Kiddush Sponsor Responsibilities

1. Notify Larry Korman if you are having more than the standard kiddush. (3 round tables for food and drink)
2. Blue tarp that is placed on stage needs to be cleaned and folded and placed back on the shelving where the books are stored.
3. Clean all tables used for the kiddush.
4. Clean all carts used to transport the food.
5. Wash and dry trays and bowls used for kiddush and place on top shelf of metal cabinet in back room.
6. Clean kitchen area where food was prepared.
7. Check for trash in room.
8. Empty trash cans and place trash in dumpster.
9. Boxes of forks and spoons are located on top shelf where books are located.
10. Extra plates and cups are located in the metal cabinet in the back room.
11. The contents of the unlocked cabinets over the small fridge belong to the Congregation.
12. Park your car by the kitchen alcove and unload it directly into the kitchen. You’ll have to come through the sanctuary and into the kitchen to unlock the door. It’s easier to unload and it saves carrying supplies through the sanctuary while the service is in progress.

KIDDUSH POLICY AND TIPS

1. Prepare Kiddush for about 100 people including approximately 20-30 children in the one to 12 year-old age range.
2. Food must be dairy or parve and should not have meat or meat products in it. Kiddush hosts should be careful to check that all labels of prepared food include a hechsher. Our kashrut policy permits the serving of cooked foods only if they are prepackaged under a reliable hekhsher (i.e., kashrut supervision). Only uncooked food may be prepared at home. (See Kashrut Policy approved by the Ritual Committee.)
3. Paper products and serving platters are provided by the Synagogue.
4. Kiddush sponsors must provide 2 bottles hechshered wine and/or grape juice for making Kiddush. This should be poured into approximately 50 small Kiddush cups arranged on top of a cart. The cart should be wheeled to the All Purpose Room at the end of services and placed next to the door where congregants exit from the sanctuary. Congregants can then have their wine/juice in hand while Kiddush is recited in the All Purpose Room. Please inform the Coordinator of any occasion you may be honoring so that it will be included in the announcements.
5. Sponsors must provide at least 2 bottles of juice and 2 boxes of hechshered cookies, chips, crackers, pretzels or other snack item and/or fruit for the kid’s room during services. Sponsors should also provide about 10 bottles of juice and soda during Kiddush. If a special occasion is being honored, a sheet cake for 50 people can be ordered from any of the Kosher bakeries in town.
6. Bread for HaMotzi is not required. If bread is part of Kiddush, the blessing after a meal is required. It is suggested that Kiddush sponsors bring crackers or other bread-like items if they choose not to bring bread or challah (see below).
7. Three round tables are usually needed for Kiddush. Food should be prepared and placed on platters in the small alcove in the kitchen. The platters can then be placed on a cart and wheeled to the tables for set up directly after Musaf. Do not move the carts during the Amidah, Aleinu or Mourner’s Kaddish. Ein Kheloheinu provides excellence cover for moving the carts.
8. Place soda and sweets on the tables nearest the door. Place identical offerings of non-dessert foods on the other two tables.

Still unclear on amounts? Four or more of the following items will make a Kiddush to remember:

• 2 platters crudities with dip (cut-up or small vegetables such as baby carrots, celery sticks, jicama sticks, red, green, yellow, purple bell pepper sticks, cherry tomatoes, cucumber sticks; dip suggestions include salsa, hummus, baba ghanoush, (Remember, all prepared foods must be hechshered)
• 2 platters/bowls chips or pretzels with or without dip (see suggestions above)
• 2 platters crackers/pita/lavash with assorted hard cheeses and/or spreads (humus, babaganoush, vegetarian chopped liver, tahini, or flavored cream cheeses)
• 2 platters fruit (melon balls or slices, orange, clementine or tangerine wedges, cherries, strawberries, berries, grapes, etc.)
• 2 bowls fish (herring, gefilte)
• 1 bowl or platter of pickled/salty items (nuts, olives, pickles, pickled eggplant, etc.)
• 2 platters sliced cake and/or cookies