Jewish Environmental Justice for Your Pocketbook hosted by the Rainmakers & Carbon Collective
Join the Kitchen Rainmakers and Zach Stein, founder and CEO of Carbon Collective, for a conversation on the fundamentals and philosophy of sustainable investing. If you’ve ever wondered how you can take personal action to be more sustainable with your money, then this workshop is for you. Expect a transparent, thoughtful and “mensch-y approach" with practical basics and mechanics of making changes.
This event will be held over Zoom, link available upon registration.
Register here
→ Click through to learn more about Carbon Collective
Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group
Sessions focus: This is our last session of the season and we will have a TBA collective action within embodied anti-racism.
Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.
This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!
Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.
Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff
Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group
Sessions focus: Chapter 18 Body-Centered Activism (pages 237-244), Chapter 19 Creating Culture (pages 245-252), & Chapter 21 Whiteness without Supremacy (pages 253-261) of Part 3: Mending Our Collective Body (pages 237-293)
Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.
This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.
Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!
Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.
Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff
Intro to Morning Prayer Practice
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Zoom, Wednesday mornings January 5th through April 20th for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged!
Register here
Intro to Morning Prayer Practice
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Zoom, Wednesday mornings January 5th through April 20th for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged!
Register here
Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group
Sessions focus: Chapter 11 Your Soul Nerve (pages 137-150) & Chapter 12 Settling and Safeguarding Your Body (pages 151-165)of Part 2: Remembering Ourselves (pages 137-215)
Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.
This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.
Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!
Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.
Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff
Rosh Chodesh Womyn’s Group
We meet on the new moon for the ancient practice of celebrating the beginning of the new month on the Hebrew calendar. We'll discuss the Jewish month we're entering and how it can provide us some framework and guidance in our lives. We are pro-trans, pro-queer, pro-POC and pro-all ages. Please bring your whole self.
Led by our Rabbinical Student in Residence, Chelsea Mandell
Register here
Zoom link to be provided upon registration
Intro to Morning Prayer Practice
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Zoom, Wednesday mornings January 5th through April 20th for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged!
Register here
Session 4—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire co-hort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
Kitchen Kavod Presents: Afterward film screening + Q&A with filmmaker Ofra Bloch
Note that this meeting will be in-person at a TBA location for the film screening of Afterward followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Ofra Bloch.
Kitchen Kavod invites you to the screening of Afterward, a documentary by Jerusalem-born psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch. In this timely film, Ofra journeys through Germany and Israel/Palestine, and faces those she was raised to fear and hate as she searches to understand the identity-making narratives of the Holocaust and the Nakba and the possibility of reconciliation.
Through watching the film together and a Q&A with Ofra Bloch and psychoanalyst Denni Liebowitz, we will contemplate inherited collective trauma through self-study and self-awareness, considering how we can move toward healing and the possibilities of peace and increased safety in ourselves and our communities.
Register here
Session 3—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire co-hort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
GLIDE Volunteer Opportunity: Pack Lunches
The GLIDE Daily Free Meals Program needs help behind the scenes—volunteers will work with Meals Staff to make sandwiches and prepare bagged lunches, chop vegetables, sort food donations, prep items for our weekly Zero Waste Pantry, and more. This shift will take place entirely indoors.
We encourage you to sign up for multiple dates (see calendar for available shifts)!
Sign up here
Questions? Email Avital
Session 2—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire co-hort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
Session 1—Community Organizing with Faith in Action Bay Area
Ir Tzedek: Pursuing a Just City through Community Organizing is a 4-week (6 session) workshop series that dives into the basics of community organizing through a lens of Jewish theology, Jewish organizing, and Jewish identity, co-facilitated by Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff & Faith in Action Bay Area (FIABA), Community Organizer, Nani Friedman.
The first 4 sessions will be dedicated learning how to organize, we will cover:
What is organizing?
How to build the skills necessary to organize
How we organize to shift power to those in our community who are most impacted by oppression
How FIABA organizes in San Mateo and San Francisco counties
The 5th session will be participating in your local—San Francisco or San Mateo County—member meeting in person and the 6th session will be a debrief and next steps for the entire cohort.
This workshop series is intended for residents of San Francisco and San Mateo counties who may have some economic security and/or racial privilege, and who wish to learn about participating in a cross-class, multi-racial, multi-lingual organization that is led by those who are impacted by injustice.
Each session will build on the previous so we ask that you commit to attending all sessions.
Zoom Dates:
Tuesdays, 7-8:30 PM
March 15, 22, 29 + April 5
In-person Sessions:
Thursday, April 7 6-8 PM in San Francisco
OR
Thursday, April 14 7-8:30 PM Redwood City
AND
Sunday, April 24 1-3 PM
To sign up, please fill out our interest form here.
