1525 S. Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
310.552.2007
If you are coming to our gallery or office, please call in advance to be sure we'll be here!

Yiddish Classes
Beginning: M 5:30-6:30 p
Intermediate: M 6:30-8 p
Advanced: M 8-9:30 p

Mit Gezang Yiddish Chorus
Alternate Mon @ 7:30 p
Apr 19

Voices of Conscience Chorus
Alternate Mon @ 7:30 p
Apr 12, 26

 
Poetry Plus with
Uncle Ruthie Buell
Third Thursdays, 7 p
Apr 15 with Robbie Long

Shabes by the Book
Potluck and Book Chat
Fourth Fridays @ 6:30 p
Fri Apr 23, Joseph Epstein's Fabulous Small Jews. We will discuss the first three stories.

Social Action Committee
Second Thursdays @ 7p
Thurs April 8

 

Arbeter Ring SoCal is a proud sponsor of the upcoming  World Conference of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Jews, to be held in  Los Angeles August 13-15, 2010. Visit  the WCGLBTJ website for more information, and event news as the conference approaches.

 

April 7, 2010

Sunday, April 18 at 2 pm
with guest speaker Prof. Arieh Saposnik, on the theme
"Power, Powerlessness, and the Ethics of the Use of Force in Contemporary Jewish Life."

Mit Gezang Yiddish Chorus, candlelighting ceremony, poetry,
light refreshments.

Cosponsored by Arbeter Ring, Sholem Community, Jewish Labor Committee, Yiddishkayt LA, LA Yiddish Culture Club, California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, Secular Jewish Humanists of Los Angeles, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Meretz USA, and underwritten in part by the Lilke & Szlama Majzner Memorial Fund for Yiddish Culture. Admission free.

At: Institute of Jewish Education, 8339 W. 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048
Valet parking for $3.50, or street parking (watch for restrictions!).

Friday, April 9 at 8 pm

Arbeter Ring member Cantor Herschel Fox invites you all to "Rozhinkes mit Mandlen: The Sweet World of Yiddish Culture," at Valley Beth Shalom, 15739 Ventura Blvd, Encinco, CA 91436.
 
Tonight we celebrate the classics of Yiddish folk music, poetry and story, focusing on the unique creativity and character of Y. L. Perets. Perets expressed the longings and hopes of the Jewish heart in many of the finest Yiddish stories ever penned. Everyone is invited. Even if you don't know a word of Yiddish, this evening will touch the heart with friends, song, smiles, scintillating study and sweets. No reservations required. Admisison free.
 

 

Protest the Nazis at L.A. City Hall !
Sat, April 17 at 11 am (Note revised time!)
 
Say "No!" to anti- immigrant, anti-Semitic, racist, anti-union,
homophobic & sexist bigotry!

Arbeter Ring SoCal will participate in a mass demonstration in opposition to the National Socialist Movement rally being held in honor of Hitler's birthday. The NSM is holding a national convention in the City of Angels to promote their mission of "reclaiming the southwest."
 
We say "Never Again!"  

Gather at 11 am on the sidewalk at the SW corner of the City Hall block, at First and Spring. Bring your friends and neighbors, your picket signs and noise-making pots and pans, and take a stand against bigotry!

Sat, May 1 at 8p
House Concert at 3967 Shedd Terr, Culver City. Contact: fdorrel@sbcglobal.net
and
Sun, May 2, 9a and 11a
church services
UU Community Church of Santa Monica, 1260 18th St, Santa Monica. Contact: rima@dslextreme.org

Saturday, April 24 at 8 pm
A Staged Reading of a new play by Charles Marowitz

A couple of years ago, Arbeter Ring presented a reading of Marowitz's Silent Partners, a fascinating play about Bertolt Brecht and Eric Bentley. Losers is very different! Somewhat inspired by G.K. Chesterton's remark, "The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs," Losers deals with the kind of self-delusion that affects many "artistic types"--perhaps more so in Los Angeles than in any other city in America. It makes us painfully consider the possibility that the reason we do not achieve fame and fortune as actors, writers or in related arts is that we have deluded ourselves into believing we are more gifted than we really are--a difficult conclusion to recognize or accept. Losers follows the efforts of one such person to achieve the rewards to which he believes he is entitled, no matter how great the rebuffs he receives along the way.

Charles Marowitz is as prolific a playwright as he is a director. He collaborated with Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and his play Sherlock's Last Case was presented on Broadway with Frank Langella in the lead role. It has recently been contracted for production in the UK this coming fall. An ensemble of eight first-class professional actors have been brought together for this presentation directed by the author. The reading will be followed by an open discussion with the author and cast. Admission is $10 at the door. For further information please call 310.552.2007, or email us at circle@circlesocal.org. Light refreshments.

 

Saturday, April 24, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
939 San Vicente Blvd (between Lincoln Blvd & 11th St), Santa Monica

Please join Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, at a Benefit Reception, one of 20 events celebrating the Rosenberg Fund for Children's 20th anniversary, hosted by Jan Goodman & Jerry Manpearl, with support from Carole & Henry Slucki, Donna Wilkinson, Kate James, and Arbeter Ring SoCal. RSVP to Henry Slucki by April 22 at hslucki@usc.edu or (310) 556-2529, or visit www.rfc.org/santamonica.04.24.10. (For inquiries on April 24 only call 310.458.7213.)

and Sunday, April 25, 10:15 am to noon
Join Robert Meeropol at a presentation,  "New Revelations in the Rosenberg Case."
This free event is sponsored by the Sholem Community and Arbeter Ring SoCal, and will take place at American Jewish University, 15600 Mulholland Dr, Los Angeles.

Robert will outline the dramatic new developments that recently have come to light in the case of his parents, and will discuss how his parents' legacy helps progressive activists and their children today via the Rosenberg Fund for Children. RFC beneficiary families have been active in the struggles to wage peace; preserve civil liberties; and organize on behalf of workers, prisoners, and others whose human rights are under threat.

For more info contact julie@sholem.org or (818) 760-6625, or visit www.sholem.org.
Following the presentation, Robert Meeropol will answer questions and
sign copies of his memoir, AN EXECUTION IN THE FAMILY.

Sunday, April 11 at 2 p
Please join us as we honor and celebrate the greatest Jewish poet of our time, partisan, rescuer, witness, word-maestro Avrom Sutzkever (1913-2010), with poet Moshe Shklar, actor Jacob Lewin, and honored guest Theo Bikel, in Yiddish and English. Sponsored by CIYCL and the LA Yiddish Culture Club. Admission $10, $8 for members, $3 for fulltime students. Free valet parking.

At: Institute for Jewish Education, 8339 W. 3rd St, Los Angeles
For more info call: 310.745.1190 or email: miriam@yiddishinstitute.org.