# Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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,...

6:00 pm - 8:15 pm

THE ANNUAL ALL-NEW ONE-TIME-ONLY NEW YEAR’S EVE MUSICAL REVUE!

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse

“One of the Ten Best New Year’s Eve Events in LA” raves LA Weekly. A scrumptious and sumptuous complimentary buffet supper starts off the evening, then it’s “on with the show!” as internationally acclaimed Actors’ Repertory Theatre brings you a highly entertaining, family-friendly...

All Day

Mazeltov.com Announces the 2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest “What It Means To Me!”

Events , Agoura
Venue: Internet

2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest - First Prize is a Round-trip ticket on El Al Airlines to Israel (from Los Angeles or New York City) or $1,000! We are asking upcoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah boys and girls to shoot a 2-3 minute short video that expresses what the occasion means to them. We are...

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

“Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party”

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: SHARE, Inc.
Venue: The Hollywood Museum

The Hollywood Museum’s unique exhibit “Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party” debuts on Wednesday, April 3, at 6:00 p.m. with a wine and Hors d’Oeuvres reception.  The retrospective explores a series of glamorous Boomtown Events with prestigious celebrities...

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Identity, Protest, and Hope in Israeli Visual Culture

Adult Education , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Examine the expression of different artistic and cultural traditions in Israel today, including their religious, secular, ethnic, historical, and political roots. Because of prohibitions on creating pictorial imagery, traditional Jewish culture was mainly expressed through the literary arts. The...

All Day

Let Me Show You Around:A Project by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger

Arts & Entertainment , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Everyone is welcome at the Skirball Cultural Center, yet every encounter is unique, inflected by culture, age, and origin. This is the theme of a new site-specific mural created by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger as part of their Let Me Show You Around project. To create the large-scale wall...

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Stogie Kenyatta’s The World is My Home – THE LIFE OF PAUL ROBESON

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

Powerful and poignant, heartfelt and humorous, and in honor of Paul Robeson’s birthday, Santa Monica Playhouse is proud to present a special limited run of film, television and stage personality Stogie Kenyatta’s acclaimed show about African-American artist-activist Paul Robeson. Robeson –...

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Savvy Caregiver

Adult Education , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center
Venue: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center

Do you have family members living with Alzheimer’s disease? During 6 weeks, 2 hours each week- the following topics will be covered: -Learn about Alzheimer’s Disease/ Dementia -Learn about the stages of this disease -How to help your loved one and how to understand difficult behavior...

8:30 pm - 8:30 pm

HAVA HAPPY HOUR show

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: April Hava Shenkman
Venue: Spirit Studio Silverlake

HAVA HAPPY HOUR Created & Performed by April Hava Shenkman “Forget your troubles, come on get Hava!”- LA WEEKLY Spirit Studio Silverlake 2601 Hyperion Ave. L.A., CA 90027 Running EVERY Saturday in April April 13th, 20th, & 27th, 2013 @ 8:30pm Tickets: $15 (cash only at door) includes 1 free...

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Why multi-dimensional wellness brings balance to your life?

Programs , San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: American Jewish University
Venue: American Jewish University

Join us for a week of wellness at the American Jewish University in Bel Air! Our mission is to raise awareness about the importance of multi-dimensional wellness and for you to receive practical applications to better balance all vital areas of life – emotional, physical, social, environmental,...

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Jewish Wisdom: Health and Healing Resource Fair

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Hebrew Union College
Venue: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

This four day resource fair will showcase materials from the HUC-JIR collection on the theme of the intersection between health and healing, and Jewish wisdom. Materials focus on teaching and creating learning experiences. CONTACTS Lynn Flanzbaum tartak@huc.edu (213) 765-2192...

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Walk With Ease

Seniors , Culver City
Organizations/Sponsors: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center
Venue: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center

Experience the Walk With Ease Program. Arthritis Foundation Certified. Doctor Recommended. The Arthritis Foundation Walk with Ease Program is an exercise program that can reduce pain and improve overall health. If you can be on your feet for 10 minutes without increased pain, you can have...

All Day

Rabbi Levi Meier Memorial Lecture on Jewish Values in Patient Care

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Venue: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

The Rabbi Levi Meier Memorial Lecture on Jewish Values in Patient Care was established in 2009 by the Meier family as one of the ways to honor the legacy of Rabbi Meier’s 30 years of service and dedication to CSMC.  Now generously supported by the Bernard and Gloria Salick Foundation in memory of...

