“The First Pop-Up Jewish Record Store in the World”

Tikva Records

Thursday, December 1 – Wednesday, December 28, 2011

(3191 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA)

All Events are Free with a Rotating Suggested Donation

Advance Ticket Reservations Required via Eventbrite: http://tikvarecords.eventbrite.com

An Eclectic Series of Exclusive Live Music Performances, Film Screenings, Academic Lectures,

Comedians, SF Public School Remix Workshops, Food Trucks and More!

Featuring:

*Fool’s Gold (CD Release Event)

*El Gavachillo con Banda La Juvenil w/ Wil-Dog of Ozomatli

*Steve Berlin of Los Lobos

*Zach Rogue (Rogue Wave)

*The Burton Sisters

*Members of Dengue Fever

*Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman (Producers of Old Jews Telling Jokes)

*Geo Trio w/ Original Members of Garaj Mahal and Special Guest Rasaki Aladokun

*Jeremiah Lockwood w/ Guests Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars/The Black Crowes)

*49^th Street All-Stars w/ Dan Lebowitz (ALO), Trevor Garrod (Tea Leaf Green), Nicki Bluhm, Reed Mathis (JFJO), and Inx (Hamsa Lila)

*Dan Lebowitz & Friends

*Rebecca Bortman (My First Earthquake)

*Club Unicornio Kosher Mambo Party

The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is thrilled to announce the opening of the World’s First Jewish Pop-Up Record Store in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District: Tikva Records. Celebrating the national release of the new album, Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973 (Release Date: November 22, 2011), The Idelsohn Society will present an eclectic series of events at the new replica of a ’50s record shop throughout the month of December 2011, including the eight nights of Chanukah.

Since its inception, Israel has been engaged in violent conflict with its neighbors and has had to deal with the challenges of occupation. The Koret Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood at the Osher Marin JCC along with Congregation Kol Shofar and JCRC, in association with Congregation Rodef Sholom, present “ENGAGING ISRAEL” – A talk by Rabbi Donniel Hartman, Ph.D entitled “Israel: The Challenge of Power,” and an opening presentation by this year’s Osher Marin JCC Visiting Scholar Rachel Havrelock, Ph.D. on ”The History of the Map of Israel”.

Rabbi Hartman will explore how Israel can respond to its challenges and use its power in a way that is consistent with the highest standards of morality and Jewish values. He will examine how Israel can balance the legitimate right of self-defense with the values of peace and the rights of others.

Dr. Havrelock will compare maps of ancient Israel and the Second Temple period with maps drawn by Western powers in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the evolving map of the State of Israel. Havrelock is the author of River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line and a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

WHO:  All are invited. Tickets are $18 for members of the Osher Marin JCC and co-sponsoring organizations and $20 for the public. For tickets visit marinjcc.org or call 415-444-8000.

WHEN:            November 16 at 7 pm

 WHERE:         Osher Marin JCC, 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street @ Presidio
Free – Everyone is welcome
For registration please call 415.292.1200.
For more information, contact Shiva Schulz @ sschulz@jccsf.org or 415. 292.1260.

Pizza n’the Hut
Sunday, Oct 16, noon to 3 pm
What: Shake the Lulav, nosh on pizza, sing songs in the sukkah with Rabbit Mark Melamut.

Simchat Torah Family Parade
Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 at 7 pm
March with us and the Torah in a candy parade

Mimi Greisman Tot Shabbat For Young Families
Saturday, November 5, 10.30 am-noon
Join Mimi Greisman with a brandnew program for young families. It will include Jewish content, guitar, singing, puppets, rainbow parachute, bubbles, and more. Bagel nosh and coffee for parents.

 September 15, 17 & 18 Only!
The Marsh Berkeley

“Hyman’s one-man performance piece transports the Orthodoxy of that Hasidic tale to secular America…his transformations reveal the essence of character in simple choreographic strokes.” – The Jerusalem Post

Yehuda Hyman is a playwright, actor, poet, choreographer and dancer whose work explores the intersection of theater, dance, poetry, myth and mysticism. He will perform The Mad 7, a modern-day riff on The Seven Beggars, a Jewish folktale written more than two centuries ago by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Written by Hyman and directed by Mara Isaacs, The Mad 7 tells the epic tale of Elliott Green, a San Francisco office drone turned reluctant hero who embarks on a strange and mystical quest.  Through music, dance and uniquely personal storytelling, Hyman offers a hilarious, offbeat and moving story of spiritual awakening and self-discovery.

Information and tickets at http://www.themarsh.org/yehuda_hyman.html

 This show is produced in association with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

Crime After Crime, an Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival, OPENS FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 at three BAY AREA theaters. The award-winning documentary tells the story of an Orthodox attorney’s epic legal battle to free Deborah Peagler from prison, 20 years after she was sentenced for the murder of the man who abused her. Attorney Joshua Safran and filmmaker Yoav Potash will attend select screenings during opening weekend in the Bay Area.

