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Meetings are Thursdays at noon for lunch at the Hillel at UCLA.

Rotary is a leadership organization made up of local business, professional and civic leaders who meet regularly to get things done in our community.

10/04/2025

This week’s speaker is Photographer Paul Papnek. He will speak on photography and "What's the story you want to tell from your photos?"
Mark your calendar for this one!
Paul Papnek has become the go-to photographer for small boutique cruise ships around the world, photographing not only the vessels but the excursion experiences and local food as well. This work has taken him around the world to Egypt, Senegal, Peru, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Panama, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Greece, Malta, Sicily, Botswana, India, and Oman. His ability to capture the true nature of a place by forming a connection with local people has clients like Variety Cruises and Elixir Boutique Cruises coming back time after time. Paul is also a lead photographer and, along with his wife, a writer for Cabo Living Magazine. Their articles showcase and celebrate people and places throughout the Baja Peninsula with that same sensitive approach and signature style.
Our in-person rotary meeting is this Thursday, April 10th, at UCLA Hillel. There is no ZOOM for this meeting. Social hour begins at noon, and the meeting starts at 12:30 p.m.

03/04/2025

April 3 - Sam Botbol and Val Espinoza give their craft talks today. Social hour begins at noon and the meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. This week’s meeting will be at Hillel at UCLA.
You won't want to miss this!

27/03/2025

Craft Talk Day! Please join us to learn more about our new member, Bob Simon. This week's meeting will be at Hillel at UCLA. Social hour began at noon and the program will start at 12:30pm. You don't want to miss, craft talks are always a favorite.

13/03/2025

Hello from the friendly Westwood Village Rotary Club! A reminder of our in-person rotary meeting this Thursday, March 13th. There is no ZOOM for this meeting. Social hour begins at noon, and the meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. This week’s meeting will be at Hillel at UCLA. This week’s speaker Gubnit Ni Dhuinn returns with a special Irish program on "The Wit and Wisdom of James Joyce" by the famous Irish writer, Tenor, Banterer.

06/03/2025

Greetings! Please join us for our program on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at Hillel at UCLA. Our speaker will be Jay Heit, the producer of "999: The Forgotten Girls," a powerful film and true story about 999 young, unmarried Slovak girls illegally deported to Auschwitz. Social hour begins at noon and the program will start at 12:30. You don't want to miss!

25/02/2025

The Rotary Club of Westwood Village will have a very special social on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Hillel. Rotary International President-Elect Mario Cesar Martins De Camargo will be visiting. It's a great honor to have him visit our Club.

Mario Cesar Martins de Camargo, a member of the Rotary Club of Santo Andre, Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the selection of Nominating Committee for President to become Rotary International's president for 2025-26. He will officially become the nominee on 15 September if no other candidates challenge him. De Camargo plans to boost Rotary's public image by working from the top down.

To learn more about de Camargo, read his interview and vision statement, which outline his goals for Rotary. You can find the links on our club website at www.wvrc.net

It is an honor to host him and we look forward to giving a friendly Westwood Village Rotary Club welcome and continue to do good in the world together!

20/02/2025

Greetings from the friendly Westwood Village Rotary Club. A reminder our in-person Rotary meeting this Thursday, February 20th. Social hour begins at noon, and the meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. This week’s meeting will be at Hillel at UCLA. This week’s speaker is Dr. Shawn Lin. He will give his presentation on "Ophthalmology and artificial intelligence."
There will be no Zoom for this meeting. It will be in person only.

Dr. Lin is the recipient of the Heed Fellowship and the Abelson Fellowship. He has authored more than a dozen peer reviewed publications in leading ophthalmology journals: including the American Journal of Ophthalmology and the British Journal of Ophthalmology. He has written textbook chapters for the classic Practice of Ophthalmology textbook and the subspecialty Cornea textbook, and has delivered keynote presentations at national and international ophthalmology meetings. His research is focused on combining human and artificial intelligence to deliver exceptional surgical results to his patients.
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13/02/2025

Hello from the friendly Westwood Village Rotary Club. This is a reminder of our in-person/hybrid rotary meeting this Thursday, February 13th. Social hour begins at noon, and the meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. This week’s meeting will be at Hillel at UCLA. "Why Poetry Matters" with Gubnit Ni Dhuinn, "born and bred' in Ireland, holds undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Literature from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and Oxford University, England, respectively. Armed with over a decades worth of lecturing at Ivy League institutions, she relishes the opportunity to expound upon the power of poetry to broaden and deepen our intellectual, emotional, and spiritual perspectives. In line with her Buddhist practice, currently she teaches a course entitled "Comprehending Life Through the Medium of Poetry" in the Creative Aging program at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Peforming Arts. You don’t want to miss this!

06/02/2025

💲💲💲Please join us for an annual tradition at the friendly Westwood Village Rotary Club -- Investment Day! PP Steve Scherer hosts our club members with their prognostications of investment opportunities for 2025. How did we do in 2024? Come see.
You don’t want to miss this lively discussion of our economic state at our in-person rotary meeting this Thursday, February 6th. Social hour begins at noon, and the meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. This week’s meeting will be at Hillel at UCLA.

30/01/2025

Greetings! We welcome you to the friendly Westwood Village Rotary club for our in-person/hybrid rotary meeting Thursday, January 30th. Social hour begins at noon, and the meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. This week’s meeting will be at Hillel at UCLA. This week’s speakers are Rabbi Erez Sherman and Father Gilbert Martinez.

Rabbi Erez Sherman was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in May 2009. He is also a graduate of Albert A. List College and Columbia University (with degrees in Music and Talmud).

At Sinai Temple, Rabbi Sherman oversees the Sinai Temple Israel Center, which engages the synagogue and the Los Angeles community in Israel advocacy and education through speakers, classes, trips, and programs. He founded the Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship, which trains future Rabbis through seminaries across North America how to engage Israel in a deep and nuanced manner. He also directs the David and Angella Nazarian Youth Fellowship, inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders to use their voices in Israel and civic conversations. He was recently named the fifth top Visionary for Israel by the Jerusalem Post.
Paulist Fr. Gilbert Martinez is pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community in Los Angeles. He was ordained a priest on May 13, 1995. He has served as pastor at St. Sebastian Church in Los Angeles and St. Cyril of Alexandria Church in Tucson, AZ. Prior to these assignments, Fr. Gil was director of campus ministry at the University of California at Berkeley. His other assignments were at the Saint Jude Cancer Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, and associate director of the Paulist Center in Boston.

A native of El Paso, TX, Fr, Gil was reared in California. He completed a bachelor of science degree in conservation of natural resources from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked for seven years as a National Park Service Ranger at Grand Canyon and Big Bend National Parks before joining the Paulist novitiate.

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