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Golden Gate Ride: Important Information for Riders and Crew
We couldn’t be more excited to come together as a community next week for the 4th Annual Hazon Golden Gate Ride: Pedaling for a Healthy Planet. Please take a couple of minutes to read through this email containing many pertinent details.
Feel free to contact Adam Kotin or Deborah Newbrun with any last minute questions about transportation, housing, packing, arrival – we’re here to support you.
adam.kotin@hazon.org | deborah.newbrun@hazon.org
(415) 397-7020 (Office) | (415) 823-1302 (Cell)
Emergency contact phone number for the retreat site where we will be staying during the ride: Walker Creek Ranch: (415) 491-6000
Getting Your Bike to Camp
We will help transport your bike to the ride from the Bay Area and from Los Angeles at no additional cost. We’ll offer bike loading at the following times and locations. Look for Hazon volunteers and a 14-foot Uhaul truck.
Thursday
San Francisco: 6:30pm – 7:30pm, near 16th Street Mission BART (Walgreens parking lot on Capp St, near 16th).
East Bay: 8:30pm – 9:30pm, Ashby BART.
Friday
San Francisco: Starting at 1:45pm at Jewish Community High School (1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA). Bike loading will begin at 1:45pm. The charter bus will depart promptly at 2:40pm.
Los Angeles: 8:30am – 9:00am at Milken Community High School (15800 Zeldins Way, LA)
Getting Yourself to Camp
Registration opens at 2:30pm on Friday May 24th at Walker Creek Ranch. We are offering a shuttle from San Francisco and LA that will arrive in time for Shabbat. If you are signed up to join us later in the weekend, please note arrival times and directions below.
Driving and Carpooling
We have been in touch with many of you about carpooling up to the ranch. We need to minimize the number of cars being driven to the ranch as much as possible. Any cars driven to the ranch that we are not aware of will be left there and alternative transportation should be arranged to retrieve them.
For approved carpooling to Walker Creek Ranch, please consult these directions.
San Francisco Shuttle
Civic Center BART
- Shuttle departs Civic Center BART at 2:15pm
- The bus can not idle and will depart promptly. There will be no bike loading at this location. If you would like to bring a bike and use this pick up you must utilize our Thursday bike loading locations.
Jewish Community High School
- Shuttle departs JCHS at 2:40pm
- Bike loading starts at 1:45pm. Please arrive no later than 2:25pm.
LA Shuttle/Carpool
- Carpool departs Milken Community High School at 9:00am
- Bike loading available
Weekend Schedule
Hazon is excited to offer a thoughtful and well-rounded program for this year’s retreat. Thanks in advance to all of the participants who are presenting, teaching a session, leading a service, and sharing their interests and skills with the community!
Packing List
Be sure to review the packing list for the Golden Gate Ride. All of your things should fit into one small piece of luggage. Our crew are transporting luggage each day of the ride, so please pack lightly. Our accommodations over the weekend will be rustic but clean and comfortable.
Only those with upgraded housing will be provided linens. All other participants must bring their own linens (sheets, blankets, or sleeping bag), pillow, and towel.
Closing Ceremony
Be sure to invite your friends and family to our closing ceremonies from 2 PM to 3 PM on Monday May 27th at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay (1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA). We encourage you to bring people to join with us in celebrating a successful weekend and in honoring your accomplishments!
Prepare for an Extraordinary Weekend!
A Note from Volunteer Ride Co-Chairs Erica & Adam
Dear Hazon Community,
Ten days from now we will gather in the rolling hills of Marin to share our values of environmentalism, health, and sustainability in the Jewish world and beyond. We hope to be catalysts for positive change through the vitality generated from our cycling adventures, crew spirit, and engaging Shabbat programming. Gear up, bring your ruach(spirit), positivity, and openness — prepare to leave with a spark!
