Tisch PDX

07/24/2026

Don't Miss Trivia Night this Sunday!
4-7 pm

tinyurl.com/jewishtrivia2

07/23/2026

Who's on your dream trivia team?

Your Smart friend? 🧠
Pop culture expert? 🎬
History nerd? 📚
Lucky guesser? 🍀

Get your tickets today! tinyurl.com/jewishtrivia26

07/21/2026

This Sunday, July 26, 4pm, join us at Leikam Brewing Company for Jewish Trivia night!

Where obscure facts, pop culture, Jewish knowledge, and totally random questions all have a chance to earn your team bragging rights (and prizes!). tickets at: tinyurl.com/jewishtrivia26

✨ Prizes
🍻 Great drinks from Leikam Brewing
💙 An evening of community
🌈 A fundraiser supporting TischPDX's Cultural Shift & EJLI programs & our upcoming Hyphen collab

Whether you're a trivia champion or just really good at guessing, we'd love to see you there. Grab your teammates and get your tickets today! Tickets get you in to play trivia and entered into our raffle!
https://events.humanitix.com/tischpdx-trivia-and-fundraiser

07/15/2026

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Reflections on Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

During the month of June and July and as we celebrate Pride throughout the year, I have been reflecting on the vital role that organizations play in nurturing belonging, leadership, and community for LGBTQ+ Jews. There are relatively few Jewish nonprofits that foster and uplift q***r Jewish connection, yet organizations such as , , , , and others, demonstrate how transformative these spaces can be. By offering opportunities for learning, leadership development, relationship-building, and community creation, organizations like ours help steward the future of Jewish life by empowering q***r Jews to shape community in ways that feel authentic and aligned with their values. Through stipends, Torah learning, mentorship, and support for community-led gatherings and programs here in Portland, TischPDX is investing in q***r Jewish leaders, like me, who are creating spaces of connection, meaning, and joy—ensuring that more people can experience Jewish community without having to fit into any mold.

-Ilana, TischPDX Cohort 1 alum

07/14/2026

Are you coming to Chavaya? We're so excited for this incredible earth based festival in WA in August. TischPDX is now a cosponsor and we'll be there, so we hope you'll join us. Tickets and more at chavayafestival.com

Get ready for:
RIVER • BEACH PARTY • TEA SPACE • GRIEF CEREMONY
PERFORMANCE • SACRED FIRE • SHABBAT • Havdalah WORKSHOPS MUSIC • OPEN MIC • ART • AND MORE!

Chavaya is an earth-based, Jewish, family-friendly festival rooted in community, spirituality, and the living landscape of the Pacific Northwest. We gather to celebrate connection to one another, to the land, and to the Divine - through music, ritual, art, joy, learning, and a deep celebration of Shabbat.

Chavaya, the Hebrew word for ‘experience’, is the heart of our gathering— the lived, transformative encounter that arises when we show up with openness, creativity, and care. It’s the meeting point of people, place, and spirit — where Jewish wisdom, the rhythms of nature, and the fullness of who we are converge into an experience that stirs a deep remembering within us and reorients us towards a more holy and sacred life.

Whether you’re already steeped in Jewish community, seeking to reconnect, or just curious - Chavaya invites you into a space of renewal and discovery: a place to ground in Jewish tradition, explore new expressions of spirituality, and co-create an experience that nourishes the soul and honors the world we share.

Let Chavaya be your invitation to an authentic, co-created celebration of Judaism rooted in nature, alive with ruach (spirit), and with enough room around the fire for all.

07/10/2026

Do you love trivia? We do! Well you are in for a treat. Our Cultural Shift Program Manager, Sabina is cooking up some incredible questions for our trivia night later in July! Enjoy the sunshine and play trivia for an array of prizes!

Get ready for hilarious, tricky, and meshuga Jewish Trivia night full of bavajadas and more!! This fundraiser for TischPDX will help to fund the growing programming of Cultural Shift, Emerging Jewish Leadership Incubator, and the upcoming Hyphen collaboration.

Admission includes raffle entry, and the option for playing along with trivia (more prizes)!

Full menu and bar are available for purchase.

Street parking only

18+ only

Join us Sunday, July 26 at ! Grab your tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/tischpdx-trivia-and-fundraiser

TischPDX works to bolster the leadership of young & marginalized Jews in Portland, Oregon.

06/20/2026

As we celebrate Juneteenth, we want highlight an incredible free educational resource from Be'chol Lashon:

“As Jews, we know the value of marking the end of slavery with a yearly celebration. Juneteenth has much in common with Passover as a holiday of gratitude, joy, ritual, and remembrance.

We've created this unique Juneteenth educational resource to encourage all Jews to focus on the multicultural nature of our community and the variety of ways American Jews have experienced the American past and experience the American future.”

Check it out here: https://globaljews.org/learn-with-us/education/

As we celebrate Juneteenth, we reflect on history and celebrate Black stories, Black names, and Black voices. In “Honoring Our Ancestors and Ourselves,” Marcella White Campbell does all three as she takes us on her journey to learn the stories behind her family’s names, and the Black and Jewish history they carry. Read the full story here as a perfect celebration of the holiday! https://jewishdiversitystories.org/identity/honoring-our-ancestors-and-ourselves/

05/15/2026

In April we received a grant from the UpStart Emergent Support Fund (ESF)! The ESF is a responsive grant designed to provide rapid, flexible financial support to UpStart Network ventures navigating today's evolving landscape. This funding comes at a meaningful moment and will directly support our Cultural Shift initiative and our growing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) work — helping us continue to build a more inclusive and dynamic community. We are grateful to UpStart for their partnership and belief in the work we are doing!

05/14/2026

We're thrilled to announce that TischPDX's Emerging Jewish Leadership Institute (EJLI) is relaunching!

Our curriculum and design team is hard at work, drawing on valuable insights gathered from past surveys to shape an even stronger program. Applications will be opening later this Spring — so stay tuned!

Programs like EJLI are only possible with your support. If you believe in developing the next generation of Jewish leaders, please consider making a gift today. https://tischpdx.org/donate

04/24/2026

This year at our 2nd Annual JOC & Latinx Passover Seder, 21 people sat together — across three generations, many backgrounds, and many expressions of Jewish life — to celebrate joy, hold memory, and carry the story forward. 🕯️

L'dor v'dor. From generation to generation.

With kids at their own table and elders at ours, we felt the full arc of that tradition in the room. And as we opened the door — for Elijah, who denounced slavery in his own time, and for Miriam, our foremother of song, strength, and courage — we were reminded of what this gathering is really about.

Elijah and Miriam together are symbols of hope, freedom, and joy. They call us toward radical hospitality: the belief that no one is shut off from the rest of humanity, and that all people deserve to walk forward with dignity and pride into the making of their future.

That is the seder we are building. That is the world we are reaching toward. 🌿