Co Sponsored by: ARZA, Arzenu, Keren Kayamet L'Israel of Israel; The World Zionist Organization; J Street; Americans for Peace Now and New Israel Fund

Community Shabbat Service and Lunch

 

Sunday, September 30^th- Sunday December 9^th

Miller Hall Middle

8 sessions @ $10.00/session = $80.00

• Water bottle
• Snack, $30.00 to spend
• Clothes, shoes, appliances, books, etc to donate

January 25 - 27, 2019
American Jewish University
Brandeis-Bardin Campus

 Sunday February 24, 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.

 

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.

Thursday, February 7, 2019  - 6:00 pm dinner followed by 8 pm event

MacArthur Fellow and two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation, proving her fearless and toughly lyrical voice in novels, memoir, and nonfiction. In 2017, she became the first woman and the first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fiction. Ward’s writing, largely set on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where she grew up and still lives, includes a memoir, Men We Reaped and the novels Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones and, most recently, Sing, Unburied, Sing. She is also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. 

Mitchell S. Jackson is a bright new star in literary fiction and an extraordinary breakout voice. He is the author of the novel The Residue Years and won The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. He is also a TED Fellow and the recipient of the 2016 Whiting Award for fiction. His new book, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, to be published in the spring of 2019, is a hybrid — part essay, part memoir, part history — that uses stories of Jackson’s family and friends to speak to larger issues in American culture, including the racial history of Oregon, whiteness in America, the prison system, drug addiction, criminality, sex work, violence and broken families. 

Ward and Jackson will discuss their work and how their experiences growing up poor and black continue to influence their writing.

Sages of the Present will meet at 6 pm for dinner in Westwood, and then meet again at Royce Hall for the 8 pm event.

 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.

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