Posted by challahbackgirl on August 21, 2008
Young Adult Shir Shabbat
Friday, August 22, 2008
8pm
Congregation Beth David
19700 Prospect Rd, Saratoga, Ca
Join with the congregation for a lively Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a Young Adult oneg in Classroom 1, with homemade challah. Shir Shabbat is an upbeat and joyous Friday evening service (held every 4th Friday) welcoming in Shabbat, complete with Carlebachi melodies, dancing and instruments. After the service, young adults will be enjoying a separate kiddush to get a chance to unwind and celebrate Shabbat. RSVPs appreciated to jewsnextdor[at]gmail.com.
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Posted by challahbackgirl on August 21, 2008
Our Matzah Cookoff was such a success this year, we’re bringing you another great holiday cookoff opportunity to show off your culinary talents. Enter our first ever Apple and Honey Cookoff to be held on Sunday, September 14, 3:30pm at a Private home in San Jose (you know the drill, RSVP for the address, directions and parking tips to jewsnextdor[at]gmail.com). Please note our host has a mild manored dog. Besure to the read the following carefully, to be sure your dish qualifies for judging. We’ve step up the qualifications for this Cookoff. We might not be awarding medals, but no competition would be complete without prizes, but you must enter to win. Oh course, you’re welcome to come wish your fellow Jews’ Next Dor (Jewish 20 and 30 somethings) a sweet new year, with out entering a dish, but please bring drinks (doesn’t have to be apple and honey theme).
Apples and Honey Cookoff
Sunday, September 14, 2008
3:30pm
Private home near downtown San Jose
Contact: jewsnextdor[at]gmail.com
Offical Cookoff Rules, Regulations and Judging Criteria
Who is Eligible?
- Any Jewish 20 or 30 something
- You and dish must be present on September 14, starting at 3:30pm at a private home in San Jose to win.
Food Entry Requirements?
- Dish must feature either apples or honey or both.
- Dish must be parve or dairy
- Dish must be at least 50% homemade.
- All items should be prepared in advanced, and brought cook ready to serve. Plating is allowed at the cookoff. Note: only standard paper goods will be provided.
- All dishes will be consumed by participants and event attendees after judging
- Recipes for entries must be submitted to jewsnextdor[at]gmail.com by Friday, September 12 at Noon. (Recipes will be also be included on the recipe exchange on our website). A recipe must be submitted for all entries, or it will not be judged.
- All dishes to be judged must be there within 15 minutes of the start time. Dishes to arrive late will not be judged, but may be consumed after all judging is completed.
- Please provide enough of your dish that all event participates can have a portion.
- If your dish contains nuts please clearly label it.
- Name your entries
The Judging:
- There will be two categories. Sweet and Savory.
- Entrants must decide which category to enter their dish in upon arrival.
- Each dish can only be judged in one category
- A first prize will be awarded for each category
- Each entrant can enter up to 3 dishes total across both categories.
- Entrants do not need to enter both categories.
- All judging will take place on Sunday, September 14.
- Each dish will be judged on originality (25%), presentation (25%) and flavor (50%).
- Everyone present will get to judge all entries, other then their own.
- All entries will be served by a Jews’ Next Dor representative.
- Judging will be done on a point system, the dish with the most votes in each category gets first place.
- Points will be deducted if Apples and Honey are not the center piece of the dish.
- Points will be tallied by a Jews’ Next Dor representative.
- Chef of winning dishes will be awarded prizes.
P.S. CBD offers free High Holiday tickets for college students, military personnel, and those ages 19-33!
You just have to ask. Call the CBD office 408-257-3333 or stop by during regular office hours.
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Posted by jewsnextdor on August 18, 2008
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by ShelleyT, a CBD and Jews’ Next Dor member, who traveled to Israel for the first time this summer on the CBD congregational trip to Israel. Pictures included are not from ShelleyT.
Our guide referred to it as the “Jerusalem Syndrome.” One visit to the Holy City has a way of turning moderates and even non-believers into orthodox. I have to admit, I half expected that joining Congregation Beth David’s summer trip to Israel – the first trip to Israel for myself and my 70+year-old parents – would change my life. I had this idea that I would be overwhelmed by the Holy Land’s, well, holiness. I’ve traveled before, but planning a trip to Israel didn’t feel like tourism. The info packet we received before the flight put it better: it was a pilgrimage.
Jerusalem, Israel
Well let me slow down for minute here. I haven’t exactly started growing out peyot. I wouldn’t even say that stepping foot in Eretz Yisrael significantly changed my life. Just so we’re clear, this isn’t another case of the Syndrome. However, seeing Israel for the first time did change my perspective about Judaism in general, especially about what Judaism means to me. You have to understand that I grew up in a little town called Groveland in the foothills near Yosemite, and I can pretty much guarantee that my family was the only Jewish family in our neck of the woods. With the closest synagogue in Stockton, about a 2½-hour drive away, we only went to shul for the High Holy Days and for my bar mitzvah. Otherwise, our dinner table was our Shabbat sanctuary. I identified as Jewish, but Israel was some far away, war-torn land I knew only from CNN footage. Am Yisrael really didn’t mean anything to me. I felt no connection. 
That changed after day one in Jerusalem. Our primary guide/teacher welcomed us like old friends, and explained how much it meant to him to have us there. Signs at the airport and our hotel stated simply, “Welcome Home.” But more than any of these things, I was affected by seeing aspects of Jewish life everywhere, commonplace, as natural as having windows on a house. There were mezuzot on the hotel door frames, little boys with kippot playing, and big signs on restaurants declaring not simply that they kept kosher but whether they served meat or dairy. It was enough to make me repeatedly declare (in my head, not out loud fortunately), “Man, there are like tons of Jews here!” Hey, for a guy from Groveland, it was a big deal. Read the rest of this entry »
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High Holy Days 5769 Schedule of Services
