SFJCF’s Young Adults Division presents:

CLUB FED INSIDER

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Break the ice...
When you arrive, please place your three
stickers on the posters that best represent
What’s goin’ on? how you connect to Judaism.
HIGHLIGHTS Share with your table: What’s your favorite
AGENDA
Jewish food or meal and why?
6:30 Dinner begins
6:45-6:50 Welcome & Intro to session with Gabriana Marks
6:50-7:00 Icebreaker
“Worries
7:00-7:30 Sephardic culture with JIMENA go down
7:30-7:40 Break better with
7:40-8:10 Art and Judaism with Lisa Rauchwerger, artist/writer/chef soup than
8:10-8:35 Group discussion (see page 2 for details) without.”
8:35-9:00 Giving through Federation and Closing -Jewish
proverb

JIMENA SHARES SEPHARDIC CULTURE WITH CLUB FED

JIMENA, which stands for Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and Lisa Rauchwerger
North Africa, seeks recognition of the nearly one million Jews Artist, writer and chef
indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, who were displaced www.lisarauchwerger.com
from their country of origin in the 20th century. JIMENA is dedicated
to the preservation of Mizrahi and Sephardi culture and history and
fulfills its mission through an active speakers bureau, oral history
project and engaging cultural outreach activities. For more
information, visit www.jimena.org.

LOCAL CHEF CONNECTS ART AND JUDAISM

Lisa Rauchwerger is an artist, writer and chef, specializing in Judaic
papercuts, paper sculpture illustration, ketubot, graphics and
calligraphy. She is the author and illustrator of the best-selling
interactive family cookbook, Chocolate Chip Challah and Other
Twists on the Jewish Holiday Table, and its companion activity books.
A Bay Area native, Lisa has just completed culinary school and is
embarking on a new career as a chef, a related yet different art
medium. Lisa is now discovering new ways to create beautiful Cutting Raffle prizes:
Edge Creations, but this thyme (pun intended), edible ones! • “Chocolate Chip Challah and Other Twists on the Jewish Holiday Table:
An Interactive Family Cookbook”
UP NEXT: SOCIAL ACTION REUNION EVENT • Tickets to the Jewish Theater SF
Save the date! See your Club Fed friends again and volunteer together Tickets to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
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for a fun community service project at Israel in the Gardens on • Tickets to Live City Revue, Co-sponsored by The Hub at the JCCSF
• BONUS: Everyone will receive two-for-one passes to the Contemporary
Sunday, June 6th, 2010. Formal invitation coming soon! Jewish Museum

Interested in getting more involved in the community? Consider becoming part of the 2010-2011 YAD Board!
Contact Abra Annes at AbraA@sfjcf.org for an application.
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How do you Connect or

Relate to Judaism?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How do you personally connect and relate
to Judaism?
“Any time a person
• Food • Tikkun Olam
goes into a delicatessen
and orders a pastrami
• Holidays • Israel on white bread,
• Relationships • The Arts somewhere a Jew dies.”
• Religious practice • other _______ -Milton Berle

• Ashkenazi/Sephardic

Where did you place your “Top 3” stickers

and why are those important to you?

How did your family connect to Judaism as

you were growing up?

Do you think your “Top 3” choices have

changed over the years? Do you anticipate
them changing in the future?
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Do you have any “Top 3” choices in

For the cost of a night out, you can make a huge impact
common with others in your group?
on the lives of others...
Why do you think the top answers are so For the price of… Worth… You can provide…
popular? Parking at the garage 8.00
on Howard for
Are you surprised by the top answers? Why tonight’s event
Entrance to a Blue 10.00
or why not? Monday
Salmon dinner entrée 16.00
MAJOR PROPS... Roundtrip cab fare 20.00
A big thanks to everyone on the Club Fed
Date night at the 48.00
Committee: Karen Daitch, Ilyse Gerber, movies with popcorn
Lisa Kattan, Beth Sherman & Andrea Skor. and soda
Please feel free to connect with them and iPhone 3GS 200.00
your co-chairs, Ben Glazer and Gabriana
Marks, in our Facebook group! And thank Nine participants in 450.00
Club Fed 2010
you YAD Staff Abra Annes and Gwen
Spontaneous weekend 3900.00
Meyer. Also, thank you to YAD’s Campaign for two in Hawaii
team for their presentation on philanthropic
giving through Federation.
Shabbat dinner for a college student at a Hillel
A month of unlimited access to job listings,
resource library and the technology center at
Jewish Vocational Services (JVS)
Parenting workshop for first-time parent
One-time resume-writing workshop for an
unemployed Bay Area professional
A week of in-home help for a senior citizen at
Menorah Park, an independent living facility in
San Francisco
25 new books for a Jewish library in the former
Soviet Union
One year tuition to an after-school program for
a Bay Area high school teen
A full year of educational, fun after-school care,
three hours a day, five days a week at a JCC

Interested in getting more involved in the community? Consider becoming part of the 2010-2011 YAD Board!
Contact Abra Annes at AbraA@sfjcf.org for an application.

Club Fed Insider edited and designed by Gabriana Marks