The challenge has been issued: Are your Latkas the best?

Do you dare compete in Latkafest 2008?

If you are brave enough to withstand the culinary scrutiny of hungry masses, yearning to eat ... not quite for free, email us and let us know that you want to be a "Latka Macher" on the morning of December 21st.

All others... ready your appetites for our second annual latka fest. And, mark your calendars.

This promises to be an exceptional event.

Feat. The Andy Statman Trio - truly one of New York's greatest living klezmer-jazz-bluegrass mandolin players.

When: Sunday, December 21st, high noon.
Price: PAY YOUR AGE - maximum $25.

All food and entertainment included.

Here's how it works: brave and confident latka machers will be at the Center kitchen making their very special latkas early Sunday morning. At High Noon, the doors open for a Latka Cook-Off Contest. You get to vote for the best Latka of the season. The concert follows the contest, and lasts until about 3pm - leaving you with plenty of time to get home and light the first Chanukah candle.

We've challenged Park Slope Jewish Center, and it looks like they've accepted. Read the e-mail they sent to their membership after the jump. If that's not enough to get you riled up and ready to fry, nothing is!

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Thanks for those who participated in our 8th annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, hosted by Our Lady of Refuge Roman Catholic Church.

Remember: need doesn't end with the close of Thanksgiving. On this Black Friday and beyond, please help the OLR Food Pantry by dropping off your non-perishable or canned food donations.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Join Cantor Sam Levine for a series of challenging and provocative meetings to discuss readings from the "new historians" and others on the topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The meetings will be respectful discussions of challenging material. Those interested will be provided with reading packets that should be read prior to the discussions. These will be available for pick up in the EMJC office.

Join us for the first meeting on Monday, November 24th at 7:30PM.

For the full series: $18 for members, and $25 for non-members.

For those wishing to expand their knowledge of this timely and important issue and to explore refreshing nuances of the ongoing conflict, this series is a must.

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 6:00PM - $36

Elisa Strauss returns to EMJC to share the dazzling designs featured in her newly published cookbook, Confetti Cakes for Kids.

Confetti Cakes for Kids, the followup to the acclaimed The Confetti Cakes Cookbook, features a sensational selection of sweet projects guaranteed to delight both children and adults.

Contact the Center to RSVP no later than December 1!