By providing service locally, in Israel and throughout the world, Jews can put their energy and skills to work, making a difference in the lives of others.East Bay
International service organization, advocating for the Jewish people and Israel. Promotes Jewish unity, security and continuity, fighting anti-Semitism and intolerance worldwide.
Women's Zionist Organization of America promotes health care, education and youth institutions in Israel. Enhances American Jewish life through education, advocacy and health awareness.
Organization empowering women and girls through economic literacy, community training, healthy relationship education and the proliferation of women's leadership.
Organization committed to strengthening communities throughout the world by educating people against all odds and obstacles, changing lives through education.
Inspired by Jewish values; informs, educates, and builds community among givers. Using donor advised funds and foundations as the vehicles, guiding enhanced Jewish philanthropy.
Umbrella organization for Chabad centers, camps, preschool, clubs and outreach programs in South Peninsula. Offers Jewish outreach, educational and social services, and community programs to all Jews.
WP hosts social, educational and cultural events designed to connect Jewish women in Silicon Valley with each other and their communities. Info: roni@jvalley.org.
Serves as a connection point for local tech and business entrepreneurs to apply expertise in innovation to the opportunities and challenges facing Jewish life.
Celebrates the racial and ethnic diversity of Jewish life through educational resources and inclusive experiential programs like summer/family camp, speakers bureau and holiday events.
Engages the community in tikkun olam by training and matching volunteer reading tutors with struggling young readers(K-3)in public schools across the East Bay, San Francisco, the Peninsula and Marin.
Non-profit social justice group helps turn progressive ideas into action. Inspired by Jewish values, members work to improve quality of life and safeguard rights and freedoms for all.
Organic farm and education center offering a three-month residential fellowship for young adults; summer camp; hands-on programs for youth, families and adults; Jewish festival celebrations.
Reconnects Jewish life to nature, revitalizing Jewish education and community for thousands of participants through holiday retreats, nature-based youth education and leadership training.
Based on the traditions of tzedakah (righteous behavior) and communal responsibility, the Jewish Federations are volunteer-based, nonprofit organizations that raise funds to support social services, culture and education. As umbrella agencies, the Federations allocate dollars in their geographic areas, Israel and elsewhere around the world. Federations play an important role in community planning and leadership development. In addition, Federation endowment funds help to ensure the financial security of the Jewish community.North Bay
Supporting the Jewish community for over 100 years, partners with donors, organizations, and foundations to address the pressing issues facing our community.
Supporting the Jewish community for over 100 years, partners with donors, organizations, and foundations to address the pressing issues facing our community.
The Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley is the hub of Jewish life, providing the spokes of support, connectivity, engagement, education and tradition throughout our community.
Supporting the Jewish community for over 100 years, the Federation partners with donors, organizations, and foundations to address the pressing issues facing our community.
The Federation's Israel office supports innovative programs working to build and sustain a pluralistic, democratic, and shared society with equal opportunity for all.
Taking an active role in keeping the memory and the lessons of the Holocaust alive, a number of Northern California organizations provide educational programs and offer support to survivors and their families.East Bay
Providing services and assistance for 280 Holocaust survivors in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, including home care, care management, volunteers, counseling, social groups, and restitution assistance.
Co-sponsors Sonoma State U. Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series; supports SSU Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide; coordinates school presentations by survivors and descendants of the Holocaust.
Sponsors public Holocaust lectures each spring; develops Holocaust resource materials; provides Holocaust education in collaboration with the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust.
Reparations claims assistance, emergency services including food assistance, case management, home care, medical assistance, home visits and wellness services. Services available in English, Russian and Hebrew.
Features taped testimonies and transcripts of concentration camp survivors, ghetto survivors, liberators, Shanghai survivors, and people surviving in hiding, now living in San Mateo County. By appt.
Created by sculptor George Segal to memorialize the Holocaust. Represents a survivor standing in front of a tragic scene in a concentration camp. Open daily. Entrance at Clement and 34th Ave.
Assistance with reparations; care management; social activities, including the weekly Café by the Bay. Transportation; comprehensive senior services; and financial and practical assistance for survivors and their families.
Distributes innovative curricula about the Jewish partisan experience to teachers and students, sharing inspiration of heroic resistance against tyranny with educational and cultural organizations.
Local Jewish community centers play an important role in building and sustaining Jewish life in the Bay Area. They are places to play and socialize, to find friends and even romance, and to learn. Northern California JCCs offer an extensive range of services and programming, from lectures on Israel to ballroom dancing, from women’s support groups to writing workshops. Many JCCs also offer the latest in fitness and recreational facilities. They provide camps and afterschool care for kids of all ages, special events and services for seniors, and numerous other programs and services. Contact the JCC in your area.East Bay
Inclusive community gathering place offering holiday, arts and culture, preschool, parenting, baby and toddler, afterschool, camp, Maccabi and ArtsFest, adult classes, clubs and groups, and older adult programs.
Offers multigenerational programs, Jewish film festival, summer day camp, countywide teen program, Friendship Circle Seniors 55+, clubs and classes, cultural events.
Newly renovated fitness center, indoor and outdoor pools, summer and vacation camps, performing arts center, classes, Jewish life programs and classes, and year-round preschool.
Fitness center, aquatics, tennis, Jewish life and learning, preschool, child care, youth camps and programs, adult education, senior programs, sports, cultural events.
Meeting place for individuals and families to celebrate, learn and stay healthy in both body and spirit. Home to the Peninsula JCC and the Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School.
Cultural, social, fitness, recreational and educational programs for everyone. Range of facilities from state-of-the-art fitness center to stunning cultural arts hall.
Cultivating a vibrant lifestyle through Wellness Your Way with award-winning programs including aquatics, premier fitness center, enrichment programs, and more.
Anchored by the Oshman Family JCC and Moldaw Residences, the campus is also the home of the Jewish Community Federation, JSN, UpStart and Nourish Cafe.
Home of Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center, Yavneh Day School, Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley and the Community Mikvah.
Offers world-class cultural events, state-of-the-art fitness center, outstanding preschools and afterschool enrichment, hundreds of inspiring educational, recreational, social and wellness programs.
A number of organizations champion Jewish interests and human rights in the wider community, offering opportunities for political and social activism. Participants serve on boards, staff programs and take an active role in supporting their goals.Bay Area
Engages Jews with partners to fight for economic and racial justice and civil rights in the Bay Area and nationwide, using organizing, advocacy, leadership development, electoral work.
Affirms value of Jewish traditions, creates new ways to engage. Inspired by Jewish ritual, embracing the arts, humor, food, philosophy and social justice. Events, DIY toolkits, films and recordings.
Global Jewish advocacy organization for more than a century; working to enhance the well-being of the Jewish people and to advance human rights and democratic values for all.
Organization fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bias and bigotry through anti-bias training, exposing extremist activity, security training to Jewish institutions, much more.
Public affairs and community relations arm of the organized Jewish community, representing synagogues and Jewish organizations on issues of vital importance based on consensus.
Public affairs and community relations arm of the organized Jewish community, representing synagogues and Jewish organizations on issues of vital importance based on consensus.