Shabbat Candle Lighting
Zoom opens at 6:30pm just to kibbutz. At 7pm we light candles with a short service. We listen to music and short lectures. Watch for the Zoom link on the listserv Friday afternoon.
Zoom opens at 6:30pm just to kibbutz. At 7pm we light candles with a short service. We listen to music and short lectures. Watch for the Zoom link on the listserv Friday afternoon.
Study diligenty and prepare yourself to enlighten everybody. The Zoom link will come via the listserv.
9:30 kibbutzing 10 Meeting RSVP danapreis@gmail.com Watch the listserv for the venue.
“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, Continue Reading »
Zoom opens at 6:30pm just to kibbutz. At 7pm we light candles with a short service. We listen to music and short lectures. Watch for the Zoom link on the listserv Friday afternoon.
Come join other CHJ women to talk about a topic to be chosen at the meeting. It's a great way to get to know one another. Venue to be advised. Please watch the listserv . RSVP:womensrap@humanisticjews.org
Zoom opens at 6:30pm just to kibbutz. At 7pm we light candles with a short service. We listen to music and short lectures. Watch for the Zoom link on the listserv Friday afternoon.
We will begin work on the year's programs and any activities of specific interest. Please send me subjects of interest you wish the Board to consider in order to prepare the agenda. Open to all CHJ members. Request the Zoom link from Previn Patel.
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is a 2025 debut epistolary novel that tells the life story of Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies, through her letters and emails. The book explores themes of aging, forgiveness, and memory as Sybil writes to friends, family, and even strangers, while confronting a painful event from Continue Reading »
Zoom opens at 6:30pm just to kibbutz. At 7pm we light candles with a short service. We listen to music and short lectures. Watch for the Zoom link on the listserv Friday afternoon.
Zoom opens at 6:30pm just to kibbutz. At 7pm we light candles with a short service. We listen to music and short lectures. Watch for the Zoom link on the listserv Friday afternoon.
Sherwood Island State Park, Westport Saturday, June 27th at 6:30 PM OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Bid Shabbat farewell with fellow CHJ members, friends and guests Meet at the Pavilion We ask those with out of state licenses to contact local residents and CHJ members to arrange car pooling to avoid the parking fee Desserts and drinks Continue Reading »
9:30 kibbutzing 10 Meeting RSVP mensrap@humansticjews.org Watch the listserv for the venue.
Come join other CHJ women to talk about a topic to be chosen at the meeting. It's a great way to get to know one another. Venue to be advised. Please watch the listserv . RSVP:womensrap@humanisticjews.org
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains Continue Reading »
Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday, July 18, 6:00 p m at the Sherwood Island Park in Westport. Desserts, drinks and parking compliments of CHJ, bring your chairs and dinner. Please RSVP programming@humanisticjews.org in order to plan for desserts and drinks. Ask for CHJ parking at the Continue Reading »
Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday, July 25, 6:00 p m at the Sherwood Island Park in Westport. Desserts, drinks and parking compliments of CHJ, bring your chairs and dinner. Please RSVP programming@humanisticjews.org in order to plan for desserts and drinks. Ask for CHJ parking at the Continue Reading »
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book...Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, Continue Reading »
Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday, August 15, 6:00 p m at the Sherwood Island Park in Westport. Desserts, drinks and parking compliments of CHJ, bring your chairs and dinner. Please RSVP programming@humanisticjews.org in order to plan for desserts and drinks. Ask for CHJ parking at the Continue Reading »
Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday, August 22, 6:00 p m at the Sherwood Island Park in Westport. Desserts, drinks and parking compliments of CHJ, bring your chairs and dinner. Please RSVP programming@humanisticjews.org in order to plan for desserts and drinks. Ask for CHJ parking at the Continue Reading »