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PICNIC CANCELLED TONIGHT, FEBRUARY 14
PLEASE NOTE: since forecasts indicate that the snowfall in the Portland metro area is not likely to clear today enough for the roads and sidewalks to be safe, Shir Tikvah's erev Shabbat picnic dinner is cancelled for tonight. Our tradition teaches that our Jewish ethic of piku'akh nefesh, saving life, takes precedence even over Shabbat.
OPEN TOMORROW G!D WILLING
We will open tomorrow morning for Shabbat Yitro Torah study and Tefilah. BUT please! use your best judgement regarding your local conditions. We are hybrid on Shabbat morning so we can take care of us. It is not a mitzvah to endanger yourself in order to make the minyan.
NOTE: Junior Minyan on Shabbat will be Zoom-only
Stay safe - and let's all look out for each other. Check up on neighbors, friends, and family. May your Shabbat be safe and warm, and may all those outside find shelter and care.
STAY TUNED REGARDING SUNDAY GATHERINGS
Portland's Eastside Synagogue
Congregation Shir Tikvah is a mid-sized independent congregation. Our founders envisioned a participatory, learning community and we work hard to fulfill that promise. At just over 20 years old, we're the "start up" in Portland's Jewish community.
Our neighborhoods are diverse and so are our supporters. They come from across the Jewish spectrum: Jew-by-birth, Jew-by-choice, queer, straight, trans, interfaith, atheist, devout believer. We welcome all who want to grapple with the beauty and contradictions of our sacred texts to better understand our faith, our world and our place in it.
Shir Tikvah means "song of hope". We gather strength from each other and our tradition: strength to hope and act for a better world, city, and community.
Until the Willamette River parts for Portland’s Jewish community to cross the divide,
the liberal, independent Shir Tikvah remains the east side’s only full-time shul.
Rabbi Ariel Stone’s casual congregation is serious about social justice and
Torah Study, complete with fresh bagels and heated banter.
- Portland Monthly
A Jewish Prayer for Palestine
As Jews, we pray for their well-being in accordance with our Torah’s command: “you shall not stand by as your neighbor bleeds”.
May we live to see the day when Jews and Arabs will live in the land we call holy, together, and in peace.Our freedom is bound up with the freedom of all others. May we work toward a day of tikkun that frees Palestinians from the darkness of oppression.
אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר - Elohim said Let There Be Light, and there was light.
May we create light that brings hope to the descendants of Hagar, and so to our ancestral home, and may we live to see peace over all Israel. Amen.
Adapted by Rabbi Ariel Stone from a prayer created by Matah Adler, on ritualwell.org.
Sources:
*VaYikra (Leviticus) 19.16
*B'reishit (Genesis) 1.3
Rabbi's Erev Shabbat Message
We exist to create space for the central mitzvot of תורה (Torah), עבודה (Prayer and Ritual), and גמילות חסדים (Doing Kindness).
For up-to-date listings of all of our gatherings for prayer, ritual, learning and activities, please check our calendar.
Guests: You are welcome to request zoom links, or sign up to join our weekly newsletter, by contacting our office.
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We follow the Jewish ethic of caring for the most vulnerable of our community; therefore continue to require vaccination and boosting. We will also provide high quality masks for those who require them in order to participate in our community gatherings.
If you are feeling ill, please stay home and away from others.
Health authorities have recommended the following source for ongoing information about the pandemic.
Weekly Zoom Events
Members: visit the Zoom Links page in the member log-in section of the site for the Weekday Zoom Minyan (Mondays and Wednesdays at noon) and the Erev Shabbat candle lighting (Fridays at sunset in the winter; check the calendar for the exact time).
Guests: contact the office for zoom links!
Sun, February 16 2025
18 Shevat 5785
Today's Calendar
: 10:00am |
Jewish Identity in the 21st Century : 10:30am |
Jewish Perspectives on Death and Community : 2:00pm |
Full Calendar
Upcoming Programs & Events
Feb 16 |
Feb 16 Jewish Identity in the 21st Century Sunday, Feb 16 10:30am |
Feb 16 Jewish Perspectives on Death and Community Sunday, Feb 16 2:00pm |
Feb 17 Bubbie's Kitchen Monday, Feb 17 6:00pm |
Feb 18 |
This week's Torah portion is Parshat Mishpatim
Candle Lighting
Friday, Feb 21, 5:30pm |
Havdalah
Motzei Shabbat, Feb 22, 6:38pm |
Shabbat Mevarchim
Shabbat, Feb 22 |
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