If we have not yet had the chance to meet, please make sure to come say hello to us – Adam and Erica – your friendly volunteer co-chairs for the 2013 Golden Gate Ride. Adam will be riding his spiffy new Trek bicycle and Erica will be supporting riders as an enthusiastic crew member. We both look forward to meeting friends new and old, spending time outside, soaking in the Shabbat sessions, and learning lots from the whole experience.
As the weekend approaches, please reach out to us if you have any questions – we’re here to help and support! We really don’t mind helping, in fact, that’s what we signed up for! Our emails are below.
As the ride draws near, we know many folks are working hard on their fundraising.We’ve found that NOW is the best time to make the push toward your goal.
Here are a few tips:
1. Reinventing the wheel is silly – check out Hazon’s fundraising tools for inspiration and more tips.
2. Make your appeals early, often, and personalized – photos, Facebook shoutouts, a phone call.
3. Follow up is key – many of your soon-to-be-donors just need a quick reminder.
4. Think about how you will say thank you. We plan to write personalized notecards with a photo from our weekend.
5. Use social media: Post about your excitement, your training, and your goals! Here’s a great example…
Lastly, as we get ready for the holiday of Shavuot we are reminded of the lessons from The Book of Ruth. This ancient text incorporates themes of peoplehood, responsibility, and the centrality of the harvest season. These ideas are on our minds as we make the final preparations for the ride, working toward an event with inclusivity and the shared responsibility for the sustainability of our communities. Wishing you a happy holiday and an awesome Golden Gate Ride weekend!
Adam Arenstein & Erica Hymen
2013 Hazon Golden Gate Ride Co-chairs
Fundraising Made Easy
Thank you for joining Hazon’s Golden Gate Ride! It’s time to flex your fundraising muscles! This weekend we make your fundraising push. Cycle up that mountain if you will.
Fundraising is easier than you think, you just have to get started! Use Hazon’s tools to craft a fundraising plan that will have you reaching your fundraising goal:
- Don’t reinvent the wheel! Use our fundraising letter writing guide.
- Start this weekend! Vamp up your fundraising and send your appeal to no less than 40 friends, family, and coworkers.
- Veteran rider Yesh Ballon shares tricks of the fundraising trade.
- What are you riding for? Read about the winners of our Mini-Grant Awards
Start this Weekend: Raise $1000 in 8 Days
The biggest secret to successful fundraising is to ask everyone you know. Think you’ve exhausted your resources? We’ve got a list to help you think of new people to ask. To get a sense of how your whole community can support you in reaching your fundraising goal, consider this recipe for How to Raise $1000 in Eight Days:
- Donate $50 to yourself
- Ask 4 family members to donate $50
- Ask 10 friends to donate $20
- Ask 5 co-workers to donate $20
- Ask 5 neighbors to donate $15
- Ask 10 people from your synagogue to donate $15
- Ask your boss for a company donation of $100 (Ask if your company will match what you raise)
- Ask 5 businesses that you frequent – like your dry cleaner, hair stylist, or favorite restaurant – to donate $25
Fundraising Tips from Veteran Riders
Yesh Ballon has been one the Golden Gate Ride’s highest fundraisers, participating in 4 rides in 3 years. What are the keys to his success?
Make appeals early and often. Money usually comes in within 48 hour of a request. The more asks, the more donations.
Be Personal. Make your letter personal and specific to you. Tell your potential funders what the Ride is all about, and tell them why you’re so excited to do it. Consider writing personalized letters to different donors to address their specific needs.
Convey Your Enthusiasm. People are inspired by enthusiasm. Talk about the ride. Talk about your training and why you have decided to take on this challenge. Your enthusiasm is contagious — it will encourage your sponsors to be generous in their support.
Be Specific. Include your fundraising goal, and make it ambitious. Put it in bold! The more you ask for, the more people give. Share what your personal financial commitment will be. People are often inspired to see your personal financial commitment and might even be willing to match it. “In addition to training, I am pledging $500 towards my fundraising goal.” Ask for a specific amount and aim high. Say “Please consider a gift of $180”—they can choose to do so, or choose to give you more/less.
