Save Darfur: Enjoy a Movie with Friends

You are cordially invited to a special screening of Newmarket Film’s GOD GREW TIRED OF US. All proceeds to provide solar cookers for refugee camps in Chad.

 

Sunday, April 22, 3-5 p.m.
Camera 12 Cinemas
201 S. Second Street, San Jose
$20 adults, $10 students
***$30 buys 2 solar cookers for a family***

GET YOUR TICKETS OR SOLAR COOKERS TODAY

GOD GREW TIRED OF US is an inspirational movie about three young Sudanese men who – after 10 years wandering the African wilderness – fly to their new homes in the United States. These astonishing “Lost Boys” triumph over insurmountable adversities, form a family, adjust to a new culture, and continue to work for those left behind. Narrated by Nicole Kidman.

Join Peter Herjok Nyok and James Magai Majak, members of the Lost Boys community living in San Jose, for a presentation after the film.

Join with the Bay Area community for this great event and cause. This event is co-sponsored by First Unitarian Church of San Jose, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral/Hope With Sudan, Campbell United Church of Christ, Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center, Hillel of Silicon Valley, Jewish Community Relations Council of Silicon Valley, Congregation Shir Hadash, Congregation Sinai, Congregation Beth David, Temple Emanu-El, Daniel Van Gundy, and Camera Cinemas.

 

 

Welcome Oyster!

CBDYAG is honored to have Oyster, founder and editor-in-chief of Oy Bay, join our blogging crew. As his own blog describes him, “He has lived in the Bay Area his entire life, and has always been active in the Jewish community. In high school he was the regional vice-president for cultural, religious, and Zionist programming for BBYO, and in college at UC Berkeley was for a time the chair of the Israel Action Committee. He helped start the Jewish Students For Peace pro-Israel Zionist student network during the worst times of the second intifada.” Oyster has been an active member of CBDYAG for the past few years and you can often spot him at CBD on Shabbat mornings. He’d love for you to join his hevruta and study a little Torah with him after Kiddush.

Next Event: Movie Night

CBDYAGs next event will take place in Sunnyvale at the home of one of our own, and you’re invited. Join us on April 17, at 7pm, for a cozy movie night. In honor of Yom HaShoah our Feature will be “Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness” a historical documentary, which tells the remarkable story of Chiune Sugihara and the Jewish refugees that he helped to save. A light discussion will follow. RSVP appreciated to cbdyag [at] gmail.com so we have enough munchies and seats.

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J-Happenin’s this week

Young Adult

Tuesday, Mar 27

• Moishe House: The Avengers, San Francisco

Wednesday, Mar 28

• Mission Minyan’s Basic Synagogue Skills and Hebrew, San Francisco

Thursday, Mar 29

• SVYAD Jewish/Israeli Film Club, APJCC at the Levy Family Campus, Los Gatos

Friday, Mar 30

• Mission Minyan: Kabbalat Shabbat, San Francisco

 

Community

Monday, Mar 26

• Hebrew: the Heart of Bible and Prayer, JCC of San Francisco
• Best of the Prophets, JCC of San Francisco
• The Sh`ma Forum – A Jewish Lens on Immigration Reform, JCC of San Francisco

Tuesday, Mar 27

• Cherubim, Catacombs and Chagall: Jewish Visual Images, JCC of San Francisco
• Kabbalah: A Love Story: A Reading and Talk by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, BJE Jewish Community Library
• “Laws of Pesach”, Jewish Study Network
• Passover Freedom Seder, JCC of San Francisco

Wednesday, Mar 28

• Passover Farmers` Market, JCC of San Francisco
• Reiki for Peace Fund Raiser, Reiki for Peace, San Francisco
• Movie: The First Zionist Bunny, Corinthian Yacht Club – 43 Main St, Tiburon.
• Freylekh! The Joyous Dances of the Ashkenazi Jews
  A Participatory Lecture/Demonstration with Live Klezmer Fiddle Music, BJE Jewish Community Library
• JCCSF Core Curriculum: Israel: People, Community, Identity, JCC of San Francisco
• Introduction to Judaism: The Jewish Community, JCC of San Francisco
• Underwater Archaeology in Israel, San Francisco

Thursday, Mar 29

• “Passover in the Aisles!”, Albertsons’ at Los Altos and El Paseo de Saratoga
• Dr. Raanan Gissin, Walnut Creek.
• Dancing in Odessa: A Reading by Poet Ilya Kaminsky, BJE Jewish Community Library
• Winning Resumes and Cover Letters, Jewish Vocational Service, Palo Alto
• Pianist Gila Goldstein in Concert, San Francisco

Friday, Mar 30

• Dr. Raanan Gissin, San Francisco.
• Dr. Raanan Gissin, Redwood City.

Saturday, Mar 31

• Larry Wilde “Going on Ed Sullivan” Comedy Show – Congregation Beth David
• Almaden Quicksilver County Park 10 Mile Hike & Tour, South Bay
• Martha @ the JCCSF, JCC of San Francisco

Sunday, Apr 1

• Lag B’Omer Celebration South Bay, Levy Family Campus

Ongoing Events

• Israeli Art Exhibition, Sale & Lectures – Congregation Beth Am, Los Altos Hills

Personalize Your Passover

A conversation at Shul Saturday morning with Oyster and others got me thinking. Every year we gather ’round the table and go through the Passover seder. Seder means order, and while the order is the same, every year is a little different. It not just different people, or food, but each year something different in the seder resonates with me, or others at the table.

Whether you’re hosting a seder or a guest at another table you should make the seder meaning full for you. Here are just a few things out there to aid in your personalizing your passover experience. I’d love to hear about your Passover experience and your favorite passover foods.

I tried to put these resources into categories, in no particular order, but some entries belong in more then one category.

