Religion Notes

DINNER AND BLUES: Saturday Night Alive, a worship service with a live rhythm and blues band, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Saturday and be followed by a potluck dinner at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 17400 Vanowen St., Van Nuys. Free. Information: (818) 342-0302.

CANINE SERVICE: Sharlene Laurentz will present a free lecture on “Love on 4 Paws,” a program in which volunteers bring service dogs to help handicapped children in Los Angeles schools, at 10:45 a.m. Sunday at Sepulveda Unitarian-Universalist Society, 9550 Haskell Ave., North Hills. Information: (818) 894-9251.

RELIGION 2000 SYMPOSIUM: Rabbi Steven Jacobs, the Rev. Ronald Culmer and Susan Maloney will participate in a symposium on the changing role of religion in the year 2000 at 2 p.m. Sunday at Temple Kol Tikvah, 20400 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills. Free. Information: (818) 348-0670.

MOROCCAN JEWISH FESTIVAL: The Jewish Multicultural Assn., emphasizing Sephardic culture, will host its annual Mimouna Festival with traditional foods, poetry, art, music and dancing from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday at 22528 Flamingo St., Woodland Hills. Free to members and children 5 and younger, $11 for guests and $5.50 for children 6 to 12. Information and reservations: (323) 650-3157.

YOM HASHOAH OBSERVANCE: Yom Hashoah, a Holocaust Remembrance Day event, from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the West Valley Jewish Community Center, 22622 Vanowen St., West Hills. The cost is $1.75 for members, $3.50 for guests. Information: (818) 464-3283.

LECTURE: Uri Herscher, president of the Skirball Cultural Center, will present a lecture, “Hurry Up--Get Yourself a History,” at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Social Hall at Temple Beth Hillel, 12326 Riverside Drive, Valley Village. The cost is $2. Information: (818) 763-9148.

JUDAISM CLASS: Judaism 101, a six-week introduction to Judaism class, will be offered beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Valley Cities Jewish Community Center, 13164 Burbank Blvd., Sherman Oaks. The cost is $55 for members, $65 for guests. Information and registration: (818) 786-6310.

AMERICAN JEWISH CULTURE: Stanford professor Arnold Eisen will discuss “Jewish Culture Wars in America” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. in the Sepulveda Pass. The cost is $8 for guests, $4 for members and students. Information: (310) 440-4500.

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE: A Yom Hashoah service marking Holocaust Remembrance Day will be held at 8 p.m. Friday at Temple Ahavat Shalom, 18200 Rinaldi Place, Northridge. Free. Information: (818) 360-2258.

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