Reverse Tashlich
Saturday, September 10, 12:30 – 3:00pm, Crown Beach Crab Cove Visitor Center, Alameda

What: A new family-friendly High Holy Days ritual: an international Jewish waterfront cleanup organized by the organization Tikkun HaYam (Repair the Sea) to raise awareness about the deep Jewish connection to water, and reinforce the urgent moral imperative to protect the aquatic environment. We will gather for a picnic lunch, have a short Reverse Tashlich Ritual and then do a cleaning of the beach. We’ll be joining Jewish communities around the world.

When: Saturday, September 10, roughly 12:30 to 3pm

• 12:30 – 1:20pm Picnic Lunch Outside of Visitor Center (it’s fine if you can’t get there right at 12:30)
• 1:20 – 1:30pm Reverse Tashlich/Shabbat Shuvah Ritual 
• 1:30 – 3:00pm Beach Clean Up (Sinai Green will provide supplies including gloves and trash bags. If you have a grabber, please bring it. Feel free to stay as long or as little as you like!)

Where: Crown Beach Crab Cove Visitor Center, Alameda, CA

Note: “Crab Cove Visitor Center” is designated in the map’s upper left quadrant, page two of this brochure.* For those who don’t wish to park in the main lot (there is a fee), you can park along the road: Westline Drive or even Shoreline Drive. You can hike slightly northwest from there to the Visitor Center.
Accessibility Note: They keep a beach wheelchair in the Visitor Center that has to be pushed but has balloon tires, so it is beach-suitable. They just loan it out to anyone who asks for it. Otherwise this location is wheelchair accessible; trash picking may be limited from a regular wheelchair to paved walkways and the firm, flat, grassy lawn.

Why: For thousands of years, in a ritual called Tashlich, Jews symbolically cast their sins into a body of water on Rosh Hashanah. For 60 years humans have thrown their "sins" — millions of tons of trash — into bodies of water as well. Join Jewish communities around the world for the 5th Annual Reverse Tashlich, an annual waterfront cleanup, a mitzvah, and a new High Holiday ritual to repair the sea.

To register:

1. Go to www.repairthesea.org/rt2023
2. Click "Join a Cleanup”, then “United States”, then “California”. 
3. Fill out the google form, making sure to select Oakland-Temple Sinai