# Thursday, November 15, 2012

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,...

6:45 pm - 9:00 pm

JNET: Business Networking Organization within the Jewish Community

Events , Thousand Oaks
Organizations/Sponsors: JNET: Business Networking Organization within the Jewish Community
Venue: Temple Etz Chaim

Nosh, Schmooze and Make Business Connections within the ever-growing 10-chapter community of Jewish business people, professionals, trades people and corporate executives at JNET (a non-profit) on Thursday, January 17, 2013 from 6:45-9:00 PM at Temple Etz Chaim: 1080 East Janss Road, Thousand Oaks,...

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

Avenue Q

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: DOMA Theatre Company
Venue: The MET Theatre

Winding up an ambitious, critically-acclaimed 2012 season of Broadway musicals, DOMA Theatre Company presents the only Tony Award-winning musical ever to proclaim, “It sucks to be us.” Singing puppets and their human neighbors tackle life’s most vexing issues—love, sex, money, race and how...

8:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Pride and Prejudice

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: LA Theatre Works
Venue: James Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Hall, on UCLA Campus

L.A. Theatre Works celebrates the 200th Anniversary of Pride and Prejudice with Christina Calvit’s acclaimed stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, returning from the first leg of a 25-venue national tour for five performances at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. There, the production...

11:00 am

Central City Association of Los Angeles to Host Architects Panel,  “Designing for Downtown: Designin

Panel Discussions , Downtown
Organizations/Sponsors: Central City Association of Los Angeles
Venue: The Westin Bonaventure - Downtown LA

Central City Association of Los Angeles to Host Architects Panel, “Designing for Downtown: Designing for the World” Prominent L.A. architects to discuss navigating latest in architectural designs WHAT: The Central City Association of Los Angeles, the city’s premier business advocacy group,...

12:00 pm

Culture Fix: Saba Soomekh on Mashhadi Jews

Arts & Entertainment , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Venue: Fowler Museum at UCLA

The Jews of Mashhad, Iran, were forced to convert to Islam, yet they secretly maintained their Jewish faith. Join professor Saba Soomekh, assistant director of the Jewish Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University, at this thirty-minute talk inside Light and Shadows: the Story of Iranian Jews...

12:00 pm

Make Your Educational Vision Reality at AJU’s Graduate Center for Education Open House

Open Houses , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: American Jewish University
Venue: American Jewish University

What is your vision for Jewish education? Whatever that vision is, American Jewish University’s Graduate Center for Education can help get you on your way to making that vision a reality. Join us for an open house on Thursday, November 15 or Thursday, January 24, 12:00PM – 4:00PM at AJU’s...

12:00 pm

DOWNTOWN ON ICE

Holidays , Downtown
Venue: Pershing Square

Get your glide on for the holidays at DOWNTOWN ON ICE—cool fun at LA’s biggest outdoor rink with the smallest admission price, open everyday November 15, 2012 through January 21, 2013. Framed by towering trees and skyscrapers, the rink is all-aglow in celebration of its 15th season as a...

1:30 pm

Election 2012: Now What? featuring Marty Kaplan

Lectures , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: PLATO Society of UCLA
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

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...

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...

7:30 pm

2nd Annual Professor Gerald B. Bubis Lecture featuring Israeli Speaker Hagit Ofran

Programs , San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Americans for Peace Now
Venue: Valley Beth Shalom

Americans for Peace Now and Valley Beth Shalom are holding the 2nd Annual Professor Gerald B. Bubis Lecture Event, which will feature Israeli speaker Hagit Ofran, a prominent and courageous figure in Israeli society.  A conversation with Rabbi Ed Feinstein follows the talk. Ofran is Peace Now...

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

“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...

8:00 pm

An evening with Yemen Blues

Arts & Entertainment , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA
Venue: UCLA ROYCE HALL

Nine-piece Israeli-American group Yemen Blues is a fascinating and original amalgam of traditional Yemenite melodies. Led by former Idan Raichel Project vocalist Ravid Kahalani, they deftly navigate blues, jazz, funk and more....

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,...