Archive for month: July, 2012
FVJN Volunteers at the Food Bank 
Saturday, Aug. 25, 9 – 11 a.m.
FVJN families and individuals will have the opportunity to work a Youth Volunteer session at NIFB (Northern Illinois Food Bank).
If you wish to participate please let Rachel know, ASAP (rachely@fvjn.org). For this session, volunteers can be as young as 8 years of age! If you’ve done this with us before, you know how fun it is, and it’s a terrific way to help our greater community!
And There’s More!
* Volunteer opportunities!
* Win a Breadsmith gift card!
FVJN Lazarus House Volunteer Project
FVJN Volunteers needed once a month
We need your help in continuing to provide dinner the first Wednesday
of each month to the guests of Lazarus House, a shelter located in
St. Charles.
Please consider helping with this FVJN Volunteer Project
and sign up, now! Volunteers are currently needed for July, August
and September.
Past FVJN families who’ve prepared and provided dinners include
the Weinbergers, the Kurals, and the Evans families.
For info, tips and more, please RSVP to Tammie: tammiew@fvjn.org.
***Extra, Extra!***
FVJS Needs Teachers for 2012-2013!
Parents, college students and older high school students
encouraged to apply; teaching background not required.
Teach at FVJN’s innovative religious school!
Openings for 2012/13 school year:
Hebrew teacher
Preschool-2nd grade teacher
You don’t have to be a certified teacher, but some knowledge of Judaism is helpful.
Competitive pay, twice a month program, Geneva location.
Contact Barbara Anderson: barb.anderson58@att.net.
Hot Dogs 
(In honor of our recent Swedish Days booth!)
Where do hot dogs come from?We aren’t asking about what’s inside the super-processed meat —
that’s a question for another time–but, rather, where the food
developed. Historically, hot dogs are descendents of German
meat products like frankfurters (traditionally made of pork) and
wieners (traditionally a mixture of pork and beef). According
to one Chicago foodie, the all-beef hot dog was the creation
of Jewish street vendors who might not have abided by all the
traditional laws of kashrut, but wanted to offer their clients a
pork-free meal.One of these vendors was Charles Feltman, a German Jew
who emigrated to Brooklyn, and began selling food on the
Coney Island boardwalk in 1870. According to some stories,
he was the first to stick a hot dog inside a roll, so that people
could walk around eating their lunch. Others credit another
(non-Jewish) German immigrant, Antonoine Feuchtwanger,
for inventing the hot-dog sandwich. He used to give his customers
disposable gloves so they wouldn’t burn their hands on his
hot dogs, then switched to using buns instead.In 1916, one of Feltman’s employees, Nathan Handwerker,
left Feltman’s stand to start his own. Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs
soon became a national franchise, spreading the all-beef frank —
and the neatly-compartmented hot dog — way beyond Coney Island.
from Jewniverse, www.myjewishlearning.com
Ta’am Yisrael – A Taste of Israel
8th Grade Israel Experience!
Register now for CFJE’s Ta’am Yisrael 2013!
Spend the week of Jan. 28 – Feb. 5, 2013, in
the land of Israel!
Ta’am Yisrael: A Taste of Israel, CFJE’s 8th grade Israel Experience,
aims to give participants a meaningful, intense, emotional and focused
taste of their heritage through a weeklong, “hands-on” experience in Israel.
Ta’am Yisrael was developed in order to respond to the needs of
post-Bar/Bat Mitzvah students, who constitute an especially at-risk group
for discontinuing their Jewish education. Traditionally, the Bar/Bat Mitzvah
year has marked the entrance into the Jewish community as an adult.
However, following the excitement of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah year, a majority
of students do not return for additional Jewish education.
Register early, by July 16, and save $100!
For more information, visit: http://www.cfje.org/Taam_Yisrael.
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Summer Camp on the Farm
Pushing the Envelope Farm, located in Geneva, is excited to announce
the opening of our summer camp season on July 9!
Pushing the Envelope Farm is a community farm and Jewish cultural learning center serving Fox Valley residents under the direction of Elan Margulies, an environmental educator and graduate of Cornell University.
This camp program is open to everyone and will focus on nature.
The week long camp will be offered July 9-13, 2012. Campers aged 5 to 10 are welcome.
Camp will be held Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. There will be a variety of outdoor activities, including planting, tending to the crops and caring for the farm animals. Indoor activities are planned during foul weather.
Camp fees are $95 for one week and $90 for each additional sibling.
For further information and to register, please contact Pushing the Envelope Farm at 630.578.3313 or genevafarm@gmail.com.
You may visit the website at www.pushingtheenvelopefarm.org
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Tzedakah Charity Gardening
When: 5-7pm Wednesday Evenings
Where: Pushing the Envelope Farm, 1700 Averill Road, Geneva
What: Come and help out at Pushing the Envelope Farm’s Tzedakah Charity Garden. Volunteers help us plant, maintain, and harvest food for the Northern Illinois Foodbank. Drop ins welcome, or call 607.654.8244 for more details.
About Us: Pushing the Envelope Farm is a Jewish educational and community farm. The farm grows and sells organic produce and has milking goats, laying chickens, and honey bees.
