| September 28, 2012
All events at Arbeter Ring Los Angeles unless otherwise stated.
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| New Farmer's Market on Motor at National Blvd. | | Sunday is the grand opening of the Motor Farmer's Market! Councilman Paul Koretz will be that and I hope you will be too. A brief words will be spoken by the Councilman at 10:30am. The market will be open on the corner of Motor Avenue and National Boulevard from 9am - 1 pm and has dog sitting services and free bike valet. |
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NEW Yiddish Dance class starting at the Workmen's Circle!
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FALL 2012: Thursdays · 7-9:30pm· Oct 18th-Dec 6th,
Learn Yiddish Dance with Bruce Biermen
Join the circle with renowned Yiddish dance master, BruceBierman, and discover the nearly forgotten folk dance that is currently making a miraculous comeback. Learn the steps, stylings and expressive hand gestures to the Freylekh, Joc, Chossidle, Bulgar, Sher, and Patsh Tanz. The last class, December 6th, will be a special Chanukah Freylekh with latkes, vodka and klezmer dance.
*All levels welcome. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes.
Thursdays Oct 18-Dec 6th 7-9:30pm, no class Nov 22. Cost: $180
Instructor Bruce Bierman is one of the leading specialists in Klezmer dance in California and has studied with several Yiddish dance masters in New York, Poland and Israel. Bruce has been a leading presenter of participatory Yiddish dance for major festivals, performances and conferences across the U.S. including the Berkeley Jewish Music Festival, KlezCalifornia, and the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony. He has also led dance to some of the top klezmer bands in the country including the grammy award-winning Klezmatics and Veretski Pass. Bruce serves as the artistic director of Stagebridge Los Angeles - the nation's first theater company and training program for older adults
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LIMITED TIME OFFER! Sale of Cemetery Plots until 12/19/12!!
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Limited Time Offer!
Sale of Cemetery Plots to Arbeter Ring Members!
To our members (and prospective members):
One of the historic benefits Arbeter Ring has always offered to our members is reasonably-priced cemetery plots. We have several remaining plots in the beautiful Mount Shalom South section at Eden Memorial Park which we are offering to our members at well below market rate. This section is sold out, but if plots were available there or in comparable sections, they would go for upwards of $9000 each. We are offering these plots to our members at the very attractive price of $6500, but only for three more months. At that point, if we have any left, we will open up sales to the general public, and we are confident they will sell quickly. This will be your last opportunity to purchase plots from us, because we do not expect to ever make this benefit available again in Southern California. Please contact our office at 310.552.2007 for further details.
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California Alliance for Retired Americans --Seniors are the 99% --
| Take back California for the 99%
Come to the CARA 2012 Regional Convention
October 4th, 10am - 3pm in Huntington Beach
Registration is $25 and includes snack, lunch, and materials
This year CARA is trying something new. We are holding Regional Conventions during the even numbered years, and our 2 day Constitutional Conventions will be held during the odd numbered years.
This year's first ever Regional Conventions will be spectacular events with fabulous speakers, information, and fun.
Questions: Call 510-663-4086 or 714-244-7776
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| Rally to support Proposition 30 -- Oct 15 at LA Valley College | On Monday, October 15, at 1pm, Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice will stage a rally and press event in support of Proposition 30, the measure that would create temporary tax increases, particularly on the wealthy, to prevent budget cuts in education, public safety, and social services. The event will take place on the campus of L.A. Valley College. The venue was selected to call attention to the urgent need to pass the initiative. Already reeling from deep budget cuts, the L.A. Community College District will face another $31 million in cuts, should Prop. 30 be defeated. Please attend and bring your friends. (Note: To emphasize the Jewish support for the proposition,shofar blowers will sound "A Clarion Call for Justice."
If you know of a shofarblower who'd be willing to participate, please have him or her contact Jeffrey Kaye jk@jeffreykaye.net / 818.760.0250 to coordinate).
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Reflections on the New Year and the environment from member
Saran Kirschbaum
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This is the year 5773 and we are celebrating The New Year, Rosh Hashone. It is the time of year when we look at our lives, what we did, what we didn't do and what we need to do. It is the time remembering of the creation of the world and how we fit into the natural rhythms of the world. The world that gives us all that we need to survive. One of the world's most important tasks to to make no waste, it uses and reuses everything. We need to do the same in our homes and how we make things. Recycling is good, but only if the recycled items are used again and again. Reusing is better than recycling.
For instance, a thermos can be used for liquids over and over again, without leaching dangerous chemicals. A plastic bottle if used over again has a tendency to leach the chemicals it was made with. The oil that it takes to make plastic comes from the ground, travels by trucks to be turned into a useable product, than trucked to a bottling plant that uses water that may have been treated or not. Tap water or water filtered at home has been proven to be safer than some bottled waters. Why give your money to a corporation that is making an unsustainable product? Yes, I know, it is much easier just to buy a case of water and not think about it.
Go to a meeting where coffee and other drinks are available, what are the cups made of? Are they reusable? Ever try bringing your own cup? Went to a big event at the Tree People where they asked us to bring our own place settings, plates etc. Think of the waste that wasn't made.
When you go out for dinner, do you usually have leftovers that you ask the waiter to pack up for you? Bring your own containers in a nice looking canvas bag, it works and watch the waiter smile.
Let's celebrate 5773 so that the years to come will be safer not only for us, but for the world at large. There is much we can do, and it is imperative that we do it. Celebrate and contemplate not only what we did or didn't do last last year, but do what is necessary to celebrate next year as a healthier world, not only for us, but for all living things. Wishing will not make it happen, only our actions will.
"Human beings are the only species that won't save itself because it's not cost-effective." -- Kurt Vonnegut,
Nature doesn't do bailouts.
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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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Workmen's Circle Member, Tera Greene, just finished a cross-country Tax Fairness Tour with Bend The Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. The "If I Were A Rich Man Tour". Learn more by clicking this link.
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1525 S. Robertson Blvd.
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NEW SEMESTER! on hiatus until 10/15
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)
on hiatus until 10/15
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Voices of Conscience Chorus
Upcoming VOC rehearsal(s):
Oct 15 and 29th
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. Gift certificate to an office supply store 3. USB drive 4. Forever Stamps ------------------------------- Keep up with our events on Facebook! 
-------------------------------  Speak Yiddish! Why not? Far vos nisht? Every Monday at 2 pm on hiatus until Oct 15th 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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