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The Twelve Tribes of Israel camped around the Tabernacle from a 1683 etching by Jan Luyken.
Posted inTorah

Tribal flags and summer camp color wars: How God turned us into one people

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf May 14, 2026May 15, 2026

The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. BamidbarNumbers 1:1-4:20 This week, we begin a new book of the Torah. In […]

Arayes are meat-filled pitas that kids learn to make at culinary camp in Oakland. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inRecipe

On the menu at Jewish summer camps: learning to cook

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer March 6, 2026March 6, 2026
Archival photo of boys at summer camp
Posted inFrom the Archives

100 years of tan lines, bug bites and Jewish camp memories

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss July 16, 2025July 16, 2025
Joanne Forman, an on-site therapist at Camp Tawonga, and her family. "You just automatically fit in," she said.
Posted inSPONSORED CONTENT

The Camp Tawonga spirit: Belonging, generation to generation

by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt May 30, 2024May 31, 2024
Kyle Blaze (righ) with his ukulele students at the Cazadero Performing Arts Family Camp. (Photo/Scott Stanford)
Posted inEducation

Sonoma County performing arts camp hires new Jewish leaders with a vision

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 29, 2024March 6, 2024
The weekly "Shabbat stroll" at Camp Tawonga in 2022. (Courtesy Tawonga)
Posted inU.S.

At Jewish sleepaway camps this summer, bunks and bathrooms accommodate any gender identity

Louis Keene by Louis Keene June 27, 2023
"Camp Pock-A-Wocknee and the Dyn-O-Mite Summer of ‘77" is the first graphic novel by Eric Glickman
Posted inComics

Jewish summer camp nostalgia comes to comics in ‘Camp Pock-a-Wocknee’

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
Tawonga's incoming CEO Rebecca Meyer (left) with outgoing CEO Jamie Simon. (Photo/Courtesy Camp Tawonga)
Posted inNews

Rebecca Meyer, longtime Camp Tawonga leader, named new CEO

by Dan Pine January 17, 2023January 10, 2025
Shabbat services at the inaugural Jewish Families of Color Weekend at Camp Tawonga, Sept. 2021. (Photo/Courtesy Tawonga)
Posted inNorthern California

‘Breath of fresh air’: Camp Tawonga weekend for Jewish families of color coming up Aug. 25-28

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 3, 2022August 4, 2022
Camp Tawonga sign
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Oak Fire’s proximity to Camp Tawonga put some parents on edge 

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

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