6:00-8:30pm | Room 102 Register Here Come drink, nosh, design, construct, and customize your own handmade journal. Learn a simple book-binding technique to create the structure of your journal. Then turn to the cover, using collage to explore paper choice, layout, color theory, and design. This experience blends function and form, resulting in a one-of-a-kind, usable journal to give as a gift or use ... Read More
Women’s Tu B’Shevat Event
Women's Tu B'Shevat Event Sunday, February 8 | 1:30-3:30pm RSVP Here Join Neveh Shalom and Shaarie Torah Sisterhoods for a soulful Women’s Tu B’Shevat celebration rooted in the beauty of a Sephardic seder. Led by Rabbi April Villareal, this afternoon will weave together traditional seder foods with opportunities for reflection, creativity, and connection. Throughout the afternoon, participants are invited to move through activity stations including text study, art, music, and nature therapy, offering multiple ways ... Read More
Winter Storytime for Adults
Winter Storytime for Adults Thursday, February 12 | 7:00-8:30pm RSVP Here Storytime for adults, because why should kids have all the fun? It's a cold winter out there! Shake the chill off a bit -- come and cozy up with Neveh Shalom's Feldstein library with a hot rum toddy and a snack, while our librarian reads aloud a few of our most entertaining short stories. (Coffee & tea available too). Want to check out the library's ... Read More
Trivia Night with CNS Men’s Club
Trivia Night with CNS Men's Club Thursday, February 19 | 7:00-9:00pm RSVP Here Put your trivia knowledge to the test at a fun, fast-paced night with Untapped Trivia—sponsored by Men’s Club and open to the whole congregation. Men’s Club will provide snacks; drinks are BYOB. Questions? Please contact Mitch Elovitz: mitch.elovitz@fjmc.org
Family Fourth Friday Shabbat w/ Rabbi Eve
Offsite4th Friday of every month | 5:15pm | Offsite Rabbi Eve Posen leads this interactive home service that welcomes Shabbat through song and stories for families with children 0-10. Click here to RSVP and receive location details.
From Ashes to Action: A Community Book Sale for CBI of Jackson, Mississippi
From Ashes to Action: A Community Book Sale for CBI of Jackson, Mississippi Sunday, March 1 | 9:30am-2:00pm Help raise money to rebuild Congregation Beth Israel of Jackson, Mississippi, recently destroyed by arson. All books are $2.00 and for all ages and interest. Buy ten books to be entered into our gift card raffle: Powells, Salt & Straw, and Starbucks. For more information, please contact Librarian, Leora Troper.
