The Good News Continues!

More good news. Thanks to one new individual donor, we are now much closer to our September 30 goal of $50,000 from our community. This new donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, will match your contributions up to $25,000! Thus you can ensure that we'll reach our goal by donating only half of it. Once we reach that goal, we'll be able to make a formal announcement of our 30th season.

We're grateful and moved by the generous, timely support from all of you who have been helping. We know that there are more claims than ever on your generosity and that knowledge deepens our appreciation. The recent outpouring of help is the strongest validation that we've ever received in our 30 years. It's more meaningful than all the awards and rave reviews because it's coming directly from the community that partakes of our work; the people for whom we do what we do. Please help us make this final hurdle.

TJT Crosses the Road!

We’re thrilled (and relieved) to announce that we have made our goal! That is to say, we reached our first benchmark of raising $100,000 from our community by June 30. A big thanks to all who supported our effort. Because of you there is a future for Jewish theatre in the Bay Area.

Now, we have to raise another $50,000 by September 30 in order to be eligible for special funding from a number of foundations who have been supporting us. Please stay tuned for season announcements and up-to-the-minute news.

This would be a perfect time to recite the shehechianu, the prayer that simply expresses gratitude to the creative power of the universe for bringing us to this moment.

Baruch ata, Ya*, melech/malcha** haolam,
Shehechiyanu v'kimanu v'higiyanu lazman hazeh

Blessed are You Source of Being,
who has given us life, sustained us,
and allowed us to reach this day, this moment.

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* I’ve changed the traditional adonai eloheinu to Ya. Adonai eloheinu – “the Lord our God” – is, itself, a euphemism for the “unpronounceable name of God.” Ya is simply another stand-in for the ineffable that has less patriarchal associations than “Lord.”

** melech = King; malcha = Queen