NU FRIDAYS
Our Shabbat supper club.
Could hosting Shabbat be your next creative and spiritual flex? Vibes met values in our summer workshop series for Gen Z Jews all about becoming a confident host. From a beautiful beachside space in Venice, we built friendships, reimagined rituals, learned with experts, and discovered how to make Shabbat our own.
Over four months, our supper club became more than just a series of Friday night dinners — a practice, a place for courage and connection, where strangers became friends and rituals found a home in our lives.
At our first session, the cohort gathered shimmering in bling and blue jeans, ready to take a chance on something new.
We turned to the art of hosting, guided by Jewtina y Co.’s Kimberly Dueñas. We explored how vulnerability makes space for awe, how storytelling can transform a table, and how Shabbat rituals can be both deeply personal and joyfully shared.
We shifted to food, the heart of so many gatherings. With chef and author Natasha Feldman, we reimagined what it means to craft a dinner party — dreaming up menus for future Shabbats, swapping cookbooks, and daring ourselves to take risks in the kitchen.
In our last session, we stepped fully into Shabbat rituals with Rabbi Sofia Zway and Rav Brett Kopin — dressed in white, reflecting on the simple practices that ground us, and offering each other blessings for the year ahead.
