Assigning Volunteers for Kiddush, Motzi and Snack Preparations: Each year after the High Holidays, Fabrangen members are sent a schedule prepared using an alphabetical listing of adult members assigned each week to handle responsibilities for Kiddush/Snack. Assignments are made for the entire Jewish year and two people are assigned per Shabbat. We try hard to honor various scheduling requests, including assigning couples to the same Shabbat. If couples would rather be staggered, or for any other exceptions, please contact the coordinator (with a cc to Beryl and Fabrangen Webmaster Elena Rodriguez at tia.elena.rodriguez@gmail.com to update our web calendar).

Make sure you know what to do when it is your turn: Please read the information carefully, save this document, print it out, and keep the hard copy in a safe place. This document is also available on our website and is posted in our closet at WES.

Your responsibilities for Shabbat Kiddush and Motzi, and an optional snack include pouring wine and grape juice into small cups and distributing them for the Kiddush, preparing for the Motzi, serving and cleaning up the Kiddush/Snack that follows services, and finding your own substitute if for some reason you are not available on your assigned date. In addition, the community has become accustomed to a light, healthy snack after Kiddush, which you can bring-- typically costing $20 to $30 between the two-person Kiddush team. BRINGING THE KIDDUSH SNACK IS OPTIONAL.

• When to serve: Serve the Kiddush to members just after announcements are made so that the community can join in the Kiddush that immediately follows the closing hymn of Adon Olam. To minimize noise during Shabbat services, prepare all food for serving in the WES kitchen on the lower level and bring it upstairs immediately after services. There are lots of folks who will help, if you need it. Just ask around. Reminder: the small kitchen on the upper level is only used by WES.

• Supplies: Paper goods (napkins, dishes, cups, etc.) and eating utensils can be found in the kitchen cabinet marked 'Fabrangen' immediately to the right as you enter the kitchen, or in the next cabinet or stored high above the cabinets in the appropriate box marked 'Fabrangen.' Please do not use WES supplies. If you find that we need more wine, grape juice or cups: notify the coordinator as soon as possible, so the supply can be replenished before the following week.

• To prepare and serve wine and grape juice for the Kiddush: There are two types of three oz. cups: the unmarked ones are for wine, and the printed ones are for grape juice. If there are no cups of that size in the two kitchen cabinets marked ‘Fabrangen,’ they may be found in one of the boxes that are stored above the cabinets.
  
  Clear plastic 'crystal' and paisley trays for serving the kiddush are usually found in the drawer also marked 'Fabrangen" that tops our assigned cabinet space. However, they may not be put away in the same place each time, so you may find them in the Fabrangen kitchen cabinet immediately below the drawer, the one next to it, or on the counter in the far left corner with other WES trays. If all else fails, look at the under-counter cabinet in the far right left cabinet of the WES kitchen. You may have to unbuckle the white plastic strap to find trays to serve the wine. If you borrow anything belonging to WES, please wash it and put it back where you found it after the service.

• To prepare for the Motzi: Clarepicks up two hallot from Great Harvest each week or makes arrangements for hallot to be on hand. She will either leave them in the kitchen or on the table in the foyer at WES. She may have already arranged the hallot for the Motzi on a tray with the cover in place. If not, place the hallot on a tray and cover them with the hallah cover you will find in the bottom left hand drawer of our Fabrangen closet (right below the shelf where the Torah normally is stored.) Put the hallot tray on the table along with the Kiddush trays until they are used at the end of our Shabbat services. Make sure that the tray gets to the central table right after the Kiddush occurs so that our young people can make the Motzi.

• Kiddush snack: Unless there is a special Kiddush or simha occurring for which the Kiddush snack becomes a luncheon or heavier repast, please plan on bringing something for the community to nosh on. BRINGING THE KIDDUSH SNACK IS A STRICTLY VOLUNTARY PART OF THE ROTATION ASSIGNMENT. If you are shomer Shabbos, or cannot bring the snack for what ever reason, alert Beryl ahead of time so that she can make necessary arrangements.

• To clean up: Take a wastebasket through the community to pick up any used cups. Community members are a tidy bunch, and typically clean up after themselves. It's your job to check and make sure that the tables are clean of any food, and stray plates and cups are thrown away. All leftover foodstuffs and drinks should either be taken to the kitchen and stored, if appropriate, or taken home. Wash and store any bowls and trays used.

• To store ‘leftover’ food and drink: Please be sure to put all equipment, food and drink away. You will find stickers in the Fabrangen kitchen drawer marked 'Fabrangen' to label any leftovers that should be stored in the WES refrigerator or freezer until the next Shabbat. You also can take leftovers home and freeze them (but please remember to let the next persons on the Kiddush/Snack rotation know that they are available, and, if you would, bring the stored food and drink back).

Exceptions:

• If there is a special Kiddush or simha scheduled, your only responsibilities are for setup and serving of the Kiddush and hallot. Sometimes, a family who is sponsoring a 'special Kiddush' handles all logistics. Some even have a caterer who supplies the service and cleanup of the Kiddush/Motzi. If that is the case and the simha is scheduled for the day you have been assigned the Kiddush/Snack responsibilities, you may not have service or cleanup duties on that day. Please check with the host for the special Kiddush to find out what he or she is counting on you to do.
  
  Provision and cleanup of the after service simha kiddush-luncheon is the responsibility of the donor. Of course, if this is your Shabbat for kiddush/Snack, you always can help!

• Be aware that these guidelines are for WES: If services are held somewhere else where there is a kosher kitchen, we will honor the organization's requirements. Usually, it means that any food or drink brought into the facility must arrive before 3 PM on the Friday before the Shabbat Services and cannot be carried out of the facility on Shabbat (but picked up later on the Sunday or Monday following.) This also means that any food and drink for the Kiddush, Motzi and Snack brought into the facility should be unopened and clearly marked kosher with a hecksher.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation. We hope these guidelines are helpful. Please remember:

• If you cannot be at Fabrangen on your assigned date, you must to find a substitute and confirm the swap with Beryl.

• It is your responsibility to send a copy of any ‘switch’ message that you send to Beryl to Clare and Elena. Otherwise, no one will be aware of the swap.

• Also, please email or call Clareif we need to replenish our supply of wine, juice or cups or other paper goods.

• Kiddush setup for the Shabbat you are assigned are your responsibility, not Beryl’s or Clare’s.

Fabrangen Goes Green

• The reusable dishes are bright green cups, forks, and small plates (there are no large plates.) The napkins are cloth with a gold and green leaf pattern.
• The dishes are kept in a clear box with a blue top. When you are done using the dishes, please return them to the box – do not throw them away or put them in our cupboards at WES.
• At the moment, volunteers are taking home the dishes to wash them. If you volunteer to do this, please bring the dishes back to Fabrangen the next week, so we can use them again.
• When you take the dirty dishes home to wash, you must bring them back on or before the next Shabbat, so we can use them again. (You can leave the unused dishes at WES.) If you want to drop them off during the week, see Clare for a key so you can get into the building.
• Any Fabrangener can wash the dishes at home in a dishwasher, without regard to the level of kashrut in the home. Since Fabrangen does not require heckshered food, the dishes themselves can be washed in a non-kosher kitchen. If your kitchen is kosher, you might not want to put the dishes in your dishwasher, but that is up to you.
• You can volunteer to take the dishes at: http://tinyurl.com/greenkiddush