Upcoming events.

Feb
20
to Feb 23

Sacramento Jewish Film Festival

The Sacramento Jewish Film Festival, a program of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region, is proud to bring the community together again for several weeks of exciting movies from all over the world. Our program includes several discussions with filmmakers and community leaders, as well as live entertainment.

Live events and streaming are available! Check the website link for details.

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Feb
25

Parenting in a Time of Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr TBD

  • Apr 29

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Feb
25

Gathering with Community: A response to Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr 8

  • Apr 29

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Mar
7

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh & Shabbat Services-TBY

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh, & Shabbat Services is a Shabbat evening for all in our community to find the “right-sized” moment to welcome Shabbat. 

5:30 pm We gather for our youngest community members and families to welcome Shabbat with songs, a story, and some blessings. 

6:00 pm Light Nosh

6:30 pm Community Shabbat service.

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Mar
16

TJC Book Club

We are reading Section 2 of Judaism is About Love!

We are loving it so much that we are on a deep dive into Rabbi Shai Held's excellent book, Judaism is About Love! Join us to discuss the second section of this powerful thesis.

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How to join from Zoom:

Lauren Ben-Shoshan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: TJC Book Club: Judaism is About Love, Part 2
Time: Mar 16, 2025 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Mar
18

Parenting in a Time of Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr 8

  • Apr 29

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Mar
18

Gathering with Community: A response to Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr TBD

  • Apr 29

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Mar
18

Sisterhood meeting

Location: NTHC Synagogue

6:30-7:30 - Dinner

7:30-8:15 - Meeting

8:15-9:30 - Optional for those who want to stay: Kitchen inventory. We are grateful to Marcy for taking the lead on this and we'll help her inventory the kitchen and get it fully stocked for Seder. 

And as usual, please reach out with suggestions, if you'd like to get involved, and if you'd like to host. 

Contact Justine Jacob for more information about the meeting and Sisterhood: 510-506-9882

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Mar
21

Shabbat & Potluck-TBY

Shabbat & Potluck is a chance for our congregation and visitors to welcome Shabbat and share an Erev Shabbat Meal.  Please bring a dairy dish to share with the community.  We gather at 6:00 pm for Shabbat Blessings and enjoy our potluck.  At 7:00 pm we join in a Shabbat service together led by one of our Rabbis or community members.

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Mar
28

Shabbat Potluck

Shabbat & Potluck is a chance for our congregation and visitors to welcome Shabbat and share an Erev Shabbat Meal.  Please bring a dairy dish to share with the community.  We gather at 6:00 pm for Shabbat Blessings and enjoy our potluck.  At 7:00 pm we join in a Shabbat service together led by one of our Rabbis or community members.

Sign up to volunteer or to bring something to the potluck here.

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Apr
4

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh & Shabbat Services

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh, & Shabbat Services is a Shabbat evening for all in our community to find the “right-sized” moment to welcome Shabbat. 

5:30 pm We gather for our youngest community members and families to welcome Shabbat with songs, a story, and some blessings. 

6:00 pm Light Nosh

6:30 pm Community Shabbat service.

Sign up to volunteer or for the potluck here

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Apr
8

Parenting in a Time of Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr 8

  • Apr 29

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Apr
8

Gathering with Community: A response to Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr 8

  • Apr 29

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Apr
11

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh & Shabbat Services-TBY

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh, & Shabbat Services is a Shabbat evening for all in our community to find the “right-sized” moment to welcome Shabbat. 

5:30 pm We gather for our youngest community members and families to welcome Shabbat with songs, a story, and some blessings. 

6:00 pm Light Nosh

6:30 pm Community Shabbat service.

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Apr
20

Mimouna—celebrate the end of Passover with a cookie exchange!

Mimouna—a celebration of the end of Passover with a cookie exchange! 

Everyone is invited to bring 1-2 dozen cookies to share, and a container to take home a variety of cookies brought by other participants.

Learn about Mimouna here

And what is Mimouna here

Extended details below

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Program

Mimouna comes from the Arabic word for wealth, literally meaning protected by God. It’s a holiday meant to thank God for the many blessings given over the past year, and to once again make our crops plentiful. Others associate the holiday with belief — specifically, believing that we will all be in Israel one day, and disappointment that another Passover has come and gone where we didn’t celebrate in Jerusalem.