Kitchen 24/7 Purim Clothing Swap
Join the Kitchen-ite 24/7 community (ages 21-39ish) at Moishe House Lake Merritt for a pre Purim clothing swap! Maybe you’ll even find your Purim costume there (note, our theme this year is disco).
Bring gently used clothes in wearable condition to swap. All clothes that aren’t swapped will be taken to community members in need.
Location to be provided upon RSVP.
RSVP here
Questions? Email Avital
Practice Loving Kindness with Team Hesed
Team Hesed is a group of Kitchen-ites who come together to support those in our community who may be sick, in need of healing, welcoming a new baby, and all other acts of loving kindness— and our team is ready to expand.
At this Zoom meeting, we will review the ways Hesed is practiced at the Kitchen, solicit volunteers for specific tasks, invite suggestions for learning opportunities for 2022, and join in learning with Rabbi Jessica about the importance of Hesed in our community.
Register here — Zoom link provided upon RSVP.
Questions? Email Chelsea
Kitchen Kavod Anti-Racism Group
Sessions focus: Chapter 1 Your Body and Blood (pages 3-27) of Part 1: Unarmed and Dismembered (pages 3-129)
Our group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones.
This season we will deep dive into embodied and trauma-informed anti-racism and read My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, a trauma specialist & anti-racism educator. Each session will be dedicated to a different part of the book.
Click through for information on how to buy the book & for a schedule of topics for each session!
Register here to receive the Zoom link & be added to the groups email distribution list.
Questions? Email Kitchen Community Organizer, Avital Raff
Rosh Chodesh Womyn’s Group
We meet on the new moon for the ancient practice of celebrating the beginning of the new month on the Hebrew calendar. We'll discuss the Jewish month we're entering and how it can provide us some framework and guidance in our lives. We are pro-trans, pro-queer, pro-POC and pro-all ages. Please bring your whole self.
Led by our Rabbinical Student in Residence, Chelsea Mandell
Register here
Zoom link to be provided upon registration
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea
Rosh Chodesh Womyn’s Group
We meet on the new moon for the ancient practice of celebrating the beginning of the new month on the Hebrew calendar. We'll discuss the Jewish month we're entering and how it can provide us some framework and guidance in our lives. We are pro-trans, pro-queer, pro-POC and pro-all ages. Please bring your whole self.
Led by our Rabbinical Student in Residence, Chelsea Mandell
Register here
Zoom link to be provided upon registration
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea
Anti-Racism Discussion Group Meeting
This group set out to do the difficult and vital work of anti-racism by establishing a community, learning more about race and racism, and listening to Jewish voices, especially Black ones. We will be looking at institutional racism through inviting new facilitators, and exploring shared topics of interest.
Our guest speaker is Denni Liebowitz, LCSW, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Berkeley, who will help us frame and feel into these questions. Denni has studied and written about questions about Israel-Palestine for decades. In The Kitchen’s Antiracism Discussion Group, we approach questions about trauma, legacies of oppression, and the quest for racial equity with a leaning toward embodiment and self-reflection.
All are welcome. No previous attendance or training required.
Zoom registration here.
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea
The Miller Intro to Judaism Program
Join our next cohort of Kitchen-ites looking to deepen (or begin) your knowledge of what it means to be Jewish with The Miller Intro to Judaism Program, offered by American Jewish University.
The class will cover Judaism’s biggest and most inspiring ideas as well as the nuts-and-bolts of daily Jewish living, welcoming newcomers of all backgrounds to begin or deepen their Jewish journey. Over the 18-weeks (10 AM - 1 PM on Sundays via Zoom) we’ll cover history, holidays, practices, text, and values. In addition, we’ll start with Aleph-Bet (Hebrew alphabet) and either teach you to read Hebrew or help you brush up on your Hebrew skills.
Our teacher will be Rabbi Adam Greenwald of AJU, plus our Kitchen cohort will have the addition of our very own Rabbinical Student in Residence, Chelsea Mandell, to answer any and all questions and lead you through bonus opportunities.
Tuition is not covered in Kitchen membership, however we are committed to making this course accessible so please inquire for more information.
Register via AJU here
Dates: Jan 5 - May 22 (No class on Jan 16 + Apr 17)— class schedule here
Where & When: Zoom, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Questions? Email Chelsea
One City Captain Meeting
Join our monthly community meeting to hear from our Team Captains as they reflect on successes, best practices and lessons so far in our match making process. This is a great opportunity to get involved and learn about what it takes to be a One City captain.
Register here
Learn more about One City here
Questions? Email Avital
This meeting is on Zoom, the link will be provided in your registration confirmation email.
Intro to Morning Prayer Service
Interested in starting a morning prayer practice this year? We’ve got you. Join Rabbi Jessica and Chelsea on Wednesday mornings January through February (1/5-2/23) for a half hour deep dive into the what, why, and how of praying in the morning.
Beginners encouraged! Register here.
Questions? Email Chelsea