Join Our New Mailing List: Important Change to CBDYAG Event Annoucements

Over the past year CBDYAG has gone through many changes and is experiencing positive growing pains. For the coming (secular) year we’re making some changes. We’re hoping the changes are for the better and that you’ll work with us in this process. If you haven’t heard, we launched a renaming CBDYAG contest, enter Now to win 2 tickets to AMC Theaters.

Besides the name, we’re changing our mailing from the Yahoo!Group that it’s been to a Google Group. You can visit http://groups.google.com/group/cbdyag to sign yourself up for the group or send cbdyag[at]gmail.com a request to be subscribed to the mailing list/group. Please included the e-mail you would like subscribed in your message.

We’ll try to keep messages to 1 a week, with all the latest event info and group news. To this end, we will no longer be inviting you to event through evite, but rather linking to evites in our weekly message. You can add yourself to any of the evites-we encourage it in fact.

Those of you in our Facebook group will still be invited to events there.

Please bare with us during this transition.

We always welcome your feedback to cbdyag[at]gmail.com

 

 

 

Honor MLK, and Start 2008 on the Right Foot at a Community Wide Mitzvah Day January 21

“Everybody Can Be Great, Because Anybody Can Serve” Martin Luther King, Jr.

A community is too heavy for anyone to carry alone. Based on Deuteronomy 1:9

 

The Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center presents:
COMMUNITY-WIDE MITZVAH DAY: A DAY OF SERVICE

Monday, January 21, 2008

Projects are open to all ages, unless otherwise indicated. Space is limited in every project, and advanced registration is required

For schedule of events, please click here

For volunteers project options, please click here

For registration form, please click here

 

Co-sponsored by BBYO, Congregation Beth Am, Congregation Emek Beracha, Congregation Etz Chayim, Congregation Kol Emeth, The Friendship Circle, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, Hillel at Stanford, Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Keddem Congregation, Kehillah Jewish High School, and Temple Beth Jacob.

Join us for a community-wide day of “tikkun olam” (“repair of the world”) as part of a national day of service to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This intergenerational event will feature a range of hands-on service projects geared towards kids, adults, families, and seniors. Participants will work in small groups on projects addressing issues of poverty, hunger, housing and homelessness, aging, the environment, and more. Come on your own or with your family and friends! Mitzvah Day will be a unique opportunity for unity & cooperation that will bring people together for a shared mission. We look forward to working with you to promote Dr. King’s legacy of tolerance, peace, and equality and increase our community’s commitment to service & justice. This fun and inspirational day will leave you feeling accomplished and energized!

Pre-registration is required and space is limited in each service project. For more information and to register, go to
www.paloaltojcc.org/mitzvah or contact Jane-Rachel Schonbrun at (650) 852-3502.

SAVE THE DATE: Congregation Beth David Mitzvah Day is March 9th.

Rename CBDYAG–Win 2 Gold Tickets to AMC Theaters

This last year CBDYAG has grown … a lot! We went from hosting 1 or 2 events every month to averaging 3 or 4 each month. We have more volunteers than ever planning increasingly varied events, from feel-good social action projects to awesome house parties.

To keep up with our growing popularity, we are making some changes and we want your input. It’s your group so help mold it!

Enter Our Naming Contest!

CBDYAG (y’know, Congregation Beth David Young Adult Group) is, well, a rather lengthy acronym. So help us create a new name by entering our NAME CONTEST!

How to Enter:

• Submit your entries (as many as you want) to cbdyag[at]gmail.com with NAME CONTEST in the subject line. Be sure we have a way to contact you if you win.
• Entries are being accepted beginning today (Dec 27, 2007) until January 18, 2008.
• We’ll sort through the entries and put the finalists up for a vote.

The Prize

The winning submission will get its clever creator 2 Gold Tickets to AMC Theaters.

• Valid for Special Engagements (First Day Movie Opens).
  
• Good at any AMC theatre nationwide, excluding Canadian theatres.
• Subject to surcharge in Digital 3D, Premium and IMAX locations.
• Valid seven days a week.
• No Expiration Date!

What is CBDYAG?

Congregation Beth David’s Young Adult Group (CBDYAG) is for Jewish 20 and 30 somethings. We’re centered in the San Francisco South Bay Area, CA and enjoy monthly events planned by volunteers from our community. Our events range from social, religious, social action, celebrating holidays and more. We`re a fully volunteer run group partially subsidized by and associated with Congregation Beth David in Saratoga, Ca.

A Hands on Taste of Jewish Italy: Make Your Own Pizza & Italian Wine Tasting

Important Notice:

We’ve had to put a limit on attendees for this event. We’ve reach capacity for the event. If you RSVPed “yes” already, we’re expecting you. If you won’t be able to make it, please let us know ASAP, so we can open up a spot for someone else. If you would like to be on a waiting list (no promises) please send an e-mail to cbdyag[at]gmail.com. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks,
Congregation Beth David Young Adult Group

A Hands on Taste of Jewish Italy

Make Your Own Pizza and Italian Wine Tasting

Sunday, January 20

4pm

RSVP requested: evite or cbdyag[at]gmail.com

Congregation Beth David Congregant Paula Barbarito-Levitt and her family have graciously invited us into their home in San Jose for a hands on Taste of Jewish Italy. We’ll get a cooking lesson on pizza and pasta, and enjoy dinner including pizza fresh from their outdoor pizza oven. Her husband Marc will share his knowledge of Italian wines, and his collection, which we’ll get to taste.

