Nefesh B’Nefesh Jerusalem Flash Mob–Real Smooth-e

Miss Nefesh B’Nesh’s flash mob in Jerusalem to Smooth E’s Hanukkah Hey Ya?

Hanukkah will here very soon. Show off your dance moves at Light It Up! Get your tickets now http://www.paloaltojcc.org/light

hat tip to ck

Jews’ Next Dor’s Hanukkah Happenings

Jews’ Next Dor has lots going on for Hanukkah5770 (2009) from San Jose to Palo Alto. It starts in a big way with the community Young Adult Light It Up Hanukkah Party. Don’t forget to register online for discounted admission at http://www.paloaltojcc.com/light, bring donations for Second Harvest Food Bank to be entered into the raffle. After you’ve recovered from the open bar at Light It Up! Join us for a Hanukkah House Party in San Jose, and end the holiday with us at a potluck Shabbat. Details on all these are below!

• Saturday, December 12, 9pm, Light It Up! Young Adult Hanukkah Party

  LIGHT IT UP!
  Young Adult Hanukkah Party

  Saturday, December 12, 2009
  9pm
  Cultural Arts Center, Oshman Family JCC
  3921 Fabian Way,
  Palo Alto, CA

  21+
  Open Bar

  Support Second Harvest Food Bank to Win Raffle Prizes
  1 ticket/non-perishable item

  $10 Advance http://www.paloaltojcc.com/light
  $15 at The Door

  Brought to you by: Hillel of Silicon Valley, Hillel of Stanford, Jews’ Next Dor, Oshman Family JCC, Roots Collective, SVYAD, & T’Keya.

• Tuesday, December 15, 7pm, Hanukkah House Party

  Jews’ Next Dor invites you to a Hanukkah House Party, bring your Hanukkiah (and candles), and a potluck vegetarian/dairy (fried or not) dish to share to celebrate the 5th night of Hanukkah. Try your hand at dreidel and more. RSVP to JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org for the San Jose address. Join us at 7pm on Tuesday, December 15.

• Friday, December 18, 7pm, Potluck Shabbat Hanukkah

  Celebrate the 8th night of Hanukkah and welcome Shabbat with Jews’ Next Dor at a private home in Mountain View. Please bring a vegetarian or dairy dish to share. Please RSVP by December 16 to JewsNextDor[at]beth-david.org for the address.

Hallel, Latkes, and Sufganiyot

Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto has a regular daily minyan. This Thursday, December 25th,  minyan will includes some Hanukkah additions and foods.

It’s your chance to check out Thursday morning minyan! Minyan will
begin late this week – at 8 am instead of 6:45 – because it is a
Federal holiday. It’s not a Federal Holiday becauseof Chanukah, but it
certainly is Chanukah and we will have our Chanukah celebration. That
means: hallel (in addition to our usual davening), and breakfast
afterward with latkes and sufganiyot (in addition to the pickled
herring and hard boiled eggs)! In case donuts and pickled herring
doesn’t sound like a good combination to you, you are free to pick and
choose what you’d like.  Bring your chanukiah, if you’d like, and we
can light up the morning. (Same number of candles as the night
before.)

Several Thursday morning “regulars” are out of town so your attendance
would be especially appreciated.

Try it, you’ll like it!

Bob & Bob’s second annual Christmas Kumsitz

Bob and Bob (fine Jewish gifts and books) invites you to join them for their second annual Christmas Kumsitz. They are located at 4500 El Camino Real, Los Altos, California. Here’s their invitation:

join our second annual christmas kumsitz
thursday, december 25, 1-4
with elaine moise, lead singer of the klezmakers and souska and mordecai of hot kugel
bring your guitar, tambourine, accordian, bongos, mandolin, your clapping hands or just your singing voice
we’ll sing hebrew songs, yiddish songs, camp songs, union songs, pop songs and whatever songs pop into our heads

you can even just sit and listen

our hours this week:
monday-wednesday 10-6, thursday 12-5, friday, 10-3
happy hanukkah!

Oh Hanukkah is Happening in a Big Way Around the Bay in 5769

While Jews’ Next Dor decided to just do the Light It Up pre-Hanukkah Party this year, you won’t be short of ways to celebrate Hanukkah this year. There’s something for all types of people. Here’s a crude run down of Haukkah around the Bay this year, did I miss something? Share it with us in the comments. Come on, celebrate like the oil won’t run out.

The first candle is Sunday night, December 21.

If there aren’t enough choices in the community, and you’re having your own party, the Jewish Study Network (JSN) would love to come give a 5-minute power talk on Hanukkah for you and your guests.

December 18 Latkes, Vodkas, and More

December 20

• Bar Yohai hosts Chanukkah Shabbaton a little more on it
• Saul’s sidewalk latke tent in Berkeley

December 21–1st Candle

• Giant Chocolate Menorah with Chabad of the Greater South Bay, 4pm Palo Alto City Hall Plaza
• Grand Menorah Lighting with the Mayor of Cupertino and Chabad of Cupertino, 6pm Cali Mill Plaza, Cupertino. (Collecting toys for kids with Cancer)
• Mission Minyan First Candle (collecting toiletries for local shelter)
• Super 8 Haukkah Happenins with The Hub. An activity for each night of Hanukkah rolled into one night. 6pm Minna Gallery, SF
• Saul’s sidewalk latke tent in Berkeley
• Be’chol Lashon’s Chanukah festival to celebrate diversity at Congregation Sherith Israel in SF, 1-4pm

December 22–2nd Candle

• Mission Minyan Second Candle
• 8 Types of Latkes cooking class with the Hub
• Winter Mitzvah Day and Hanukkah Party with Jewish Family Service of Silicon Valley
• Saul’s sidewalk latke tent in Berkeley
• 2nd Candle lighting with Wine Tasting  & Lecture in Hebrew

