Upcoming Events

Chanukah Around the World 

Light up your Chanukah! Join us at the JCC East Bay with fellow partners Maccabi Sports Camp, Eden Village West, and Camp Newman on a journey around the world. Crafts, music, games, and food – collect passport stamps as you explore a variety of global Chanukah customs and traditions.

Sunday, December 15, 2024 | 2 – 5pm | JCC East Bay – 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley | Tickets

Virtual Summer Camp Info Sessions

Join us online for one or more information sessions about next summer. This is a great opportunity for prospective families to meet one of our directors and get your questions answered.

Summer Camp: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 | 7 – 8pm | Online | Register

All-Gender Cabins: Monday, January 6, 2025 | 8 – 9pm | Online | Register

Families of Color Chanukah Celebration

We hope you’ll join us for this special affinity space gathering for Jewish families that include at least one person of color. We will sing songs with the amazing Isaac Zones, enjoy a potluck dinner, get crafty with kids Chanukah activities – and of course, light candles!

Saturday, December 21, 2024 | 4 – 7pm | Oakland | RSVP Here

Camp Tawonga’s 100th Anniversary Celebration

Mark your calendar for a special evening filled with community, song, dinner and celebration! We can’t wait to toast 100 incredible years of Tawonga with you. Ages 21+.

Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 6pm | 715 Harrison St., San Francisco
Reserve Tickets and Sponsor Event Here

More Ways to Engage

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

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.