Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
2007 Beneficiaries

In keeping with the Jewish tradition of tzedakah (charity, in Hebrew - tied in with a sense of duty and social responsibility), each year Kung Pao donates partial proceeds to organizations and causes we believe in. This year's recipients are...

The Jewish Community Free Clinic (JCFC) is a non-profit, free, volunteer medical clinic in Marin and Sonoma counties drawing on traditional Jewish concepts of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam (repairing the world) to offer free medical care for anyone in need, without regard to ethnicity, race or religion. The Clinic’s founders are clinicians working throughout the County’s healthcare system. With nearly 100,000 uninsured in Marin and Sonoma counties, they felt they must take action regarding access to health care for the uninsured. The JCFC tapped volunteers’ deeply rooted desire to carry on traditions of caring for the sick (bikkur cholim) to found the clinic. www.jewishfreeclinic.org

Chicken Soupers, a Jewish Family & Children’s Services project in partnership with Congregations Beth Sholom and Sherith Israel, prepares and delivers hearty home-cooked Jewish meals and healthy snacks to people with AIDS, chronic illnesses, and disabilities. In 1988 Chicken Soupers began by serving clients with HIV and AIDS and has expanded to also serve people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. The meals are delivered 2 times a month (once a month by each of the two synagogues). Volunteers include families and teens. Chicken Soupers, a Jewish version of Meals on Wheels, has also recently begun on the Peninsula thru the Peninsula Jewish Family & Children’s Services. www.jfcs.org

Past beneficiaries have included…

2006

• The Jewish Home's "Esther Weintraub Comedy Clinic"
• The Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living's "Komedy Club and Library"

2005

• The Jewish Home's "Esther Weintraub Comedy Clinic"
• Clowns Without Borders

2004

• The Bay Area Jewish Coalition for Literacy
• Laughing Stock

2003

• Familial Dysautonomia Hope Foundation
• The LGBT Family Assistance Project at Jewish Family and Children's Services

2002

• Jewish Home Comedy Clinic
• Gay-Straight Alliance Network

2001

• International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

2000

• SFJCC's Montefiore Senior Center
• Lesbian & Gay Senior Services Collaborative

1999

• Breast Cancer Action
• The Holocaust Center of Northern California's Tolerance Education Program

1998

• Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD) - A social and information network for women with HIV/AIDS
• Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal - Promoting freedom for Jews in the former Soviet Union & reuniting families in the Bay Area

1997

• Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic -A clinic for low income women with cancer
• Shalom Bayit- Jewish Women's Task Force on Domestic Violence

1996

• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• Jewish Family & Children's Services AIDS Project

1995

• SF Jewish Film Festival - Program of Jewish humor short films
• Family Link– a hospitality house for visiting families of people with AIDS

1995 - Los Angeles show

• L. A. Jewish AIDS Services
• Aunt Bee's Laundry Service - offering free laundry and house-cleaning services to people with HIV/AIDS.

1994

• Women's Cancer Resource Center
• GESHER: Bridge to Understanding- a joint project of Congregation Sha'ar Zahav & Community United Against Violence

1993

• The late Tamar Kaufman – A Northern California Jewish Bulletin writer battling cancer