PASSOVER SEDERS: Kol Tikvah will host its...
PASSOVER SEDERS: Kol Tikvah will host its annual Second Night Seder with a traditional Passover dinner at 6 tonight at the temple’s social hall, 20400 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills. Information: (818) 348-0670.
The Moses Program at Temple Beth Hillel will hold a special Seder for Jews with disabilities at 6 p.m. Sunday at 12326 Riverside Drive, Valley Village. Rabbi Jim Kaufman leads a service that recounts the story of the Jews’ exodus from slavery in Egypt, and includes traditional Passover hymns. Information: (818) 763-9148.
Jewish Home for the Aging will celebrate a community Seder at 5 p.m. Thursday at Eisenberg Village, 18855 Victory Blvd., Reseda. The cost is $15 general, $10 for children 12 and younger. Reservations should be made by Monday. Information: (818) 774-3015.
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICES: Canoga Park Lutheran Church will hold a sunrise service featuring guest speaker Ardon Albrecht, executive producer of the TV program “This Is the Life,” at 6 a.m. Sunday at the church, 7357 Jordan Ave. The church will also hold an Easter festival service at 9:15 a.m. Information: (818) 718-6774.
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks will hold a Spanish sunrise service at 6 a.m. Sunday at 1712 S. Glendale Ave., Glendale. Additional services at their Southern California memorial parks are conducted in English. Information and locations: (213) 254-3131.
The Glendale First United Methodist Church will hold a sunrise service and an Easter egg hunt at 7 a.m. Sunday in Casa Adobe Park on Dorothy Drive north of Stocker Street, Glendale. In case of rain, the service will be moved to the church sanctuary, 143 N. Kenwood St., Glendale. Information: (818) 243-2105.
TORAH BREASTPLATE DEDICATION: West Valley’s Congregation Or Ami will dedicate its first Torah breastplate--which includes a fragment of a breastplate that was recovered in 1938 from a German temple the Nazis destroyed--at a 7:30 p.m. celebration Friday at Bay Laurel Elementary School, 27470 Paseo Primario, Calabasas. The remnant was once part of an elaborate silver breastplate that decorated a Torah in the German Meppen Synagogue, established in the 1600s. Ernest Cohen, father of Or Ami congregant Olivia Cohen-Cutler, found the fragment in the ashen remains of the temple after its Nazi-ordered destruction. He smuggled it out of Germany after he escaped from a concentration camp. Information: (818) 880-6818.
JEWISH WIT AND WISDOM: Rabbi Mark Sobel of Temple Beth Emet will lead a weekly class on “Wit and Wisdom in Judaism--The Classical Period” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the temple, 600 N. Buena Vista St., Burbank. This week’s topic is “Haggada: Punishment and Guilt in Judaism.” The cost is $5 per session. Information: (818) 843-4787.
