Sunday, December 14 2025
1:30–3:30 PM
Please join hosts Anna Wrobel and Jim Donnelly for a cozy winter afternoon of poetry, prose, and song at the Maine Jewish Museum.
Our featured poets, Alice Persons and Kevin Sweeney, will share a joint reading, followed by an Open Poetry Hour.
Sunday, December 14 – Monday, December 22
4:00 pm each evening
At 4:00 PM each evening from Sunday, December 14 through Monday, December 22, join us in the winter garden at the Maine Jewish Museum for the lighting of our brand-new, one-of-a-kind goat menorah.
Sunday, December 21 2025
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Bundle up, grab your favorite winter beverage, and join us for our December Book Group as we dive into Jean Meltzer’s The Eight Heartbreaks of Chanukah, a tender second-chance romance novel that is as delicious and layered as the season itself.
We’ll be gathering at a reserved table in the Coffee by Design Roastery (Diamond Street location). Just head inside, follow the aroma of freshly roasted beans, and look for our table — you can’t miss us.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Mingle with artists and friends and enjoy wine and cheese as we debut our new series of art exhibitions!
Sunday, January 11 2026
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Join us for this special serenade at the Maine Jewish Museum (267 Congress Street, Portland ME) featuring Alexander Adams-Leytes, baritone, and Phillip Silver, pianist.
Thursday, January 22 2026
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us for an evening honoring memory, resilience, and community at the Maine Jewish Museum: Jack Montgomery — Maine lawyer turned photographer and the originator of our acclaimed Soul Survivors exhibition — will present his new book, From the Holocaust to Maine: Testimonies of the Survivors.
Sunday, February 1, 2026
2:00 pm –4:00 pm
$36 materials fee
Make something beautiful. Celebrate something meaningful.
Join us for a hands-on Tu B’Shevat workshop where you’ll twist, shape, and sculpt your very own wire tree — a perfect way to honor the Jewish “New Year of the Trees.”
Saturday, February 21, 2026
7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:00 PM)
One Longfellow Square, Portland
$30 advance • $40 at the door
What happens when world-renowned artists spend an intensive week making music with an intergenerational ensemble of Maine musicians — and then everyone takes the stage together?
Thank you to our co-sponsor
This program is made possible by a generous grant from the Davis Family Foundation
Thank you to our sponsors
3rd Tuesday of Every Month at 2:00 pm
Join Ted Fleischaker, the Maine Jewish Museum’s “building specialist,” for a tour of the museum with a focus on our historic synagogue’s fascinating history. Ted is a journalist who has written for and owned newspapers in over half a dozen states, hosted a program on National Public Radio for over a decade, was a professor at University of Louisville, and served as PR Director at the United Jewish Campaign in Louisville.
On the first Friday evening of every month, from 5-8PM the city’s artists, galleries, and arts venues (including MJM!) open up their doors for Portland’s First Friday Art Walk.
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