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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 Hashana and 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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Tu B’Shvat
Celebrating nature at the Tu B’Shvat seder is a joyous event filled with music and good food.
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We’re a Cooperative!
Members all play a role in making the congregation work. Read about how CHJ is organized.
Hanukkah
Lyrics, Latkes, & Light: A CHJ Hanukkah Potluck Dinner Party w/ musical performance by the Pasternak Duo Saturday, December 10, 2022 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Greenfield Hill Congregational Church Annex 1045 Old Academy Road, Fairfield, CT RSVP HERE Light the Menorah. Bring your family menorah and candles. Light the candles along with us as… Read More
Mitzvah Mentoring Program
Mitzvah Mentoring Program For over six decades, the CHJ’s bar and bat mitzvah program has offered highly meaningful opportunities for secular Jewish families to celebrate a traditional milestone in their children’s lives while remaining faithful to their humanistic beliefs and values. Uniquely tailored to the interests of the student and family, the mitzvah program allows… Read More
Invitation to Join
Humanistic Judaism offers contemporary Jews an alternative to theistic-based branches of Judaism. At the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism (CHJ), our services and programs embrace Jewish historical and cultural traditions and its ethical values as applicable to our secular humanistic worldview. In our services, and especially on the High Holidays, we celebrate our Jewish identity while… Read More
Letter from the President
Thank you, all CHJ members, for giving me the opportunity to serve as your President. I promise to do my very best to meet your needs. Also, thank you, CHJ’ers, for enriching my life, and for your friendship in difficult times over the past >17 years. CHJ has given me the opportunity to celebrate being Jewish, to enjoy being Jewish, to share being Jewish, to learn more about being Jewish, and to support social/environmental goals. There are as many ways to do these things as there are members of CHJ.
Celebrate, Enjoy, Share, Learn, and Act!
Under the guidance of Steve Getz who is now Immediate Past President, the CHJ Board held special extra meetings over the last year to work on a project Steve called “Envisioning CHJ.” This initiative was successful in many ways. It reconfirmed our commitment to the goals in the bylaws. It achieved the financial review required by the bylaws. It enabled us to update our insurance contract. And it will be ongoing, because it generated a list of multiple ways in which we can act to make sure CHJ can thrive in the future. Among other ideas that have now been implemented is the renewed commitment to the B’nai Mitzvah program. We also had not one but two Havdalahs on the beach last summer. Friday evening programming and Sunday morning Jewish Journeys continue. I am convinced that the more that we enjoy what we do in CHJ, the stronger CHJ will be. Read More
Upcoming Events
Camille Pissarro
Impressionist, Converso, Mensch
with Lewis Eisenberg
Born in the Danish Virgin Islands into a family of merchants from the Iberian Peninsula, Camille Pissarro was a Founding artist of French Impressionism. Although his paintings are in museums all over the world, his story is little known.
OPEN TO ALL CHJ MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 9:30 – 11:30 AM
Zoom link will be sent before the event
More info: jewishjourneys@humanisticjews.org
Presented by CHJ’s Jewish Journeys Committee
Listen, Learn, Explore!
All CHJ members are invited to join a discussion of The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura via Zoom.
. Please let Irene Blumenthal know if you plan to attend..
Children “Shopping” at Last Year’s Community Center Holiday Store
You’re invited to a CHJ Hanukkah party
Open to all CHJ members and guests
(All attendees must be vaccinated).
Remember to bring:
A menorah, a potluck dish, and a new unwrapped gift to donate to underprivileged children.We’ll be collecting new, unwrapped gifts to donate to a community center in Bridgeport that stocks a “store” where children “shop” for gifts for their family (donations requested for gifts for men, women, children).
Pot luck dinner request: Attendees with last names starting with A-M will bring main dishes, and N-Z bring hearty salads, appetizers or side dishes
Thanks to those of you who have already RSVP’d to the Hanukkah Potluck Dinner party (December 10th from 4:00 – 7:00), and for those who haven’t yet, please do so by November 28th @ this link: https://forms.gle/
All CHJ members are invited to attend. Please RSVP Ruth Light to request Zoom link.
Join Women’s Rap vis Zoom, to stay connected at a distance. All CHJ women members are welcome. It’s a great way to get to know each other.
The Zoom link will be sent just prior to the meeting date.If you plan to attend please RSVP Roberta Frank.
The Lost Treasures of the First Temple
Slideshow Presentation by Dave Shafer
Only Scrooge McDuck had more treasure than King Solomon, 3,000
years ago. Solomon, son of King David, assembled vast amounts of
gold to create the amazing and historically renowned First Temple.
A huge solid gold menorah, the Ark of the Covenant, the 18 feet wide
Molten Sea basin, and other signs of immense wealth were all
spirited away to Babylon 500 years later when the temple was sacked
and destroyed.
Or were they? Who designed and built the temple? What was in it?
Where was the very surprising source of all that gold? Might
Solomon’s treasure still exist somewhere?
All will be revealed at Dave Shafer’s slideshow
Open to all CHJ members and friends
* Zoom link will be sent in advance
* For more info: jewishjourneys@humanisticjews.org
9:30am Schmooze
10:00am Meeting
All CHJ men are invited.
Facebook Activity
Join us virtually this Tuesday evening for our Kol Nidre service!
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This year, we will once again offer virtual High Holiday services.CHJ celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with contemplative services incorporating elements of Jewish tradition that are consistent with our humanistic perspective. Our services are open to all and free of charge, and will be shown...I hope the sound quality will be better than lady week. I couldn't hear the speakers.
Please tell me how to join you virtually? I have registered but I don't know where online to find the service.
Yom Kippur is a sabbath where 25 hors of fasting take place.
High Holidays 2022
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This year, we will once again offer virtual High Holiday services.CHJ celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with contemplative services incorporating elements of Jewish tradition that are consistent with our humanistic perspective. Our services are open to all and free of charge, and will be shown...CHJ’s 2022 High Holidays Livestream
CHJ’s 2022 High Holidays Livestream
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Sun Sep 25 2022 at 07:30 pm, We are pleased this year to offer our High Holiday services on livestream. CHJ celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with contemplative services incorporating elements of Jewish tradition that are consistent with our humanistic perspective. Our servi