December 23–3rd Candle

• Mission Minyan Homemade Sufganiot
• Games Night: Hanukkah! with Temple Emanu-El’s Young Adult Community
• Hanukkah Party with Congregation Am Echad
• Spin and Fry in the Mission, SF

December 24–4th Candle

• Mission Minyan 4th Candle with Fred
• Hanukkah on Ice Dec. 24 with Chabad of the Greater South Bay 5pm, Cupertino
• The Ball 2008 by Jdate and LetMyPeopleGo.com 8pm, Jillians, SF
• Party 4 a Purpose at Latke Ball 2008 with an SVYAD Latke Ball (booze) Bus from the South Bay and Peninsula (Proceeds benefit the Jewish Community Federation and Camp Tawonga)
• Chopshticks – a Tradition of Comedy and Chinese Food with Gary Gullman of Last Comic Standing fame
• Congregation Sinai in San Jose Hanukkah Party
• Heebonism Bash with Heeb magazine, SF.
• Matzah Ball in Berkeley

December 25–5th Candle

• Mission Minyan Latke Cookoff
• The “December Dilemma” in American Television and Film with the Hub
• Chanukah Bowl 2008 with can food menorah (bring the cans for Jewish Family Service) with Chabad of Sunnyvale 2pm, Moonlight Lanes, Santa Clara
• 2nd Annual Community-Wide YIDDISH Cultural Festival in Berkeley
• Annual Luncheon for the Homeless in the South Bay
• THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM Free Day
• Chanukah Dinner and Talks at Ahabat Torah Facebook event
• Bob & Bob’s second annual Christmas Kumsitz
• Kol Emeth’s Hanukkah Minyan, Hallel, Latkes, and Sufganiyot

December 26–6th Candle

• Mission Minyan Sixth Candle
• “Good for the Jews” live in SF at the Red Devil Lounge
• Family Hanukkah Service at Shir Hadash
• Chanukiah Lighting and Chanukah Party with Temple Emanu-El San Jose
• Singles Hanukah candle lighting and dinner this Shabbat

December 27–7th Candle

• Mission Minyan Hannukah Happy Hour
• Birthright Israel NEXT San Francisco Worldwide Hanukkah Party
  

December 28–8th Candle

• Mission Minyan 8th Candle

Giant Chocolate Menorah

Giant Chocolate Menorah

Sunday, December 21, 2008

4:00 pm
Palo Alto City Hall Plaza, 250 Hamilton Ave 94301

Despel the darkness of the world. Spread the joy and light of Chanukah. Latkes, Cider, Live Music, Crafts, Chanukah Gelt. Sponsored by Chabad of the Greater South Bay.

Chanukah Bowl 2008

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Thursday, December 25th from 2pm-4:30pm.

Bring your family and friends and join Chabad of Sunnyvale for Chanukah Bowl 2008.

An afternoon of Chanukah community celebration, bowling fun , delicious sufganiot and fabulous Arts n’ Crafts for the children.

Featuring the Menorah of Giving! Help build a giant Menorah made up of canned foods (bring your own) which we donate to the needy through Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley.

Chanukah Reservation Form–Register Now!

Pictures from December 2007 Sunnyvale and Cupertino Chabbad Hanukkah Celebrations. Check out videos from them to– videos of Chabad Hanukkah Celebrations, December 2007

We Lit It Up!

Happy Hanukkah! Click the image to see the full album from Light It Up!

Light It Up! brought Jewish young adults from around the Bay to the Koret Pavillion last night for a (not-yet) Hanukkah Party. We filled a few barrels with food for Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest Food Bank), DJ-Doff rocked the house, as we tore up the dance floor. Thanks to all of our bartenders who kept the drinks flowing. Thanks as well to all the organizations and volunteers who pitched in to help organize, setup and cleanup the event. We’d love to get your feedback, by either filling out this Word document (save it with your comments) and send it to JewsNextDor[at]gmail.com as an attachement or by submitting this PDF form online to us (just hit the send e-mail button).

Relive the fun, enjoy the memories or see what you missed in the pictures (full album). Facebook has 2 albums (part 1 & part 2) which are selections from the full album on Picasa, as well as an album by Tsafrir Melamed’s Photography. While you’re there join the Jews’ Next Dor Facebook group.

Light It Up! was sponsored by Hillel at Stanford Grad and Young Adult Group, Jews’ Next Dor, SVYAD, Roots Collective, ALS JCC, Tzavta, Israel Center and Hillel of Silicon Valley.

Hanukkah on Ice Dec. 24

Chabad of the Greater South Bay invites the Jewish community of the Greater South Bay to come out for some 4th night of Hanukkah fun on December 24.

Come and join us for an enjoyable Chanukah ice skating evening! Wednesday, December 24, 5 – 8 p.m. Skate to Jewish music! Food, crafts for the kids, Menorah lighting and more! At the Vallco Ice Skating Rink 10123 North Wolfe Road Cupertino, CA 95014. Adults $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Children $8 in advance and $10 at the door
To RSVP or for more information please call 650-424-9800 or chabadgsb[at]gmail.com

• Menorah lighting
• Skate to Jewish music
• Latkes & Cider
• Raffle
• Make your own Menorah
• Donut decorating
• Food for sale
• Dreidels & more

co-sponsored by Chabad of Palo Alto, Chabad of Cupertino, Chabad of S. Jose, and Congregation Emek Beracha

Party 4 a Purpose at Latke Ball

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For maximum fun, GET ON THE BUS!

Party 4 a Purpose at Latke Ball 2008 from the SFJCF blog