Tisch PDX

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

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/

This year at our 2nd Annual JOC & Latinx Passover Seder, 21 people from many backgrounds and traditions gathered to celebrate Jewish joy, honor historic trauma, and embody current resilience — weaving together rituals, song, and story from across our diverse community. 🍽️

And the food? It was a whole conversation in itself.

Our table was a beautiful reflection of who we are — featuring dishes from a range of cuisines, including Mexican gefilte fish and so much more. Each bite was an invitation to talk about flavor, memory, and ancestral roots. Food, it turns out, is one of the most powerful ways we carry our lineage forward.

The seeds of this seder were planted when our co-founder Sara came across Chef Pati Jinich's Mexican Passover recipes, shared by a Mexican-Puerto Rican friend. That spark of recognition — that Jewish food is so much more than the Ashkenazi-centered table many of us grew up with — became the foundation of what TischPDX has built here. A seder that makes room for all of us. 🌿

We hope you'll bring a bit of our Pesach Reader to your tables tonight. 🌿 This new 36-page collection from SVARA traces the spiraling journeys we take across a lifetime, inviting us to recall being children, to remember things that have not yet happened, and to meet the future as something already in formation.

Explore powerful writings from SVARA teachers and students alike: Emet / Ari. L Monts, Rabbi Becky Silverstein, Rabbi Benay Lappe, Binya Kóatz, Chava Shapiro, and Rabbi Lauren Tuchman. A digital booklet and a screen-reader version are now available in the SVARA library.

✨PESACH READER: https://svara.org/library

ID: The cover page of SVARA's Pesach Reader, which bears green text over an image of the crest of a tree-covered hilltop. The text reads, "We Have Been Here Before: A SVARA Reader for Pesach."