Dodgeball and volleyball, that is.  And for a good cause! Metro EDGE , Sacramento’s leading network of 40-and-under young professionals, is excited to announce its second annual “A Day on the EDGE” fundraiser.  The event will feature two dodgeball and volleyball tournaments complete with great music, food, and drinks – all to benefit Junior Achievement of Sacramento. Metro EDGE, a program of the Sacramento Metro Chamber, identifies and supports a local nonprofit organization through volunteerism and philanthropic giving every year.  For 2011, the group has chosen to support Junior Achievement of Sacramento, an educational organization that teaches financial literacy, entrepreneurship, wo

At sundown tonight, a new year begins. The Jewish New Year of 5771, that is.  This celebratory holiday is known as Rosh Hashanah, which literally means "head of the year" or "first of the year" in Hebrew.   To symbolize one's hopes for a "sweet" new year, it is traditional to eat apples dipped in honey. NextDor, Sacramento's organization of Jewish young professionals, is taking this tradition a step further. On Saturday, September 11 from 5-9 pm, NextDor hosts a "Sweet" Open House and Havdallah complete with various desserts and dessert wine.  The spread includes pomegranate and orange muscat wines from Israel, fresh-baked cookies, baklava, and honey cake, and the infamous apples dipped i

Chocolate seders on Passover are growing in popularity.   The traditional Passover seders on the first and second nights of Passover will always be an important time for families and synagogues to gather around the dinner table to celebrate the ancient Jews' exodus from Egypt after 400 years of slavery.   Not so traditional is the chocolate seder, a great alternative and festive way to commemorate this holiday.  Instead of the traditional foods found on the seder plate--usually a hardboiled egg, a shankbone or drumstick, horseradish, parsley, and a fruit and nut mixture called Charoset--each item will be replaced with a different kind of chocolate.   Chocolate eggs, white chocolate for t