Community Shabbat Service and Complimetary Lunch

 

Sunday, January 6^th- Sunday May 19^th

Miller Hall Middle

8 sessions @ $10.00/session = $80.00

 In the Fiddler's House at Disney Hall

Sunday January 20, 2019 – 6 pm dinner; followed by 7:30 pm performance

The incomparable Perlman explores the vitality of klezmer music in a charming musical journey from New York’s Lower East Side to the Jewish Festival in Krakow, Poland, with music drawn from his best-selling CD and accompanied by a klezmer band. 

Sages of the Present will meet at 6 pm in Disney Hall for dinner and discussion (pay as you like in the Disney Hall cafeteria), followed by a 7:30 pm performance.

 

AI WEIWEI: Life Cycle exhibit at Marciano Art Foundation Sunday January 13, 11 am. - 1 pm.

Marciano Art Foundation has a solo exhibition of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. This exhibition is Ai’s first major institutional exhibition in Los Angeles and will feature the new and unseen work Life Cycle (2018) – a sculptural response to the global refugee crisis. The exhibition will also present iconic installations Sunflower Seeds (2010) and Spouts (2015) within the Foundation’s Theater Gallery.

 Batsheva Dance Company & Dinner

Saturday March 16, 2018

UCLA Royce Hall, 6 – 10 pm

 Israeli choreographer Batsheva’s Ohad Naharin is known worldwide for his adventurous vision and distinctive voice. He is widely considered to be one of the great dance pioneers of this generation. We will enjoy his evening-length work, Venezuela, in which the dancers explore the dialogue and conflict between movement and the content it represents. Naharin created Venezuela in two 40-minute sections placed in juxtaposition. In this multifaceted and compelling work Venezuela compels the audience to challenge their own freedom of choice.

 6:00 pm dinner in Westwood

8:00 pm performance at UCLA Royce Hall

First meeting: Wednesday February 20, 2019

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Location: Private home near LaBrea & Beverly Blvd (exact location will be given before the event)  

  
 

Tuesdays April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28 and June 4

7:15 - 8:45 pm

Location: TIOH Board Room

There is a tradition to study Pirke Avot (a section of the Mishnah called The Sayings of the Fathers compiled during the early 3^rd century CE ) between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot. This year Sages of the Present is invited to join a 10 year tradition at TIOH where we study this text with ancient and modern commentary.  Sessions are lay lead from and facilitated by TIOH member David Aaronson

Please purchase: Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics by Kravitz and Olitzky Amazon Link to participate in this class.

 Sunday February 3, 2019 – 3:00 – 5:00 pm

TIOH member and Sages of the Present participant Esther Weiss will be our docent at the Getty Museum (the one off the 405 highway).  She is a trained Getty docent and will also take teach us about the Rothschild Pentateuch, recently acquired by the Getty.  Like a traditional Torah, the manuscript consists of the Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Unlike a traditional Torah, it features extensive illustrations: three full-page paintings, 56 large illuminated text panels, 72 small illuminated text panels and hundreds of marginal images. The visuals feature fantastic beasts and animals as well as more abstract calligraphic flourishes, with a scene of Moses addressing the Israelites added later by the 15th-century scribe-artist Joel ben Simeon.

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