A Simple and Delicious Summery Shabbat Treat!

July means berry season, and what better way to use this tasty summer produce than by making a sweet treat for Shabbat?

No-Bake Berry Cheesecake

1 lb. cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
8 oz. whipped topping
1 graham cracker crust
blueberries, strawberry halves

Beat cream cheese, sugar, and lemon juice until well blended. Stir in two cups of the whipped topping. Refridgerate for several hours. Before serving spread remaining topping over the cake and decorate with fresh berries!

Enjoy this recipe? Kar-Ben's "My Very Own Jewish Calendar" is filled with fun facts, recipes, activities, and more!

Fundraising with Jewish Calendars

At home or at work, everybody uses calendars. Kar-Ben’s calendars are a perfect fundraiser for any Jewish organization, since each calendar includes Jewish and secular holidays and candle lighting times. Earn 20% of proceeds for your organization.

Choose your method for selling:

1.      Gather pre-orders from your group. Duplicate the order form and gather orders and payment (made payable to your organization). Kar-Ben will ship you the exact quantity you ordered and bill you for calendars, less a 20% discount for orders of more than 50 calendars. A designated person from your organization distributes calendars.

2.      Buy in bulk to sell at an event. Have an event coming up where you can sell calendars? Select calendars (a minimum total quantity of 50) to sell at your event and receive a 20% discount. Calendars are not refundable.

Fundraiser Ideas:

·         Great kick-off to a school year for fundraising

·         Perfect for synagogue men’s clubs or sisterhoods

·         Great for Jewish Day School fundraisers dedicated to special projects (raising funds for a class trip, Grade Government, community service projects)

·         Include order form in back-to-school information packets for Day schools and pre-schools

·         Sell calendars at back-to school night

·         Ask individuals or organizations to buy calendars to donate to elders in the community

·         Easy fundraiser for PTOs; ask parents to sponsor calendars to fulfill a school’s wishlist in addition to buying calendars

·         Easy fundraiser for schools that have policies against selling certain items like candy; no worries about kashrut, allergies or other issue

·         Set reasonable sales goals for each member of your group

Want to customize your calendars? We can provide quotes for custom printed calendars, so your group can include information, special date designations and even photographs. Contact us at 1-800-328-4929 for a customized quote. Great fundraiser or premium giveaway!

Kar-Ben Jewish Calendars – 5773

All calendars include secular and Jewish Holidays and candle lighting times.

Sammy Spider Jewish Calendar (5773)
978-0-7613-9145-6  $8.95
Colorful wall calendar featuring activities for children, 16 months (September 2012-December 2013)

My Very Own Jewish Calendar (5773)
978-0-7613-9122-7  $8.95Colorful wall calendar, 16 months (September 2012-December 2013)

Executive Jewish Calendar (5773)
978-0-7613-9125-8  $9.95
Month-at-a-glance engagement notebook,
17 months (August 2012-December 2013)

Jumbo Jewish Calendar (5773)
978-0-7613-9124-1  $12.95For desk or wall, 13 months (September 2012-September 2013)

Mini Jewish calendar (5773)
978-0-7613-9123-1  $1.95

Checkbook-sized, 13 months (September 2012-September 2013)

Want to customize your calendars? We can provide quotes for custom printed calendars, so your group can include information, special date designations and even photographs. Contact us at 1-800-328-4929 for a customized quote. Great fundraiser or premium giveaway!

Happy New Year 5770

To all our authors and illustrators, customers and friends around the world, best wishes for a sweet, happy, healthy and peaceful new year. In Minnesota the leaves have begun to turn. When we build our sukkah in two weeks, it will have cornstalks on the roof. We buy our cornstalks from a local farmer who comes to the farmer's market every year with his load of cornstalks, gourds and other sukkah-friendly material. The trouble was that he could never quite figure out why when he shlepped a few cornstalks one week he would have customers wanting to by dozens, so he'd then bring dozens the next week and nobody would want any.

The year he mentioned this to me, I explained to him that there was indeed a method to the madness, and I gave him a little Kar-Ben Mini Jewish Calendar and circled the following year's pre-Sukkot weekend so he'd know exactly which weekend the Jews would be wanting their cornstalks -- that weekend and no other. I also invited him to our sukkah party so he could see what-the-heck (his words) we were using all those cornstalks for.

And so a friendship was born. He comes to our sukkah party every year bringing gifts of honey or eggs or broomcorn from his farm, and we provide him with a mini calendar every year so he knows when Sukkot is. So now my plug for Kar-Ben calendars -- buy them and give them to your non-Jewish neighbors, teachers and others. They're great, they promote cultural understanding, and you may make a new friend.

Shanah tovah!