9:00 am

Addiction, Prevention, and Spirituality

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Beit T’Shuvah
Venue: Beit T’Shuvah

The program will take place at Beit T’Shuvah, which is the only rehabilitation center in the United States that combines Jewish spiritual principles, the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous, and psychotherapy.  The program will focus on one of Beit T’Shuvah’s most innovative departments,...

10:00 am

Chevra Kadisha Organizing and Tahara Training

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Groman Eden Moruary
Venue: Groman Eden Moruary

Rabbi Stuart Kelman and David Zinner of Kavod v’Nichum and the Gamliel Institute (www.jewish-funerals.org) will be giving talks and conducting numerous trainings during the Week of Learning.  For synagogues or communities interested in speakers about Jewish practices around death, funerals,...

11:00 am

WISDOM CIRCLE: Becoming a Community of Elders

Seniors , Beverly Hills

Wisdom Circle is a newly formed dynamic and wide ranging community of individuals and couples who gather once a month for learning and fun. November 7th: 11 am – 12 pm Presentation by Bruce Phillips, Ph.D., Sociologist and Professor of Jewish Communal Service at HUCJIR about the impact of the...

11:30 am

Lunch and Learn on the Liturgy of Tahara

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Beth Hillel
Venue: Temple Beth Hillel

Rabbi Stuart Kelman and David Zinner of Kavod v’Nichum and the Gamliel Institute are giving a number of talks and trainings during the Week of Learning on chevra kadisha.  This session is especially focused on the liturgy portion for the tahara ritual.  For more information about Jewish practices...

11:30 am

Kohelet, Amichai, Morrie Schwartz and Maya Angelou – Living, Dying and Everything in Between

Programs , San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Hospice
Venue: Fountainview at Eisenberg Village

In this workshop, we will be exploring the lessons we can learn about life and death from Kohelet, Amichai, Morrie Schwartz and Maya Angelou and how they can relate to our life.  Each of these writers expresses a unique perspective about living through their contemplation and experience of dealing...

12:00 pm

The Service Of Faith And Promotion Of Food Justice

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Loyola Marymount University
Venue: Loyola Marymount University

This program will be an opportunity to hear from a panel of LMU Jewish students who have each engaged in various projects related to food justice over the past year, including a service immersion trip to a Jewish farm cooperative, a Challah for hunger chapter on campus, a campus wide Shabbat dinner...

12:00 pm

Judaism You Can Use: Bracketing Our Days

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Leo Baeck Temple
Venue: Leo Baeck Temple

It’s become evident in the scientific and healing literature that gratitude and forgiveness are not only good for our hearts and relationships, but also for our health. Jewish spiritual practices around waking up and going to sleep can offer us ways to bring serenity and awareness to our busy...

1:00 pm

Identity, Protest, and Hope in Israeli Visual Culture

Classes , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Examine the expression of different artistic and cultural traditions in Israel today, including their religious, secular, ethnic, historical, and political roots. Because of prohibitions on creating pictorial imagery, traditional Jewish culture was mainly expressed through the literary arts. The...

1:00 pm

Awareness Through Movement: Praying Hands

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of North America
Venue: Cancer Support Community-Benjamin Center

Many prayers involve actions such as standing and sitting or bowing and bending. Awareness Through Movement lessons are a way to explore these movements to find improved comfort and ease in doing them and also to find new and deeper meaning. This experiential talk is an opportunity to learn more...

4:42 pm

Learn Krav Maga

Sports , Los Angeles
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Friends, please come and try a krav maga class as my guest.  This is self defense system of the Israeli military, special forces and anti-terror units. Easy to learn, hard to forget and a fun workout.  Suitable for men and women aged 14 and up.  Class is Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 7-8pm....

6:00 pm

Hillel at UCLA’s Annual Gala 2013

Events , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: Hillel at UCLA
Venue: Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel

Hillel at UCLA’s Annual Gala 2013 Honoring UCLA Vice Chancellor, Carole Goldberg Honorable Menschen, Barbara and Ed Prober Student Groups of the Year, Bruins For Israel EMCEE, Professor Laurie Levenson Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel 10500 Wilshire Boulevard, Los...

