Reply To: Shmaltz Herring on Tuesday

For the record:

My kiddush club meets on shabbos during the speech.

The speech is given every other week by a YCT student, and the other weeks by random people from the community who usually know as much torah as a YCT student.

I consider my kiddush club to be a great kiddush hashem.

We eat herring, drink scotch, and then eat mints.

I also agree with mobe though, that the general idea of a kiddush club is a terrible idea and undermines the rav and the shul. v’hameivin.