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Teen Activities
Jewish Family and Children's Services invites your individual teen or group to participate in DancElation at Israel in the Gardens 2007. Each team will compete with other teams for valuable prizes in the following categories:
This dance-a-thon not only brings teens together from all over the Bay Area but also raises money for victims of the fighting in Northern Israel. Download participant registration form / group registration form to attend. For More information: contact Gail Fisher at 415.359.2467. Teen backgammon competition This tournament is to raise money for both the Arava Institute in Israel and "Playing for Peace" - an organization that runs Basketball Leagues for Israelis and Arabs in Israel. Please bring $10 cash to the event or check payable to Jewish Community High School of the Bay Registration table will open at 10:00am at Israel in the Gardens. Adult Tournament (18 years and above) Sponsored by the Jewish Community High School of the Bay in partnership with Kehillah High School. Backgammon is a game of luck and skill. It is played by two people with 15 checkers each on a board consisting of 24 spaces or points. The checkers are moved according to rolls of the dice. Each player tries to bring his own checkers home and bear them off before his opponent does, hitting and blocking the enemy checkers along the way. Backgammon has been around a long time, with origins dating back possibly 5000 years. The ancient Greeks played. So did the Romans. The game we know today was refined in England in the seventeenth century, which is also when it acquired the name backgammon. One significant innovation of the twentieth century was the addition of the doubling cube in the 1920s. Backgammon enjoyed a huge resurgence in the 1970s, then again in the 1990s with the popularity of the Internet. Today, you can play online any time of the day or night with people from all over the world.
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