Yiddish Conversation
2025-02-12 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-26 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-03-05 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-03-12 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-03-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-03-26 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-09 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) and 1 more date | JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
Join us for Yiddish Conversation!
Participants will take turns reading various Yiddish passages aloud – laughing at the stories together, connecting with like-minded community members, and keeping the art of the Yiddish language alive!
Please email Gravity to RSVP: gravity.goldberg@jcceastbay.org

Older Adult Tu B'Shvat Seder
2025-02-13 11:30 - 13:00 | JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
Join us for a celebration of our relationship with nature!
Tu B’Shvat (Birthday of the Trees), is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the beginning of spring. The Tu B’Shvat seder is a time to reflect and examine how we connect to the natural world around us, especially to fruit trees. This is an opportunity for us to envision – collectively and individually – how we can be partners in shaping and healing our natural world.
The Tu B’Shvat Seder consists of four sections, each marked by a different color of wine or grape juice, and a sampling of different types of fruits and nuts. Together, we will explore the symbolism of each of these sections while enjoying yummy treats!
Register here.
Registration required
Cost: $10/person

Canasta Group
2025-02-18 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-11 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-18 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-15 11:00 - 13:00 | JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
Play Canasta at the JCC East Bay!
This group is intended for players experienced in classic Canasta, not modern Canasta. If you are a beginner looking to learn, please stay tuned for a beginners group!
This group will meet weekly, on Tuesdays, from 11am – 1pm.
RSVPs are requested, limited space each week.

Register here.

Advanced Mah Jongg
2025-02-19 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-26 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-05 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-12 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-19 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-26 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-09 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-16 10:00 - 13:00 | JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
A JCC East Bay group that meets weekly on Wednesdays to play American Mah Jongg!
This group is for more experienced players or those wanting to sharpen their competitive edge. Join for good company, tea, and fierce games of Mah Jongg. Drop-ins are welcome.
For more information email Gravity (gravity.goldberg@jcceastbay.org).

Nosh With Your Neighbors
2025-02-20 11:30 - 13:00 | JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
Each month we invite you to join us at the JCC East Bay to enjoy lunch with your community! This is a BYOL (bring-your-own-lunch) with delicious dessert, coffee, and tea provided. RSVP is required.

Register here.

Older Adult Nature Walk at Tilden Park
2025-03-18 12:30 - 15:30 | CA
In collaboration with East Bay Regional Parks, join the JCC East Bay for our first ever Nature Walk at Tilden Park!
We’ll start off with a lecture from a Regional Parks Nature Specialist about the East Bay’s natural world. From there, you’ll have the option to walk Jewel Lake in community or visit Tilden Park’s Visitor Center and have a chance to meet local farm animals.
Lunch is included and transportation is provided to and from the event. Meet at the JCC East Bay at 12:30pm to be ready to board the bus!
RSVP required.
Cost: $10 per person

Register here.

Nosh With Your Neighbors
2025-03-27 11:30 - 13:00 | JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
This month’s Nosh With Your Neighbors will meet on 4th Thursday of the month and will feature a Holocaust remembrance presentation from Jaqueline Shelton, representing the Kindertransport Association.
Join us at the JCC East Bay to enjoy lunch with your community! This is a BYOL (bring-your-own-lunch) with delicious dessert, coffee, and tea provided. RSVP is required.
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Jacqueline Shelton is a Bay Area native who loves creating connections and building community. She is a consultant with Belonging by Design. She serves on the board of the Kindertransport Association (KTA), through which she completed a speaker training program. Jackie has recently started sharing her mother’s (of blessed memory) Kindertransport story with local student and adult audiences.
The Kindertransport Association (KTA) is a nonprofit organization working to connect survivors of the Kindertransports, their families, and their descendants to community support. They aim to educate and inform the public about the Kindertransports as an important part of Holocaust history, and support and advocate for child refugees and children in need today. The KTA publishes a quarterly journal, Kinder-Link, and the Speaker’s Bureau provides materials and speakers for public forums, schools, synagogues, museums, and community centers. The KTA provides an opportunity for its members to finally express and share feelings often long suppressed; form new friendships; enhance understanding between Kinder and their families; and give meaning to a common historical experience.
Register here.

Older Adults Emergency Preparedness Workshop
2025-04-10 11:00 - 12:30 | JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA, 94709, United States
The best way to stay safe is to be prepared!
In partnership with The Center for Independent Living, the JCC is excited to offer our second annual Emergency Preparedness Workshop for our Older Adult community!
Together, we will learn how to:
✅ Stay safe during disasters
✅ Make emergency and evacuation plans
✅ Build go-bags and stay-boxes
✅ Find resources in our community
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This workshop will be presented by Carol Dorf, a Bay Area poet and teacher. Carol has received fellowships from the Center for Independent Living, Jewish Studio Project, Hawthornden Foundation, and Zoeglossia, as well as Best of the Net and Best Microfiction nominations.. Their writing appears on the Poetry Foundation website, in several chapbooks, and in journals that include: Pleiades, About Place, Cutthroat, Braving the Body, The Mom Egg, American Stories, Five South, YesYesPoetry, and Scientific American. As the founding poetry editor of Talking Writing, Carol has taught math and writing in Berkeley USD and at museums and conferences.
Register here.