Thank your donors. Buy a nice box of thank you notes (environmental or bike theme optional) and hand write–yes, with a pen–a thank you note immediately after each pledge is received, and put it in the snail mail that very day. People will become loyal supporters!
“Thank you for once again being a great support to me and Hazon. This marks my fifth ride—one in Israel and now four in California. I am increasingly impressed by Hazon’s mission and the people engaged in it. Your gift makes their work possible.”
What are you riding for? Mini-Grant Awards Winners Announced
A portion of the fundraising from this year’s ride will be made available as small grants for Jewish and environmental projects on the West Coast. We’re pleased to announce this year’s winners!
13% of YOUR fundraising goes to support these amazing projects:
Milken Community High School
The MCHS Urban Farm Co-op, initiated with help from a Hazon grant two years ago, is a sustainable gardening and food justice initiative at Milken Community High School in Los Angeles. The Co-op plans to expand its garden to a minimum of thirty-six pallets across campus, continuing to connect students to their food sources, to the earth, and to their own potential.
Congregation Beth Sholom
Congregation Beth Sholom seeks to enhance and build upon its existing garden and landscape for our preschool and Hebrew school students, parents, and congregants. Further developing our small outdoor garden will build community around the shared experience of nurturing life and growing the food that is central to so many of the Jewish traditions we celebrate.
Jewish Learning Works
The Nosh Niche is a Jewish cooking project embedded within Jewish LearningWorks’ Shalom Discovery family engagement initiative. The Nosh Niche brings to life issues of food justice and farm-to-table Jewish values cooking lessons, discussion guides, and take-home recipes, along with a cooking feature on our website.
Kehillah Jewish High School
Kehillah seeks to revamp, expand, and improve its small school garden, which was funded and built by a student-led initiative last year. This garden has already begun contributing produce to Kehillah’s meals program, which feeds about 100 people per day with delicious vegetarian food. By growing the garden’s size, as well as its uses on campus, Kehillah can cut down on its food miles, improving overall campus sustainability while also serving as a valuable learning tool.
Temple Emanu-El Preschool
Being in San Francisco, with limited outdoors space, we have been grappling with how to include natural sciences with a focus on ecology to our children and families. This year we have been successful with outdoor education programs such as walking trips through the nearby Presidio and Family Education in Golden Gate Park with a naturalist. Through this project, we hope to bring tanks with natural habitats for animals as well as grow lights and indoor gardening to all of our classrooms.
Peninsula Temple Beth El Green Team
Holistic cooking classes through the ages and stages of life. The classes will focus on various temple groups that will impact our youngest members through our seniors. The emphasis will be to introduce to the audiences the importance of choosing healthy, sustainable ingredients, eating in the season, the nutrients in food and our food supply chain.
reIMAGINE Society: Behar Happenings in the Bay Area
On the weekend of May 3-4, Jewish communities read the Torah portion of Behar, which contains the teachings of Shmita. To honor the Shmita values of abundance, resiliency, and redistribution, Hazon invites you to join us for a full day of great events on May 5, 2013 in Berkeley and San Francisco, CA.
In the spirit of Shmita, we are offering most aspects of this community day on the basis of donations, though some of the workshops may cost money. Please share what you can.
Shmita Skillshare & Swap Meet
Urban Adamah – 1050 Parker Street, Berkeley, CA
Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Afternoon Exchange Market & Skillshare
Exchange Market – 1:00 – 5:00pm
Do you have perfectly usable items lying around your house that you no longer use? Let other community members enjoy them, and find other items you need. Clothing, books, toys, childcare items, kitchen appliances, electronics, tools, art, plants/seeds, etc…Donate what you can and receive what you need!
If you’d like to make a gift of your time by volunteering before or during the afternoon events, please contact rebecca@urbanadamah.org.
