Shalom Baby

Shalom Baby joyfully marks the beginning of your family s Jewish journey in San Diego with welcome gifts, festive gatherings, and connections that last a lifetime. Our story is filled with joy, togetherness, and love for every new arrival! Help us continue this tradition for the next 25 Years! Shalom Baby is designed to help San Diego families raising Jewish children celebrate the arrival of their Jewish newborns and welcome them to the San Diego Jewish Community through gift baskets, playgroups, social events, holiday celebrations, and resource guides.

This successful outreach program has expanded to meet new parents' needs by offering: infant massage, Shalom Baby Together – You & Me music and movemement, baby book clubs, sleep solutions classes, and more.

Make a Contribution

To make a contribution over the phone, please contact Ludivine De Anda at (858) 362-1347. Please give today and make a difference for generations to come.

For more information on joining a playgroup or class, or receiving a Shalom Baby gift basket, please contact Shalom Baby Manages, Judy Nemzer, at shalombaby@lfjcc.org or Vivien Dean at shalombabyncounty@lfjcc.org.

Little Mensches - Making the World Better - One Mitzvah at a Time

Once a month on Sundays at 1:00 PM
Little Mensches provides fun, engaging, and enriching opportunities for children between the ages of 4 and 8 to give back to their community.

Price: $18 per family | $16 Members per family

Little Mensches - Taking Care of Animals | Sunday, October 5, 2025 | 1:00 PM | San Diego Jewish Academy Add to Cart

Shalom Baby Postpartum Wellness Group October - December 2025

Thursdays (7-Week Session) | October 16, 23, 30, November 6 ,13, 20, and December 4, 2025 | 10:00 - 11:15 am
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Feeling foggy, overwhelmed or just not like yourself? You’re not alone, and you don’t have to be. Join Gabi Kass, LPCC, PMH-C, licensed postpartum mental health therapist for a Postpartum Wellness series for Shalom Baby/PJ Library parents; a gentle, supportive conversation on postpartum mental health, including common look fors and tools that are backed by science to help you feel more like yourself again. This is for new and veteran parents with babies 0-12 months. Babies are welcome.

Price: $315 | Members: $280

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Shalom Horim

Sessions: Tuesdays, October 21, 2025, November 18, 2025, January 13, 2026, March 10, 2026, & May 12, 2026 | 6:30-8:00pm
Lawrence Family JCC

Introducing Shalom Horim — a new name for the warm, thoughtful community many of you have loved as LAB. Same great people, same great vibe… just with a refreshed purpose and a slightly bigger table.

Shalom Horim means “peace” and “parents/teachers,” and that’s exactly what we’re creating: a space where parents and grandparents can pause, reflect, and explore how Jewish values shape our lives, and how we pass those values to the little ones we love. Let’s be honest: parenting (and grandparenting) is full of big questions. But before we can guide our kids, we have to ask ourselves — where do I stand? What matters most to me?

No judgment. No prerequisites. No pop quizzes. Just open-hearted conversation, facilitated discussions, and shared wisdom. Whether you’ve been part of LAB before or you’re new and curious, we’d love for you to join us. This is a space to nourish your mind, feed your soul, and maybe even laugh a little along the way.

Price Per Session: $22 | $18 JCC Member

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SB Parent & Me Yoga

Shalom Baby Parent & Me Yoga
Lawrence Family JCC
Sundays, October 26, November 2, 9, & 16, 2025 | 9:30-10:15 AM
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Parent & Me Yoga class for our Shalom Baby/PJ Library families at the JCC, facilitated by Danya Greenberg. For parent and child(ren) ages 2 through 5.

Join our Shalom Baby yoga series for parents and children, where each session blends gentle movement, mindful breathing, and meaningful connection. Celebrate the joys and challenges of parenthood in community as we explore movements supporting our balance, well-being and memorable bonding moments with your child(ren). Come as you are, no prior yoga experience necessary.

Price: $95 | $72 Member (Parent and Child) | 4 Week Session
Additional Child: $27 | Member $16 Member

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Shalom Baby Playgroup Celebrates 10 Year Reunion

From our first meeting in September 2005, our babies have continued to grow up together - learning and developing, and preserving the friendships and bonds built a decade ago. Fate and the unparalleled, unique nature of the Shalom Baby mission brought us together. Indeed, we are thrilled to have celebrated our 10-year Shalom Baby reunion this month. Thank you Shalom Baby, for bringing us together. We are eternally grateful for the lifelong connections that we have formed.

Support Shalom Baby

Celebrate Shalom Baby's Chai Year with a Gift!

We are so proud to know that over the last two decades, more than 5,000 San Diego families have been welcomed, connected and embraced through our programs. From baby welcome baskets, playgroups, PJ Library, bar and bat mitzvahs to college tours, we have journeyed alongside you, commemorating milestones in your babies’ lives and those of your family. Please give today and make a difference for generations to come.

Honor Tribute Cards
Do you have a friend or relative with a passion for Jewish continuity? Are they celebrating a milestone or special event (a birth, bar/bat mitzvah, anniversary or birthday) in their life? You can make a charitable gift in their honor when you donate to Shalom Baby. Provide the name and address of the person you would like to honor and we'll mail them a special card telling them of your gift.
Make your tribute.

Memorial Tribute Cards
Would you like to pay tribute to someone you were close to who has passed on? You can make a charitable gift in their memory when you donate to Shalom Baby. Provide us with the name of the person your gift is in memory of, as well as the name and address of the person that will receive the memorial card, and we'll let them know of your generous contribution.
Make your tribute.

Other Ways You Can Support Shalom Baby
If you would like to make a donation to Baby Book Club or Shalom Baby, contact Shalom Baby Coordinator Judy Nemzer at shalombaby@lfjcc.org

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