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Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle)
Southern California
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Ongoing at AR
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! -------------------------------

NO YIDDISH CLASSES with YAKOB BASNER & NO YIDDISH CONVERSATION with HADASA on MONDAY, MAY 30!


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Yiddish

Classes


Beginning:
 

5:30-6:30 pm 

  ($160 for 18 wks for AR members, $225 for non-members)
Intermediate: 6:30-8 pm
  ($225 for 18 wks for AR members, $300 for non-members)
Advanced: 8-9:30 pm
  ($225 for 18 wks for AR members, $300 for non-members)

Late enrollees will be charged pro rata.

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Yiddish Conversation

with Hadasa

 

Every Monday

2-3:15 pm

 

(by voluntary donation)

 

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Voices of Conscience Chorus

   

Rehearsal: June 6

 

Monday @ 7:30 pm


Our chorus performs in English, Yiddish, and other languages.

If you are interested in singing with VOC, please come to one of our rehearsals or email:

voc@circlesocal.org

YIDDISH MUSIC THIS WEEKEND!
Community Meeting!
May 18, 2011

All events at Arbeter Ring Los Angeles unless otherwise stated.

Upcoming Events & Programs

South Robertson Neighborhood Councils is holding a Community Meeting with Fire Department leadership regarding proposed changes at Fire Station #58.

Thursday, May 19, 7 p.m. at the Hamilton High School Cafeteria

      For more information, go to soronc.org

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FREE CONCERT: Los Angeles Community Klezmer Band

Saturday, May 21, 2:00 p.m. at the Richard J. Riordan Central Library,

Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. 5th St., L.A., 90071.

Call  (213) 228-7125 for directions/parking information.

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FRIDAY, MAY 20,  7:30 P.M.

"EARLY PLEASURES" BY FREDERICK KOHNER, AUTHOR OF "GIDGET"

AT VILLAGE BOOKSTORE, 1049 SWARTHMORE AVENUE

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA 90272: Early Pleasures is a fictionalization of Frederick Kohner's adolescent sexual discoveries in the years following World War I.

His daughter, Kathy Kohner Zuckerman (who is married to our District Committee member Marvin Zuckerman) was the real-life model for Kohner's

"Gidget." Kathy has written an Afterword for the novel and will help celebrate the appearance of her dad's wonderful, new book.

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Sunday, May 22, 7 p.m.: Klezmer Pianola concert

This is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Come and be astounded by Robert Berkman's piano rolls of Yiddish music, played L-I-V-E at our very own Arbeter Ring! Reservations are required!! $8/members & $12/public.  

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Friday, May 27, 2:00 p.m.: YIDDISH SING-ALONG

with Michael Stevens (Yiddish speaker and singer) at
the "Jewish Home for the Aging" in the S.F. Valley.  

Please call 310 397 5056 if you wish to participate or for more information and directions.  DO NOT CALL THE JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING. 

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Friday, June 3, 6:30 pm: Shabes By the Book

       Enjoy a potluck dinner and stimulating conversation with your fellow book lovers. The featured novel is "No Star Too Beautiful - An Anthology of Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the present" - edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel.

      Please bring enough food to share with about eight people.   

 

 Hadasa CytrynowiczSpeak Yiddish!   

   Why not? Far vos nisht?        

      Every Monday at 2 pm

          

 

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

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Admission is by voluntary donation.

 

Keep your Yiddish kite flying by attending this group! All levels of Yiddish are welcome.

Kumt arayn!  Far vos nisht?

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.

 

Neither Jewish background nor Yiddish knowledge required, though welcomed.

The 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.
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Ruth Judkowitz, Chairmentsh
Phone: 310.552.2007
E-mail: circle@circlesocal.org
Web: www.circlesocal.org
1525 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035