Welcome to our Dayenu Circle based in Silicon Valley, California!

Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley (DCJSV) is a local group affiliated with Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action. Like other Dayenu Circles nationwide, we are taking climate action rooted in Jewish values. We collaborate with Dayenu on national climate action and plan our own state and local actions in the Bay Area.

All Our Might, continued:

California SB 252 and focus on divesting from fossil fuels

Current Campaigns

• All Our Might national campaign:  Learn more about Dayenu's All Our Might campaign to end the fossil fuels era :
  • See pics above from our Palo Alto event.
  • Read more details about the campaign on the Dayenu national site: https://dayenu.org/all-our-might. 
• Save Rooftop Solar in California: Take action to push back against CPUC's proposal here. 
• Build Back Better: Urge Members of Congress to pass the Build Back Better package at the national level.

Join Us!

Past Meetings:

The nation’s top four banks loaned fossil-fuel companies more than a *trillion dollars* from 2015’s Paris Climate Accords to 2021. Money that is destroying our climate and our future. Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley invites you to learn from experts how to move your money, securely, from big banks and fossil-fuel investment portfolios. We did it. So can you.

Jim Thompson founded THIS! Is What We Did, a nonprofit focused on combating climate change and its threat to humanity. What to do? Jim has answers, focused on banking. He was director of Stanford University’s Public Management Program, named the nation’s top non-profit business management program during his tenure. He has written nine books. He started Stanford’s Positive Coaching Alliance and won numerous sports ethics awards.

Robert Chaykin is a vice president and financial advisor at Morgan Stanley in Los Gatos, CA.  He advises clients on investing with impact,  based on their religious, spiritual, and life values. Robert is a commissioner on Santa Clara County’s Human Rights Commission. He has served as co-chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council and is currently a board member of Jewish Silicon Valley, where he chairs the investment committee.

Chutzpah 2022: Help us turn out climate-concerned voters in key states for the 2022 midterms!

We heard about important bills making their way through the California legislature, what you can do to support them, and signed up to join Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley's meetings with legislators. Our event page. 

Distinguished guests Mary Nichols and Felicia Marcus joined Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley in a dynamic discussion to share what really happened in Glasgow, and what we can do now to support policies and regulations here at home.

Mary Nichols is currently Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Global Energy Policy and the Vice-Chair of the U.S.-China Climate Center at UC Berkeley. Mary is the former Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) where she oversaw the creation of California's world-leading regulatory programs to combat air pollution and climate change. She also served as California's Secretary for Natural Resources and was Asst. Administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation in the Clinton administration.

Felicia Marcus is the William C. Landreth Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Water in the West Program and a Founding Member of the Water Policy Group, a network of current and former high-level national and international water officials. An attorney, Felicia most recently chaired the California State Water Resources Control Board, after previously serving as Regional Administrator of EPA's Region IX, and Western Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

• November 11, 2021: DCJSV hosted Dayenu's National Director, Dahlia Rockowitz, for an update on the Build Back Better bill. 
  • Video of the meeting is available here.  
• July 28, 2021: DCJSV welcomed local expert Michele Bogen, who spoke to us about transportation electrification.

Past Events:

• All Our Might - Big Banks, Divest from Fossil Fuels!

• January 13-17, 2022: DCJSV hosted a table at Jewish Silicon Valley's Jewbilee 2022, where we focused on our actions to support rooftop solar in California and calling on the EPA to reduce methane emissions.

• August 25, 2021: DCJSV hosted one of many #hearthecall events in Downtown San Jose, leading an interfaith gathering in marching from City Hall to the federal courthouse and calling on Diane Feinstein and Alex Padilla to do their part in passing federal climate legislation.