6:30 pm

To Grieve Like Everyone Else:  An Experiential Workshop for Physicians

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Jewish Healing Center of Los Angeles
Venue: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Grief from loss of any kind, personal, professional, physical or spiritual, challenges us to connect with ourselves, our relationships and the world in new ways. This workshop will explore how and when this grieving occurs.  It is designed for physicians who frequently encounter death as part of...

7:00 pm

Self-Care for Mental Well Being in the LGBTQ Jewish Community

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Hebrew Union College
Venue: Hebrew Union College

Place: Private Home, Los Angeles – Address given upon registration. This talk and experiential practice will explore the various challenges that we face in the modern-day world and how to address them with self-care techniques to mitigate the stress those challenges produce....

7:00 pm

Chevra Kadisha-Sacred Choices & Decisions Resources & Dialogue for End of Life & Beyond Presentation

Programs , Beach Cities
Organizations/Sponsors: Congregation Tikvat Jacob
Venue: Congregation Tikvat Jacob; www.ctjmb.org; 310-546-3667

Hosted by Congregation Tikvat Jacob featuring Rabbi Stuart Kelman and David Zinner of Kavod v’Nichum and The Gamliel Institute. Rabbi Stuart Kelman and David Zinner of Kavod v’Nichum and the Gamliel Institute will be giving talks and conducting numerous trainings during the Week of Learning....

7:00 pm

Care, Caring and Caregivers: Supporting Those Who Support

Programs , Desert Cities
Organizations/Sponsors: Congregation Emanu El, Jewish Family Services of the Desert
Venue: Congregation Emanu El

“Do not stand idly by your neighbor’s blood” [Lev. 19:16] charges to engage in caring and care giving as a central to Judaism.  We must engage for the dear ones in our families, or for friends and neighbors of our communities. Rabbi Richie Address will keynote, addressing parameters,...

7:00 pm

Sacred Conversations about End-of-Life Decisions

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
Venue: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills

We need to have conversations with our loved ones about end-of-life matters.  What are the best ways for us to handle this? What do we want others to know about our physical and spiritual care at that time? What are the life lessons we wish to impart to others? How do we have these conversations...

7:00 pm

Michael Ledeen discusses The Real War: From North Korea to Venezuela, via China, Russia, Iran and Sy

Politics , San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
Venue: Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard in Bel-Air

The Obama administration is sending a message of those of a man digging deeper into his bomb shelter: adding missile defense on the West Coast, pondering another site on the East Coast—of the United States. Our leaders insist that President Obama is not bluffing when he says he will prevent the...

7:30 pm

Los Angeles 2013: A Mayoral Candidates Forum

Politics , Fairfax
Organizations/Sponsors: National Council of Jewish Women Los Angeles
Venue: National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles

Los Angeles 2013: A Mayoral Candidates Forum Progressive Jewish Community hosts Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel with Dave Bryan of CBS2/KCAL9-TV as moderator   National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles (NCJW/LA) and Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, are hosting “Los Angeles...

7:30 pm

Yoga, Chanting and Drumming for Body and Soul

Programs , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Isaiah
Venue: Temple Isaiah- West Los Angeles

Place: Temple Isaiah, 10345 W. Pico Boulevard, LA, CA 90064 Date: Wednesday April 24, 2013 Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm DESCRIPTION This workshop integrates easy yoga positions, drumming and simple sacred chant to provide participants with an overall feeling of well-being, relaxation, and meditation....

7:30 pm

How To Be A Friend To A Friend Who’s Sick

Lectures , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Sinai Temple
Venue: Sinai Temple

Everyone knows someone who’s sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us do or say the wrong thing or feel awkward or ill-equipped to help.  Drawing on more than eighty revelatory interviews and her personal experience with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin will...

8:00 pm

Billy & Ray

Arts & Entertainment , Burbank
Organizations/Sponsors: Falcon Theatre
Venue: Falcon Theatre

The world premiere of Billy & Ray tells the incredible true story of how Billy Wilder (Kevin Blake) and Raymond Chandler (Shaun O’Hagan) wrote the screenplay for Double Indemnity, invented film noir and nearly killed each other in the process. Set in Hollywood in the 1940’s, Paramount producer...