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All events at Arbeter Ring Los Angeles unless otherwise stated.
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YIDDISH CLASSES AT DER ARBETER RING
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Every Monday
NEW SEMESTER STARTS SEPTEMBER 10TH 2012
email director@circlesocal.org for more information
Join Arbeter Ring and learn some Mameloshn - it's about time!
Beginning: Learn the alef-bais (Yiddish alphabet), vocabulary and the basics of Yiddish language - for those with little or no background.
Mondays, 5:00-6:00 pm
$160 for members of Arbeter Ring, $225 for non-members
Intermediate: for those with some background or
who have taken the Beginning Yiddish class.
Mondays, 6:00-7:30 pm
Class meets for 18 weeks
$225 for members of Arbeter Ring,
$300 for non-members
Advanced: for those with significant background.
Mondays, 7:30-9 pm
Class meets for 18 weeks
$225 for members of Arbeter Ring, $300 for non-members
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SHOLEM school will resume September 9th
| L.A.'S SECULAR JEWISH SUNDAY SCHOOL TO RESUME SEPTEMBER 9
The Sholem Community's Sunday School Provides a Meaningful Alternative for Cultural Jews and Intercultural Families Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 10:00 am
Westside Neighborhood School Campus 5401 Beethoven Street, Los Angeles, CA 90066
For three generations, unaffiliated, progressive, secular Jews have found a home in the Sholem Community of Los Angeles. Sholem's Sunday school will begin another school year on September 9, 2012 at 10 am with classes (for students aged 5 to 14, and a toddler program), school registration, and a discussion about progressive Jewish values, our cultural heritage, and education. For more information about the school, please view our website at www.sholem.org, or contact principal Julie Gamberg by email at: julie@sholem.org , or by phoning: 818.760.6625.
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Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary coming soon!
| "Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary"
edited by Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner, a long awaited dictionary of
Yiddish for speakers of English, is finally in press:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806850
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This title is not yet available. You may pre-order this item and it will be shipped to you when it is available.
Including over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of expert Yiddish linguists, Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary surpasses all its predecessors in the number of words and rich selection of idioms, examples of usage, and coverage of stylistic levels and dialect forms.
The user-friendly entries include words for standard and literary as well as contemporary colloquial and conversational usage and a wide range of terms from all sources of Yiddish, including those of Hebraic-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as Germanic origin. The lexical corpus comes directly from the highly acclaimed Dictionnaire Yiddish-Français by Yitskhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot, published by the Bibliothèque Medem in Paris in 2002. Augmented by an extensive user's guide, this volume is an indispensable resource for students, teachers, translators, and readers of Yiddish.
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| Rosh Hashanah 9/17 at 11 am | September 17, 11am
Rosh Hashana (rosheshone) with the Sholem Community
Rancho Park-Cheviot Hills Picnic Area # 1
2551 Motor Ave, Los Angeles (1 block south of Pico).
A family celebration with readings and songs. Bring a picnic for your
family and dessert to share. We will provide apples and honey. There
is no charge to attend this event.
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Kol Nidre 9/25 at 7p
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Join us September 25 at 7p for Kol Nidre
Professional Musicians Union Local 47
817 N. Vine Street Los Angeles Ca 90038
Our secular, progressive Kol Nidre observance is co-sponsored by Sholem and Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle. This program of beautiful instrumental and choral music, readings in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, communal singing, poetry and reflection is an opportunity to renew ourselves and our community for the new year.
$35-40 for members, $45-60 non-members.
For reservations, click here or call the office at (310) 552-2007
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Yom Kippur 9/26 at 2:30p
| Join us September 26 at 2:30p for Yom Kippur (yonkiper)
at our building, 1525 S. Robertson Blvd, LA 90035
$5 members, $10 non-members suggested donation
For reservations, call the office at (310) 552-2007
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Our District Committee Member Tera Greene is on the campaign
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The "If I Were a Rich Man" tour, which started Wednesday, is organized by Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, a non-profit group which formed this summer and is dedicated to using Jewish political clout, access and money for domestic issues only.
The young people are targeting the districts of Congress members who support tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 annually. They group said in a statement that the activists are "standing up to the wealthiest members of Congress who are voting to line their pockets while demanding more of the nation's most vulnerable to reduce the deficit, balance the budget and protect funding for critical programs and services."
