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Shabbat Across America's Chicken Soup Challenge Contest Rules NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void Where Prohibited. To Enter: Visit the National Jewish Outreach Program Web site (www.njop.org), fill in the online entry form, and submit it along with your original recipe for chicken soup in accordance with the onscreen directions. Alternatively, print your recipe for chicken soup on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, include your name, address, email address, date of birth, and day and evening telephone numbers, and mail it to Shabbat Across America's Chicken Soup Challenge, 989 Sixth Ave, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Entries may also be faxed to 646-871-0100 or emailed to soup@njop.org. Entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. EST on February 2, 2004. Limit one entry per person regardless of method of entry. Multiple entries or multiple entries submitted under a single email address will invalidate the entrant. Eligibility: The contest is open to amateur cooks, 18 years of age or older, who are legal residents of the United States. Employees and directors of the National Jewish Outreach Program and its advertising and promotion agencies, and their immediate families and members of their households, are not eligible for entry. All entrants must be able to travel to New York City for the contest finals from February 23-25, 2004. The Grand Prize winner will need to extend her/his stay by at least one day for additional media and publicity opportunities. If unable to travel during said time or participate in the finals, entrant will be disqualified and an alternate will be selected. No professional chefs or students enrolled in a degree program at a cooking school may enter. The chicken soup recipe cannot have been professionally published in a cookbook, magazine, newspaper or other outlet. (Recipes that have been published in synagogue or community cookbooks or newsletters are eligible for entry. Only recipes that can be made in accordance with Orthodox Jewish kosher dietary laws will be eligible to win Prizes: Five finalists will receive round-trip coach airfare from a major gateway airport near their home, transportation between the airport and the hotel, and accommodations for two nights at a hotel in New York City selected by the National Jewish Outreach Program. Grand Prize winner may receive additional nights accommodations. For finalists who live within 180 miles of New York City, alternate transportation will be provided. One Grand Prize Winner will receive a trip for two to Israel, including round-trip coach airfare and accommodations for seven nights at a hotel selected by the National Jewish Outreach Program. All expenses not specified herein, including but not limited to groceries, meals, transfer, taxes and gratuities, are the sole responsibility of the finalists and Grand Prize Winner. Key Dates: The contest begins on January 8, 2004. Deadline for entry is February 2, 2004. Five finalists will be chosen on or about February 9, 2004; and the Grand Prize winner will be selected in a cook-off on February 24, 2004 in New York City. Terms and Conditions: The five finalists (subject to eligibility verification) and the Grand Prize Winner will be chosen by a panel of judges selected by the National Jewish Outreach Program, whose decisions will be final on all matters relating to this contest, except that any question concerning the Orthodox Jewish kosher dietary laws will be resolved by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald, whose decision will be final. Finalists will be notified by telephone, mail or email, and will be required to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release and (where legal) a Publicity Release. The Grand Prize Winner will also need to make herself/himself available for media interviews if appropriate. Finalists will be required to prepare their Chicken Soup on February 24, 2004, at a venue in New York City selected by the National Jewish Outreach Program. The National Jewish Outreach Program will provide all ingredients and cooking equipment. (Please note that participants will not be permitted to bring any cooking implements or ingredients into the kosher cooking facility.) The Grand Prize Winner will be selected at that time. Except where prohibited by law, the winner's entry and acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for the National Jewish Outreach Program to use winner's name, photograph, likeness, statements, complete recipe, biographical information, voice and city and state address in all forms of media without further compensation. Winner and entrants also agree to release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless the National Jewish Outreach Program and each of its officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents from and against any claims, damages or liability due to any injuries, damages, or losses to any person (including death) or property of any kind resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize or participation in any contest-related activity or participation in this contest. List of Winners: For a list of winners, please send a SASE between March 1, 2004, and April 15, 2004, to Shabbat Across America's Chicken Soup Challenge, 989 6th Ave, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Sponsor: National Jewish Outreach Program,
989 6th Ave, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018.
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