Around The Bay

CJM PHOTO CALL

How Do You Represent Being Jewish in the Bay Area?

Shabbat taco trucks to Torah study on Mount Tam, Menorah candle lightings in Union Square, to star of David surfboards; how do you represent being Jewish in the Bay Area?

The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) invites you to participate in an upcoming exhibition uniquely centered on the Bay Area Jewish Story: California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present. Help the CJM create a portrait of the Bay Area Jewish community, in all its diversity and complexity, by sharing your photographs of what it means to be Jewish in the Bay Area. Contribute your family and personal histories and celebrate your most important milestones by uploading your photos to the CJM’s flickr group. All photos submitted will be on display in the exhibition and on the CJM’s website.

Share your important moments and be part of the story

  • Please submit your photos to the CJM’s dedicated Flickr Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/californiadreaming

    California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present will be on view from November 17, 2011 through October 16, 2012. Photos will be accepted throughout the exhibition.

  • Come visit and share the journey.

    ELLIS ISLAND OLD WORLD FOLK BAND

    Sunday, December 18th, 2:00 pm

    Pleasanton Public Library, 400 Old Bernal Ave., Pleasanton

    The Ellis Island Old World Folk band has delighted Bay Area audiences with its klezmer music for three decades. The theme of this concert will be the evolution of klezmer as the Jews crossed the Atlantic from the Old World to the New World. Tunes such as "The Yiddish Charleston" and "Levine with His Flying Machine" are examples of what you might hear.

    This is a free concert sponsored by the Friends of the Pleasanton Public Library. Doors open at 1:30 pm. For more information visit www.musikers.com.