A Passover Playground: Family-Friendly Passover Experience
Come as a family for Passover fun, music, stories and food at this unique and interactive experience Come get a taste of Passover! Walk through the Red Sea to the land of milk and honey. Build pyramids, make matzo with Nosh. With Micah sing Passover songs , and squeeze in... »
Shabbat Services with Professor Daniel Matt on Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation
Let’s celebrate Passover by gaining a deeper understanding of the Prophet Elijah.
Sunday Movie Matinee at the J – Avenue of the Giants
Join us for a unique & miraculous tale of a local community member’s true story of survival, adapted for the screen with filmmaker talk back Join us for a special presntation of this uniquely Marin story of the incredible survival of Herbert Heller during the war. Heller, kept his miraculous... »
Inside Israel with Avi Melamed – May 1
Join intelligence analyst and current affairs expert, Avi Melamed for an in-depth look at the ongoing conflict in Israel.
In-Depth Discussion with Mila Finkelshtein, CEO of ORT Ukraine
Year 3: The War in Ukraine: How has it impacted the Jewish Community?
Yom Hashoah 2024
The Marin community will gather in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Jewish Monthly Meditation Drop In
Join us monthly to discover joy, compassion, relaxation, and awareness in meditation. Beginners welcome!
Ecstatic Jewish Dance Group
Join us for a wild & joyful gathering of movement, where we’ll dance our hearts out & experience the bliss of embodied & ecstatic movement. Jewish Ecstatic Dance Group Come join us for a monthly Jewish embodied dance group; bringing ecstatic dance and more to the Osher Marin JCC! Get... »
Shabbat Shmooze
Join us in welcoming in Shabbat. Everyone is invited.
The Osher Marin Jewish Community Center’s Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood mounts a new art installation approximately four times a year. Visible throughout our center, the exhibit is curated to reflect on themes expressed in a variety of media and usually by Jewish artists.
Check out our current and past installations here.
Tikkun Marin is the Osher Marin JCC’s initiative to improve and repair our Marin community. Its name is taken from Tikkun Olam, the Jewish concept that we bear responsibility not only for ourselves but for the moral, spiritual, and material welfare of everyone.
Jewish holidays and festivals are observed in Judaism throughout the Hebrew calendar. Jewish holidays occur on the same dates every year in the Hebrew calendar. Osher Marin JCC celebrates these special days with programs that engage families.
Our Rescued Torah
The Osher Marin JCC is proud to partner with the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London to prominently display Torah MST#732 rescued from the Czech Jewish community of Hostomice, a small town in Bohemia about 20 miles from Prague.
In 1942, Prague was under Nazi occupation and a group of Jewish workers at the Jewish Museum risked their lives to rescue their community’s sacred scrolls and other ritual objects. As hopes faded for rescuing fellow Jews and themselves, they chose to preserve, for future generations, their holy heritage.
By sharing this Torah, we are honoring the Jews of Hostomice who perished in the Shoah, ensuring that their lives continue to have meaning and that their culture and tradition are preserved.
Past JCC Events
Book Talk: The Newark Minutemen
Marin author Leslie Barry discusses her family's incredible true story: a Jewish boxer in 1930s New Jersey was recruited by the Jewish mob and the FBI to go undercover against the rising German-American Nazi party. Along the way, he falls in love with the enemy's daughter. The story is being made into a Hollywood movie.
An Evening of Poetry
We brought together two wonderful Marin poets to talk about their experiences as writers during a time of crisis, the importance of community, and their shared sense of reverence for the natural world. Jane Hirshfield is an honored and distinguished poet, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Meryl Natchez is a poet, translator, and reviewer, and chair of the Marin Poetry Center, which cosponsored this event.
Book Talk: The Four Keys of Kabbalah
Rabbi Yisrael Rice of Chabad of Marin will talk about his new book, The Four Keys of Kabbalah, an in-depth look at Jewish mystical wisdom in an approachable and easy-to-understand format. Rabbi Rice is the director and spiritual leader of Chabad of Marin, and has been a part of our community since 1987.
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