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: Mon 5:30-6:30 p
Intermediate: Mon 6:30-8 p
Advanced: Mon 8-9:30 p

Mit Gezang Yiddish Chorus
Alternate Mon @ 7:30 p
May 3, 20

Voices of Conscience Chorus
Alternate Mon @ 7:30 p
Apr 26, May 10

 
Poetry Plus with
Uncle Ruthie Buell
Third Thurs, 7 p
May 20 with Barry Smolin

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 Thurs @ 7p
Thurs May 13

 

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. Eric Gordon will offer a secular Shabes program Sat morning.

 

April 21, 2010

1) Donate to our SOVA food collection bin! Non-perishable foods only, please. The bin is just inside the door to our Library. Hunger is a real issue in L.A. Please share your blessings!

2) Arbeter Ring will also collect wine corksfor recycling into flooring, bulletin boards, etc. You can put them right into our SOVA bin and we'll separate them for you.

4) Our senior activist friends at Sunset Hall invite you to their annual Garden Party on Sunday, May 2 at 1:30 p, at Paramount Studios. The Fred Sokolow Jazz Trio entertains, and featured speaker is Ramona Ripston of the ACLU on civil liberties today. For more info call 323.962.5277 or email wendy@sunsethall.org.

5) Second Generation of L.A. presents "Anti-Semitism in Europe Today: Five Consuls General Discuss Causes, Consequences & Solutions," on Thurs April 29 at 7 p, at Temple Emanuel, 8844 Burton Way, Beverly Hills 90211. Tickets $25 in advance, $36 at the door. Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/105054. For more info: 310.277.4438.

 

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

Sunday, April 25 at 4 p
Arriving directly from Casablanca, Vanessa will take you on a journey through Moroccan music, traditions, visuals and beliefs. Since traveling to Tangier as a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in 2007, Vanessa has immersed herself in the life of Moroccan Jewry and is currently writing a book on the role of Jewish women's songs and stories. Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear and see a firsthand account from the remnants of Jewish life in Morocco. The afternoon includes performed music and visual projections and a fascinating lecture. Admission $10.

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.eduor (310) 556-2529, or visit www.rfc.org/santamonica.04.24.10. (For inquiries on April 24 only call 310.458.7213.)

andSunday, 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.orgor (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.