Current & Upcoming

12/25 Chinese Food & Films

Dec 25, 2022 12:00PM—4:00PM

Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine - 1342 Congress St. Portland, ME 04102

Cost Free to attend // $5 per person for Food

If your tradition on December 25th includes Chinese food and a movie – or if you would like it to – come join us at the JCA for the afternoon! We’ll have a delicious Chinese buffet lunch catered by Maine Jewish Museum Director Dawn LaRochelle (who was a restaurateur and caterer in Western Massachusetts for…

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SHARED LEGACIES – The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance

Feb 04, 2022 12:00PM—Feb 06, 2022 11:30PM

Cost Free

A free documentary film streaming presented in partnership with the Maine Jewish Film Festival – In honor of Black History Month Friday, Feb. 4th | 12PM, Noon – Sunday, Feb. 6th | 12AM, Midnight Through interviews and archival footage, Shared Legacies tells the often forgotten story of the coalition and friendship between the Jewish and…

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MJFF Zoom Discussion with Filmmaker Yair Lev

Apr 06, 2021 2:00PM—3:00PM

Cost Free

MJFF Special Weekend Edition Free Yom Hashoah Film Streaming & Discussion (in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day)   April 4 – 7 You Only Die Twice When Israeli director Yair Lev’s mother inherits a house from a distant relative, she discovers that her father died ‘twice’ – as Ernst Bechinsky in Palestine and Ernst Bechinsky…

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MJFF Special Weekend Edition for Yom Hashoah – Films & Discussion

Apr 04, 2021—Apr 07, 2021

Cost Free

MJFF Special Weekend Edition YOM HASHOAH FILMS, DISCUSSION & OBSERVANCE – Holocaust Remembrance Day Presented by the Maine Jewish Film Festival and the JCA   Free film streaming Sunday, April 4th at 9 am – Weds., April 7th at midnight   Euphoria of Being When choreographer Reka Szabo reads a memoir by dancer Eva Fahidi,…

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Past | Archive

Center Day Camp – Maine Celtics Night!

Dec 06, 2023 6:30PM—10:00PM

Portland Expo Center Portland ME

PJ Library Menorah Making at the Children’s Museum

Dec 06, 2023 2:30PM—3:30PM

Children's Museum and Theater of Maine 250 Thompsons Point Rd, Portland ME 04102

The Many Faces of Grief – presented by Kelly Blanchette, Hospice Bereavement Services Manager

Dec 05, 2023 2:00PM—3:00PM

JCA of Southern Maine, 1342 Congress St., Portland ME 04102

More Events

Community Relations Council: K-12 School Advocacy

Dec 07, 2023 12:00PM—1:30PM

Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine 1342 Congress St, Portland, ME 04102

Torah Conversations – An online study group facilitated by Ellie Miller

Dec 07, 2023 10:00AM—11:30AM

Virtual only - contact us to receive the Zoom link

Hanukkah Party with the LeeVees!

Dec 07, 2023 6:00PM—8:00PM

Magee’s Pub, David Saul Smith Union Bowdoin College 8 Polar Loop, Brunswick, ME 04011

A Chanukah Poetry Reading with Yetzirah Poets of Maine

Dec 12, 2023 7:00PM—9:00PM