PDX Eastside Jewish Commons

06/20/2026

Don’t miss the incredible Jordan Wax tomorrow (6/20) at EJC!

Contemporary and Traditional Yiddish Music (with a dash of New Mexico) 😊

Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/jordan-wax-contemporary-and-traditional-yiddish-music-with-a-dash-of-new-mexico

06/18/2026

THIS SATURDAY (6/20) at EJC: An evening with Jordan Wax (Jordan Wax), a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and tradition-bearer whose work breathes new life into Yiddish music while honoring its deep roots! Drawing from decades of study with elders across Yiddish, Mexican, Ecuadorian, Ozark, and New Mexican traditions, Jordan’s music is both timeless and alive!

Come listen, sing, reflect, and be mesmerized by an evening of contemporary and traditional Yiddish music, with a dash of New Mexico!

📅 THIS Saturday, June 20
🕢 7:30 to 9:30 PM
🎟️ $20 advance | $25 door
😊 All ages welcome

Bring a friend and join at EJC for a beautiful night of music and community!

Save your seat: https://events.humanitix.com/jordan-wax-contemporary-and-traditional-yiddish-music-with-a-dash-of-new-mexico? (Link in bio)

06/17/2026

2 chances to experience the incredible Jordan Wax (Jordan Wax) at EJC next week!

✨ Free Noontime Concert
Friday June 19
No registration needed

✨ Jordan Wax: Contemporary & Traditional Yiddish Music (with a dash of New Mexico)
Saturday June 20 at 7:30 PM
Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/jordan-wax-contemporary-and-traditional-yiddish-music-with-a-dash-of-new-mexico? (Link in bio)

Jordan Wax is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and traditional musician based in New Mexico. For the past twenty five years he has studied intergenerational music traditions with elders from a variety of cultural lineages in the Missouri Ozarks, Central Mexico, Ecuador, Northern New Mexico, and Greater Yiddishland, Wax’s innovative compositions are rooted his own deep Diaspora communities and in three decades of friendships with elders who have imparted the subtleties of spoken secular Yiddish and the musical sensibilities of the of the professional klezmer–not as heirlooms to be preserved, but as pathways to Yiddish continuity, vitality, and relevance which must be renewed in each generation through radical creativity and cross-cultural pollination with the rhythms of Yiddish’s diasporic homes.

Which Jordan Wax event will we see you at?

06/17/2026

06/16/2026

Join Julie Hammond (), of Art/Lab’s 2025-26 Fellowship, for a collaborative sewing circle for people who have lost loved ones! Attendees will be invited to sew the name their loved one on a single, large piece of fabric. We will sit, sew, and share stories together. No sewing experience required. All materials will be provided.

shares about her creation of this event: “In the time since losing my father, one of the things I’ve missed most is the chance to say his name and share stories about the wonderful and weird person he was. Likewise, I love hearing others tell me the small-big things that were part of those they have loved and lost. For me, the names of these people and their stories are part of the present absence of the dead. They are here, and not.”

Please note: The sewing will involve white thread on white fabric. Bring your reading glasses if you need them!

Register: https://events.humanitix.com/sewing-sessionswithjuliehammond

This event is part of May Day, Mayday, Mayday and the exhibition ZACHOR | זכור | REMEMBER by the 2025-26 Art/Lab Fellows.

06/16/2026

The Shuk! A marketplace of Jewish ideas, contemporary art and culture, is coming THIS SUNDAY June 21, 2026, 10am-6pm at Eastside Jewish Commons! Explore, learn and make with talks by scholars and artists, panel conversations, text study, arts workshops, cooking classes and more!

Catered Kosher Lunch • Pop-Up Food Vendors • After Hours Bar and DJ!

Learn more at https://theshukpdx.com/