Paula Barbarita-Levitt has taught Regional Italian cooking for 15 years and has studied with some world renown chefs and teachers. As a family the Levitt’s travel to Italy every other year in search of food, and their historic origins. They have visited many lesser know areas and learned some fascinating details about Jewish History. The class will have the experiences of fashioning the same on a small scale. And if that wasn’t enough we’ll even learn a little about some special and lesser known Jewish spots in Italy.

Feel free to bring an Italian wine to share (optional). You’ll leave with a full stomach, a packet of recipes and a taste of Jewish Italy.

Please RSVP for the address to cbdyag[at]gmail.com

Open to Jewish 20 and 30 somethings. This event is FREE thanks to our hosts!

Broomball: Ice Hockey Without the Pads or the Skates

CBDYAG and Stanford Hillel’s Grad and Young Adult Group invite you to a fun night of broomball that’s totally FREE.

BROOMBALL

Monday, January 14 2008
6:30pm

Winter Lodge
3009 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306

This fun competitive game is like hockey without the pads or skates, and is played in tennis shoes (don’t forget to wear yours). We’ll provided hot chocolate and tea. Please be at Winter Lodge (directions) at 6:30pm, we’ll be on the indoor ice.

RSVP on the evite.

For more information contact mshaffin[at]stanford.edu or cbdyag[at]gmail.com

Note: Broomball is a fun game, though can be dangerous, so bringing helmets, knee pads and elbow pads are recommended, though not required.

Meet and Greet: Indian

Tuesday, January 8,

7pm

This month’s Meet and Greet features the cuisine of India.

Join us for a vegetarian meal in good company as we dine at Mayuri (2232 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050) which features both Northern and Southern Indian delights.

RSVP on the evite or to cbdyag[at]gmail.com apperciated

Vote for Your Favorite Jewish Film Festival Poster

Vote for Your Favorite
Jewish Film Festival Poster!

The current issue of Jewish Film World features a joyous collage of posters submitted by 36 Jewish film festivals. They’re colorful, they’re imaginative and they convey all the excitement of this modern movement. Enjoy them on our website: http://www.jewishfilmworld.com and vote for your favorite. Just click on the circle below the poster you like best, then click on “Submit” at the bottom of the page and your vote will automatically be tallied. Tell your friends and fellow festival-goers to do the same. The people’s choice for Best Jewish Film Festival Poster 2007 will be announced online in our January 20th news update. Influence the outcome: VOTE!

Travel Around the World in Leviathan the Jewish Voice from UCSC

If you’ve ever read my bio here, you know I used to be on the staff of Leviathan, the Jewish voice of UCSC and the longest running Jewish campus paper. For years students has been trying to get the paper online, and have only made small strides. I’m proud of the current Leviathan Staff who’ve put out an awesome Fall issue of this news magazine. (Even if they did spell my name wrong in a shout out in an article by a staff writer who started writing when I was Editor and is now graduating). I’m even more excited to be able to bring you this issue online in a beautiful PDF. Of course, if you’re in Santa Cruz, you should pick up a copy yourself and get the full effect of smooth cover in your hands and the satisfaction of turning each page. As the letter from the Editors explains, this issue has an international theme, and is relevant to everyone, not just the UCSC campus community. Please take the time to open the PDF and take a look for yourself. I know how hard the students work to put out such an great publication, so take a moment to show them you care and leave some comments here or contact them at leviathanucsc[at]gmail.com

This issue includes interviews with long time Campus professors and big time musicians, Teapacks and Y-love. Sheds light on Jewish practices surrounding death, and discusses the United Jewish Communities General Assembly, and that’s just the tip of the ice berg. From Jews in the media to Jews in Italy they’ve got something to say about it. The pages are packed so take peek now.

Todah Shari and team for an issue well done and sharing it with us.

Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Coming to a TV Near You December 23

From the j. weekly Friday, December 14

CBS special includes Israel’s chief rabbiA CBS special to air Dec. 23 will feature interviews with 12 of the world’s religious leaders, including Yona Metzger, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel.

“In God’s Name” was filmed by French filmmakers and brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet, whose aim was to explore the diversity of spirituality in modern life. That pursuit took them to Egypt, England, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Russia and the Vatican, as well as Illinois and South Carolina.

Other religious leaders in the film represent Russian Orthodoxy, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and the Church of England.

The two-hour documentary will be broadcast 9 p.m. Dec. 23 on CBS.

Young Adult Wrap Up in the January Beth David Star

The January Beth David Star (pdf) is already available online! It features lots of Young Adult faces smiling holding the gifts they wrapped for Jewish Family and Children Services (See page 7). Thanks to everyone who donated for our Toy Drive and to those who came out to wrap them. You’ll also learn about the Jewish View on being green, about the USCJ Biennial convention and so much more.