It is celebrated the day after Passover ends and has been celebrated in Morocco since the 16th century.  Many Sephardic families do not visit each others’ homes during Passover and Mimouna allows a time to celebrate as a larger community.

What happens at a Mimouna Celebration?

There are three themes for all the food served during this holiday; fertility, prosperity and success.  Most of the foods are sweet including the most well known dish for this holiday, moufleta.  A moufleta is a mix between  a crepe, and msemmen.

“On this table you will not find typical Moroccan cuisine. It is laden neither with meat dishes nor an assortment of salads. Instead, it is laid out with items, each of which is symbolic in some way: a live fish swimming in a bowl of water, five green fava beans wrapped in dough, five dates, five gold bracelets in a pastry bowl, dough pitted with five deep fingerprints, five silver coins, five pieces of gold or silver jewelry, a palm-shaped amulet, sweetmeats, milk and butter, white flour, yeast, honey, a variety of jams, a lump of sugar, stalks of wheat, plants, fig leaves, wildflowers and greens. All are symbols of bounty, fertility, luck, blessings and joy. The traditional holiday greeting fits right in: “Tarbakhu u-tsa’adu” – meaning, “May you have success and good luck.” from “Lady Luck” Haaretz

(Source: https://marocmama.com/mimouna-a-moroccan-passover-celebration/)

Mimouna is the joyous Moroccan celebration of springtime, friends, family and good fortune. Marking the end of Passover and the beginning of the agricultural season, the doors of people’s homes are thrown wide open and everyone is greeted with the Judeo-Arabic blessing “Tirbah u’tissad,” may you prosper and succeed.

The mimouna table overflows with sweet treats like orange jam, eggplant jam, marzipan, meringues and, of course, the famous moufleta, crepes served with butter and honey. In Morocco, the flour used in moufletas was brought to Jewish homes by their Muslim neighbors after sundown, proof of the level of friendship and cooperation that existed between the two faiths.

Talismans of luck, fertility and prosperity also adorn the table. A live goldfish in a glass bowl. A green tree branch. Five gold coins in a bowl of flour, and five fava beans arranged on a pastry.

The exact origins of the name and holiday remain conjecture — does it mark the anniversary of the death of Maimon ben Yosef, the father of Maimonides; or does the name come from the Hebrew word “emunah” (faith); or is it derived from the Arabic word “ma’amoun” (wealth)? Regardless, mimouna has become a widely celebrated and wildly popular event on the Jewish calendar in Israel and all over the world. (source: https://sephardicspicegirls.com/recipes-for-mimouna-the-moroccan-celebration-of-spring/)

Still others connect Mimouna with the word emunah (“belief”), claiming it celebrates belief in Israel’s redemption. Along the same lines, there is also support (said to be traced to Maimonides’ explanation) for the word being an Arabic adaptation of the phrase Ani ma’amin (I believe), the classic expression of faith in the coming of the messiah (ana for ani, placed after the verb ma’amin, as is common in Arabic, yielding ma’amin ana, which became maimouna in the local Judeo dialect). It may have been a greeting exchanged to bolster one another’s disappointment that Passover had come and gone without the long-anticipated return to Jerusalem. (source:  https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/maimouna-a-post-passover-celebration/)

Special Mimouna Greeting

“Tarbakhu utsa’adu” or “may you have success and good luck” is a common greeting shared among people. There’s also a song that includes the phrases “Lala Mimouna” and “mbarka masuda” in the lyrics.

A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night – A really lovely kids book for children with a Mimouna story. (Carla’s note: maybe we could buy one of these and read it for the kids?)

Recipes

  • Moufleta

  • Adornments for moufleta: honey, fig jam, date jam, orange flower jam, nutella (suggestions for people who would rather purchase than bake)

  • Moroccan Mint Tea – no celebration in Morocco happens without a LOT of mint tea!

  • Stuffed Medjool Dates – An easy snack or dessert that you can prepare in advance and add to your table.

  • No Bake Coconut Mimouna Cookies – Whip up these vegan coconut cookies for your Mimouna table. Not only are they easy to make but taste delicious and can be made in advance.

  • White Nougat (Zaban B’luz) – A delicious treat eaten year-round but especially for holiday celebrations.

  • sfenj is the older, Maghrebi (Northwest African) cousin of the sufganiyah, or donut, as many know it. The two actually share the same root in Hebrew, meaning a spongy dough, but their similarities don’t run much deeper than that. Both the consistency of the two doughs, as well as the end results in the presentation of the two donuts, are quite different. 

