Live and Silent Auction Item Preview

Donor(s): Bill Goldberg and Dave Gordon
Value: Who could put a value on the greatest pastrami you may ever eat ?

Bill and Dave have worked for years (perhaps decades) to hone their pastrami-making skills. It's an art, and they are willing share it with YOU (as long as you are one of 10 highest bidders)!
The meal? Homemade pastrami, rye bread, mustard, some pickled vegetables and more. 

This will be the best pastrami you've ever had -- just ask anyone who won this item last year!

Party to be held at a house of your choosing, or at Bill's home.

Date to be determined by mutual agreement of Bill, Dave and the ten bidders. Please allow 4 weeks lead time for planning.  

Donor(s): Roet Realty (Emily Roet)
Value: $2,500

Enjoy the best of New York in a junior suite at the Manhattan Club! The suite includes a queen or king bed in a separate enclave. You can lounge after a long day in a separate great room, with dining  area, kitchen and living room with a pull-out double sofa. Flexible days of usage- use 5 consecutive nights or a day here or there. One block to Central Park and Carnegie Hall. Several blocks to MOMA, The Lincoln Center and Times Square. 

This is a very comfortable stay in a fantastic NYC location!

Use within one year of the auction.
All taxes and fees are included in the price. 

Donor(s):  Sally Stich
Value:  $500

Kabin Thomas, the morning host of CPR Classical, will give a salon talk on "the ten most beautiful pieces of music ever written."  He will talk about each selection, why it is considered so highly in the music world, and then play a segment of each so that people are informed audibly.  We will have wine and cheese and sweets -- and if we're lucky, he will give a 15-minute tuba recital!  

Limited to twelve; highest bidder buys the package (hint:  get your friends together!).  

Donor(s):  B'nai Havurah Board of Directors
Value:  $30 per person

It's been around for 55 years, and many say it's the best deli in Denver!  Eight lucky bidders can win a gift certificate to enjoy a lox and bagel lunch (lox and bagel, a beverage and a platter of rugelach for the table) together on a date agreed upon by all.  

Top eight bidders win.  

Donor(s):  YOU!

Each year our annual fundraising event takes bids to fund a congregational need, this year to be identified by Rabbi Katie.  This always-successful segment of the evening is a crucial fundraiser for our community.  This year's Fund-a-Need to be determined... stay tuned!

Donor(s):  Lorrie and Howard Tishler
Value: $300

A Pescaterian Dinner for four adults with Lorrie Tishler, a former newspaper restaurant reviewer who will give the secrets of restaurant reviews, how to decode euphemisms, and what vocabulary is used when the harsher direct message is: "Whatever you do, don't order the matzo ball soup!"  Four courses  and wine.  

Lorrie was the food editor at the Tallahassee Democrat for 23 years, as well as a restaurant reviewer and wine judge. She continues to enjoy cooking, especially with her daughter Ellie, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America.

How many:    4  adults  (1 bidder)       
Minimum bid:  $200

Donor(s): Jill Jacobs Conklin
Value:  $75 per person

Jill has been making reduced-sugar jams for 20 years and refuses to sell any of it. Her yearly output (over 300 half pints) includes standards like peach and cherry, but also specialty combinations like blood orange/strawberry; blueberry basil; peach/plum. After years of improvising recipes she's come up with "a bit of this and that," like added Calvados and dried mango.

This item offers two bidders a flight of homemade jam at the end of an afternoon of making jam with Jill; bidders will agree on a date with Jill.  

How many:  2 separate winners 
Minimum bid:  $60 person

Donor(s):  Havurah Shadrach
Value:  $350

What could be more fun than spending an evening tasting different wines paired with a variety of chocolates?  Put on your blue blazer and be prepared to make pronouncements on why one wine (say, a heady French cabernet) is a solidly better choice with a  humble Hershey bar rather than, say, the much more expensive Guittard. (Just jokin'!)

You and five guests are welcome!

How many:  6 adults (1 bidder)
Minimum bid:  $275

Donor(s):  Sharon Haber and Phyllis Goodman
Value:  $ 70

Three savory, three fruit, from Legacy Bakery.  Customers have described the pies as "heavenly" and "addictive."  Donors will talk to you about dietary preference.  

Minimum bid:  $50

Donor(s):  Laura and Tim Intfen
Value:  $100

Are you a BBQ fan?  Then you will want this boxed set of world famous, award-winning BBQ sauces!  Includes 5 bottles of Kansas City's Best BBQ sauces. Also includes gourmet microwave popcorn, stainless steel tongs, and four wood-handled steak knives.   Five flavors include: Arthur Bryants Original Sauce, Gates Classic Sauce, Zarda's KC Classic Sauce, Kansas City Joe's Original Cowtown Sauce, and a fifth Kansas City bottle based on the season.  Gates and Zardas are among the oldest and most famous of Kansas City's restaurants.  Arthur Bryants is the inventor of BBQ sauce - in its original form, direct from the historic restaurant in Kansas City.  Oklahoma Joe's Cowtown Original BBQ Sauce won "Best in the World" at the American Royal, and was named one of Anthony Bourdain's "13 Things to Eat Before You Die"

Minimum bid:  $85

Donor(s):  Ben Cohen
Value:  $200

"Blue Uke #2" - the second in a run of handmade baritone ukuleles handmade by local musician Ben Cohen using Colorado beetle-kill spruce from a friend's property near Creede for the top. The uke will come with a strap and functional gig-bag.  

