Ongoing at AR
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1525 S. Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
310.552.2007
If you are coming to our Center, please call in advance to be sure we'll be here!
Yiddish
Classes
Beginning: 5:30-6:30 p
($160 for 18 wks for AR members, $225 for non-members)
Intermediate: 6:30-8 p
($225 for 18 wks for AR members, $300 for non-members)
Advanced: 8-9:30 p
($225 for 18 wks for AR members, $300 for non-members)
Late enrollees will be charged pro rata.
Yiddish Conversation
with Hadasa
Every Monday, 2-3:15 p
(by voluntary donation)
Voices of Conscience Chorus
Alternate Mon @ 7:30 p
Jan 17, 31
Rehearsing for "Strange Bedfellows," Feb 6
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Eric's Retirement Remarks
Social Action and Yiddish Notes
Jan 5, 2011All events at Arbeter Ring Los Angeles unless otherwise stated.
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Help guide a progressive, secular Jewish organization
in its second century!
Director (half-time to start) is sought by the Southern California Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle, organizing for social justice and Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture for over a century. Successful applicant will have the backing and support of an active governing committee in developing programming and fundraising.
Neither Jewish background nor Yiddish knowledge required, though welcomed.
Director will coordinate existing programs and help to develop new ones, supervise rental and maintenance of our building, among other managing duties. Web page design and maintenance ability preferred. Full-time possible, depending on fundraising success. To contact Personnel Committee or forward a resume, email circle@circlesocal.org, or write: Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035.
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Eric Gordon's Retirement Remarks
First of all, thank you to everyone for your very generous donations to our So Cal Arbeter Ring in honor of my retirement. I was deeply humbled at the party last Sunday by the many expressions of appreciation for my efforts here.
These 15 years in service to AR have been in many ways the highpoint and culmination of my working and professional life. It was five times longer a run of employment than I've ever enjoyed! A person like myself, with my varied interests and strong social commitments, is hard to place on the career track, but AR was just right for me, and I believe I can honestly say that I was right for AR. We both grew together in amazing and very gratifying ways. I can go on to the next phase of my life, looking back with pride on what I did here.
AR afforded me a respected position in society, in Los Angeles, in the progressive and the Jewish communities, that gave me a solid standing. The fact that my peers in the Jewish Communal Professionals of So Cal honored me five years ago lent a certain prestige and legitimacy to our work, even though we are located, shall I say, at the left end of the Jewish community spectrum. And the fact that I had a dependable income enabled me to secure a mortgage for the first and only home I've ever owned, which I bought in 1999.
It was always a pleasure, and often a challenge that I welcomed, to work with our members and the larger community, with all their different expectations of our organization and of me personally. I have formed friendships and relationships here that will continue long into my retirement years and for the rest of my life.
I plan to remain in Los Angeles and stay connected to the struggle for the better world that we know is not only possible but even necessary for civilization to go on. I feel I still have much to contribute, and hope the years ahead are filled with good health, warm friends, and at least a few more worthy accomplishments. I will still be on our District Committee, and I serve on the Board of our So Cal Arbeter Ring Educational Center, Inc., so I am not saying any final farewells at this time.
Now just a word or two about the future: Our round of member meetings over the summer produced one unanimous response: We love our AR and we want to go on. But more than ever, our future is really up to you who want and need an organization like this to survive and thrive. Just imagine what kind of a Jewish cultural and social action organization YOU would want to be a member of, and let's invent (or reinvent) it. This can be your home and that organization of your dreams if you want it.
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Shabes by the Book, Fri Jan 28 at 6:30 p
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Potluck and Book Chat
Last time we discussed the first five stories in Isaac Bashevis Singer's collection
Gimpel the Fool.
This time we'll discuss the remaining stories in the book.
No RSVP required. Just bring an entree or drinks or dessert to serve about 8 people.
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Arbeter Ring cosponsors with the Sholem Community a 5-session course this year, a respectful secular view of Jewish traditions, laws, customs and practices.
Jan 30: Dissent and division over thousands of years
Feb 27: What to wear, what to eat, how to woo, whom to greet
Mar 27: Can Secular Jewishness be spiritual? If so, how?
