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Ryan Torok

Picks and Clicks: May 6-14, 2010

Sibling writers Nora and Delia Ephron’s “Love, Loss and What I Wore” opens for a nearly two-month L.A. run at the Geffen Playhouse. A rotating cast of actresses — including Rita Wilson, Carol Kane and Natasha Lyonne — stars in vignettes based on the book by Ilene Beckerman. Thu. Through June 4. 8 p.m. (Thursday opening), Various times (Rest of dates). $69-$74. Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles. (310) 208-5454. geffenplayhouse.com.

A Festival Torah to Go

JConnectLA, a grass-roots organization that holds events for Jewish students and young professionals, has launched the Festival Torah Project.

Picks and Clicks for April 29-May 7, 2010

Ring Festival L.A.’s “On Wings of Song: The Music and Soul of Felix Mendelssohn” celebrates the bicentennial of German Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn’s birth with a lecture on his life by pianist and professor Neal Brostoff. A staged reading of scenes from writer Jacqueline Bassan’s “Mendelssohn! On Wings of Song” follows, examining the rivalry fueled by religious differences between Mendelssohn and composer Richard Wagner. Brostoff, mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin and L.A. Philharmonic violinist Mark Kashper and cellist Barry Gold perform select works by Mendelssohn. Rabbi Edward Feinstein leads Shabbat services. Fri. 8 p.m. Free. Valley Beth Shalom, 15739 Ventura Blvd., Encino. (818) 788-6000. vbs.org.

Picks and Clicks: April 17-23, 2010

A twin exhibition boasts the Jew-centric work of artists Peter Krasnow, a Russian immigrant painter, sculptor and lithographer, and watercolor painter Bonnie Stone. Both artists enliven traditional Jewish subjects with contemporary sensibilities. “Gefilte Sushi” highlights Stone’s “Balabustahs” series, and Krasnow’s “Idiosyncrasies” offers abstractions of Noah, mikvehs and more. Sat. 2-5 p.m. Free. Tobey C. Moss Gallery, 7321 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 933-5523. tobeycmossgallery.com.

Jewish and Muslim Teens’ Project Focuses on Shared Values

On April 4, six Jewish teens from Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills and three Muslim teens from King Fahad Mosque in Culver City fished through a seemingly endless supply of canned goods at SOVA in the San Fernando Valley, the food distribution and supportive service program that is part of Jewish Family Service. Brought together by the Interfaith Dialogue Project, they placed soups, fruits, vegetables and more into small boxes so that the food could be delivered to other SOVA locations throughout Los Angeles.

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