Topa Institute

Cultural programs: the organization fosters and promotes cultural awareness and education of yiddish culture in a contemporary setting. The organization produces concerts, film screenings, lectures, performances, and workshops for free or offered at a subsidized low cost.education: yiddishkayt offers a major educational initiative, the helix project that provides a travel-based educational program for undergraduates and recent college graduates. The project brings a group of students for a series of workshops held in southern california before a travel immersion program in yiddish cultural history in central and eastern europe.education: yiddishkayt leads tours in historically yiddish-speaking parts of los angeles to educate the public, especially young people, about los angeles' diverse cultural heritage and create a more historically-rooted sense of minority cultures in the city. These tours parallel and complement the touring of other historically yiddish-speaking places abroad.outr