Tuesday, September 10, 2024
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
They’re baaaaack… in their new configuration as a quartet again! Join the DaPonte String Quartet at MJM with new violinist, Philipp Ellsner, in a performance of Mozart’s Quartet in Bb Major, K. 589 and Beethoven’s epic Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 127. A soulful way to segue into the shoulder season!
Thursday, September 19, 2024
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Join us as author Arthur J. Magida discusses his book Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape.
Two Wheels to Freedom by Arthur J. Magida is the extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived but resisted and saved hundreds of lives all while retaining his infectious zeal for life.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
At a private home
It’s baaaaack – with a new twist! The beloved MJM X Hadassah Book Group is now combining forces with Rimon, the new Portland Women’s Jewish Group at the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine!
This month, we will be meeting at a Book Group member’s private home to discuss The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan, a suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power, and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in the early twentieth century. Beautifully crafted and inspired by the author’s own family history, the novel has been praised by the Jewish Book Council for being “as much [of] an emotional journey as it is a timely and compelling examination of human nature.”
Co-Sponsored by The Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine and Hadassah
Sunday, September 22, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Maine Jewish Museum
Writer/artist Elizabeth Michelman will moderate a discussion with exhibiting artists Penelope Jones and Deborah Klotz about their current exhibition, Overlay. Light refreshments served.
Sunday, September 22, 2024
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Maine Jewish Museum
Registration is free but required:
Sunday, September 29, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Join us for the book launch of Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook and meet the author, Bowdoin professor Margaret E. Boyle! Sabor Judío celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican. More than “just” a cookbook, it is also a vibrant history of Jewish immigration to Mexico from 1492 to the present. It explains how flavors and dishes evolved in Mexican and Jewish kitchens and how they fused into a distinct cuisine, mainly by the labor of Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and converso women. Written with joy and verve and featuring 100 deeply personal recipes, this lavishly illustrated book demonstrates how cooking and eating connect Jewish Mexicans across places and generations.
Registration is free but required.
Registration information coming soon!
Autographed copies of the cookbook will be available for purchase.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Join us for a sit-down, three-course vegetarian Mexican-Jewish dinner with wine pairings at the Maine Jewish Museum featuring recipes from the soon-to-be-released Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook. Sabor Judío author Margaret E. Boyle will be on hand to answer all your cooking questions, and autographed copies of Sabor Judío are available for purchase.
$60/person
Registration information coming soon!
Sunday, October 6, 2024
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
As we approach the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, we invite you to join us for a tribute to our loved ones held hostage through poetry, music, and dance. The program will begin with a final opportunity to experience Camille and Anya Davidson’s Stitch Them Home yellow ribbon exhibition, featuring yellow ribbons lovingly hand-stitched by diverse Maine community members in solidarity with the innocent civilians still held hostage in Gaza.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
2:00 PM
RUNTIME: 90 MINUTES
Part storytelling, part live music, The Nightingale’s Sonata is a wholly unique narrated concert experience. Accompanied by two acclaimed musicians and the projection of over 100 historical photographs, author Thomas Wolf recounts the life of Lea Luboshutz, the first internationally known female violinist, her incomparable Stradivarius violin (the “Nightingale”), and her multi-generational musical family, of which he is a member. The fascinating narrative tells the story behind his award-winning book, The Nightingale’s Sonata, revealing the family’s personal stories while sketching the history of classical music in the 20th century. Against the odds of pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and the Holocaust, this Jewish family triumphed again and again. Through this adversity, family members were linked by a remarkable piece of music, César Franck’s sonata for violin and piano, which is performed during the concert by Boston Symphony violinist Lucia Lin and Russian pianist Sergey Schepkin.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Mingle with artists and art lovers, enjoy wine and cheese with museum mavens and curious minds, and celebrate with us as we unveil our newest 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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