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Pop Up: Holy $%*#; Planning Teen Experiences for the High Holy Days in a New Reality

June 22 – Holy $%*#; Planning Teen Experiences for the High Holy Days in a New Reality How do we begin to plan a meaningful High Holy Day experience for our teens in a pandemic? Join Devra Aarons, Contra Costa Midrasha Executive Director and recipient of the Award for Excellence…...

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Pop Up: Wilderness Torah Virtual Village

June 15 – Wilderness Torah Virtual Village Join Wilderness Torah Youth Programs Director, Daniel Schoen, to hear how they are engaging teens from a distance. Learn about their Virtual Village and Neshama Quest, along with other tools to connect to teens. Join us on Zoom with this link. Join youth…...

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Drop-In Book Club: Nemesis by Philip Roth

To register and receive a link to the event, please click here. Bucky Cantor, the protagonist of Roth’s final novel, is a vigorous young playground director when a polio outbreak mysteriously begins to ravage 1944 Newark. Faced with an opportunity to leave the city for work in a Catskills summer…...

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Drop-In Discussion: The New Colossus

Please click here to register and receive a link to the event.  Join us for a lively and informative discussion of “The New Colossus,” the sonnet by Jewish-American poet Emma Lazarus written in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. Rev. Elder…...

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Pop Up: How do we begin to plan for this year?

Join your fellow educators to talk about ideas and adaptations to a “regular” school year. How do we begin to plan what our teen’s experience will be when we don’t know what next year will look like? Come ready to ask questions and brainstorm together! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83290321664...

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Pop Up: BBYO and Planning Teen Immersive Experiences in our New Reality

June 8 – BBYO and Planning Teen Immersive Experiences in our New Reality Join our local BBYO team- Sasha Joseph, Jennie Neuman and Celena Ritchey- as they share with us how they planned a virtual conference for over 100 teens. They will share with us how this weekend was planned…...

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Lunchtime Pop Up with Dr. Betsy Stone

Join nationally renowned psychologist, Dr. Betsy Stone, for a discussion about how we can manage ourselves and our emotions as we support others. As with all of our Pop Ups, Betsy will teach for 20–30 minutes, then open the room up for questions and discussion. Join us on Zoom with…...

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Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood with Rachel Biale in conversation with Sue Fishkoff

This Jewish Community Library programming will take place over Zoom. Please click here to register and receive a link to the event. Join us for a reading and conversation with Rachel Biale, author of Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood, and Sue Fishkoff, editor of J. Biale’s newly…...

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Metrics & Evaluation Intensive (June)

Instructor: Jenni Mangel How can you gauge your program’s impact? How do you check progress along the way? Learn to develop and share measurable outcomes for your work and design tools to evaluate your program’s impact. This series meets three times and is intentionally held at the end of this…...

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Metrics & Evaluation Intensive (June)

Instructor: Jenni Mangel How can you gauge your program’s impact? How do you check progress along the way? Learn to develop and share measurable outcomes for your work and design tools to evaluate your program’s impact. This series meets three times and is intentionally held at the end of this…...

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