# Wednesday, May 29, 2013

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 –...

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

Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open

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

Enter the fantastic world of artist, illustrator, animator, and toy designer Gary Baseman in this first major museum exhibition of his life and work. Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open explores the influences of Baseman’s Jewish family heritage and American popular culture on his exuberant,...

8:00 pm - 3:00 pm

MY MOTHER’S KEEPER

Arts & Entertainment , Venice/Marina DR
Organizations/Sponsors: The Electric Lodge
Venue: The Electric Lodge

My Mother’s Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays – Sundays, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. Part of the proceeds from the May 9 performance will benefit 50/50 Leadership with the...

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Crucible

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

The Antaeus Company, L.A.’s multiple award-winning classical theater company, presents an untraditional staging of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Set in 1692 and written in reaction to the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s, Arthur Miller’s parable of mass hysteria offers a...

8:00 pm - 3:00 pm

“My Mother’s Keeper”

Arts & Entertainment , Venice/Marina DR
Organizations/Sponsors: Electric Lodge
Venue: Electric Lodge

My Mother’s Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays – Sundays, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. My Mother’s Keeper moves fluidly back and forth between 1914 and the present,...

All Day

Samantha Spade, Ace Detective - “Slingin’ the Slang”

Kids , Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: TADA! Youth Theatre
Venue: Online

Samantha Spade, Ace Detective is a film-noir-detective-story-musical-multi-media project about a little girl who does not fit in, except in her black and white film-noir fantasies. In preparation for the Off-Broadway show to be produced at TADA! Youth Theater, we’re shooting a short film based on...

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Costa Rica Trip for Jewish Singles

Singles , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Greener Travel Co. LLC
Venue: Costa Rica

Join us on a unique adventure with other Jewish Professionals, May 24-June 2, 2013 and enjoy: • Tropical beaches on the Caribbean • White water rafting in the jungle (Pacuare River- Class III-IV Rapids) • Zipline Canopy Tour • Culturally and ecologically friendly rainforest guided treks...

10:00 am

A New HARRY POTTER Collection Illuminates The Hollywood Museum

, Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Hollywood Museum
Venue: The Hollywood Museum

Harry Potter’s legendary wizardry lives on at The Hollywood Museum, the official museum of Hollywood, located in the Historic Max Factor Building. The Museum’s new collection of sorcery includes acquisitions from the Harry Potter film franchise, considered among the highest-grossing films of...

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...

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

Alzheimer’s disease research: Intense study, rapid learning…

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

Topic: Alzheimer’s disease research: Intense study, rapid learning The latest research findings related to risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease,diagnostic tests, and treatments. Speaker: Joshua Grill, PhD Director, Katherine and Benjamin Kagan Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment Development Program,...

7:00 pm

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER! Temple Beth Am honors the Ziering Family with a Gala Concert

Arts & Entertainment , Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Beth Am

Placido Domingo, Melissa Manchester and Cantor Magda Fishman will grace the stage of the Saban Theater as Temple Beth Am honors the Ziering Family.  This Gala Concert will include a tribute to Marvin Hamlisch z"l, and recognize the Zierings for their generousity to the Los Angeles Jewish Community,...

7:30 pm

“Oh Mother!”

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: SEPHARDIC TEMPLE TIFERETH ISRAEL
Venue: Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel

Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood Proudly presents Jewish Women’s Theatre’s New Salon Show “OH, MOTHER!” Jewish women are setting the record straight about Jewish mothers… And there is nothing cliché about it! “An inspiring, hilarious and heart-warming evening of theater!”- Jewish...