Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur

  10:30 a.m. Sunday School Session 11:00 a.m. Congregation Service & BYO Picnic Members’ Private Residence Redding, CT Sukkot, Hebrew word meaning “booths” or “huts,” refers to the Jewish festival of giving thanks for the fall harvest, as well as the commemoration of the forty years of Jewish wandering in the desert after Sinai. Sukkot... Read More

9:30 Nosh 10:00 Meeting All CHJ men are invited Please let George know if you will be coming so we have enough Bagels etc. The intention is to hold it outside, so please dress accordingly.

               Jewish Journeys Committee    Our first fall program on Sunday morning October 3rd at 9:30 AM via Zoom (link to be sent the week before) will be a slideshow talk on (in)famous author Isaac Bashevis Singer, presented by Dave Shafer.                ... Read More

Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world. In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive husband Fen, and Andrew... Read More

The 200 Days of Dread Following a Shabbat service, please join us for a journey into a little known part of WWII history that touched the Jewish Yishuv in British Palestine. The 200 days of dread was a period of 200 days in the history of the Yishuv in British Palestine, from the spring of... Read More

               Jewish Journeys Committee  Our next fall program Sunday morning October 24th at 9:30 AM via Zoom (link to be sent the week before) will be viewing and discussing Paul Golin’s talk on the 2020 Pew Report on Jews in America.   The Report identifies “Jews of No Religion”... Read More

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.

 In partnership with the Westport Library, CHJ invites you to hear the refugee and author, Mondiant Dogon, tell his story:  “Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds “ WHEN: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 7:00-8:00pm WHERE: This event is both virtual AND in-person at the Westport Library WHAT: Hear about life as a refugee from Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe... Read More

    Megha Majumdar’s excellent debut novel begins with a pile-on, the kind of digital public shaming… . A young Muslim woman named Jivan reads on her phone about a terrorist attack at a railway station near the slum in Kolkata where she lives. More than a hundred people were killed in the blaze. She... Read More

Save the Date: Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County Mitzvah Heroes Awards Each year the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County in conjunction with its member congregations honors one member from each congregation. The prestigious Mitzvah Hero award is given to those who embody the values of tikkun olam and are selected... Read More