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Membership
Members meet for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at Sherwood Island State Park.
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Community Service
As a member of local community and religious groups whose goals and values we share, we volunteer where help is needed.
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Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah eve service ends with a blessing and an Oneg.
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Yom Kippur
The shofar is heard at CHJ Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Family Services.
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Social Justice
After Charlotttesville
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We’re a Cooperative!
Members all play a role in making the congregation work. Read about how CHJ is organized.
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Tu B’Shvat
Celebrating nature at the Tu B’Shvat seder is a joyous event filled with music and good food.
Passover 2021
A secular humanistic seder with musical performers and a new Haggadah for 2021! See our flyer below with more information. CHJ’s Haggadah includes both the legendary tale of the exodus from Egypt and the modern Jewish exodus stories, as well as the themes of its origin. Passover is also a celebration of human dignity and… Read More
Shabbat & Adult Education Continue on ZOOM!
CHJ has adapted to the new reality since the start of the coronavirus pandemic! The celebration of Shabbat is integral to Jewish tradition, too important to let lapse for an undetermined period. And our Adult Ed programs offer another opportunity to listen, learn and discuss topics relevant to Humanistic Judaism. Read more about Adult Education… Read More
Invitation to Join
Families are the future of CHJ. Our inclusive, warm, welcoming Congregation includes families of all stripes coming together to celebrate Judaism and being Jewish. From Baby Naming to Sunday School to Bar & Bat Mitzvah to the Teen Tzedakah Group to Adult Ed, you’ll find a community for families and kids of all ages. Humanistic… Read More
Letter from the President
Passover 2021
Passover is coming and how appropriate the holiday as COVID vaccinations are being rolled out, bringing us closer to our contemporary Promised Land.
This season CHJ will be hosting two very exciting Passover events via Zoom.
Following the success of our previous cooking events, CHJ will be offering a Passover cooking session, open to all, on March 20th led by CHJ member and our Sunday school teacher Taegun Moon. Also known for his excellent cooking skills, Chef Taegun invites you and your family to join in what is sure to be a fun event for individuals and families alike.
Upcoming Events
Join us on Zoom. It’s a great way to get to know each other. Please RSVP Roberta Frank.
A Zoom link will be sent out closer to the date.
Our Shabbat service will be about refugees and asylum seekers, followed by sharing our own stories of parents and grandparents who were refugees themselves.
Free and open to the public.
On Friday, March 5 at 7:30pm, our own Shabbat service will be about refugees and asylum seekers, followed by sharing our own stories of parents and grandparents who were refugees themselves.
On Saturday, March 6 at 8:00pm we will join hundreds of congregations at a Havdalah service put on by HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). It will include songs by refugees and a live performance of the song “You Were Strangers” from the spiritual folk-rock show Revival. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT. Please do it now before you forget.
And on Sunday, March 7 at 1:30pm, optionally tune in to learn about how Jewish communities all over the globe are supporting displaced people today and what we can do to get involved. Register here for the webinar, Perspectives on the Global Jewish Movement for Refugees.
Shmoozing at 9:40am
Discussion at 10:00am.
Watch your emails for the link.
Open to all CHJ members.
Please RSVP to Steven Getz.
Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter account reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living.
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt is two stories: that of the reclusive real-life writer who created a fictional character out of loneliness and thin air, and that of the magical Duchess Goldblatt herself, a bright light in the darkness of social media. Fans around the world are drawn to Her Grace’s voice, her wit, her life-affirming love for all humanity, and the fun and friendship of the community that’s sprung up around her.
All members are invited to join on Zoom. Watch for the link closer to the date.
Discussion of two Joan Micklin Silver movies:
“Crossing Delancey” and “Hester Street”
This free virtual event is open to CHJ and the general public.
Non CHJ members: please register for link with adulted@HumanisticJews.
Save the date for Zoom Passover cooking with our own Chef Taegun.
RSVP beforehand to Rachel Albanese, for recipes and the joining link.
This event is open to CHJ members and nonmembers.
Facebook Activity
CHJ's Barbara Jay received the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy's Mitzvah Hero award today. Congrats Barbara from all of us at CHJ!
A true Mitzvah Hero! Richly deserving of this esteemed award.
Thank you, Barbara, for keeping us going this past year. "less involved"? I don't think so !
Congrats, Barbara! Lovely recognition!
We Love you Barbara and all you do!
My mitzvah shero!
Congratulations !
Mazel Tov, Barbara Jay!!!!
The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University is having several webinars this Spring that are free and open to the public. Check it out:
www.fairfield.edu/undergraduate/academics/centers/bennett-center-for-judaic-studies/lectures/inde...
Judaic Studies Lectures | Fairfield University
www.fairfield.edu
The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies hosts a variety of lectures and programs throughout the academic year.www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5b1NRDQnD8&feature=youtu.be&ct=t%28Y_COPY_01%29&ab_channel=StamfordJCC
Adam rocks!