Community Skillshare – 2:00 – 5:00pm
Backyard Chickens @ 2pm
Worm Composting @ 3pm
Come celebrate and explore the art of creative homesteading through a community skillshare. We’re offering workshops on backyard gardening, chickens, and worm composting.
Have a skill to offer? Home-brewing? Fiber Crafts? Cheese-making? Please email yigal.deutscher@hazon.org to offer your skill!
Evening Edible Plant Walk
Meet at Conservatory of Flowers
5:00pm – 7:00pm
100 JFK Dr. in Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, 94122
As the Shmita year approaches (once every 7 years) we are encouraged to give the land a rest by refraining from planting or sewing our fields. Ever wonder what can we eat when our fields are to lie fallow? Did you know that the Bay Area has top notch wild edible and medicinal plants growing plentifully right at our feet? Join ethnobotanist and herbalist Jolie Lonner Egert on a fun, inspiring, guided walk to explore our local plants, their uses and stories.
Jolie Lonner Egert is an herbalist, field botanist and ecologist. Jolie is the Principal at Go Wild Consulting a company that fosters healthy ecosystems and our connections to them. She has helped thousands of people deepen their connection to nature. She completed her Master’s degree at Humboldt State University where she researched the sustainable harvest of medicinal plants. She currently teaches at College of Marin, Gathering Thyme School of Botanical Wisdom and Philo School of Herbal Energetics. More info at gowildconsulting.com
Israel Ride & Yom Yisrael Festival in Palo Alto
Discover how the Israel Ride can be your next adventure
Kol Emeth Yom Yisrael Festival
Sunday, April 28th, 10:30am – 1:30pm
4175 Manuela Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94306
RSVP for details
What does it feel like to cycle on the Israel Ride? Come to the fourth and final family-friendly Kol Emeth Yom Yisrael Festival. Learn about the Arava region of Israel and how riding through the Negev desert on the Israel Ride can help improve regional cooperation and solve the Negev’s environmental challenges!
Highlights:
- Work in the Arava Medical Center
- Meet animals of the desert
- Harvest and sample Israeli produce
- Visit Ben Gurion’s grave
- Learn about Bedouin-Jewish joint projects
- Study about water in the desert
- Splash in the Dead Sea
- Enjoy a falafel lunch
FREE for Religious School Students & Parents
$10 for other Kol Emeth Members & Guests
(Falafel lunch included!)
Bring your friends with you | All are welcome at this event
Thank You for Coming to the Hazon Jewish Food Festival
Thank you for coming to the first Bay Area Hazon Jewish Food Festival at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco! We hope you left with a smile, full stomach, and most of all, a new perspective on the intersection of food, sustainability, and Jewish life.
While they are still fresh in your mind, we are interested in hearing your thoughts and impressions and encourage you to fill in the survey provided below. It should take no more than 5 minutes of your time and your feedback is invaluable to our planning of future Hazon programs here in the Bay Area. Thank you in advance for your thoughtful feedback!
What’s next for Hazon? Learn about a few of our upcoming events below. We hope you’ll join us again soon!
All the best,
Deborah Newbrun, Hazon Bay Area Director
Alli Rosen, Food Justice Fellow
In this email:
How Did We Do? Take the Survey.
Please take a few minutes to fill out our survey. We’d love to hear about your highlights and your feedback is extremely important to us for the purposes of improving future Jewish Food Festivals. Your responses on this survey will be shared with our partners and funders to demonstrate the impact Hazon’s food work is having in the Bay Area.
Our short survey should take no more than 5 minutes of your time. Thank you in advance for providing thoughtful feedback!
You had a great time at the Hazon Jewish Food Festival, and we’ve got it all on camera! Take a
look at the picture album on Flikr! If you took any photos while at the festival, we’d love to see them! Email them to Alli Rosen and we’ll add them to the photo album.
