From AJU.edu:
The Whizin Center for Continuing Education of the American Jewish University invites you to spend the weekend at our Brandeis-Bardin campus, a 3,000 acre retreat center nestled in the beautiful Santa Susana Mountains.
Making Marriage Work – for couples considering marriage, engaged or recently married. An intensive version of the popular 10-week program which has been offered at the American Jewish University for over 30 years providing thousands of couples the necessary skills to strengthen their relationships and create successful families.
Newly Married – for couples who have already taken Making Marriage Work and/or have been married less than two years. Navigate the many turns in marriage and refresh and strengthen your skills in order to enrich your blossoming marriage
Marriage “check-up” — for couples married two to twelve years. Covers such topics as communication and conflict resolution, love and sex, keeping the spark alive, family planning and money management.
All tracks are open to both Jewish and Interfaith couples and include sessions with a licensed therapist, rabbi and financial planner. Interfaith couples will attend sessions with the rabbi dealing with issues pertinent to their particular situation.
For further information and registration, please visit our website:
www.ajula.edu/marriage
or call Judy Uhrman, (310) 440-1566
Cost: $300/couple
(Financial aid available)
From BnaiDavid.com: …And Talmud For All!
Wednesdays 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm,
Beit Medrash with Rabbi Ari Leubitz
The Siddur and the Nature of Prayer-
Resumes tomorrow Wed., 12/2
Unit 2. P'sukai D'zimra, continues with
Rav Yosef in the Beit Medrash
Wednesdays 8:15pm-9:15pm
TANACH -Book of Shmuel Bet -
Resumes Thurs., Dec. 3rd
Thursdays at 11am,
Beit Medrash with Rav Yosef
FOLLOWED BY
Tikkun Olam Lunch
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 12:15
It’s the climax of this ten-week storytelling workshop I’ve been taking.
I’ll be reading a story that is 1400 words long. It should take ten minutes.
There will be refreshments. It is free.
Workmen’s Circle is located at 1525 Robertson Blvd, LA, CA, 90035.
I have a new motto for holiday shopping this year: Fun but affordable. Forget expensive gifts that soon find their way to the remainder bin at some big box retailer, or presents that quickly fall out of style and gather dust. This time, I plan to go digital — with iPhone applications.
With tens of thousands of applications from which to choose, and having an iPhone is a great present for your special someone (note to friends and family alike: I want an iPhone!), you can easily pick the right application for the right person. Which brings me to Scene Seeker, the coolest application for the iPhone ever, so cool that it makes Santa and his helpers – is the North Pole a union shop or a right-to-work territory? – pale before the geniuses at Bizmosis.com, the creators of Scene Seeker.
Scene Seeker gives you incredible details about your favorite films and TV shows. For example: you're in New York City or Los Angeles – and since I live in the latter, let's use that locale as our point of contact – and you want to know which movies or TV shows take place (or were shot) in the area. Well, Scene Seeker gives you all the information you need – and then some – including: names, locations and GPS directions – yes, GPS directions! – to these places. Which means, that fabled skyscraper or haunted house or iconic restaurant, the places that define our most beloved films and TV shows – they're all available through Scene Seeker.
So, here's my new plan: get all of my friends Scene Seeker – I'm on that list, too – and then watch a bunch of movies, and use Scene Seeker to really explore Los Angeles. Throw in some snacks, and I'm a happy camper. Get Scene Seeker! Enjoy the holidays — and be merry!
Gila Manolson
celebrated author of The Magic Touch, Outside/Inside, and Head to Heart
The Media's Effect on Self-Image and Modesty
Wednesday, November 18 at 8 PM
for men and women
$12 pre-registration
$15 at the door
sponsorships available
Jewish Learning Exchange
512 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 857-0923
www.jlela.com
info@jlela.com
This coming Shabbat – Parshat Toldot November 21st, Rabbi Kahn will be the Scholar in Residence at the West Coast Torah Center 322 North Foothill Road Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Friday night dinner in the shul with a few families, followed by a shiur. "From Death to Life – a Jewish view of the afterlife"
Shabbat morning , a derasha before Musaf. , A shiur an hour before Minha at 3:15 PM "The mystical experience"
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Young Israel of Century City invites the community to a Special Chevra Kadisha Workshop.
