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SUMMARY:Oregon Jewish Voices 2026
LOCATION:OJMCHE Auditorium\, 724 NW Davis Street\, Portland\, OR
DESCRIPTION:Oregon Jewish Voices 2026 November 5\, 2026 Admission: $10 gen
 eral admission\, $5 for members with code on back of membership card Locat
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 ursday\, November 5 | 7pm start time\, doors open at 6:30pm Started in 199
 9 and organized by writer Willa Schneberg\, this annual event features rea
 dings by prominent Oregon Jewish poets and writers. The writers in the 202
 6 program span a range of genres\, including fiction\, poetry\, playwritin
 g\, and nonfiction. Each author will share selections from their work. Abo
 ut the Speakers Ayelet Amittay is a poet and psychiatric nurse practitione
 r in Eugene\, Oregon. Her first book\, The Eating Knife \, is an extended 
 Midrash on the Akedah—the binding of Isaac. It was published by Fernwood
  Press in 2025. Her chapbook\, Therapy Room \, won second place in the 202
 4 3-Day International Chapbook Contest. Ayelet’s poems appear in Gulf Co
 ast \, Michigan Quarterly Review \, Rattle \, Critica Press \, Tupelo Quar
 terly \, Pleiades \, and others. She received fellowships from the Yiddish
  Book Center and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing . F
 ind her at www.ayeletpoet.com or on Instagram @ayeletpoet. Rachel Attias i
 s a writer\, educator\, and editor based in Portland. Her writing has appe
 ared in n+1 \, Porter House Review \, X-R-A-Y\, and more\, and has been no
 minated for a Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Best Small Fictions. 
 She holds an MFA from Oregon State University\, and teaches writing at Por
 tland Community College and around the Pacific Northwest. She is also part
  of Art/Lab’s 2026 Fellowship Cohort\, which empowers Portland-area Jewi
 sh artists and culture bearers. Her writing is concerned with present and 
 ancestral relationships\, our changing natural world\, memory\, time\, and
  everyday absurdity. Find Rachel at www.rachelattias.com . Daniel Isaiah E
 lder Daniel Isaiah Elder writes fiction and nonfiction. He was awarded a 2
 026 Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize and received a Lambda Literary Emer
 ging LGBTQ Writer fellowship\, as well as an Art/Lab fellowship for Jewish
  writers. He works as a bookseller at a small independent bookstore\, and 
 at Lidia Yuknavitch’s alternative workshop organization\, Corporeal Writ
 ing. His essays and fiction have appeared in The Rumpus\, Catapult\, Vol. 
 1 Brooklyn\, Witch Craft Magazine\, and many more. He lives in Portland\, 
 Oregon\, with his partner and their blended family\n\nhttps://www.ojmche.o
 rg/events/oregon-jewish-voices-2026/
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