Thank You to Our Partners and Donors
We thank and acknowledge the participation of this growing list of community groups and foundations supporting this year’s Hazon Jewish Food Festival:
JCCSF, Urban Adamah, AJWS, Camp Tawonga, Wilderness Torah, Fair Trade Judaica, Moishe House, Upstart, Bend the Arc, Keshet, The Kitchen, Rodef Shalom, Beth El Berkeley, David B. Gold Foundation, Doug and Lisa Goldman Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, and the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties.
What’s Next for Hazon?
Hazon’s California office has been located in downtown San Francisco since 2009. We strive to bring Hazon’s unique perspectives on Judaism and the environment to the Bay Area in engaging and innovative ways, dedicating ourselves to building a more just and sustainable food system for everyone.
Here are a few upcoming events. We hope to see you soon!
April 1, 2013: Food Justice Passover
Slavery and liberation, a thing of the past or a modern dilemma? Mix and mingle with traditions
new and old in an interactive Passover experience. Join this non-seder, discussion-based Passover celebration!
The event will feature space for conversation, rituals, meeting people and connecting to Jewish community; opportunities to connect ancient Passover themes with current food justice issues and campaigns, Jewish and food justice learning with wisdom from community teachers, vegetarian, ethically produced, chametz-free Passover dinner and wine (with fair wages for cooks & farmers)
Monday, April 1st 2013
6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
San Francisco Friends School – 250 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Sliding scale, $25–$36. Please contribute what you can.
Register online. Pre-registration is highly encouraged as this event will sell out again this year.
This event is brought to you by American Jewish World Service, Hazon and The Kitchen, and is co-sponsored by our friends at AJWS Global Circle, Bend the Arc and Urban Adamah.
Memorial Day Weekend May 24-27, 2013: Golden Gate Ride
The Hazon Golden Gate Ride is a fully-supported fundraising ride and community experience, now in its 4th year. Enjoy delicious local food, educational workshops, and fun outdoor activities while learning about and supporting Jewish environmental causes. This year’s Ride takes you along the edge of Tomales Bay and Point Reyes National Seashore, across the Golden Gate Bridge, and into San Francisco.
The Ride raises money for Hazon’s innovate programming across the Bay Area, including our Food Festival, educational initiatives, and sustainable practice toolkits for Jewish institutions. The Ride also supports projects & programs of our partners across the region.
How to Prepare: Hazon Jewish Food Festival
Hazon Jewish Food Festival at the JCCSF
Sunday March 17 | 10:00am-5:00pm | JCCSF 3200 California St.
Thank you for signing up to attend Hazon’s Jewish Food Festival at the JCCSF this Sunday March 17, from 10am-5pm. We’re excited to see you! We have so many wonderful things in store for you and a few things for you to know to make your experience as positive as possible. Please take note:
Plan to arrive to the JCC between 10:00 and 11:00am. When you arrive, visit the check-in table to pick up your name tag, lunch ticket and program booklet with a schedule of the day and the over 40 workshop descriptions and locations.
Due to limited audience capacity or DIY supplies, some workshops will require you to sign-up in advance. Sign-ups for these 8 workshops will be in Kanbar Hall from 10:00-11:00am and are at a first come, first served basis. The 8 seessions that require sign-ups are denoted on the Schedule at a Glance in bold and with an asterisk. If you would like to attend one of these sessions, please plan to arrive right at 10:00am so you’ll have your pick!
Your online advance registration grants you one ticket for a local, organic, kosher, light lunch that includes a sandwich, salad and fruit. If you desire more food or sweets please bring cash and credit card to purchase from our vendors in the Atrium, or from Community Table, the JCC’s café.
Some workshops require you to bring special items:
- Bring your own camera for
Food Meets Photo: Food Photography 101 with Erin Gleeson - Bring your own yoga mat for How to Savor Food through Yoga with Sean Haleen
There will be an opportunity to donate to support the environmental sustainability work of Hazon; please be sure to fill out an evaluation form and consider making a donation on the day of our Festival. You can purchase raffle tickets to win a basket of vendor goodies with proceeds going to Hazon. This can be found at Hazon’s table in the atrium.
