Bay Area Event Calendar
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Inside the Activists' Studio
02/21/2010
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3:30 PM
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INSIDE THE ACTIVISTS' STUDIO 2010
Progressive Jewish Alliance and The AJWS-AVODAH Partnership present:
Inside the Activists' Studio 2010
Sunday, February 21st, 3-8 PM, registration at 2:30 PM
Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St, SF
Sliding scale, $8-18. Includes museum admission!
Click here to RSVP.
Join us to learn from and be energized by local Jewish change-makers and to celebrate the multitude of ways we are collectively working to create a more just and equitable world.
The 3rd annual event will feature a panel moderated by KQED's Michael Krasny, numerous skills-share workshops including a food justice program with PJA's Program Director Sarah Leiber Church and Rabbi Dorothy Richman, a spoken word performance by local poet and activist Josh Healey, and a reception.
Panel Discussion With Change-Makers:
Jon Gilgoff - Jeremiah Fellow, Founder & Executive Director, Brothers on the Rise
Caitlin Sislin - Advocacy Director, Women's Earth Alliance
Daniel Kaufman - Founder & President, One Percent Foundation
Erin Potts - Executive Director, Air Traffic Control
Cosponsored by: Bay Area Tribe, Birthright Israel NEXT Bay Area, Contemporary Jewish Museum, EcoJews of the Bay, Hazon, The Hub at JCCSF, Jewschool, LGBT Alliance, Moishe House, New Generations of the New Israel Fund, UpStart Bay Area, Young Adults Division of the SFJCF, and Zeek.
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What if President Obama & MLK Jr. Could Meet Today?
01/16/2010
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4:00 PM
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What if President Obama & MLK Jr. Met Today?
Reflections on Dr. King’s legacy and today’s faith movements for justice
Honoring MLK Day: Shabbat, Jan. 16th, 4-6 pm
Join us for a panel and small group discussion, followed by Havdallah, a ceremony celebrating the end of Shabbat (and snacks, of course!).
Moderator: Rabbi SaraLeya Schley, Chohmat HaLev.
Panelists:
Pastor Bruce Reyes-Chow, Mission Bay Community Church, San Francisco, Pastor; 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Moderator.
Reverend Roland Stringfellow, Bay Area Coalition of Welcoming Congregations, The Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry, Coordinator.
Sarah Church, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Program Director.
Bring Vegetarian Snacks to Share!
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Festival of Rights Hannukah Party
12/12/2009
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7:00 PM
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Progressive Jewish Alliance Presents...
The 5th Annual Festival of Rights
This December the Progressive Jewish Alliance is presenting its 5th Annual Festival of Rights, a unique Hanukkah celebration and menorah-lighting ceremony to champion the vital contributions of local social justice leaders. Join us for that and so much more!
* MAKE PROGRESS: 5th Annual Progressive Jewish Alliance Festival of Rights
* WATCH IT @ 8by8: Eight short films curated by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival including Sundance selection, Ten for Grandpa
* EXHIBIT YOURSELF: There’s a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak, As It Is Written: Project 304,805, and Jews on Vinyl in the CJM galleries
* BE PREPARED: With Hanukkah Survival Kits
* GET DOWN WITH THE GIRLS: Live music performances by Girls In Trouble and Charming Hostess
* GET SLAMMED: Poetry by Josh Healey, a two-time National Poetry Slam participant
* UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY: A sober space to get creative and make art
* BREAK THAT FUNK: Cash bar and dancing to the funky sounds of DJ Teeko
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street (between Third and Fourth streets)
Saturday, December 12th, 7:00 to 10:00 PM
Tickets: $10 presale, $15 at the door (limited capacity -- advance ticket purchase recommended).
Buy tickets online at http://www.thecjm.org or http://tinyurl.com/super8tix or by calling 415.655.7881 (CJM) or 415.292.1233 (JCCSF). Must be 21 years old to attend.
Presented in partnership with The Hub at JCCSF, Contemporary Jewish Museum, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, JDub Records, Tzavta of the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation, American Jewish World Service-AVODAH, and the LGBT Alliance.
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Rags to Righteousness: A Sweatshop-Free Fashion Show
11/08/2009
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2:00 PM
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PJA's Second Annual
Rags to Righteousness:
A Sweatshop-Free Fashion Show
Sunday, November 8
2-5 PM, Women's Building, SF
You are cordially invited to join us for community event of fashionable fun and justice-infused merriment.
The second annual Rags to Righteousness 2009 will offer a clothing bazaar with sweatshop-free and fair trade products, modeled by local community activists in a live fashion show.
Enjoy eclectic entertainment and delectable delicacies for a fantastically fun afternoon! The stylish threads exhibited on the runway will be available for purchase at the event. Go home with some sweatshop-free fabulousness of your own, and learn real ways to end the use of sweatshop labor locally and around the world.
Justice is the new green!
Admission is sliding scale from $10 - $20.
Presented by PJA, AJWS-AVODAH Partnership and The Hub at JCCSF. |
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NewGround on "Speaking of Faith"
10/25/2009
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4:00 PM
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Recently, NewGround co-directors Malka Fenyvesi & Aziza Hasan were interviewed for an upcoming segment of the popular program "Speaking of Faith."
