Portland’s Jewish Theatre Collaborative will present a staged reading Sept. 14 at Portland State University of David Bezmozgis’ short story “Roman Berman, Massage Therapist” as part of the Institute for Judaic Studies’ three-day 25th anniversary celebration.

Israeli folk dance legend Yoav Ashriel—who choreographed such classic dances as Erev Ba, Hora Nirkoda, Hora Medura Ba’aviv and Layla Layla—will teach some of his famed dances Sept. 14 at the weekly Israeli folk dance held at the Fulton Community Center, 68 SW Miles St.

Miriam Feder will bring her one-woman show, “BIG WORDS: A kaleidoscope of follies enticing the heart and teasing the mind,” to Portland’s HipBone Studiofor two weekends:Sept. 19, 20, 26 and 27.

Late in Oren Jacoby’s documentary “Constantine’s Sword,” Rome-based Rev. John Pawlikowski declares to author and former priest James Carroll, “If you want to make religion a constructive force in society, religions must begin with an honest admission of those moments when they haven’t been a constructive force."

In this stunning new work that is at once a coffee-table book to browse and a complete cookbook, Janna Gur brings us the sumptuous color, variety and history of today’s Israeli cuisine, beautifully illustrated by Eilon Paz, a photographer who is intimate with the local scene.