| October 31st, 2012
All events at Arbeter Ring Los Angeles unless otherwise stated.
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Come to the Cabaraise: Sunday, November 11
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Doors open for dinner at 6:00 pm
Show starts at 7:00 pm
THE MBAR
1253 N. Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(in mini-mall on southwest corner of Fountain and Vine next to El Floridita)
What's the best way to celebrate Veteran's Day? With a bunch of veterans, of course! Veterans, that is, of the Broadway stage and TV, film and recordings. Sunday, November 11th an illustrious group of performers gathers
at the MBar in Hollywood for the "CABARAISE" - an evening of song and surprises.
Tickets are only $25 (not including food and drinks)
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CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS - Ballot Proposition Voter Guide!
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A trusted team of activists, scholars, journalists and lawyers from the Bay Area and Southern California offices of Bend the Arc developed this guide to California's November ballot propositions. Peruse the guide on the Bend the Arc website or download the voter guide as a PDF at http://bendthearc.us/campaigns/california-voter-guide for in-depth analysis of the critical issues on the ballot. Share the guide with your friends and also see how Bend the Arc's ballot recommendations guide compares with those of other leading progressive groups: http://courage.3cdn.net/61fe2b1f07358f45a8_nxm6bhfgq.pdf |
Honor Women in Your LIfe at the Jewish Women's Conference
Sunday, November 11, 2012, at UCLA's Covel Commons
| The Second Annual Jewish Women's Conference is just around the corner, which means that it's time to register and sign up for your workshop choices! We are expecting 350 attendees at the conference, which is taking place on Sunday, November 11, 2012, at UCLA's Covel Commons.
Workmen's Circle DC Member, Tera Greene, will be speaking on the panel, "Feminism" in Today's Society.
Click here for an easy-to-print schedule and list of presenters.
The 2nd Annual Jewish Women's Conference of Southern California is presented by National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles (www.ncjwla.org) with support from NA'AMAT USA Western Area (www.naamat.org).
Please visit the JWC website at www.jwcsc.org, "LIKE" the JWC Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/jewishwomensconference, look for us on Twitter: @JWCLA, and subscribe to our blog by clicking this link.
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| The Workmen's Circle Chanukah Freylekh! |
Thursday December 6th @ 7:30pm
FEATURING: * Heather Klein - Yiddish Song, accompanied by Neal Brostoff * Bruce Bierman ~ Yiddish Dance, plus The Shpil and Klezmer Juice!
And featuring visual art by Stacy Wexler!
refreshments will be served
Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle)
1525 S. Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035
Thursday December 6th 7:30pm
$10-$20 sliding scale donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
For three years, singer Heather Klein has worked together with communities, local artists and musicians to present "Hungry for Yiddish; A Mitzvah Project." Several klezmer bands, Yiddish singers, classical, and world musicians pitch in to present a series of concerts to raise money and awareness for the homeless and hungry population. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, which provides hunger relief in the Los Angeles county.
The Program
7:30-8:30PM: Yiddish song with Heather Klein's Inextinguishable Trio. Heather brings a captivating deep artistry and operatic technique to Yiddish song. Her voice call audiences to rapt attention, her songs deep with history infused with new life.
8:30--8:45PM: Intermission w/ refreshments
8:45--9:30PM: klezmer dance party! The Workmen Circle's own Yiddish Dance Maven, Bruce Bierman, will lead to The Shpil and Klezmer Juice!
See the event on Facebook:
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Let's Put Shmuel Polonski's 1931 Yiddish Songbook "For Youth" on a CD!
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The SoCal Arbeter Ring / Workmen's Circle has donated $1500 from the Lilke and Szlama Majzner Memorial Fund for Yiddish Culture to this project. With this donation, we are honoring the memory of Lilke and Szlama Majzner, lifelong activists and supporters of Yiddish culture.
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!!
| | District Committee Member, Tera Greene, will be speaking on the Jewish Women's Conference panel, "Feminism" in Today's Society, on November 11th at UCLA. More info in the Newsletter! |
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1525 S. Robertson Blvd.
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Beginning Yiddish:
Mondays 5-6 pm
Intermediate Yiddish:
Mondays 6-7:30pm
Advanced Yiddish:
Mondays 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):
Nov. 5 and Nov. 19
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 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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