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Taught by Rabbi Elchonon Zohn
Sunday, November 22, 7:30 p.m.
at Young Israel of Century City
in our Teichman Family Youth Wing
Topic: "HALAKHIC and PRACTICAL ISSUES of TAHAROT"
This workshop is for both men and women in the community interested in learning and reviewing the laws and customs of the Chevra Kadisha. There is no charge for the workshop.
The workshop will be taught by Rabbi Elchonon Zohn, a world authority on Chevra Kadisha and funeral practices. Rabbi Zohn is Found and has served as Director of the Chevra Kadisha of Vaad HaRabonim of Queens since 1981.
Rabbi Zohn is sought after throughout the country to train members of Chevra Kadishas on the customs and laws involved in this most sacred task.
Co-Sponsored by:
Lynda and Arie Buchman in memory of all of their family members who perished in the Holocaust
and by
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries
Young Israel of Century City
9317 West Pico VBlvd
Los Angeles, California 90035
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Eric Rosen from JConnectLA emails:
Shabbat Dinner
Come celebrate Shabbat with JConnectLA and feast on gourmet grub, wine and other delicacies.
Special appearance by the wine guys.
11.20, 6:30 PM Price $18, Register by clicking here
Location provided upon RSVP.
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Kosher Sutra
Fresh off the heels of of 2 successful back-to-back Bibliyoga sessions, Marcus Freed offers some insight into life through some ideas about yoga, spirituality, nature and camels. Yes, camels.
To read more (and figure out what on earth camels have to do with spirtuality), click here. |
Honika Electronica
We are throwing our biggest holiday party ever, with an electronic music twist. Party with a purpose at an party that benefits the Federation's Fed Up With Hunger Initiatve.
12/12, A Cow Jumped Over the Moon, 421 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Doors open at 9 PM. Drink/Food Specials. Musical Acts TBA.
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Night of Unity
Wed night. Jan 20.
All of Los Angeles will be focused on this night of unity.
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As always, we care about what you think. Please feel free to shoot me an email @ Eric@JConnectLA.com, hit me up on Facebook or send me a Tweet with any thoughts or suggestions you may have!
All the best,
Eric Rosen – Marketing Director, JConnect LA
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Rav Yosef emails:
The Year's first Shabbaton is only
2 weeks away!
As, I mentioned in shul last Shabbat morning, we have a jam-packed Shabbaton Nov. 20 and 21, as we mark the upcoming anniversary of the UN's historic 1947 vote to establish a Jewish State in Palestine.
Please click on "Chaf-Tet" for all the details, but here are the highlights::
Friday Night, at BDJ, at 7:45 – Don't miss the opportunity to hear from Mr. Aaron Friedman, who grew up as a lifeguard on the beaches of Pre-State Tel Aviv, went on to become Ben Gurion's close friend and body guard, and who was present at every major event leading to the establishment of the State. He's a walking storybook of Zionist history, and his presence represents a unique opportunity for each of us! (Please note: this oneg will not be in a member's home, rather in the Bet Midrash at BDJ)
Shabbat morning, at BDJ- Dr. Adam Rubin will share his scholarly research on the responses of the various Jewish political parties to the UN's plan to partition the land of Israel.
At Seuda Shlisheet, 4:30 - Mrs. Esther Shawmut Friedman describes her remarkable experiences as an American volunteer smuggling Jews into Pre-State Palestine.
Saturday Night at 7:45,We shift from the past to the present, as Brad Gordon of AIPAC gives us an inside view as to how US policy toward the State of Israel is shaped in today's Washington DC.
THIS SHABBAT, PARASHAT CHAYEI SARAH
Shabbat, November 14, 2009
4:45 p.m. (Mincha at 4 p.m.)
Issues & Answers
featuring
Sgt. Benjamin Anthony (res.)
Topic: "True Confessions of a Chayal"
Sgt. Benjamin Anthony is a 29 year-old reservist in the IDF
and a graduate of the University of Manchester, UK.
After completing his university career in England, he volunteered for active combat service in Israelwhere he specialized as a heavy machine gunner. He completed his service with the rank of Sergeant and earned his commander's commendation. Since completing his service he established an independent organization, "Our Soldiers Speak." The sole purpose of the organization is to represent the IDF abroad, aiming to increase people's awareness of the realities and challenges faced by the soldiers of the IDF as they fight on the front line to preserve the safety of our Homeland.
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