# Thursday, November 08, 2012

6:15 pm - 7:15 pm

Beyond Tot Shabbat: Eat, Play, Pray

Shabbat , Tarzana
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Judea
Venue: Temple Judea

Friday, November 9 at 6:15 pm. On the second Friday of each month, Temple Judea, in Tarzana, offers a special multi-media rich service & dinner designed for families with children ages Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Includes live music & a story with Rabbi Don Goor. RSVP for dinner at...

6:15 pm - 7:15 pm

Beyond Tot Shabbat: Eat, Play, Pray

Shabbat , Tarzana
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Judea
Venue: Temple Judea

Friday, November 9 at 6:15 pm. On the second Friday of each month, Temple Judea, in Tarzana, offers a special multi-media rich service & dinner designed for families with children ages Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Includes live music & a story with Rabbi Don Goor. RSVP for dinner at...

9:30 am - 11:00 am

Qigong

Programs , Santa Monica

Qigong for Cancer Patients and Their Families in Clover Park, Santa Monica This FREE class is intended to help improve the lives of those with cancer and their families. Come strengthen your body, mind and spirit with the practice of qigong with instructor and brain cancer survivor since 2000,...

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond

Arts & Entertainment , San Gabriel Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Los Angeles Jewish Symphony

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond A Celebration of the Historic and Contemporary Connections Between African-American and Jewish Music of the Spirit Monday, April 29, 2013, 8:00 pm, Ann & Steve Morgan Auditorium, University of La Verne The program will feature a wide variety of participants,...

8:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Theatre in the Dark

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Odyssey Theatre
Venue: Odyssey Theatre

Darkness! Audience in the dark! Actors in the dark! No light! What happens in a totally dark theater, with the audience intimately involved with actors playing in front of and around them and by constantly changing spatial and aural perspectives utilizing voice, music and sound—and always...

All Day

UCLA Hillel Dortort Center Presents the Annual Triple Art Opening

Arts & Entertainment , Westwood

The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel will open three art exhibits in three separate gallery spaces followed by a reception on Thursday, October 25th from 7-9pm. In addition a musical tribute in memory of Daniel Pearl will be performed by Jacqueline Rafii. The event is free...

8:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Black Women: State of the Union-Taking Flight

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Katselas Theatre Company
Venue: The Skylight Theatre

Celebrating, and empowering, through works from some of the nations most artistically significant Black female voices, KTC’s Skylight Theatre is providing a home for this unique world premiere, five-week production. Featuring new plays, visual arts, and community events, collaborators have...

All Day

One

Arts & Entertainment , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Laband Student Art Gallery
Venue: Loyola Marymount University

This exciting and beautiful student art exhibition focuses on furthering awareness of past and present human suffering including the Holocaust. The never again philosophy is addressed in this dynamic visual discussion of inaction. The artist is offering private guided tours which provide more...

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

One

Arts & Entertainment , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Laband Student Art Gallery
Venue: Loyola Marymount University

This student art exhibition focuses on furthering awareness of past and present human suffering including the Holocaust. The never again philosophy is addressed in this dynamic visual discussion of inaction. The artist is offering private guided tours which provide more insight and background...

1:30 pm

Free age-subtracting/ anti-aging beauty classes

Classes , Brentwood
Organizations/Sponsors: Westside Aesthetics
Venue: westside aesthetics

Learn how to reverse and correct the signs of aging (wrinkles, sagging skin, etc,) using yoga, acupressure points, methods from foreign & ancient cultures, face exercise, etc. with question & answer period. Call (310) 652-7290 to reserve a day and time for you & a friend. When you call, ask for...

4:00 pm

Bulgaria & the Holocaust: The Fragility of Goodness

Events , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Venue: Hillel at UCLA

While expelled from their homes and persecuted, Bulgaria’s 48,000 Jews nonetheless escaped total destruction with the help of civic society. Keynote address: Steven F. Sage (US Holocaust Memorial Museum); Musical performance directed by Tzevetanka Varimezova (UCLA); Screening of The Optimists with...

