Coming Events
Sunday, February 26, 9:30 am Join Kehillat Ma’arav family and friends for a
Guided Tour of Jewish Los Angeles
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE
Connect with our young couples on a guided bus tour as we explore the historical heritage of Jewish LA. Discover the people and places marking the growth of LA from a dusty pueblo to Jewish LA… from less than a minyan in the year 1850 to become the 2nd largest Jewish community in the world.
Lunch included at San Antonio Winery (the only winery left in LA)
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm.
$50 per person
Visit the following:
• Breed Street Shul
• Early sites of Sinai Temple
• Sites marking Jewish contributions to Hollywood
• LA’s first Jewish site, built 1855!
• Visit the original Casper Cohn Hospital (Cedars of Lebannon)
• Wilshire Blvd. Temple
• and MORE!
The bus will leave from KM promptly at 9:30 am
Wednesday, March 7, 6:00 pm PURIM COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR…CELEBRATE!
Wednesday evening, March 7, 6:00 pm the festivities begin…with a NEW LOOK!!! We’ll have a NEW MENU (still $5 pp) and our traditional megillah reading at 7:30 pm in classroom B/C.
We have surprises in store for you this year – don’t miss out!
PRIZES INCLUDE:
TWO $1800 CASH PRIZES!
APPLE iPAD
San Diego Bay Get-Away!
and much more!
..plus restaurants, sporting events, movie packages +++
YOU CAN WIN! Raffle tickets are only $50 EACH.
Come join us, hear the Megillah, have a great, noisy time of it and support our synagogue all at once.
Sunday, March 11, 10:00 am 10TH ANNUAL GEORGE AND FLORENCE EBER MEMORIAL LECTURE PRESENTS:
Dr. Ziony Zevit, “THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: THE? TEN? COMMANDMENTS?”
Endowed by the George and Florence Eber Memorial Lecture, this event is FREE and open to the community.
Dr. Ziony Zevit, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages Professor of Bible at AJU and UCLA
Prior to joining AJU’s faculty, Dr. Zevit taught at the University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and U.C. Berkeley. He also participated in archaeological excavations at Tel Lachish and at Tel Dan.
In 1987, Dr. Zevit was designated the first Avraham Biran Fellow in Biblical Archaeology at the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology in Jerusalem. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2003); in 2004, he was awarded the Frank Moore Cross Award by the American Schools of Oriental Research for substantial publications in Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean epigraphy, texts, and traditions.