Tisch PDX

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

05/12/2026

Our 2025 Annual Report is Here!

We're proud to share our latest Annual Report, highlighting the impact, growth, and stories from this past year. Take a look at all that we've accomplished together.
Check it out: https://tischpdx.org/annualreport/

05/07/2026

Spring has arrived—bursting with blooms. This time of year always reminds me why I live in Portland: the gray lifts and becomes a soft backdrop for thousands of white, pink, and rose-colored blossoms.

Here at TischPDX, we’re feeling that sense of blooming too. We’re continuing to iterate on new projects and possibilities. This last month, we hosted our 2nd Annual Jews of Color/Latinx Seder (you can read more below), while also working toward the relaunch of our 6th cohort of the Emerging Jewish Leadership Incubator. At the same time, we’re exploring how arts and culture can play a deeper role in our programming, inspired by our friends at Bechol Lashon and their Hyphen project.

Purim and Passover have come and gone, and we are now in the Omer—the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. This is a spiritually potent time, an invitation to slow down and notice each day. As we enter the fourth week of the Omer, we encounter netzach—strength, endurance.

Over the past few years, I’ve come to understand endurance as an essential spiritual trait in non profit and justice work. It’s what allows us not to give up, to keep the work going at TischPDX and in our lives and to continue navigating these challenging times with knowledge that the blooms will come again.

Eleyna Fugman, TischPDX founder

Check out our bi-monthly newsletter to find out more about what we're upto in this next season!

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. 🌿

04/22/2026

This year at our 2nd Annual JOC & Latinx Passover Seder, 21 people gathered across generations and traditions to weave together Jewish joy, memory, and resilience. 🌿

In many Sephardi and Mizrahi communities, there's a beloved tradition of hitting each other with scallions during the chorus of Dayenu. It's joyful, it's a little chaotic, and it carries real meaning: the sting of the scallions holds the memory of oppression and enslavement, while the song itself celebrates the gifts of freedom — one by one, it would have been enough.

Dayenu calls us to hold both truths at once. The pain and the gratitude. The wound and the liberation. That tension is exactly what our seder is built to explore. 🧅🌾

04/19/2026

This year at our 2nd Annual JOC & Latinx Passover Seder, 21 people from many walks of life came together — across generations, traditions, and backgrounds — to celebrate Jewish joy, sit with historic trauma, and affirm our collective resilience.

One of our favorite moments? The Four Questions.

At the Passover seder, the story of our liberation is told through questions and answers — and by tradition, it's the youngest person at the table who leads. This isn't an accident. The rabbis who shaped the seder wanted to make sure everyone belonged in the telling. Questions, after all, are at the very heart of Jewish life.

This year we honored the full breadth of our diaspora by including the Four Questions in four languages: Ladino, Yiddish, Spanish, and Amharic. Because our voices, our histories, and our languages all belong at this table. 🌍

Check out the pages from our Haggadah with the translations of the four questions in these languages.