Upcoming Events

High Holidays Celebrations

Join Tawonga for the 2025 (Hebrew Calendar Year 5786) High Holidays to celebrate a soulful start to the new year! Events include an Erev Rosh Hashanah Celebration on Monday, September 22, and an Early Kol Nidre Service on Wednesday, October 1. More ticket info is coming soon!

B*Mitzvah Program Online Info Session

When: Wednesday, August 27th, 7-8pm PT

Who: For families with 6th graders in the 2025-26 school year

What: Join us to learn about our B*Mitzvah Program, a two-year experience beginning in 6th grade that combines nature, community building, exploration of prayers, mitzvah projects (good deeds), and the path toward Jewish adulthood. This program meets monthly during the school year and includes two special overnight Shabbaton programs. At this session, we’ll share how we support each student’s journey, explore the curriculum, and answer your questions about this meaningful program.

Taste of Tawonga Family School

When: Saturday, September 6, 10-11:30am (In Person – John Muir Elementary, Berkeley)

Who: Families with children in TK–2nd grade (siblings of other ages welcome)

What: Experience a morning at Tawonga Family School! Enjoy a joyful and music-filled Shabbat service, hands-on activities for kids, and meet our dedicated educators and community members. This event is free and is an opportunity to get a taste of our year-round monthly Tawonga Family School.

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.