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Apr
24

Holocaust day of Remembrance (Reno)

At the Atlantis Casino Resort & Spa in Reno

This year’s program:

Life and Hope in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Harold Koplewics, founder of the Child Mind institute, world renown psychatrist, speaker, author, and son of Holocaust survivors, will speak about survivors’s experiences and the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Apr
29

Parenting in a Time of Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr 1

  • Apr 29

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Apr
29

Gathering with Community: A response to Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr TBD

  • Apr 29

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May
2

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh & Shabbat Services

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh, & Shabbat Services is a Shabbat evening for all in our community to find the “right-sized” moment to welcome Shabbat. 

5:30 pm We gather for our youngest community members and families to welcome Shabbat with songs, a story, and some blessings. 

6:00 pm Light Nosh

6:30 pm Community Shabbat service.

Sign up to volunteer or for the potluck here

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May
9

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh & Shabbat Services-TBY

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh, & Shabbat Services is a Shabbat evening for all in our community to find the “right-sized” moment to welcome Shabbat. 

5:30 pm We gather for our youngest community members and families to welcome Shabbat with songs, a story, and some blessings. 

6:00 pm Light Nosh

6:30 pm Community Shabbat service.

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May
30

Shabbat & Potluck-TBY

Shabbat & Potluck is a chance for our congregation and visitors to welcome Shabbat and share an Erev Shabbat Meal.  Please bring a dairy dish to share with the community.  We gather at 6:00 pm for Shabbat Blessings and enjoy our potluck.  At 7:00 pm we join in a Shabbat service together led by one of our Rabbis or community members.

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Jun
13

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh & Shabbat Services-TBY

Tot/Family Shabbat, Nosh, & Shabbat Services is a Shabbat evening for all in our community to find the “right-sized” moment to welcome Shabbat. 

5:30 pm We gather for our youngest community members and families to welcome Shabbat with songs, a story, and some blessings. 

6:00 pm Light Nosh

6:30 pm Community Shabbat service.

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Aug
15

Shabbat services with Cohen family

Shabbat services on Friday, November 6 as we celebrate with the Cohen family as Reed Cohen prepares to be called to Torah as Bar Mitzvah on this Shabbat. 6pm at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Shabbat Morning Services the following morning as we call Reed Cohen to Torah as Bar Mitzvah at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

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Aug
16

Reed Cohen B. Mitzvah

Shabbat Morning Services as we call Mason Goldberg to Torah as B Mitzvah at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Shabbat services on Friday August 15 as we celebrate with Reed Cohen and family as he becomes Bar Mitzvah on this Shabbat. 6pm at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

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Nov
6

Shabbat services celebrate with the Greninger family

Shabbat services on Friday, November 6 as we celebrate with the Greninger family as Isabella Greninger prepares to be called to Torah as Bat Mitzvah on this Shabbat. 6pm at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Shabbat Morning Services the following morning as we call Isabella Greninger to Torah as B Mitzvah at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

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Nov
7

Isabella Greninger B. Mitzvah

Shabbat Morning Services as we call Isabella Greninger to Torah as B Mitzvah at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Shabbat services precede on Friday, November 6 as we celebrate with the Greninger family as Isabella Greninger prepares to be called to Torah as Bat Mitzvah on this Shabbat. 6pm at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

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Feb
21

Shabbat & Potluck-TBY

Shabbat & Potluck is a chance for our congregation and visitors to welcome Shabbat and share an Erev Shabbat Meal.  Please bring a dairy dish to share with the community.  We gather at 6:00 pm for Shabbat Blessings and enjoy our potluck.  At 7:00 pm we join in a Shabbat service together led by one of our Rabbis or community members.

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Feb
11

Tu B'Shevat Seder

Celebration of the trees, of rebirth! In this special Tu B'Shevat Seder we will create together a feast for the body, spirit and soul as we honor the web of life that sustains us all - from the first blossoms appearing on the almond trees of Israel to our evergreens of the Tahoe Basin.

All are warmly invited to join us along with special guest North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation post B Mitzvah who will share about their Tikkun Olam work and inspire us all to reflection and action.

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Feb
8

Scout Shabbat & Havdallah Service

Community members are welcome to join to as our community's scouts learn about Jewish symbols, history, and tradition in order to earn their Ner Tamid Honor. Havdallah celebration at 7 pm will conclude our activities.

