After Abel, and other Stories
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Author Michal Lemberger will discuss her book “After Abel, and other Stories”. Read more
Jewish Music - The Soul of a People
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Danny Maseng will give an experiential presentation on Jewish music through singing and story-telling. Read more
Jewish Music from a World Perspective
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 9:30am to 10:45am
Professor Mark Kligman will present "Jewish Music in World Perspective." A scholar of Enthnomusicology at UCLA, he is co-editor of the journal Musica Judaica. Read more
Jew or not a Jew? Proselytes, Apostates and the Deepest Challenges to Jewish Identity
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Professor Joshua Holo, "Jew or not a Jew? Proselytes, Apostates and the Deepest Challenges to Jewish Identity” Read more
Pushing the Boundaries: Changing Women's Roles in Orthodox Judaism
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Alissa Thomas-Newborn, L.A.'s first female Orthodox congregational rabbi (her title is officially "Morah" – teacher), will speak about women's changing roles in Judaism. Read more
Sephardic Heritage and Culture
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 9:30am to 10:45am
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, director of the Sephardic Education Center, will share some of the rich cultural history of the Jews of Spain and their descendants throughout the world. Read more
CANCELLED The Lost and the Living: One Family's Journeys from the Old World to the New, and Back Again
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED.
Los Angeles native Lisa Lainer-Fagan presents her extraordinary research... Read more
Environmental Justice Series
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Town Hall with Environmental Justice Activists Read more
Men's Circle
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
The Gold Next to the Mud: Men’s Responses to Trauma, Rage and Grief with Poetry, Song, Talking Circles, Dance Read more
The Kindness of the Hangman
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 7:30pm
Dr. Henry Oster, author of The Kindness of the Hangman (Higgins Bay Press, 2014), which tells a gripping tale of the 2,011 Jews who were rounded up by the Gestapo and deported from Cologne, Germany. Henry is the only one still alive to tell their story. Read more