Passover Menu @ Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen

April 3rd and 4th CBK (Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen) in St. Helena will be having a Passover Menu. The menu contains Matzo Ball Soup, Charoset Salad, Housemade Halibut Gefilte Fish, Grandma Ruth’s Beef Brisket “TIMMES” and Flourless Chocolate cake. All items are ala carte. In the past Chef’s from CBK have come down to Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa and taught the art of making Gefitle Fish – my wife says they are the best she has ever had.unnamed (2)

Winemakers, Musicians, Comedians, Politicians To Participate In A One-Of-A-Kind Interpretation Of The Story Of Passover In A Live Sit-Down Seder.

(March 6, 2015 – NAPA, CA) The “Napa Seder-Beyond 4 Cups” transcends religion and highlights the cultural connection to the historic Jewish liberation from slavery and universal struggle with freedom. Wine is a prominent theme in the traditional Passover Seder, and Michael Dorf, City Winery owner and founder wants to ask the question “why on this night in Napa should we only have 4 cups of wine?”. Mr. Dorf has produced his unique celebrity driven Seder in NY since 1988, taken it to Chicago in 2012 and will premier it in Napa on March 29th at City Winery Napa—one week prior to the official start of the holiday.

For the Napa Seder, over 10 winemakers and winery owners will sit down with various musicians, comedians, and political thinkers, including Israeli Superstar, David Broza in an engaging Seder luncheon. The interpretive Seder will offer inspiration, fun, and a unique cultural connection between wine, music, tradition, and peace.

This event is a chance for Dorf to combine his deep connections to the entertainment industry (prior to launching City Winery he created and ran New York’s iconic music venue, The Knitting Factory) with his love of wine and entertaining. Special guest David Broza was recently featured by Vanity Fair writer Jordan Hoffman, who opened his story with the line;

“He did more for the Middle East peace process in eight days than Secretary of State John Kerry has done in two years. Is he a diplomat or religious leader? No, he’s a singer-songwriter, and if no one else is going to try and heal the world, he will.”

The event will open with a viewing of the new film East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem, produced by Broza, it is a spectacular & important film showing how music can bridge people in Israel and Palestine, even in a longtime war zone. Film will screen at1:30PM, followed by Q&A, then a short performance by Broza during the Seder.

“This Seder is an opportunity for the community to explore our connection to our ancestors in a one-of-a-kind evening that could only happen in an open, free society, cosmopolitan and sophisticated city like Napa. “ Said Michael Dorf
Beyond Four Cups: The Napa Seder
City Winery Napa
1030 Main Street Napa, CA 94559
Noon Doors – 1:30 PM Start
Cost: $90
Ticket and Information Link

Weapons of the Spirit – Filmshowing + QA with Director

weaponsofthespiritWhen: Sunday April 12th @ 12:30 pm

Where: Congregation Beth Shalom

A Unique Conspiracy of Goodness

Weapons of the Spirit is the internationally acclaimed documentary film about a small village in Nazi-occupied France that saved 5,000 Jews during World War II. Following the film we will have a Q&A with the filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, led by Rabbi Lee Bycel.

Open to the entire community and appropriate for children 5th grade and above.

Yom HaShoah  Commeration.

 

Beyond Four Cups: The Napa Seder Featuring David Broza

beyond4cups_flyerMarch 29th – 12:00 – Napa City Winery – PM Doors / 1:30 PM Start / Ends 4:30 PM (Estimated End Time.)

****Tickets Include Screening, Seder, Lunch, Wine, & Haggadah****

Link to buy Tickets – General Admission $90

A celebrity driven music, artistic and interpretive Seder that offers inspiration, fun, and a unique cultural connection between wine, music, tradition, and peace.  For the Napa Seder, over 10 winemakers and winery owners will sit down with various musicians, comedians, and political thinkers, including Israeli Superstar, David Broza in an engaging Seder luncheon.