All sessions begin at 10:15 a on Sundays, and are held at Westside Neighborhood School, 5401 Beethoven St, Los Angeles (W of 405, N of Jefferson Bl)
Single sessions, $5 for Sholem or AR members, $15 for non-members.
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Our community has lost Lester Paley, longtime member, who was passionately devoted to Yiddish and to secular Jewish life. We mourn his passing and express our deep and sincere condolences to his family.
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Jerry & Sally Romotsky have made a generous and thoughtful donation in memory of our longtime member Frania Weltman. Thank you for honoring her life with a contribution to our Arbeter Ring.
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 Speak Yiddish!
Why not? Far vos nisht?
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Every Monday at 2 p
Hadasa is a hit! Thanks to your attendance, her Conversational Yiddish group is thriving. We've gotten people's Yiddish speaking muscles flexing with world-recognized Yiddish teacher, scholar, translator and raconteuse Hadasa Cytrynowicz. Originally from Lodz, and later a long-time resident of Brazil, Hadasa brings a wealth of experience and stories, songs, proverbs and sayings, poetry and interesting topics for discussion to her group. Each session is an hour and 15 minutes.
Keep your Yiddish kite flying by attending this group! Admission is by voluntary donation. All levels of Yiddish are welcome. Kumt arayn! Far vos nisht?
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Social Action Notes
Honor the boycott of Hyatt Hotels!
The California Federation of Labor and the Jewish Labor Committee are keeping up the boycott of Hyatt Hotels pending the negotiation of a contract. Please respect the boycott!
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In the Yiddish World...
Celebrating Sutzkever January 9, 2011
Academic Conference and Concerts at American Jewish University's Gindi Auditorium The Sigi Ziering Institute at AJU presents a free event celebrating the work of the late Yiddish poet, Avraham Sutzkever on Sun, Jan 9 beginning at 2:30 p, in the University's Gindi Auditorium. Prominent Sutzkever scholar Prof. Ruth Wisse (Harvard) will give the keynote lecture and will be joined by visiting composers from Lithuania (Anatolijus Senderovas) and Germany (Gilead Mishory) in a roundtable discussion, moderated by Sutzkever scholar Prof. Justin Cammy (Smith College). An evening concert will feature chamber music and art songs by Senderovas and Mishory, performed by the composers and UCLA Artist Faculty members Movses Pogossian (violin), Antonio Lysy (cello) and Neal Stulberg (piano), among others. A newly commissioned work for soprano and chamber ensemble, on poems of Sutzkever, by UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music composition chair, David Lefkowitz, will receive its world premiere at the event, with soprano soloist Arianne Brown. A family concert will feature a collaboration between the combined youth choirs from Valley Beth Shalom and New Community Jewish High School and the modern dance ensemble from NCJHS, in songs of the Vilna Ghetto, where Sutzkever was imprisoned during the war. For reservations, call Oren Saig at 310.440.1279. Dinner will be available for $10 per person, but must be ordered by Sun, Jan 2 at the above telephone number.
Frequently praised as the greatest Yiddish poet of the twentieth century, Sutzkever wrote before, during and following his internment in the Vilna Ghetto. He was the impetus for the group of poets, writers and artists who came to be known as Yung Vilne ("Young Vilnius"). After joining the partisans and fleeing to the forest for survival, Sutzkever testified at the Nuremberg Trials. Video footage of Sutzkever's testimony will be exhibited at the Jan 9 event. The poet emigrated to Israel one year before statehood, where he remained until his death in Jan 2010 at the age of 96. Sutzkever's image appears among the Yiddish writers on the Arbeter Ring mural.
Celebrating Sutzkever is presented and sponsored by the Ziering Institute, (Michael Berenbaum, director), and is produced by Neal Brostoff. AJU is located at 15600 Mulholland Dr. in Bel Air in the Sepulveda Pass, east of the Mulholland/Skirball Center Dr exit of the 405 Fwy. Parking is free. For more information about this event or American Jewish University, call 310.440.1279.
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Contact Us
Ruth Judkowitz, Chairmentsh
Eric A. Gordon, PhD, Director
Phone: 310.552.2007
E-mail: circle@circlesocal.org
Web: www.circlesocal.org
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