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.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Concert @ 6:30pm-7:30pm
VIP pre-concert reception@ 5:15pm
Join us for a one of a kind concert featuring cantor, multi instrumentalist and touring artist Diego Rubinsztein from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Along with Cantor Sheila Nesis, they will transport you to Latin America sharing a repertoire that includes songs in Hebrew, Spanish and Ladino as well as storytelling about Jewish life in South America. A concert that will surely warm up your soul in this cold winter season! One performance only!
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, January 25
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Please join us for the January meeting of the MJM + Hadassah + Rimon Book Group as we gather to discuss Hostage by Eli Sharabi.
In this moving memoir, Sharabi shares his experience of captivity and the long road that follows, offering readers a deeply personal reflection on endurance, memory, and the power of human connection. While the subject matter is serious, the book is written with clarity and care, inviting thoughtful reflection and conversation. Reading it together gives us the opportunity to listen closely, bear witness, and engage as a community.
Monday, January 26, 2026
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Raise a glass and step into history.
Join us with Louis Miller, Assistant Director for Research and Fellowship Programs and Cartographic Reference and Teaching Librarian at the University of Southern Maine’s Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, for an evening of conversation, community, and compelling storytelling as we gather for Happy Hour with a Historian. This installment brings us from Maine mill towns to the battlefields of World War I, exploring how American Jewish lives were shaped — and remembered — during the Great War.
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
Thursday, March 5, 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!
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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