October 12:
Join Jewish Educator Patti Moskovitz as we learn about the celebration of our joyous Fall festivals in an informal presentation entitled, Sukkot and Simchat Torah: Endings and Beginnings.

October 19:
Bring your bag lunch and enjoy the movie, Mrs. Henderson Presents starring Judi Dench as the British widow who bought a theater and brought London its first nudie review in the late 1930's. Bob Hoskins stars as her business partner. (103 min.)

October 26:
Enjoy our fall Vegetarian Lasagna Luncheon followed by a musical program from the South Bay Community Orchestra. This program is always a big hit! Paid reservations required by October 19. Members of Beth El Senior Friendship Club, $4.00; non-members, $6.00. Call Ceil Winton 347-6738 or Rhonda Press at PJCC 212-7522.

We meet every Thursday at 12 noon at Peninsula Temple Beth El's Fellowship Hall, and we bring a brown bag lunch - except for days when we host lunches, which is several times a year. Birthdays and Anniversaries are celebrated every last Thursday of each month.

Our dues are $10 a year and we pay $0.50 (fifty cents) a week for coffee/tea and cake. All are welcome to attend - whether they are temple members or not. Visitors can pay $0.50 for three times (movie day it would be $1.00) and then if they don't join us as a member, they pay $1 each week. From 12-12:30 pm we have social time during lunch and then a short meeting until 1:00 pm when we have an entertainment program until approximately 1:45pm. Joe Lerner then provides a lively discussion group or those who play cards can do their thing.

We circulate a bi-monthly newsletter, printing all Birth and Anniversary dates, plus programs that we will have for the next two months and other informative information. Our non-temple members do not receive the Kolenu (PTBE monthly newsletter), so our senior newsletter, edited by Cecile Winton, is very useful to them. We also supply door-to-door van service for $2.00 round-trip, furnished by PJCC and they provide this service for our Friday Shabbat services and Oneg on the 1st Friday of every month. Hopefully, more people will avail themselves of this service.

Our club pays for all our programs, as well as our paper supplies (cups, plates, napkins, utensils, tea, coffee) and our members generously donate to our treasury honoring someone they want to remember, sending good wishes or in memory of a loved one. This subsidizes the small $10 yearly dues. We give our temple $1000 or more each year, depending on our finances, but it has always been at least $1000. Then, when we can, send some money to the Jewish Home, plus lap robes our seniors make. The lap robes are also delivered to local nursing homes.

At Purim, we make cakes and sell them at our temple Purim Carnival - all proceeds are turned over to our Religious School. Our club is the only Jewish Senior Group that is a member of the San Mateo County Senior Forum. We send money to the Jewish National Fund for trees in Israel for our departed members and we weekly collect cans and packages of food for Samaritan House. In 1999 we collected cartons of food plus $493 from our members. We contribute to buy Kiddush cups for our B'nai Mitzvah students, and we furnished over 2,000 cookies for "To Make a Difference Day" in our community and these cookies were delivered to local hospitals and nursing homes and to home-bound people.