Community Calendar’s of Interest

• Beth David Calendar of Events
• Jewish Bay Area
• Oy-Bay Calendar
• PlanItJewish
• Bay Jews Calendar
• Beth Am Roots Collective

Announcement: Jews’ Next Dor is organizing baskets for the silent auction, one is Games and Crafts, the other is Decadence (Chocolate, Coffee, etc.). Please bring your donation to a Jews’ Next Dor January event. Food must be Kosher.

Upcoming Jews’ Next Dor Events

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• Thursday, February 4, 7pm, Speed Dating

  Jews’ Next Dor and SVYAD once again team up to bring you Speed Dating in the South Peninsula. $20/person includes drink ticket and appetizers. Location provided with confirmed online registration. Space is limited.

• Saturday, February 6, 9:30am, Jews’ Next Dor Shabbat

  Jews’ Next Dor is leading the Shabbat morning service at Congregation Beth David, 19700 Prospect Road, Saratoga, Ca. http://beth-david.org. Please join us if you’ll be participating, or just to support your friends and represent Jews’ Next Dor to the congregation, who supports us. Schmooze with your friends at the luncheon we’re sponsoring afterwards. Services begin at 9:30am, all males are required to wear a kippah, Beth David supplies some if you don’t have one.  We’re looking forward to seeing you there. For anything Jews’ Next Dor Shabbat related please contact JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org, thanks in advance.

  Join the Kiddush Klub any Saturday morning to get familiar or practice Shabbat morning services at CBD.

  Now a few technical notes:

  • Any one leading must wear a kippah and a talit, you can bring your own, or borrow from the shul.
  • We’d love to get as many young adults to participate as possible. If you’d like to learn something a few of your peers are willing to teach.
  • Contact JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org if you’d like to help or participate.
    
  • You can check out CBD’s religious school wiki for audio clips of tunes, list of page numbers in the Siddur Sim Shalom used by Congregation Beth David http://cbdshulschool.wikispaces.com/Tefillah
  • In order for us to provide a luncheon for the congregation following services we’re looking for a little help. If you’re interested in helping to shop, prepare, or donate towards lunch please send us an email.
  • For the luncheon we’d love if anyone would like to contribute baked goods. They must adhere to the Congregation’s Kashrut Policy, which can be found online http://beth-david.org/kashrut.htm. They must be delivered to Congregation Beth David before Shabbat.

• Wednesday, February 10, 7pm, Meet & Greet at Sakoon

  Join fellow Jewish 20 & 30 somethings for Jews’ Next Dor’s monthly Meet & Greet. Enjoy a nice dinner at Sakoon (357 Castro St., Mountain View), Indian restaurant, in the company of Jews Next Dor. The preset menu will be vegetarian/dairy. Please bring cash, singles appreciated. Please RSVP to  JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org.

• Saturday, February 20, 8pm, Ice Skating
  

  What’s more fun than ice skating on a beautiful outdoor rink in crisp winter weather? Join Jews’ Next Dor for an ice-skating get-together at the Winter Lodge outdoor skating rink  in Palo Alto on Saturday February 20th, part of it is covered in case of rain. We’ll skate from 8-10pm. While you’re off the ice, join us at covered picnic tables by the fireplace. And best of all, the place has an indoor lodge with couches and fireplace. $10 a person including skates, sorry for discounts for bringing your own skates, but you’re welcome to bring them. Winter lodge is located at 3009 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA. Please RSVP to  JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org. So maybe you can’t glide across a frozen pond in an idyllic little New England town while snow falls and deer frolic in the nearby woods, but you can simulate the experience with a bunch of Silicon Valley Jews. See you there!

• Sunday, February 21, 2:30pm, Nosh Nosh on a Hamantashen: But First You Have To Bake Them

  Join us at a private home in Cupertino to bake hamantashen. We all love the traditional triangular pastry of Purim, so join us in making them. We’ll have traditional and fun fillings, from apricot to cherry chocolate chip. Besides noshing on a hamantash, the best part is you won’t be baking alone. You have to help bake in order to help eat. $10 a person. You’ll leave with a bag full of these yummy holiday treats. RSVP to JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org for the address and with your favorite filling. These will go great in Mishloach Manot baskets, that you can exchange at Megillah reading on February 27th at 7pm at Congregation Beth David, Jews’ Next Dor is again helping with the Purim Spiel.

• Saturday, February 27th, 7pm, Megillah Reading

  Join Jews’ Next Dor in costume for Beth David’s abridged Megillah reading and purim shpiel. We’re helping with the shpeil. For those that prefer the whole gantze mehillah there will be a reading at 8:30pm. There will also a Megillah reading during morning services beginning at 9am on Sunday, February 28th followed by Purim Carnival at 11am. Congregation Beth David, 19700 Prospect Road, Saratoga, CA.