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Feb
1

Ski In The Trees

Register for the event here (link)

Join us at Diamond Peak in Incline Village on Saturday, February 1st, 2025 for our Tahoe Jewish Community Ski In The Trees Gathering! 

  • First 25 registrations to receive a $25* lift ticket

  • Registrants 26-35 to receive a $50* lift ticket 

    • *These rates are for members of TJC congregations (North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation & Temple Bat Yam)

We are excited this year to offer lift tickets to the wider community (Non-NTHC or TBY members) at $65 per lift ticket

Breakfast & Lunch are included for all participants.

**Registration is capped at 50 souls.  That means we have access to 50 total lift tickets.  If you register after the registration limit is reached, you are welcome to join by purchasing your own lift ticket and registering for breakfast and lunch only, we will gladly provide food for you to join in a wonderful day in community.

Email alicia@tbytahoe.org with questions!

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Jan
24

Shabbat & Potluck-TBY

Shabbat & Potluck is a chance for our congregation and visitors to welcome Shabbat and share an Erev Shabbat Meal.  Please bring a dairy dish to share with the community.  We gather at 6:00 pm for Shabbat Blessings and enjoy our potluck.  At 7:00 pm we join in a Shabbat service together led by one of our Rabbis or community members.

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Jan
23

Tikvah Through Text: Finding Hope in Jewish Learning

Rabbi Evon will teach at the Tikvah Through Text program of Laasok—A Virtual Beit Midrash. This program is free and open to anyone seeking connection to the Jewish Community.

Register here: https://laasok.org/tikvah/

Judaism teaches that in challenging times we can turn to each other and to our study of our sacred texts. "Tikvah Through Text" is a way to find light in the darkness: each week a different rabbi leads a 30-minute study session on some Jewish text relating to hope (“tikvah” in Hebrew). Rabbi Evon Yakar will be teaching on Thursday, January 23.  Join with others from around North America for an informal, sustaining study session that is open to anyone seeking connection and Jewish community. Organized by LAASOK, the liberal Beit Midrash (“House of Study”).

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Jan
21

Sisterhood meeting

Locations are TBD but all will be in person and Via Zoom. Dinner will precede the meeting at the in-person location.

Contact Justine Jacob for more information about the meeting and Sisterhood 510-506-9882

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Jan
21

VIP pre-reception & Annual Meeting for Jewish Nevada (Reno)

Thank you for being one of Jewish Nevada’s most dedicated supporters in Northern Nevada.

We are delighted to invite you to a special VIP Reception before our Annual Meeting:
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: The National Automobile Museum

Enjoy drinks and appetizers while connecting with community leaders and special guests, including:

  • Stefanie Tuzman, CEO/President, Jewish Nevada

  • Jen Sher, Chair, Board of Directors

  • Ken Mead, Nevada Regional Security Advisor, Secure Community Network

  • Sari Mann, Director, Nevada Jewish Community Foundation

Our reception will also feature:

  • Mimi Kravetz, Chief Impact & Growth Officer, Jewish Federations of North America, our Keynote Speaker

  • Gregg Rosenberg, recipient of the David L. Simon Young Leader of the Year Award

Please RSVP directly to me at mara@jewishnevada.org by Thursday, January 17, 2025

We encourage you to join us for the Annual Meeting starting immediately afterward. You can register here: www.jewishnevada.org/annualmeeting.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Jan
17

Shabbat & Potluck (NTHC)

This potluck will be hosted by the Ben-Shoshan Family, in honor of Aidan's B'Mitzvah in Israel!

Shabbat & Potluck is a chance for our congregation and visitors to welcome Shabbat and share an Erev Shabbat Meal. We gather at 6:00 pm for Shabbat Blessings and enjoy our potluck.  At 7:00 pm we join in a Shabbat service together led by one of our Rabbis or community members.

Volunteer or sign up for the potluck here

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Jan
14

Gathering with Community: A response to Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr 8

  • Apr 29

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Jan
14

Parenting in a Time of Antisemitism

Gathering with Community: A Response to Antisemitism

Co-led by therapist and life coach Moran Shoman and Rabbi Lauren. This will take place at North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation.

Group for Parents with children at home (overlaps with Religious School)

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Group for the whole community

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Tuesdays

  • Jan 14

  • Feb 25

  • Mar 18

  • Apr TBD

  • Apr 29

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