Upcoming Events

 

Peninsula Purim Singalong
Saturday, March 23
| 10am-11:30am | Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto | Register

Join Camp Tawonga, the Oshman Family JCC and Tawonga songleader Shiloh Atkins for a Purim-themed costume party Sing Along! Together, we will celebrate Purim and Shabbat, build community, sing and dance! Best suited for families with children six years old and under, older siblings are always welcome. Register here.


Spring Service Weekend
April 12 – 14 | Friday-Sunday | Camp Tawonga | Learn more & register

At Tawonga, we believe shared space means shared responsibility. We invite you to join us up the mountain for Spring Service Weekend – a unique way to reconnect, give back and help share the responsibility of getting Camp ready for summer 2024. Expect this weekend to be physically intensive. You will choose from a variety of projects including landscaping our newly built Tawonga Village, helping our foresters with land stewardship including creating and lighting burn piles, working on trail maintenance and more. Open to adults 21+ only.


More Ways to Engage

Check out recordings of past events below – or take a break from screen time with Tawonga radio.

Past Event Recordings

Judaism Unbound podcast with Meg Adler about Tawonga’s Bar, Bat & B’nai Mitzvah Program

Friday Night Song Sessions

Tawonga Radio

Tap into the Camp spirit and take a break from screens through Tawonga Radio! Stories below:

📻  From Monotone to the Moon: How One Song Leader Found His Voice: Elan Lavie was a camp song leader who didn’t quite know how to sing. Through sheer determination, he found a way and brought a bunk of 12-year-old boys closer in the process.

📻  Emmett Cooks: From Tawonga Kitchen Staff to Culinary Entrepreneur: When Tawonga’s 2020 summer season was cancelled, Tawonga Lead Cook, Emmett Verba, took a leap of faith. He started “Emmett Cooks,” delivering inventive meals all around the Bay Area. Hear how he got his business off the ground.

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Ken Kramarz: Former Tawonga Executive Director Ken Kramarz shares how his entire life changed after the summer of 1981 when he worked as a Tawonga Unit Head. “It was a total antidote to everything I had experienced.”

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Becca Meyer: What made Camp Director Becca Meyer shift from pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, and studying the brains of mice, to working at Tawonga? Listen to find out!

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Rabbi Laura Rumpf: What do marshmallows have to do with Jewish teaching? At Tawonga, it turns out, a lot! Listen to this “Journey to Tawonga” with Rabbi Laura Rumpf to hear more.

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Brenton “Big Fiji” Seeto: How does someone working at a resort halfway around the world in Fiji come to find a home on Tawonga’s summer staff? Listen to find out.

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Liz Chenok: Liz Chenok survived the embarrassment of showing up at Camp to work her first summer with her entire family in a minivan; now she’s a member of Tawonga’s year-round staff!

 

Questions

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