Adult Education

Machon Ivrit Hebrew Institute is the gateway to pride and satisfaction for adults who want to make Hebrew their own and want to enjoy the journey. With engaging teachers and a cutting-edge curriculum, these once-a-week year-long programs bring learners to higher levels of speaking, reading, and understanding. Whether you are new to Judaism or lifelong learners who still feel stuck in prayerbook repetition, parents keeping up with your kids, or teachers who want to raise your professional standards, we invite you to join Machon Ivrit. Beginning and Intermediate level classes available; graduates join the community of speakers in Café V'Ivrit.

 

Hebrew Class for Adults
Mondays, 7:00-9:15pm, beginning in October 2011
Cost: $720 (you need not be a synagogue member)

Machon Ivrit is a new, professionally taught, one-evening-per-week, year-long course in beginning and intermediate levels of Modern Hebrew, starting this fall. Perfect for adults wanting to learn Hebrew for the first time, follow up on previous short-term classes in Hebrew, catch up with your children, or prepare for further opportunities (Israel trip, conversion, etc.).

One Book, One Community

This year Neveh Shalom is pleased to participate in a community-wide celebration of Jewish Book Month. Join us on November 15, 6:30pm, at the Hillsdale Library. We will discuss By Fire, By Water, by Mitchell James Kaplan, the award-winning, historical novel which traces the story of a powerful, Converso courier as he traverses the political and religious complexity of Spain during the Inquisition. This meeting is part of the first city-wide celebration of Jewish books. The discussion will begin with a short DVD by Mitchell Kaplan about how he wrote the book. Co-sponsored by the Multnomah County Library.

Hebrew isn't just for learning—it's for enjoying! Café v'Ivrit offers social and intellectual programming for Machon Ivrit graduates and others with intermediate, advanced, or fluent Hebrew. Programming ranges from Israeli movies & popcorn to renowned author Meir Shalev, from an 8th generation Mohel from the ultra-Orthodox community to a gay coffee-shop owner in Jerusalem, from politics to history to music and arts. Get on the mailing list for a current listing of programs and join a Hebrew-speaking community in Portland that you never knew existed!

 

See a Flyer about Cafe V'Ivrit

 November 13, 2010 at the MJCC

“Torah is the shared inheritance of all the Jewish people. It does not belong to a special sect or an elite group...We each get an equal share.” Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

 

Monday Evenings
September 12, 19, 26 of 2011
7:00pm and 8:15pm sessions

Prepare yourself body and soul through study and self-examination for entrance into the sacred season of the Days of Awe. All courses free & open to the public.