See you there!
Deborah Newbrun, Hazon Bay Area Director
Alli Rosen, Food Justice Fellow
Food Festival Workshops: More Announced!
We’re offering over 40 sessions to choose from on how our food choices make a difference. From fair trade food, wine, and spirits, to mindful eating, beekeeping, farming, worm composting, and more, you’ll connect with Jewish traditions and acquire an understanding of food justice, sustainable food systems, and new skills with dynamic, interactive workshops.
7 Easy Steps to Turn Your Million Dollar Food Idea into a Million Dollar Business
Join Josh Spiegelman, of Roam Artisan Burgers to learn how to start a food business from the ground up. In this session, we will discuss the essential steps for launching a successful business in the food and beverage/hospitality sector. Everything from business plan creation, to fundraising and finding the right real estate, to marketing, launching and operating the business of your dreams.
Scaling Up: From Individual to Collective, Sustainable Impact
Erica Hymen and Matt Balaban. program officers at AJWS will discuss how we already make
choices each day that challenge our broken food system, yet inequities persist. What would it take to see large-scale, systemic change? In this interactive workshop, we will build our organizing skills to influence positive, lasting change. Using lessons learned from local and international struggles – for healthier school food at home and for more effective food aid abroad – we’ll demonstrate the power of grassroots organizing.
How to Balance Your Hormones Using Judaism and Your Fork
In this talk. Dr. Sara Gottfried will share her revolutionary method of hormone balancing: a natural approach that blends ancient wisdom traditions with integrative and functional medicine, called The Gottfried Protocol. Dr. Sara just published her first book, The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 2013). The central tenet of The Hormone Cure is how you amplify hormone balance with the way you eat, move, think, and supplement. Dr. Sara will explain the “why” of hormone balancing for men and women, and how what’s on the end of your fork and in the forefront of your mind can be the biggest needle-movers when it comes to getting healthy. Challah at your hormones!
See the full list of workshops to choose from
Shop, Eat, Sample at the Shuk (Market)
What’s more important than the food at a Jewish Food Festival? We have a tasty menu in store for your eating pleasure, so bring an open mind and an empty stomach! Not only will you feast on delicious food in our workshops, but you can taste and purchase a variety of local, sustainable foods at the Shuk!
The Shuk is free and open to the public in the JCCSF Atrium, all day. Featuring:
Authentic, Hand-Crafted Petit Syrah Eric Cohen of Shoe Shine Wine and Justice Grace Vineyards will sell his California Petit Sirah. “Shoe Shine Wine is the loving extension of our heart and soul and the first offering from our San Francisco based family run micro-winery, Justice Grace Vineyards. We are uniquely focused on Petite Sirah and dedicated to making world-class wines that are food friendly, complex, elegant, and balanced.
Farmer Freed Culinary Salt Blends Farmer Emily Jane Freed will sell her Farmer Freed Culinary Salt Blends. Add a pinch when cooking to bring out the flavor of your food or as a finishing salt as you sit down to enjoy a meal.Farmer Freed’s culinary salt blends make perfect hostess, teacher, and holiday gifts as well as gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, Mother’s & Father’s Day, graduations, and for your best friend who has everything.
Food Art Nina Bonos from Nina Bonos Joyous Judaica will feature her fine art original watercolors and mixed media paintings and collages, prints and note cards. Her Judaica images include trees of life, Seven Sacred Species, pomegranates, figs, grapes, and apples. Her mixed media collage miniatures incorporate re-purposed objects such as plastic netting originally used to package vegetables and fruits, recycled metals and beach glass, branches, stones and more.
Hazon Jewish Food Festival in the Press
Nosh and Learn at S.F.’s Jewish Food Festival
By Josh Leskar
Calling all Hebrews, She-Brews, Other-Brews and Non-Brews: quit your kvetching and check out the San Francisco Jewish Food Festival on Sunday, March 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hazon and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (3200 California St.) are teaming up to host the event, which is a local version of Hazon’s national, multi-day conference. For one day, Bay Area residents will have the opportunity to learn, taste, and experience the Jewish Food Movement through local merchants and activists.
