Overview
Hadassah Central Pacific Coast is where Northern California women have fun and make friends, while demonstrating our pride and passion for Hadassah. Join us and find your place here!
Our region spans from the wine country in Northern California down south 150 miles through San Francisco and Silicon Valley to the Monterey Peninsula. From the Pacific Ocean, we head east 250 miles through the East Bay, Sacramento and Reno, Nevada. Our 14 chapters have over 7,000 members, including young women’s groups. We come together in camaraderie to support Hadassah’s lifesaving work in Israel, the US and the world through our many local programs and Israel trips. We join together to advocate and educate about issues we care about in Sacramento legislators’ offices and with US legislators, fighting for issues affecting women, families and the Jewish people. Join us today!
Message from the
Region President
We are a diverse group of women from California's Central Coast (Monterey) to the northern reaches of the San Francisco Bay Area. We have active chapters in Monterey/Salinas, the Silicon Valley (Sequoia), Diablo Valley (Walnut Creek and surrounding), Tri City (Fremont/Union City/Newark), Solano and Napa Counties and the North Bay (Santa Rosa). Our region extends to the east to Sacramento (and even to Reno) and down the Central Valley to Fresno.
Calendar of Events
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Rosh Chodesh Shevat Gathering
Central Pacific Coast
Solano-Napa Chapter
Jan 22, 2023
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Jan 22, 2023
Free online gathering of Bay area Jewish women, members of Solano-Napa Hadassah and other chapters, Congregation B'nai Israel, Chabad Solano. Program includes several guest speakers, a Hadassah moment, round-table discussion and other activities.
Discover Your Inner Artist
Central Pacific Coast
Diablo Valley Chapter
Feb 25, 2023
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Feb 25, 2023
Join your 2019 and 2022 Hadassah/Momentum Cohorts and Friends for an evening of art, wine and havdallah. Make a fused glass mezuzzah or a ceramic seder plate while reconnecting with old friends and making new ones.
Let's make FALAFEL with Faith Kramer
Central Pacific Coast
Oakland Ruach
Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 26, 2023
Learn how to prepare FALAFEL with Faith Kramer, a local food writer and recipe developer and author of the cookbook "52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen". Falafel and side salads will be served.
Kesher Oak's Purim Mishloach Manot Basket Build
Central Pacific Coast
Kesher OAK
Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 26, 2023
Join us as we will be assembling and distributing Mishloach Manot bags for our elderly community in the East Bay. The mitzvah of making Mishloach Manot bags is a tradition to ensure our family, friends, and community have enough for the Purim feast.
Education Program: Book Review of Shanda by Ellen Bob
Central Pacific Coast
Sequoia
Feb 27, 2023
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Feb 27, 2023
Sequoia Chapter invites you to another of Ellen Bob's exciting book reviews. Ellen will be reviewing Shanda by author Letty Cottin Pogrebin; writer, activist and a founding editor of Ms magazine.
Berkeley
Diablo Valley Chapter
Kesher OAK
Marin
Monterey Peninsula-Salinas Chapter
North Bay Chapter
Oakland Ruach
Sacramento
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Sequoia
Sharone
Solano-Napa Chapter
The Villages Chapter
Tri City
Board Members
President
Leslie Deman
Secretary
Lois Blank
Treasurer
Frances Bennett
Fundraising VP/Coor
Rena Feuerstein
Fundraising VP/Coor
Jane Jacobson
Fundraising VP/Coor
Sandy Sidorsky
Membership/Outreach VP/Coor
Susan Hartenbaum
Past President
Sandy Sidorsky
Zionist Affairs Chair
Karen Bloom
Zionist Affairs Chair
Stacy Margolin
Annual Giving/Chai Society Chair
Dafna Sorokin Mizrahi
Health and Wellness Chair
Elizabeth Dietz
HMO Chair
Susan Grossman
Jewish Education Chair
Karen Bloom
Jewish Education Chair
Stacy Margolin
Jewish National Fund Chair
Daphna Zipkin
Young Judaea Chair
Irene Friedman
Youth Aliyah Chair
Elana Feinsmith