San Francisco Shorts Tawonga planning Shabbat potluck Facebook Twitter Email SMS WhatsApp Share By J. Correspondent | February 20, 1998 Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. The "Shabbat Stroll" starts at 7:00 p.m. The Pied Piper-like promenade will allow campers to join their singing, guitar-playing leaders in a walk across the field, around the lake and through the trees en route to the social hall for a 7:30 p.m. potluck dinner. Dancing to camp and Israeli folk songs will follow at 8. On Friday, Feb. 6, more than 50 families new and old to Camp Tawonga braved torrential rains to arrive at the Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center for the first Shabbat Reunion. Kids reunited with their summertime friends and families dined with neighborhood families. Free Camp Tawonga CDs and song sheets were distributed, compliments of the Koret and Maisin foundations. For Feb. 27 reservations, call (415) 543-0234. Birthday luncheon in S.F. to honor 90-year-old activist AMIT Women will honor Goldie Abers on her 90th birthday at a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at City Forest Lodge, 254 Laguna Honda Blvd., S.F. Members of the many organizations Abers has been involved with will join AMIT Women in thanking her for her numerous acts of tzedakah and chesed (deeds of loving kindess). For information, call (415) 664-6309. J. Correspondent Also On J. Israel Exclusive: Why Israel turned to archaeologists in its search for the Oct. 7 missing Bay Area Israeli professors at UC Berkeley reflect on a tumultuous year Books ‘The Scream’ exposes Israeli pain through poetry, art, prose Local Voice One year after Oct. 7, how do we maintain Zionist unity? Subscribe to our Newsletter I would like to receive the following newsletters: Weekday J From Our Sponsors (helps fund our journalism) Your Sunday J Holiday Bytes