Just harvest: Hazon Jewish Food Festival offers a full plate of workshops, tastings
By Dan Pine
Chew on this: For decades, San Francisco has been home to a Jewish filmfestival, Jewish music festival and a large outdoor celebration of Israel. Yet there has never been a Jewish food festival in town.
Until now.
The first Hazon Jewish Food Festival is scheduled to get under way at 10 a.m. March 17 at the JCC of San Francisco. It promises a full day of learning, discussion and, of course, eating. Plenty of eating.
This Weekend: Hazon Jewish Food Festival at the JCCSF
The Hazon Jewish Food Festival is this Sunday March 17th! Join us for this unforgettable opportunity to connect with the New Jewish Food Movement. Spend your day learning, hands-on doing, and of course, eating, at the intersection of food, sustainability and Jewish life.
Sunday March 17 | 10:00am-5:00pm | JCCSF 3200 California St. | $36-$54
The event is nearly sold out, so reserve your spot now! We have a fabulous day prepared for you. Join us for over 42 sessions to choose from, like “Embracing the Shmita Cycle”, “Hebraic Home-Brewing”, and “The Jewish Life of Bees”. In just one day you can orient yourself to the history of Jewish farming in California, learn new skills in worm composting, bring home the best babka recipe, and explore what you never learned in Hebrew school about food in the Bible. Read on to learn more of what we have in store!
We hope to see you there!
Deborah Newbrun, Hazon Bay Area Director
Alli Rosen, Food Justice Fellow
In this email:
- Food Festival Workshops: More Announced
- Shop, Eat, Sample at the Shuk (Market)
- Hazon Jewish Food Festival in the Press
- Thank You to Our Partners
Food Festival Workshops: More Announced!
We’re offering over 40 sessions to choose from on how our food choices make a difference. From fair trade food, wine, and spirits, to mindful eating, beekeeping, farming, worm composting, and more, you’ll connect with Jewish traditions and acquire an understanding of food justice, sustainable food systems, and new skills with dynamic, interactive workshops.
7 Easy Steps to Turn Your Million Dollar Food Idea into a Million Dollar Business
Join Josh Spiegelman, of Roam Artisan Burgers to learn how to start a food business from the ground up. In this session, we will discuss the essential steps for launching a successful business in the food and beverage/hospitality sector. Everything from business plan creation, to fundraising and finding the right real estate, to marketing, launching and operating the business of your dreams.
Scaling Up: From Individual to Collective, Sustainable Impact
Erica Hymen and Matt Balaban. program officers at AJWS will discuss how we already makechoices each day that challenge our broken food system, yet inequities persist. What would it take to see large-scale, systemic change? In this interactive workshop, we will build our organizing skills to influence positive, lasting change. Using lessons learned from local and international struggles – for healthier school food at home and for more effective food aid abroad – we’ll demonstrate the power of grassroots organizing.
How to Balance Your Hormones Using Judaism and Your Fork
In this talk. Dr. Sara Gottfried will share her revolutionary method of hormone balancing: a natural approach that blends ancient wisdom traditions with integrative and functional medicine, called The Gottfried Protocol. Dr. Sara just published her first book, The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 2013). The central tenet of The Hormone Cure is how you amplify hormone balance with the way you eat, move, think, and supplement. Dr. Sara will explain the “why” of hormone balancing for men and women, and how what’s on the end of your fork and in the forefront of your mind can be the biggest needle-movers when it comes to getting healthy. Challah at your hormones!
See the full list of workshops to choose from
Shop, Eat, Sample at the Shuk (Market)
What’s more important than the food at a Jewish Food Festival? We have a tasty menu in store for your eating pleasure, so bring an open mind and an empty stomach! Not only will you feast on delicious food in our workshops, but you can taste and purchase a variety of local, sustainable foods at the Shuk!
