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The Dollinger Family Fund will provide a perpetual source of support for individuals and families in need of critical assistance.
The Dollinger Family Fund was established in the summer of 2004 in celebration of Marci and Marc Dollinger’s 10th wedding anniversary. Marci, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee, and San Francisco-born Marc married on July 3, 1994. The family, who moved to Marin from Los Angeles in 2002, includes two daughters—Rebecca, who at age 8 had just completed the second grade at Brandeis Hillel when this fund was created in 2004—and Shayna, then 4 and a preschooler at the Jewish Community Center. Marc is a professor of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, while Marci serves as a Jewish family educator.
Marc, Marci, Rebecca, and Shayna’s mutual interests include traveling throughout the world; spending quality time with one another and friends; and putting their values of tzedakah (“charity”), the joy of being Jewish, education, and family and friendship into everyday practice. They are pleased to share both a favorite saying and a favorite recipe:
One Hundred Years from Now
It will not matter what kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
How much money I had in my bank account,
Nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a little better
Because I was important in the life of a child.
Marci Dollinger’s Favorite Noodle Kugel
Ingredients: 1 lb. wide egg noodles; 3 eggs; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 c. sour cream; 2 c. cottage cheese; 1 T vanilla; 1/4 c. butter; 1/2 c. raisins (optional); cinnamon; grapham cracker crumbs
Boil noodles for the minimum time and drain in cold water. In a large bowl, beat together eggs and sugar. Add cottage cheese, sour cream, and vanilla. Melt butter and use 1/2 amount in mixture. Fold noodles (and raisins) into mixture. Pour the remainder of the melted butter on the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking pan. Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over butter. Fold in noodle mixture. Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs and cinnamon on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until brown. Cut into squares and enjoy!
Shared from the Heart
Lo alecha hamalacha ligmor, lo alecha ligmor.
It is not your duty to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.
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