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Join Cantor Elizabeth Shammash and pianist David Sparr as they take us on a journey around the Jewish world in the form of lullabies and bedtime songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino. The program includes well-known favorites such as "Rozhinkes mit Mandlen" and "Numi Numi" and takes us into new territory as well. Come to listen and learn more about the spirituality of bedtime in various Jewish cultures. Inspired by the bedtime songs of Shammash's Nana Sarah, who immigrated to the US from Riga, this program explores the love that is shared between parent and child at this most vulnerable time of day.
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at Hillel at UCLA and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
Sunday, 31, 16.00 -
Sunday, 31, 17.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
Part II of “Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen” is a Schoenberg Hall screening of the uproarious 1937 Yiddish-language musical comedy, “Freylekhe Kabtsonim” (Jolly Paupers). The film was produced at the famed Kinor Film Studio in Warsaw. It features the same creative team that produced the 1924 opera “Bas-Sheve” — composer Henech Kon and screenwriter Moishe Broderzon — and stars the legendary comedy duo of Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher. Here is a clip from the film.
“Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen” kicks off the Milken Center’s three-day UCLA conference, “Sonic Representations of Jewishness, Onscreen and Off.”
RSVP for one or both events.
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Sunday, 19, 19.00 -
Sunday, 19, 20.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
Please join us for this spectacular two-part program in Schoenberg Hall inaugurating the Milken Center’s three-day conference, “Sonic Representations of Jewishness, Onscreen and Off.”
We begin at 4 PM with the U.S. premiere of Bas-Sheve (1924), a one-act Yiddish-language opera/melodrama by composer Henech Kon and librettist Moishe Broderzon. Recently rediscovered, completed and orchestrated by distinguished Yiddish experts Diana Matut, Josh Horowitz, and Michael Wex, Bas-Sheve is based on the tragic biblical story of David and Bathsheba. Milken Center artistic director Neal Stulberg conducted North American premiere performances of the opera at the 2022 Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto. Our concert performance features four vocal soloists, chamber chorus, and a 20-piece orchestra, with projected images accompanying the performance.
Following a break, the program continues later that evening with Part II: a screening of “Freylekhe Kabtsonim” (“Jolly Paupers”). See related event posting. RSVP for one or both events.
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
Sunday, 19, 16.00 -
Sunday, 19, 17.30
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
As the Passover season begins, please join us as 200+ Bruins gather on the Royce Hall stage to perform one of Handel’s greatest and most colorful biblical oratorios, Israel in Egypt. Premiered in London in 1739, Israel in Egypt tells the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and features monumental choral writing, including vivid musical depictions of the ten plagues. UCLA voice soloists, Chorale, Chamber Singers and Philharmonia come together for this grand event.
Soloists, UCLA Chorale, UCLA Chamber Singers, UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
2 PM Sunday, March 15, 2026
Royce Hall; UCLA
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
Sunday, 15, 14.00 -
Sunday, 15, 16.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
The son of a Jewish history professor and grandson of a Jewish political icon grapples with his identity in a pre- and post-October 7 world.
A blisteringly honest, laugh-through-the-pain one-person show, Jew, Interrupted returns to Los Angeles after its acclaimed run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival last June. Ethan Stanislawski returns to bring audiences a no-holds-barred personal journey through mental health, family legacy, cultural contradiction, and what it means to be Jewish both before and after October 7.
Jew, Interrupted unfolds in seven raw, riveting chapters that delve into everything from post-Holocaust trauma to psychiatric malpractice, from sibling rivalry and chaos during a childhood trip Israel to finding unusual methods of processing grief— all stitched together with biting wit, intellectual rigor, and emotional vulnerability.
Part memoir, part cultural critique, the 60-minute solo performance journeys from Ethan’s old world legacies of his pioneering Boston politician grandfather and his father, a Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University. It covers an Upper West Side childhood fraught with privilege and pills, upending his expectations going to college in the Midwest, emotional breakdowns and familial clashes in his early 20s, and ideological reckonings in a post-October 7 world.
What emerges is a deeply personal yet universal story about inherited beliefs, cultural contradictions, and the search for an identity untethered from family myth and societal expectations.
“I was more afraid of being called a self-hating Jew than being called an anti-Semitic slur,” Ethan quips at one point — a line that captures the show’s heart: irreverent, devastating, and unafraid to sit in discomfort.
Jew, Interrupted offers a searing and often hilarious lens on what happens when progressive ideals collide with inherited dogma, and how trauma — personal, cultural, historical — shapes the way we love, fight, and grieve.
Wednesday, 28, 19.30 -
Wednesday, 28, 21.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
On this months tour we will be exploring more historical Jewish religious and Yiddish cultural sites of the Los Angeles Eastside. Many of my guests love my lengthier walking tours. You have asked for a more extensive and intensive tour, to see some lesser known sites; so this tour will be about 3.5-miles circuit in total. Are you ready?
This sites we will be focusing on will not just be the religious Jewish history of Boyle Heights, we will even be exploring the old labor and leftist political sites of the Yiddishists in the hills of City Terrace.
On this special tour we will discuss the layered spiritual and cultural heritage of our local sites. We will see some examples of how some of these old Jewish sites have found new life serving the Latino community. We will also discuss the challenges locals are facing in preserving the character of these historical sites which are precious to Latinos and Jews alike.
Sunday, 25, 12.00 -
Sunday, 25, 15.30
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
New music written by or about Jews no longer abides by exoticisms, national paraphernalia, or the prestige of “art music.” Instead, growing disillusioned with (or disinterested in) ideological apparatuses and tropes of Otherness, composers navigate through signs associated with Judaism while introducing new ethnographies in the form of fieldwork recordings, simulations of their oral behavioral patterns, or their entextualizing. With this they steadily undo the modernist divide between ethnography and art. The talk will situate the proliferation of contemporary Jewish art music in the ecosystem of new music, focusing on works by Chaya Czernowin, Heiner Goebbels, and Olga Neuwirth while considering the historiographical impact of the recordings released by the Milken Archive.
This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Wednesday, 14, 19.00 -
Wednesday, 14, 20.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
Join us for a joyful and interactive pre-Hanukkah Tot Shabbat service with music and storytelling, followed by grape juice and challah on the bimah with Rabbi Katzan, and a kiddush lunch. Tot Shabbats are free, and members and non-members are welcome.
Schedule:
10:45 a.m. Free play
11-12 p.m. Tot Shabbat service
12 p.m. Grape juice and challah on the bimah with Rabbi Katzan
12:15 p.m. Kiddush lunch (bagels, fruit, and more)
For children ages 0–5. Tot Shabbat is free and open to members and non-members—please sign up if you’ll be joining us!
Saturday, 13, 10.45 -
Saturday, 13, 12.30
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
The legendary NuRoots Hanukkah party. Join us in Miracle Mile to kick off Infinite Light with a celebration sparkling with Jewish pride.
A live band will get us started before a D.J. takes over, spinning all your favorite songs to dance to. Dive into dreidel truth or dare. Snap memories in our photobooth. Nosh at our taco bar. See dazzling magic up close. Walk away with a beautiful henna design. And feel the Jewish joy turned all the way up. We’ll pause for a communal menorah lighting moment and send you home with swag and gelt. Old faces, new friends. You never know who you’re going to meet.
Infinite Light returns December 14–22, celebrating Hanukkah with eight days of in-person events and experiences. Bringing together L.A.’s diverse and inclusive community of young adults in their 20s and 30s and made in partnership with visionary organizations and co-creators, NuRoots’ festivals have become citywide traditions.
Sunday, 14, 19.30 -
Sunday, 14, 22.30
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
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