The show will air in Los Angeles on
SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 @ 4:00 PM, KPCC 89.3 FM
But you don't have to wait - the program will be available online beginning Wednesday Oct. 15, as it will be airing around the country. Click here to listen.
Also, "Speaking of Faith" has written about the session on their blog site. Read the blog.
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PJA Bay Area Community Dinner
10/15/2009
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6:00 PM
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Building the Green & Just Guide
09/30/2009
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6:30 - 8:00 PM
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Jewish, Green & Just!Join the Progressive Jewish Alliance as we partner with Jews United for Justice in DC to adapt their groundbreaking Green and Just Celebrations Guide for California. The new version will contain resources for local "green and just" options for venues, centerpieces, invitations, and more, that allow Jewish families planning weddings or b’nai mitzvahs to honor workers' rights and promote sustainability. We need you! Help us find responsible sources. Come find out more in-person, take a look at the Guide & hear about ways to make it a reality.. Putting Values into Action: Building the Green & Just GuideWednesday, Sept. 30th, 6:30-8 pm*
At PJA’s Cozy Office HousePotluck – please bring a side dish. Entrees and address provided to those who RSVP to GreenandJust@pjalliance.org. *If you can’t make it, you can still help out! To share suggestions or get involved, call 510-527-8620, or email GreenandJust@pjalliance.org.
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Food Justice: It's What's for Dinner
09/09/2009
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6:00 PM
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Food Justice:
It's What's for Dinner PJA, in partnership with American Jewish World Service-AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Partnership, invites you to join us for a community event featuring Mollie Katzen, best-selling author of the groundbreaking "Bible of vegetarian cooking," The Moosewood Cookbook among numerous other cookbooks, a delicious local organic buffet dinner, a foodie social justice networking bazaar, a preview of the film Food Stamped, and a panel discussion with local food justice activists. Wednesday, September 9, 2009
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
6:00-9:00 PM$5 - $55 Sliding ScaleProceeds go to City Slicker Farms: Growing Affordable Fresh Produce for West Oakland. The panel features:
- Adam Berman (moderator), founder of the Adamah Fellowship at Isabella Freedman
- Zelig Golden, Attorney for the Center for Food Safety
- Emily Freed, Farmer at Jacobs Farm
- Willow Rosenthal, Founder of City Slicker Farms
- Chaya Ryvka Diehl, Chef at Living Vision
This event will sell out! Register in advance online at Brown Paper Tickets.
Join us for an afterparty at Jupiter.
Questions? Contact Alexander Sharone at asharone@pjalliance.org or 510.527.8660.
Co-sponsored by: City Slicker Farms, Hazon and the 2009 Hazon Food Conference, Berkeley Student Food Cooperative, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, EcoJews of the Bay
Supported by a grant from the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay.
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Banquet in the Streets
07/26/2009
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4:30 PM
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 Join us for Banquet in the Streets, an opportunity to honor courageous local workers and celebrate fair and just working conditions. While San Francisco hotel workers are the backbone of our world-class tourism industry, management at the HEI Le Meridien and Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf hotels have refused to honor their workers' petition for a fair process to choose a voice on the job. PJA respects the worker-led boycott - In the eyes of Judaism's broad ethical tradition, working conditions at these hotels are not kosher. Rather than hold a banquet inside these establishments, we'll take our celebration to the streets! Wear your banquet best, and come ready for music, dancing, free food and toasting the workers at this family friendly event.
Join us for the Banquet!Sunday July 26th, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf Hotel,
555 North Point Street, SF
Music and light food provided
No charge. Your presence alone is much more valuable! Banquet attire encouraged Click here to RSVP online - list "PJA" as your organization to be a part of the Jewish contingent! For more information: schurch@pjalliance.org or 510-527-8620. |
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Jews March for Pride
06/29/2009
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9:00 AM
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 Jews March for Pride
Join PJA as we march alongside many committed Jewish organizations and synagogues with the "Jews March for Pride" contingent of the San Francisco's LGBT Pride Parade, Sunday, June 28, 2009.
We will meet at 9 AM at the Beale Street Bar and Grill (133 Beale Street at Mission) for free bagels and fruit breakfast along with juices and coffee, all generously donated by the Eckstein Family.
You will have the opportunity to pick up your pride t-shirts, decorate your own kippa, use the restroom and relax together as a Jewish community before the parade starts outside the Beale Street Bar and Grill at 10:30 am.
Can you join us? RSVP to Rachel today: rbiale@pjalliance.org
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What's a Jew to Do About (gulp) the Economy?
05/14/2009
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7:00 PM
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What’s A Jew to Do About
(gulp) the Economy?
A moment of opportunity? The sky, it’s falling?
Join us for lively conversation that will unfurrow your brow and have you rolling up your sleeves. Find out about local fights for economic justice, the Employee Free Choice Act, and more!
Featuring
Dr. Steven Pitts, Economist,
UC Berkeley Labor Center
Thursday, May 14, 7-8:30pm
Gaia Arts Center
2116 Allston Way, Berkeley
Light dinner & deep food- for-thought conversation
Berkeley BART & Wheelchair Accessible… and Free!
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