A baritone ukulele is essentially a small tenor guitar.  Any guitarist can get used to playing a baritone uke very easily.

Minimum bid:  $160

Donor(s):  Michele Marks
Value:  $30

Beautiful silver-tone Tree of Life pendant with genuine peridot.  Handmade by member Michele Marks.  Includes chain.  

Minimum bid:  $25

Donor(s):  Barbara Reinish
Value:  $125

A gorgeous necklace handmade by Barbara Reinish.  It is a combination of beads in neutral colors-- beige, gray, vanilla -- and stones, with back clasp.  The necklace is 20 inches long.  

Minimum bid:  $90

Donor(s):  Ann Lederer
Value:  $375

A beautiful silk tapestry hand-made (painted hand-dyed silk and free-motion quilted) by member Ann Lederer.  The piece is bordered and stretched on stretcher bars.  
Size:  16" x 20"

Minimum bid:  $320

Donor(s):  Michele Marks
Value:  $45

Everyone needs another mezuzah!  Here is a pretty one made of stained glass.  This would also makes a great gift!  

Minimum bid:  $30

Donor(s):  Michele Marks
Value:  $45

Silver-tone hamsa with glass seed beads and a rhinestone center piece.  Handmade by Michele Marks.  Includes chain.  

Minimum bid:  $30

Donor(s):  Max Stich
Value: $300

What stores are we talking about? Marzcyck, Tony's and  Spinellis -- Denver's best! 

Minimum bid:  $250

Donor(s): Joel Judd 
Value: $200

Elway's is an elegant Denver steak-and-seafood landmark!  

Elway's may be closed in Cherry Creek, but there is still a location in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel downtown!

Minimum bid:  $160

Donor(s):  Paula Gudder
Value: $75

"When it comes to bagels, are you Team New York or Team Montreal? Not sure what Montreal-style bagels even are? Well, you’re in luck. Woodgrain Bagels, a new Montreal-style bagel shop .... would be happy to show you."  - Allyson Reedy, the Denver Post - The Know 

Woodgrain Bagel and Deli has three locations:  in the Lowry neighborhood, at the Anschutz medical complex, and in Boulder.  You get one $25 gift certificate and one $50 gift certificate. 

Minimum bid:  $60

Donor(s): Sally Stich
Value: $300

What makes a great obit? We will be reading  five  obits from the grande dame of obit writing: The New York Times. We shall analyze obits about  famous, infamous, and ordinary people who did extraordinary things (think the inventor of  Pink Flamingos).  What are the attributes that make a great obit unforgettable?  You'll find out!

Winner is the highest bidder, who may invite 5 other people..

How many:  6 people (1 bidder) 

Minimum Bid: $200

Donor(s): Joel Judd
Value: $200

Two tickets to watch our Denver Nuggets against the Portland Trailblazers on February 10, 2025.   These are GREAT seats:  center court, Row 13!

Minimum bid:  $150

Donor(s):  Doug Gertner and Five Points Live!
Value:  $50

Enjoy a concert at the Savoy on Friday, December 13 for an evening with songstress Jill Sobule.  

"Jill Sobule can claim her place among the stellar New York singer-songwriters of the last decade. Topical, funny and more than a little poignant ...grown up music for an adolescent age" -- John Pareles, New York Times 

Minimum bid:  $40

Donor(s):  Deb Aal
Value:  $150

Ninety minutes of consulting with B'nai member Deb Aal on matters of sustainability:  garden, home, transportation, food and/or clothing.  You will get 90 minutes on one topic or you may choose up to three for which you’ll be entitled to 30 minutes per topic. 

Deb is a member of the Board of Directors for the Front Range branch of Wild Ones, which empowers Front Range residents to plant and promote native Coloradoscapes for a climate-resistant future. She has a certificate in Permaculture and has served as a docent at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Minimum bid:  $125

Donor(s):  Michele Marks
Value:  $50

Beautiful detailed plaster plaque interpreted by Joan S. Diamond.  The design is taken from a Biblical commentary written and perhaps illustrated by Solomon ben Raphael in 1299.  It was Sephardic custom to adorn the preliminary folios of Hebrew Bibles with the ritualistic objects that, according to rabbinic tradition, once graced the ancient Solomonic Temple.  Approximately  9" x 7.  

Minimum bid:  $40

Donor(s):  Michele Marks
Value:  $20

Vintage (1960's?) mini-torah scroll.  A sweet and meaningful piece.  Easy to lift!  

Minimum bid:  $15

Donor(s):  Carole Smith
Value:  $75

A gift basket for serious cooks!  Includes a cookbook and more.  

Minimum bid    $55