Community Resources

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Many of our community organizations remain operational to provide assistance during this time:

  • Bay Area Jewish Healing Center is responding to this pandemic by creating spiritual care resources that can be accessed from home or phone to address the current situation.
     
  • Hebrew Free Loan: If you're having trouble making ends meet because of the effects of Coronavirus, including child care costs when schools are closed, small business losses, canceled study abroad programs, and lost wages because you can't go into work, Hebrew Free Loan may be able to help.
     
  • Jewish Family and Children's Services' staff are first responders during this pandemic emergency. If you or someone you care about needs help, please call the JFCS Bay Area Critical Help Line at 415.449.3700. Additional assistance lines:
    • Parents – call 415.359.2443
    • Families and adults – call 415.449.1212
    • Seniors and disabled care – call 415.449.3700
       
  • JFCS of the East Bay provides essential mental health and social services through every stage of life. Services include therapy for parents and children, refugee and immigrant support, home care, and services for seniors.

    JFCS has also launched a new COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Program, including a Jewish Community Safety Net Program, which offers emergency financial assistance to agency clients and to any East Bay Jew in need. They continue to provide information/navigation services, benefits enrollment assistance, food assistance (including home-delivered groceries for those who need it), mental health support, ongoing telephone support, and follow-up contact. For Jewish Community Safety Net services, contact jcsn@jfcs-eastbay.org or 510.704.7480 x716.
     
  • Shalom Bayit​​​​​ is the Bay Area’s center for domestic violence prevention and response within the Jewish community. Call 866.SHALOM.7 for free, confidential support.

Online Activities

  • View upcoming virtual events on our online community calendar. Want to list your own virtual event? Check out this calendar tutorial.
     
  • Many Bay Area congregations and communities are offering remote worship, learning and/or other activities. Visit j. The Jewish News of Northern California's Resource Guide to find the website of your favorite shul, synagogue, temple, or havurah.
     
  • California Pop-Up Virtual Camp: Join our California Jewish overnight camps for some free online fun! Starting Monday, March 16, many of our California overnight camps are volunteering to provide families and kids some much-needed fun and distraction. Join us for a taste of camp and enjoy everything from science experiments to cooking to Israeli dancing. Visit the CA Jewish Overnight Camps Facebook page throughout next week from 9:30 am - 4:30 pm PST to check out various live-streamed content. Please note, there will always be a break from 12:30 - 1:30 pm and not all scheduling blocks may be filled.
     
  • Hillel@Home: Hillel has virtual meet-ups and online gatherings that bring you together with Jewish and Jew-ish students from around the world in real-time.
     
  • IAC @Home: The Israeli-American Council brings you the most innovative content online while continuing to build a national community with Israel at heart. With activities for kids, teens, young professionals, and adults, you can stay connected to Hebrew, Israeli, and Jewish heritage, online activism, and to one another.

  • Holocaust education: The JFCS Holocaust Center is providing educational programming online to meet community needs.

  • JCCSF Online Hebrew classes: While we shelter in place, beloved JCCSF Hebrew teacher Yael Ronen will be teaching live classes online. Choose from one of four levels of mastery in day or evening language courses taught by a native speaker who provides an engaging and supportive environment.

  • Virtual Programming for Young Adults: We can still be together while practicing social distancing (or as we like to call it, “physical distancing”)! Congregation Emanu-El’s Young Adults are excited to present you with a wide variety of virtual offerings.

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