• Sunday, February 28th, 11am Purim Carnival

  Congregation Beth David invites you to their annual Purim Carnival featuring carnival games with prizes, arts and crafts, folk dancing, sing-a-long, silent auction, and of course Queen Esther’s Kitchen by Sisterhood. Delicious homemade Cabbage Rolls, Knishes, Hot Dogs, Hamentaschen and other yummy treats will be available for purchase (you can order hamentachen and cabbage rolls in advance to have for your home). Congregation Beth David, 19700 Prospect Road, Saratoga, CA.

• Sunday, February 28th, 8pm Movie Night: “A Serious Man”

  Private Home in Palo Alto (RSVP for Address)

  The latest offering by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men) is one of the best Jewish-themed movies to have come out in a while, so let’s watch it together! This private home in Palo Alto has a 50” HDTV (and yes, the movie is on Blu-Ray) with 7.1 Surround Sound, so it’s almost as good as watching in the theatres. According to the reviews, the only times you’ll stop laughing will be when you have to in order to declare “Oy!” RSVP to JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org for the address by February 24th.

• Saturday, March 6, Purim Party

  Saturday, March 6th
  9pm
  Koret Pavillion Stanford Campus
  563 Lane A, Stanford Ca
  21+ open bar with guest bartenders
  $10 online in advance until Noon March 5th
  $15 at the door

  Costume Contest for Best Female, Best Male, Best Couple and Grand Prize awarded to Best Costume Overall. Prizes include Movie gift cards, Amazon gift card, Kitchen Table Gift Card

  It’s a mitzvah: bring Toiletry items to be donated to the Shelter Network and win raffle prizes. 1 item = 1 raffle ticket.

  Want to be a guest bartender? Contact JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org

  REGISTER ONLINE TODAY: https://dnbweb1.blackbaud.com/OPXREPHIL/EventDetail.asp?cguid=CE91943D-D28D-421C-8EBF-06AFF465396E&eid=28357&sid=58F0AE78-D361-4457-9ACD-E91FBA109F4E

  Co-sponsored by Jews’ Next Dor, Hillel at Stanford Grad and Young Adult Group, Beth Am Roots Collective, SVYAD, Oshman Family JCC, T’Keya.

  Jews’ Next Dor is looking for a few more volunteers to help before, during and after the party, interested in lending a hand? Contact JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org.

• Wednesday, March 10, 7pm, Meet & Greet at Zeni Ethiopian
  

  It’s time for our monthly Meet and Greet… It’s going to be really neat. Get your taste buds ready for a treat. As always there’ll be no meat. Don’t be surprised when there’s no table to cover your feet. It will be Jews’ Next Dor’s traditional Meet & Greet in traditional Ethiopian style. Join us at award winning Zeni Restaurant (1320 Saratoga Ave, San Jose, at Payne). Schmooze with your Jews’ Next Dor friends and make new ones too. Please RSVP to JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org. Cost will be around $15 a person. Jews’ Next Dor Meet & Greets are held monthly on the second Wednesday of the month.

Ongoing Informal Jews’ Next Dor Events

• Saturday Morning Young Adult Kiddish Klub

  The Kiddush Klub is an informal and unofficial gathering of Jews’ Next Dor on our home turf, Congregation Beth David, on Shabbat mornings.  Some of us come for services, others just for lunch, we’d love for you to join us for either or both. Services begin at 9:30am (you’re welcome to stumble in anytime) Kiddush begins around noon (12pm). Look for us near the back. Consider this an open invitation to join us, and CBD any Saturday morning.

  Questions? JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org .

  Learn something new, or get more familiar with the service for next Jews’ Next Dor Shabbat 2010.

• Be a Minyanaire
  

  Help with the mitzvah of making a minyan. Come one, come all and join Congregation Beth David every Monday – Thursday evening at 7:00 pm for daily minyan. A minyan is a quorum of at least 10 Jewish adults required for public worship. CBD’s weekday minyan last about 20 minutes. It’s a wonderful tradition that brings comfort to our mourners and gives each of us a daily opportunity to connect with our soul, our community and our God. We look forward to having you join us and thank you in advance! If you know you’ll being coming on a specific day, please let CBD’s minyan captains know by e-mailing fammayer [at ] aol.com.

Our heart is our volunteers who plan all events and make them happen. Thank you so much to them! Join our volunteers and help with Jews’ Next Dor events today!
Contact JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org to volunteer or for more information.