Israel related:

• AIPAC‘s Haggadah Supplement–A Story to Tell.The booklet is printable on the front and back of one 8.5×11 inch piece of paper which is then folded in half.
• Taglit Birthright Israel Haggadah
• Leave a Seat Empty This Seder In Memory Of Murdered Israelis

Readings, Questions, and Reflections:

• USCJ Booklet Keeping the Story Alive
• United Jewish Communities Matzah of Unity to be included at Yachatz, when breaking the middle matzah
• Modern Day Slavery readings from the American Anti-Slavery Group‘s Passover Project
• When I look at myself in the mirror, who will I see?
• We Recall the Women
• Pesach – The Festival of Freedom
• AISH.com commentary on each part of the Haggadah

Activities:

• USCJ booklet Ransoming the Afikoman–a new approach
• Afikoman treasure hunt
• Iron Chef Matzah Ball–From the Koach program bank, while designed for Campus Hillel is adaptable for a Passover shindig
• Passover Fondue–From the Koach program bank, while designed for Campus Hillel is adaptable for a Passover shindig

Haggadot:

• Uncle Eli’s Special-for-Kids Most Fun Ever Under-the-Table Passover Haggadah–A humorous retelling of the Passover Haggadah in the style of Dr. Seuss. (Fun for all ages)
• Build your own Haggadah with Rabbi Barry Dov Lerner’s delightful website www.jewishfreeware.org there’s many resources to help you create your very own Haggadah, along with other material to supplement your seder.
• The 30 Minute Seder and more
• The Internet Haggadah is written by the fun Rabbi Bill Blank of Sacramento (I went to camp with his daughters)
• The J. Weekly reported on Internet Haggadah last year, check out the article Click, Print, Seder.

Hametz Collection – A Double Mitzvah!

“HaLachma Anya, di achalu avahatana b’ar’a d’mitzrayim. This is the bread of affliction our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come and eat; let all who are in need come share our Passover”–Passover Haggadah

Congregation Beth David is here to help! Are you cleaning your pantries for Passover? Bring your unopened nonperishable Hametz items to Beth David by Friday, March 30 for donation to the 2nd Harvest Food Bank! A double mitzvah – ridding your home of hametz and providing food for the hungry!

For any hametz crumbs or otherwise left in your home, don’t forget to “sell” it (temporarily transfer ownership).

Editors note: CBD has a barrel in the lobby year round for donations to 2nd Harvest Food Bank.

Party with JIMENA Moroccan Style

JIMENA is hosting a Mimouna celebration. This is a traditional Jewish-Moroccan celebration of liberty, community, friendship and hospitality that takes place immediately after Passover. To celebrate the first baking of leavened bread.

The Academy Award winningYuval Ron Ensemble will be performing promptly from 7 to 8:15pm. There will be a henna artist, caricaturist, and craft project for elementary school age children in addition to the special Moroccan Mimouna sweets.

Enjoy the sights, sounds, and tastes of Moroccan Mimouna on Wednesday, April 11 at Kehillah Jewish High School. While you’re there check out the hand painting of my sister, on the sponsor Hamsa banners.

Get your advanced discounted tickets now, prices go up on Monday, March 26th.

Update: Kosher for Passover Food is Here!

J-Happenin’s this week

Find all events on the J-Bay Area Calendar

For Young Adults:

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
6:30pm SVYAD Connect – San Jose
7pm Basic Synagogue Skills and Hebrew – San Francisco

Thursday, March 22, 2007
7pm SVYAD Passover Baskets – Los Gatos

Friday, March 23, 2007
7pm Kabbalat Shabbat – San Francisco

Sunday, March 25, 2007
11am CBDYAG SF Adventure – Mountain View and San Francisco

For All:

Monday. March 19, 2007
6:30pm Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing –San Francisco

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
6:30pm Freedom Seder For Darfour – San Rafael
7pm Threads of Progress – San Francisco
7:30pm Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence –Los Gatos

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
8pm Noa (Achinoam Nini) Concert –San Francisco

Thursday, March 22, 2007
8pm Noa (Achinoam Nini) Concert –San Francisco

Saturday, March 24, 2007
Israeli Art Exhibition, Sale & Lectures –Los Altos Hills
8:30pm Israeli Comedian Eli Yatzpan –San Francisco

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Israeli Art Exhibition, Sale & Lectures –Los Altos Hills
12:30pm “Passover in the Aisles!” – Albertsons’ at Los Altos and El Paseo de Saratoga

Submit events to cbdyag [at] gmail.com

Kosher for Passover Food at an Albertsons Near You!

Are you wondering what you’ll eat for 8 days of Passover like me? Feeling the bread of affliction (Matzah) blues? No worries, eating kosher for Passover doesn’t have to be a modern day plague. Albertsons and Congregation Beth David (CBD) are teaming up to make sure you and I will have plenty of tasty kosher things to eat.

The Albertsons at El Paseo de Saratoga placed a large kosher fresh meat and dairy order to arrive in the store on Monday or Tuesday, March 19 & 20 to tickle our taste buds. They also ordered other kosher for Passover treats. They deserve a big Todah Rabah.

Along with this great news CBD brings us the 3^rd annual Passover in the Aisles. Look for their volunteers in two Albertsons locations: Los Altos and El Paseo de Saratoga. Stop by and say hello as they hand out goodies and bring the joy of Passover your way. They’re also having a prize giveaway, so be sure to enter the raffle! You can find them at both locations on Sunday, March 25, between 12:30–6:30 as well as Thursday, March 29, between 3:00–7:00 pm

This is a great step for the South Bay Jewish community who has been advocating for Kosher food for years. To learn more about kosher for Passover foods visit the OU site.

Don’t forget to sell your Chametz. You can pick up a form at CBD or through OU online.