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We're thinking about all of you impacted by both local wildfires. Please be in touch with me directly or visit Jewish Federation of Orange County's website if you need help or want to open your home to those who do.

Exciting news, PJ Library and PJ Our Way families! PJ Publishing books are now available on the Caribu app! Created by a PJ Library parent, Caribu integrates video calling with children's books and activities. Kids can log on with grandparents/grand-friends, relatives in other cities, or family members stationed in the military and flip book pages together for interactive virtual read-alongs. Download the app: https://caribu.com

Wishing all of you a happy, sweet, and healthy new year!

When COVID-19 hit, and our community called, with your help, Federation answered. Emergency Assistance Grants, made possible through YOUR generosity, were swift...ly distributed to those most in need. Your gift to Jewish Federation’s Annual Campaign ensures our ability to support our community both during this critical time and well into the future. Donate today at JewishOC.org/Donate

The high holidays are here, and we have many wonderful resources and opportunities to share with you and your family from PJ Library and Jewish Federation of Orange County. First up, sign up for a Sukkot kit where you'll have all of the supplies you need to use your creativity and build your own mini-Sukkah, and learn about and have fun celebrating the holiday at home! $5 per kit, limit 1 kit per family. Three pickup locations in OC between 9/29 and 10/2... Thank you to Anna Evans Putterman and Putterman Law for so generously underwriting this project for our community! https://jffs.ticketspice.com/pj-library-build-your-own-sukk

Join us for a day of kvelling and comedic relief with special celebrity guests, musical performances & more! Save your virtual seat: cvent.me/5VMblD #KvellWithMe #CommunalKvell #JewishTogether Wednesday, September 16, from 10:30 a.m. PT

Beyond EXCITED to finally share this FREE, EVERYTHING-YOU-NEED FAMILY GUIDE FROM PJ LIBRARY to help celebrate what may be your family’s first High Holidays spent entirely at home. It includes holiday info, answers to common questions, and fun activities that will help create lasting memories. Check it out and tell us what you think. We can't wait for you to see it! #PJLibrary #PJLibraryOC #highholidaysathome

Does your family have PJ Library books to donate? Maybe your family has outgrown them, or you did an extra round of spring cleaning during quarantine? Let us know by filling out this (very!) brief form!

Shabbat Shalom, PJ Library and PJ Our Way families! Our August eNewsletter went out today - let us know if you didn't receive it and want to! In this issue you'll find an opportunity to connect one-on-one with one of the moms from our PJ Library OC Family Committee, to tell us more about the PJ Library books you have to donate, exciting news from the national office about your BABIES, and more! Happy reading this weekend!

Shabbat Shalom, PJ Library and PJ Our Way families! Enjoy Cantor Elisa Waltzman from Temple Bat Yahm sing "Let It Go!" from Disney's Frozen in Hebrew! Have a great weekend!

PJ Library's Refer-A-Friend is back! PJ Library families will receive a special sign up link via email. Share it with a friend (or five, or ten!) and for every qualified sign up, PJ Library will send YOU a $5 gift card to say thank you! It's that easy!

Shabbat Shalom, PJ Library and PJ Our Way families! We are SO EXCITED to see you all for Rick Recht on Sunday at 4! It's going to be a fun and meaningful concert for your whole family!

Special message from Rick Recht Live in Your Living Room! Join us this Sunday (June 28th at 4:00 p.m.) for a private virtual concert for Orange County. Be sure to register at https://www.jccoc.org///06/28/preschool/rick-recht-rocks/ Thanks to underwriting from The Zechter Music Collaboration, a Jewish Federation of Orange County program in partnership with Orange County Music & Dance, the concert is FREE to our families. (Registration is required)... In partnership with The Zechter Music Collaboration, a Jewish Federation of Orange County program in partnership with Orange County Music & Dance Jewish Federation of Orange County PJ Library OC; and the Merage JCC Aronoff Preschool and Camp Haverim. See you Sunday.

Shabbat Shalom, PJ Library and PJ Our Way families! Wishing our dads and grandpas a fun and meaningful Father's Day celebration!