Tickets include: Screening, Seder, Lunch, Wine, & Haggadah

Participating Wineries Include:

Silver Oak – Diamond Creek – Covenant Wines – Hagafen – Judd’s Hill – Alpha & Omega – Shirah – City Winery – St. Supery – Clos Pegase

David Broza has produced a spectacular & important film showing how music can bridge people in Israel and Palestine, even in a longtime war zone.  The film will screen at 1:30pm then a Q&A, short performance in the Seder.

Jewish Winemakers Tasting and Nosh 2015

Wait… what?  Matzoball shooters? Gifilte Fish Sushi? Rabinical Reubens? Save the date!

The 5th annual Jewish Winemakers Tasting and Nosh will be held on Sunday, April 12th at the Sonoma Veterans Memorial Hall, 126 1st St W  Sonoma, CA 95476.  An entire mishpuchah of superb winemakers will be pouring.  Nisht veynik of cooks will be cooking.  Over 300 people will be kvel’n.  Don’t miss the biggest simkhe of them all!

Tickets are $50 in advance and $60 at the door. You can purchase tickets using your credit card through PayPal with the button below. On the PayPal page, select “Don’t have a PayPal account?” for other payment options such as VisaMasterCardDiscover, and American Express.

The Green Prince

GP_VOD_revise_175x247When: MARCH 15th at 7pm

Where: Congregation Beth Sholom

What: Based on the best-selling memoir “Son of Hamas”, THE GREEN PRINCE, exposes a world of betrayals, impossible choices, and deadly secrets amidst the chaos in the Middle East. Detailing an unprecedented and highly unconventional alliance between sworn enemies across the Israeli-Palestinian divide, this unpredictable documentary-thriller tells the extraordinary true story of Mosab Hassan Yousef – codenamed “The Green Prince” – the son of a top Hamas leader who shockingly emerged as one of Israel’s prized informants and Gonen Ben Yitzhak, the Israeli Shin Bet agent who recruited Yousef and ultimately risked his own life and career to save him.

Shamatta: Rags to Riches To Rags: The Story of Jews In The New York Garment District.

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Rags to Riches To Rags: The Story of Jews In The New York Garment District.

Date: Sunday, Feb, 15, 2015 Time: 3 PM • 5:000 PM
Place: Congregation Beth Shalom, 1450 Elm St., Napa. CA

The garment industry in Midtown Manhattan was the path for thousands of Jewish immigrants to tschmatta-posterheir American dream. This is the story of a vanishing industry and the people who depended on it, told by those who lived it.

After viewing this stimulating HBO film we’ll be treated to a discussion by four bay area experts on this part of the Jewish experience in America.

Helen Bulwick, MBA: Partner of Newport Board Group with extensive capital markets and corporate strategy. An Alumni of the garment district.
Lauren H. Coodley, MA: Author, Professor of History and expert on Upton Sinclair and Napa County labor issues.
Philip Schleiin BS: Former President and CEO of Macy’s California. Partner of US Venture Partners and board member of many retailers.
Harvey Schwartz, PhD: Labor Historian, Author, expert on the ILWU A descendent of the Schwartz family of Napa’s City of Paris department store.

RSVP by Feb. 12 to (707) 251­9092 or info@Jhsnv.org
*Schmat~TA (Shmah­Tuh) Noun/Slang 1. A Rag 2. An old or tattered garment (from Yiddish Shmate)

 

Jewish stand up comedy night: “You’re Funny, But You Don’t Look Jewish”

Thursday March 19th at City Winery in Napa. 8pm

The show features some very funny African American, Indian, Italian American and Vietnamese Jewish comedians and has sold out performances in Vancouver, Berkeley, Mill Valley, San Francisco, Aptos, Walnut Creek, and Davis, CA.

http://www.citywinery.com/napa/tickets/you-re-funny-but-you-don-t-look-jewish-3-19.html

https://www.facebook.com/events/1524441387818865/

 

“What a great evening. There was laughter all around when each of these four talented performers came on the stage.
Better still was the rapport that developed between the audience and each comic.
The comedy and stories left the audience wanting even more—a perfect way to end the night. We felt as if we had jus spent a lovely time with four new friends.
Five Stars.”

-Riva Gambert, Under One Tent: Contra Costa Jewish Book & ARTS Festival (Walnut Creek, CA JCC)