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Mon, September 8, 2008

The Sunday Circle

Kids, Orange County
Organizations/Sponsors: CHABAD JEWISH CENTER
Venue: Bonita Creek Community Centre is a small park off La Vida and University Drive in Newport Beach

THE SUNDAY CIRCLE, a monthly event for children with special needs which is a part of the Friendship Circle, will meet again for an afternoon of Tea Kwon Do, music, art and much more on October 12, 2008.  The time is 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and the place is the Clubhouse at Bonita Creek Park, 3010 La ...

Mon, September 8, 2008, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Politics and the Pulpit: Free Speech, Advocacy and the IRS

Lectures, West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: American Civil Liberties Union
Venue: Westside JCC

The ACLU of Southern California urges you to know your rights. Please join noted tax attorney Dave Ritchie and the ACLU’s Isabelle Gunning for Politics and the Pulpit: A Discussion of Free Speech, Advocacy and the IRS.  As interest in the elections intensifies many clergy and lay leaders are ...

Mon, September 8, 2008, 10:00 am

Picturing the Process: Landscape Through Time and Space

Arts & Entertainment, San Diego
Organizations/Sponsors: Museum of Photographic Art
Venue: Museum of Photographic Art

Since its invention in 1839, the unique power of photography has been utilized to record, report, and inform. Representing selections from the museum’s comprehensive Permanent Collection, Picturing the Process is an endeavor of the Education Department to present an evolution of the landscape ...

Mon, September 8, 2008, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

ERASED: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine by Dr. Omer Bartov.

Lectures, North Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Jewish Studies Program, California State University, Northridge
Venue: California State University, Northridge

On a personal quest to investigate the fate of his mother’s hometown in eastern Galicia, Professor Bartov discovers that he must first grapple with the region’s centuries-old interethnic relationships and conflicts. He finds that the newly independent Ukraine-with its ethnically cleansed and deeply ...

Mon, September 8, 2008, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Friendship Circle of Los Angeles - Club Kung Fu- martial arts class for developing social skills

Kids, West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Friendship Circle of Los Angeles
Venue: Friendship Circle of Los Angeles

A Martial Arts program for Jewish boys that aims to improve self-discipline, self-esteem and physical fitness while serving as a strategy for community building and imparting Jewish values.  Recruiting potential students & teen ...

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