Upcoming Events
Registration for 2026 programs is fast approaching! Meet Tawonga’s team and get your questions answered at our upcoming Zoom information sessions. Find the right webinar for you and your family below.
Info Sessions
🧗♂️ Teen Adventure Quest Awaits!
Thinking of sending your child on one of Camp Tawonga’s Adventure Quests next summer? This is a great opportunity to meet one of Tawonga’s camp directors and get your questions answered.
🗓️ Considering a Longer Tawonga Session?
Considering sending your child to a two or three-week session this summer? Please join Aaron Mandel, Camp Director, for a virtual information session! This is a great opportunity to meet one of Tawonga’s camp directors and get your questions answered.
🎒 Is My Child Ready for Camp?
Thinking of sending your child to Camp Tawonga for the first time? Join this session to help determine if your child is ready.
😎 Tawonga All-Gender Cabins
Join Tawonga year-round team members Shoshie Flagg and Jules Cohen for this information session on our all-gender cabins. This session will help you get your questions answered for summer 2026.
Tawonga’s all-gender cabins are good options for children who identify as nonbinary, trans or gender expansive, prefer to bunk with children of other genders, want to be part of an LGBTQ+ affinity space, or for campers who feel this is the best fit for any reason.
⛺ Rising 4th-6th graders – Session 4 (July 26 – August 7)
⛺ Rising 7th-8th graders – Session 2 (June 14 – July 3)
⛺ Rising 9th-10th graders – Session 3 (July 5 – 24)
🌲 Summer Camp is Calling!
Get ready for 2026! This webinar is for anyone why may have a question about general programs. The same webinar will be offered on 4 different dates – choose the one that best works for you!
Camp Fairs
The Tawonga Team will be in attendance at many camp fairs throughout California. Know someone who may be interested in attending but does not live in the San Francisco Bay Area? This could be a great opportunity for them to connect in person!
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 24, 2025 | 6:00pm | Camp Night | Congregation Beth Israel (Chico) |
| October 26, 2025 | 10:00am - 11:30am | Camp Day | Temple Isaiah (Lafayette) |
| October 26, 2025 | 11:30am - 12:00pm | Camp Presentation | Beth Chaim Congregation (Danville) |
| November 16, 2025 | 9:30am - 12:30pm | Camp Takeover Day | Temple Emanu-El (San Jose) |
| November 20, 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Camp Fair | Congregation Beth El (Berkeley) |
| November 21, 2025 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Camp Shabbat | Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco) |
| December 14, 2025 | 4:00pm-5:30pm | Camp Fair | B'nai B'rith (Santa Barbara) |
| January 24, 2026 | 10:00am | Camp Shabbat | Congregation Beth Jacob (Redwood City) |
| January 31, 2026 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Camp Fair | IKAR (Los Angeles) |
| February 8, 2026 | TBD | Jewish Residential Camp Fair | Temple Beth El (Aptos) |
Conferences
Z3 Conference
We are thrilled to announce our participation as a community partner for the Z3 Conference 2025 on November 9! Come by our booth to connect, learn about our work and see how you can get involved.
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
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 canceled, 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
Feel free to email info@tawonga.org or call 415.543.2267 with any questions.