7:00 pm

Saving Lives: United for a Sacred Purpose

Panel Discussions , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Jewish Federation
Venue: The Jewish Federation

Please join us for an inspiring evening with Eli Beer Founder and President of United Hatzalah of Israel, 2010 Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Israel and the receipient of the 2011 Presidential Award for Volunteerism. Eli will joined by with Murad Alian a trained nurseand United Hatzalah of...

7:00 pm

Intermediate Siddur Hebrew

Adult Education , Pico/Robertson

Intermediate Siddur Hebrew With Orit Greenfield Thursdays 7:00-8:30 p.m. October 18-January 31 (no class November 22 or December 27) Temple Beth Am members: $210. Non-members: $252 By focusing on basic grammar structure, you’ll learn how to translate and understand Hebrew prayers. Must know...

7:00 pm

Addressing Threats to the First Amendment

Panel Discussions , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
Venue: Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard in Bel-Air

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law will address Threats to the First Amendment. There is no other nation in the world with the First Amendment. It mandates our freedoms of speech,...

7:00 pm

JANE LYNCH HOSTS ADOPT THE ARTS’ “SAVE THE ARTS” FUNDRAISER FOR LAUSD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Events , Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: Adopt The Arts
Venue: The Peninsula Hotel

JANE LYNCH HOSTS ADOPT THE ARTS’ “SAVE THE ARTS” FUNDRAISER FOR LAUSD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Celebrating Partnership with Bita Daryabari, Newly Appointed International Arts Ambassador, and Featuring Live Auction and Performances by Christina Perri and America About the Event: Actress Jane Lynch...

7:30 pm

KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATION CONCERT The Night of Broken Glass

Arts & Entertainment , Encino
Organizations/Sponsors: Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles
Venue: VALLEY BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE

The Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles is proud to present KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATION CONCERT The Night of Broken Glass with Ron Selka, principal clarinetist of the Israel Philharmonic Brian Schuldt, cello, Steven Vanhauwaert, piano in a program of music by Ben-Haim, Ullmann, Zemlinsky...

8:00 pm

You Can’t Take it With You

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Antaeus Company
Venue: Deaf West Theater

Find out who’s really crazy when a couple of lovebirds bring their mismatched families together. The Antaeus Company, L.A.’s multiple award-winning classical theater ensemble, presents You Can’t Take It With You, the timeless comedy about love, life and living. Set during the Great...

8:00 pm

Finding Barb-The Original Musical

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood

How far would you go to find love? Finding Barb is a 2-person Original Musical which tells one woman’s hilarious adventures of dating and finding her true spiritual path.  See Barb grow from being raised as a secular Jew, travelling across the world to become more religious, and then struggling to...

8:00 pm

In the Red and Brown Water

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Fountain Theatre
Venue: The Fountain Theatre

The Fountain Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s lusciously theatrical and boldly original new play. Lyrically weaving together elements of urban contemporary realism with West African mysticism, In the Red and Brown Water tells the tale of Oya, who can run faster...

8:00 pm

Allee Willis’ “Badeya, Baby” - A Happening

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: Allee Willis Productions
Venue: NoHo Performing Arts Center

An entertainer in the truest sense of the word, Allee’s consummate party throwing skills have been singled out by PEOPLE MAGAZINE which said ” …Invitations to Allee Willis’ ultra–exclusive….parties are the campiest, hottest tickets in LA.” The Grammy, Tony and Emmy award-winner and nominee...

8:00 pm

“Book of Mormon”

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Venue: Pantages Theatre

The National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play a strictly limited 12-week engagement from September 5 through November 25, 2012 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. “The question people most ask me about the show – aside from ‘can you...

8:30 pm

Advanced Conversational Hebrew

Adult Education , Pico/Robertson

Advanced Conversational Hebrew with Orit Greenfield Thursdays 8:30-9:30 p.m. October 18-January 31 (no class November 22 or December 27) Temple Beth Am members: $168. Non-members: $210 Class will be conducted only in Hebrew. Conversations will be grounded in texts like: newspaper,...