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Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Members Virtual Annual Meeting

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Date: Sunday, June 7th, 2020
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Place: The TVCJ annual meeting will be held virtually using the Zoom video-conferencing service. TVCJ members will participate in the comfort of their own home. 
Cost: FREE

We’ll also be electing a new TVCJ board for the 2020-21 membership year! The Board of Directors for TVCJ consists of at least 5 directors who are elected at the annual membership meeting for a one-year term. Board members are vital for the organization to make important decisions about events, activities, financial decisions as well as planning for the future of the organization.

There will be at least two board positions open for the fiscal year 2020-21. We need your creativity and vision! Members interested in serving on the board can nominate themselves via email to culturaljews@gmail.com. Additionally, any member can also self-identify as a candidate during the annual membership meeting prior to the vote. Teens (13-17 years old) may also join the board as teen representatives. 

We look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting!

— The TVCJ Board

Reservations are required.  To make a reservation please Click Here. 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  Once you receive your confirmation, then please add the zoom meeting link to your calendar.

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Virtual Shavuot Celebration

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We can’t be together in person, but we can be together online. 

This is traditionally a holiday about books and learning. So we traditionally come together and share our favorite book we read this past year. (Adults and kids are welcome to share)

This year we will also be hosting a guest speaker, Rabbi Denise Handlarski, a Humanist Rabbi who wrote the A-Z of Intermarriage. She will be talking a little about her new book and we will have a short Q&A before we share our books.

Date: Sunday, May 31st, 2020
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Place: The TVCJ annual Shavuot celebration will be held virtually using the Zoom video-conferencing service. Everyone will participate in the comfort of their own home.
Cost: FREE

Reservations are required.  To make a reservation please Click Here. 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  Once you receive your confirmation, then please add the zoom meeting link to your calendar.

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Virtual Lag B’Omer

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We can’t be together in person, but we can be together online.

During this event we will talk about the Lag B’Omer holiday, replace our traditional watermelon toss with an online game, and eat together.

Date: Sunday, May 17th, 2020
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Place:  This year the TVCJ annual Lag B’Omer celebration will be held virtually using the Zoom video-conferencing service. Everyone will participate in the comfort of their own home.
Cost: FREE

Reservations are required.  To make a reservation please click this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpd–urjkjEtC7rj8E5bz5Y5y84jVS4P7_

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  Once you receive your confirmation, then please add the zoom meeting link to your calendar.

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Virtual Community Passover Seder

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seder

We can’t be together in person, but we can be together online.

This year the TVCJ annual community Seder will be held virtually on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 5 p.m using the Zoom video-conferencing service. Everyone will participate in the comfort of their own home.

Our secular Seder includes English-language readings highlighting the power of community and the value of freedom, and songs in English, Yiddish and Hebrew. The hour-long ceremony is followed by optional schmoozing time while your family eats the dinner that you’ve prepared in your home. The event is family-friendly.

Other than what you spend on food for your family’s seder, there is no cost to attend this event. We will provide a shopping list for your seder plate, suggested recipes, and the Passover Haggadah.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED:
To make a reservation please go to https://bit.ly/tvcjseder. The event is limited to no more than 100 reservations.

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Tu B’Shevat

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Tu B'Shvat

A Livermore Area Recreation and Parks District Ranger will join us again this year for an exciting program about native trees and the animals that depend on them. In addition, to honor greening efforts in the Bay Area, children will take home pre-planted native oak tree seedlings, and receive instruction on their care and feeding and when and where to plant them. Following these activities will be a yummy pot-luck lunch, accompanied by music and singing. Please bring a dish to share. Since we have members who are dairy- and/or gluten-free, please bring a card with your dish that lists the ingredients. In keeping with this holiday tradition, you are encouraged to include one or more of the following ingredients: Dates, Figs, Oranges, Almonds,Raisins, Olives, Carob.

Date: February 9
Time: 10:15 – 1:00
Venue:  Bothwell Arts Center.  2466 8th Street, Livermore
Cost: $10 per non-member adult

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Sukkot

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Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Sukkot celebration
Please join us for our annual Sukkot celebration. We will build a sukkah and enjoy a potluck brunch to celebrate our harvest holiday.  We will have activities for children and adults.  Please bring a dish to share (we have members with allergies, so please label ingredients), a branch for the roof of the sukkah, and a piece of fruit or gourd to hang.  If you have one, also bring your hammer and/or power drill so you can pitch in and help build our sukkah!
Date: October 13th, 2019
Time: 10:30a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Place: Poxon-Hudson Home, 2383 Lancaster Court, Hayward, CA 94542
Cost: FREE for all members.  $10.00 for each non member adult (13 and over)

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Yom Kippur

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Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Yom Kippur

Join Tri-Valley Cultural Jews for a secular, humanistic observance of Yom Kippur. We will be holding a Kol Nidre service on Tues October 8, 2019 from 7:00 to 8:30pm at the Bothwell Arts Center, 2466 8th Street, Livermore CA. This will be a program of readings in English, with discussion and music. It is a child friendly, but not child-centered, event. Free to members; $20 for non-member adults. To RSVP and for more information: (925) 485-1049

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Rosh Hashanah

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Tri-Valley Cultural Jews Rosh Hashanah

Join Tri-Valley Cultural Jews for Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year, on September 29, 2019 from 4:30 – 8:00pm at the Bothwell Arts Center in Livermore (2466 8th Street, Livermore CA). We will start with Tashlich (4:30pm), a walk to the nearby creek to symbolically wash away our misdeeds of the past year. Then we will have a potluck dinner (5:30pm) followed by a secular humanistic Rosh Hashanah observance (7:00-8:00pm). This is a child friendly, but not child-centered, event. Free to members; $20 per non-member adult. To RSVP and for more information: (925) 485-1049