The Shuk is free and open to the public in the JCCSF Atrium, all day. Featuring:
Authentic, Hand-Crafted Petit Syrah Eric Cohen of Shoe Shine Wine and Justice Grace Vineyards will sell his California Petit Sirah. “Shoe Shine Wine is the loving extension of our heart and soul and the first offering from our San Francisco based family run micro-winery, Justice Grace Vineyards. We are uniquely focused on Petite Sirah and dedicated to making world-class wines that are food friendly, complex, elegant, and balanced.
Farmer Freed Culinary Salt Blends Farmer Emily Jane Freed will sell her Farmer Freed Culinary Salt Blends. Add a pinch when cooking to bring out the flavor of your food or as a finishing salt as you sit down to enjoy a meal.Farmer Freed’s culinary salt blends make perfect hostess, teacher, and holiday gifts as well as gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, Mother’s & Father’s Day, graduations, and for your best friend who has everything.
Food Art Nina Bonos from Nina Bonos Joyous Judaica will feature her fine art original watercolors and mixed media paintings and collages, prints and note cards. Her Judaica images include trees of life, Seven Sacred Species, pomegranates, figs, grapes, and apples. Her mixed media collage miniatures incorporate re-purposed objects such as plastic netting originally used to package vegetables and fruits, recycled metals and beach glass, branches, stones and more.
Learn more about the Food Festival Shuk
Hazon Jewish Food Festival in the Press
Nosh and Learn at S.F.’s Jewish Food Festival
By Josh Leskar
Calling all Hebrews, She-Brews, Other-Brews and Non-Brews: quit your kvetching and check out the San Francisco Jewish Food Festival on Sunday, March 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hazon and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (3200 California St.) are teaming up to host the event, which is a local version of Hazon’s national, multi-day conference. For one day, Bay Area residents will have the opportunity to learn, taste, and experience the Jewish Food Movement through local merchants and activists.
Just harvest: Hazon Jewish Food Festival offers a full plate of workshops, tastings
By Dan Pine
Chew on this: For decades, San Francisco has been home to a Jewish filmfestival, Jewish music festival and a large outdoor celebration of Israel. Yet there has never been a Jewish food festival in town.
Until now.
The first Hazon Jewish Food Festival is scheduled to get under way at 10 a.m. March 17 at the JCC of San Francisco. It promises a full day of learning, discussion and, of course, eating. Plenty of eating.
Thank You to Our Partners
We thank and acknowledge the participation of this growing list of community groups and foundations supporting this year’s Hazon Jewish Food Festival:
JCCSF, Urban Adamah, AJWS, Camp Tawonga, Wilderness Torah, Fair Trade Judaica, Moishe House, Upstart, Bend the Arc, Keshet, The Kitchen, Rodef Shalom, Beth El Berkeley, David B. Gold Foundation, Doug and Lisa Goldman Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Israel Ride Info Session: Santa Monica, CA
Discover how the Israel Ride can be your next adventure
Thursday, January 31st, 7:30 pm
Hosted by Charles Pollick, 2012 and 2013 Israel Rider
What does it feel like to cycle on the Israel Ride? Hear from David Lehrer- Executive Director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and Israel Ride alum- about cycling through Israel, the Middle East’s environmental challenges, and the potential for regional cooperation at the Arava Institute.
Bring your friends with you; all are welcome at this event.
Party in the Sukkah!
Enjoy fun activities and delicious holiday-inspired treats in the Pottruck Family Atrium and in our rooftop sukkah at the San Francisco JCC! Sample and purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at our mini-farmers’ market. Learn environment-saving techniques from Hazon and EcoJews of the Bay and plant crops with the JCCSF’s resident gardener. Join the PJ Library for story time in our Little Library Sukkah. Free. Presented in partnership with Hazon, EcoJews of the Bay, PJ Library and Capay Organics.
For more information, go to www.jccsf.org/sukkot