Discount tickets, hosted screenings, and fundraiser events                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Nonprofits, synagogues, and other groups are eligible to book group movie theater tickets at a discounted price.  Large groups can arrange to host a screening and/or use the screening as a fundraiser, with the opportunity to introduce the film and moderate a Q&A after the screening.   If you’d like to know more information about how your org can get involved and help present a screening in the Bay Area, please contact sara@filmpresence.com. Your organization can get involved by:

• circulating the information to your staff, colleagues and greater community including attached photo
• attending a screening
• hosting a screening of the film at the movie theater, possibly as a fundraiser for your organization

 “MAGNIFICENT…. difficult to leave the theater with dry eyes and an untouched heart.” -The New York Times (Critics’ Pick)

“Harrowing, moving and inspiring, Crime After Crime introduces an unforgettable screen heroine in (Deborah) Peagler, who transcends the force arrayed against her with uncommon strength and grace.”     – The Washington Post

“This kind of movie, one that compresses such expansive amounts of time, tragedy and triumph into a comprehensible scale, is a gift.” - San Francisco Chronicle

Castro Theatre – Sun., July 24 at 11:00 a.m.
Roda Theatre at the Berkeley Rep – Sat., Aug. 6 at 4:40 p.m.

United States Premiere – Germany, 2011 90 min., German, Russian, English
Director/Screenwriter: Britta Wauer

In Heaven Underground is a lush, surprising and utterly absorbing journey into the lively stories hidden among the stones, pathways and woodlands of the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery. Not simply a chronicle of the cemetery’s famous philosophers, writers and artists—though its residents are a “who-was-who” of German Jewish achievement—the film brims with everyday life. We meet Benny Epstein, a Florida man, as he visits his grandmother’s grave for the first time; we hear how neighbors fell in love among the tombstones; we follow  ornithologists for whom Weissensee is a valuable habitat for goshawks; and, most memorably, we meet Rabbi William Wolff, in his 80s, whose puckish insights into the foibles of the living help explain the staying power of this remarkable place.

Tevye

Castro Theatre – Wed., July 27 at 1:20 p.m.
Roda Theatre at the Berkeley Rep – Wed, Aug 3 at 2:15 p.m.

United States, 1939, 96 min., Yiddish w/Eng. subtitles
Director: Maurice Schwartz

When you read the short stories, monologues and novels of Sholem Aleichem (the pen name of Sholem Rabinovitch, 1859–1916), the colorful characters seem to spring off the page and get a life of their own. Yet this prodigious and prolific Yiddish author found himself struggling with the dramatization of his own work, which often flopped on the New York Yiddish stage. For that reason, the great Jacob P. Adler refused to play Tevye the Milkman, the protagonist of a series of short stories about a Jewish farmer and his daughters. Luckily, Maurice Schwartz, the actor-director of the Yiddish Art Theater, later produced and starred in the play, eventually adapting it for this 1939 classic Yiddish-language film shot in New Jersey. Those who know Fiddler on the Roof may be surprised by Aleichem’s own dramatic adaptation, which takes more liberties than the musical creators did while presenting a much older Tevye and focusing mostly on the scandalous elopement of Chava and the gentile Fyedka. The dialogues alone will delight anyone with an affinity for Yiddish language and culture, and Tevye’s struggle to uphold tradition in the face of social tumult remains archetypal. Tevye was the first film not in English to be added to the Library of Congress’s prestigious American Film Registry, and will be shown in a restored print from the National Center for Jewish Film. 

Note: 35mm restoration and new English subtitles by The National Center for Jewish Film, www.jewishfilm.org

For ticket information, please contact the box office at 415.621.0523 or visit the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival online at www.sfjff.org.

Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?, is currently on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum through July 31. Salomon,  a young Jewish artist from Berlin who escaped to France, worked feverishly to produce a massive body of paintings influenced by personal history, opera, and cinema before she was transported to Auschwitz and killed at the age of 26. Three hundred of these works are on view. Visit the CJM before May 11 and admission is only $5.

Charlotte Salomon programs

A day-long event to thank donors to the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund.

Sunday, April 10, 2011—10 am-5 pm
Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco.

•     Lehrhaus Judaica’s Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan will introduce the panel on Jewish Identity in the 21st Century.

•     Presentations by David Brooks, Michael Chabon, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor, Ari Kelman and Sue Fishkoff,  Rabbi Ed Feinstein, Be’Chol Lashon & LGBT Alliance, G-dcast executive producer Sarah Lefton, Avraham Infeld, filmmaker Liz Nord, Storahtellers Rabbi Noa Kushner, Amichai Lau-Levie, and Jonathan Bayer and many others.

•     Attend interactive sessions with leaders in multiple fields of Jewish life: Tikkun Olam, philanthropy, family rituals, history, Jewish thought & identity, Torah study, music, literature, film, foreign affairs, and more.

•     Drop your kids off at the Youth Program, planned and supervised by lead staff at Bay Area JCCs and Camp Tawonga; dig into an art project with the Contemporary Jewish Museum; make a sustainable smoothie with HAZON, or create a community tzedakah box and family time capsule.

•     Full program available at http://www.jewishfed.org/event/jcf-centennial-event-0

Tickets:  Admission is free for Federation donors.  Not a donor yet? Please join us to help build and sustain our vibrant Jewish community.  Suggested minimum donation to the Federation for admission to FedFest is $36.  A buffet lunch is available for purchase $25/adult, $10/child (with advance registration).

For more information and registration visit http://www.jewishfed.org/event/jcf-centennial-event-0

or call 415.369.2864.   FACEBOOK.COM/JEWISHFED