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The alef beys and your first Yiddish words are building blocks of Jewish identity, culture, and heritage. Join us and learn how to read and write in Yiddish. You will master some basic words and useful phrases. Music and poetry will be used to enrich the experience. Arturo Kerbel is a clinical psychologist (U Iberoamericana, Mexico), cognitive neuroscientist (UCL, King’s College London), and lifelong Yiddish activist. He led a student group resisting the exclusion of Yiddish from the school curriculum, received a grant from the Abraham Golomb Fund at age 14, and from the Ashkenazi Community at age 16, to continue with the fight. He founded Idishe Shtub Mx, a group of young Yiddish activists offering lessons and other cultural activities. He is the current coordinator of Yiddish House London, an informal organization planning Yiddish trips for young people around Europe, Yiddish lessons, Jewish holiday celebrations, and outreach projects in Jewish communities in Lithuania and Belarus.

Enjoy an afternoon of your favorite arias and choral pieces from some of the most magnificent operas ever written. You’ll hear works such as “Di provenza il mar” from La Traviata, “O soave fanciulla” from La Boheme, “Nessum dorma” from Turandot, “Te Deum” from Tosca, and many more performed by soloists from Southern California and ensembles from Center Chorale and the Pacific Coast Chorale. The Opera will also feature Pacific Lyric Association’s full opera orchestra. Date | Saturday, November 6 at 4 p.m. Location | Concert Hall at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Get tickets here! Second and First balcony: $30 Mezzanine: $35 Parterre: $40 Orchestra: $45-$50 For more information, please visit the CCAE website.

As international charities pulled out or faced funding issues after the Taliban takeover, Aseel, an online business that sells local crafts, wondered: Could it help ease the rising wave of hunger?

This weekend in the arts: a powerful new group exhibition at The Front, Broadway hits from jazz greats, Lauren Gunderson’s play “I and You,” a city-wide art and architecture event.

Local pushback against San Diego County’s largest solar farm is showing how county officials, unlike elsewhere in Southern California, have no policy aimed at protecting the interests of rural residents when industrial-scale solar and wind farms move in next door.

A special event on Saturday celebrates art, documentary storytelling, and the City Heights neighborhood with workshops, art stations, food, music and a Dinah Poellnitz-curated exhibition.

Police arrested at least 35 people after activists set heavy equipment on fire. Tensions have been building for years over the plan to build a large police training facility.

More than 50 consumer and patient groups want the Biden Administration to aggressively protect Americans from medical bills and debt collectors. The effort follows a KHN/NPR investigation.

The Boardroom highlights the surfboard manufacturing industry. A gathering of like minded enthusiasts who are drawn by an authentic love for riding waves and the crafts that move us along those waves. Surf manufacturing industry’s best gather under one roof with icons of Foam Shape-off honoring Pat Rawson, BoardroomTalks panel discussions, buy boards, fins, wetsuits, gear and art. Exhibits, demos, live music, surf swap, and much more! Date | Saturday, September 25 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, September 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location | Del Mar Fairgrounds Get tickets here! Entire Weekend Admission: $15 Saturday Admission: $10 Sunday Admission: $10 Kids and teenagers under 16 are free. For more information, visit boardroomshow.com.

Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Md., is hosting five decades worth of art by Canadian Jeff Wall, a photographer who begins a work "by not photographing."