From now through Sept.7, tour members will make appearances at both the Republican and Democratic conventions and speak with Jewish community leaders, interfaith groups and union organizations along the route.
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Let's Put Shmuel Polonski's 1931 Yiddish Songbook "For Youth" on a CD!
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The very first performances anywhere in the world of S. Polonski's complete set of songs, by forces organized by the Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle) in Los Angeles (2008) and Tucson (2009), drew a wildly enthusiastic and appreciative response, given that only one song in this collection, "A krenetse/A Well," ever became widely known in the West. The Songbook we uncovered for these performances is a rare item few scholars even knew about. Yiddish culture enjoyed a spotty and often tragic career in the USSR, but we offered these songs as a record of a fleeting, uplifting moment, and as a legacy to the future for us to discover and cherish. The CD will render all 19 songs faithfully, creatively, and professionally, with "name" vocal talent and fresh instrumental arrangements by one of our favorite Yiddish musicians, our friend (and AR member) Yale Strom.
Polonski's songs for solo voice, small ensembles and chorus show an impressive level of musicianship and modernity, even of experimentalism in places, and a demanding vocal and technical range. Some of these are more properly characterized as art songs. The lyrics are by many of the most respected names in the Soviet Yiddish pantheon: Itsik Fefer, Perets Markish, Izi Kharik, and others. Subject matter includes pastoral scenes and village life, the passing of the old ways, collective farming, a woman who becomes a tractor driver, the death of Lenin, the Red Army, the machine rhythms of a shoe factory, seamstresses, and building the new cities. The CD project is truly an act of rescue!
The Sholem Educational Institute, Inc., and SoCal Arbeter Ring have enthusiastically joined with Yale Strom and historian/activist and SoCal Arbeter Ring Director Emeritus Eric Gordon on this exciting CD project. We plan to record in 2013. We are especially looking forward to the opportunity for the Sholem School student chorus to participate in the album. The booklet will also include the masterful, complete translations by Hershl Hartman, transliterations (to help you sing along!), and an introductory essay by Eric Gordon.
Your contribution to The Sholem Educational Institute, Inc., a nonprofit 501c3 corporation (Federal Tax ID Number 95-2112000), is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Donations of any size are welcome. The faster we raise our production budget, the sooner we can get on to producing the CD. All contributions of $54 or more (Triple Khay) will be acknowledged in print in the accompanying CD booklet (unless you wish to remain anonymous).
Please make checks payable to (and be sure to mention "Polonski Project"):
Sholem Educational Institute, Inc.
P. O. Box 4508
Culver City, CA 90231
A hartsikn dank! / Thank you so much!
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Contact Us
Kalil Cohen, Director
Ruth Judkowitz, Chairmentsh
Phone: 310.552.2007
E-mail: circle@circlesocal.org & director@circlesocal.org
Web: www.circlesocal.org
1525 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 |
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Clothing + Food: WANTED!
| In an on-going effort to help those in need, we are asking that you please bring a can of food the next time you come to the Workmen's Circle.
We will donate items on a rolling basis to SOVA.
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Extra! Extra! Workmen's Circle Members in the News!!
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Check back soon!
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1525 S. Robertson Blvd.
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NEW SEMESTER STARTS SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Beginning Yiddish:
5-6 pm
Intermediate Yiddish:
6-7:30pm
Advanced Yiddish:
7:30-9 pm
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Yiddish Conversation
with Hadasa
Every Monday
2-3:15 pm
(by donation)
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Voices of Conscience Chorus
Upcoming VOC rehearsal(s):
More rehearsals after Kol Nidre
We perform in English, Yiddish, and more!
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AR Office Wish List
Want to support the AR but don't know how? Here are a few things we need: 1. A Stool for performers 2. A mac computer (2005 or newer) 3. Gift certificate to an office supply store 4. USB drive 5. Forever Stamps ------------------------------- Keep up with our events on Facebook! 
-------------------------------  Speak Yiddish! Why not? Far vos nisht? Every Monday at 2 pm Thanks to your attendance, her Conversational Yiddish group is thriving 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. Admission is by voluntary donation.
Keep your Yiddish kite flying by attending this group! All levels of Yiddish are welcome. Kumt arayn!
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