Think “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Come dressed as Tevye or another character from the show and sing along with the movie, which will be projected on a big screen in the Hoytt Theater. If you don’t know the words to “Sunrise, Sunset” or “If I Were a Rich Man,” the JCC will provide you with Sheldon Harnick’s lyrics.
That will cover the movie portion of your day. And instead of the usual hotel food, you can eat a vegetarian Russian buffet that the JCC will provide. It will include blintzes, latkes and salads.
And Klezmarin will serenade you.
Tickets are $15 for JCC member adults, $6 for children; $18 for non-member adults, $8 for children. For information, call (415) 444-8000.
If you’d rather just kick back, play Monopoly and eat a potluck buffet, or even go on a hike, head for Mill Valley. The Bay Area Jewish Singles Hiking Club will hold its annual party and hike from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Strawberry Recreation Center, 118 E. Strawberry Drive.
Bring a potluck dish and your favorite board games or musical instruments and a $3 donation for Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. For information, call (510) 287-9194 or go to www.bajshc.org
If you live in the East Bay, how about taking your kids to a family day event in your choice of two locations? One will take place at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, the other at the Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center.
Both will begin at noon and continue to 4 p.m.
The Magnes, which is located at 2911 Russell St., Berkeley, will provide art projects and tours of its current exhibition, “Telling Time: To Everything There is a Season.”
Visitors also will see two installations evoking Middle Eastern heritage: Greek-American Sophia Tsavalas’ “Ancestral Ascent” and Iranian-American Taraneh Hemami’s “Re-counting.”
Plus, Gerry Tenney and California Klezmer will perform at 2 and 3 p.m.
The BRJCC, which is located at 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley, will present “Princess Moxie Rules!” a 30-minute puppet musical performed by Jennifer M. Levine at 1 and 3 p.m. The story turns the time-tested rules of fairy tales upside down, with a princess who is active and self-confident.
Levine is director of education at Oakland’s Temple Beth Abraham. Gaby Alter of Berkeley will provide the original songs for the show.
For information concerning both events, call (510) 549-6950.
If you and your family belong in a Chinese restaurant on the national holiday, you might want to take in a performance of the ninth annual “Kung Pao Kosher Comedy” show.
Cathy Ladman, Lisa Kron, Scott Blakeman and Lisa Geduldig will present their version of Borscht Belt humor San Francisco-style beginning with a dinner show at 5 p.m. Sunday. A cocktail show will follow at 8:30.
Succeeding shows will take place at 6 and 9:30 p.m. Monday, and at 5 and 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at New Asia Restaurant, 772 Pacific Ave., where the fortune cookies will be filled with Yiddish proverbs.
Tickets are $45 for the dinner show, $30 for the cocktail show. Each year the celebration is a sell-out and caters to audiences totaling more than 2,000. For information, call (415) 522-3737.
More Dec. 24 events include ice skating from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at Berkeley Iceland, 2727 Milvia St. Admission of $12 will include skate rental. Glide across the ice to the strains of Jewish music and during a snack break, eat kosher food.
Sponsors are Chabad House of Berkeley, Beth Jacob Congregation, BRJCC, Beth Israel Congregation and Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay. For information, call Sharalyn Stebben at (510) 540-5824.
For those with terpsichorean tendencies, the Latke Ball, also on Monday, will take place from 8:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Club Ten 15 Folsom, 1015 Folsom St., S.F.
Dance to the music of Wonder Bread 5, which will play music of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and beyond. There also will be live jazz and three DJs. The sponsor is the Young Adult Division of S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation.
Donate your old cell phone at the door to help victims of domestic abuse. Admission is $35. For information, call (877) YAD-1818 or go to www.yad.org
By the way, Theodore Bikel will return to San Francisco in “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Orpheum Theatre. The special engagement is in association with the 2001-2002 Target Best of Broadway season, under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott E. Nederlander and begins Wednesday.
Have fun!