THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED These groups are organized by Loretta Jay, Michelle Tomarkin and Jessica Wolf for CHJ members to have a safe place to talk about Israel, anti-Semitism and other related topics and how we are affected. George Rockmore has volunteered to serve as a back-up facilitator. See listserv for venue. RSVP  forum@humanistcjews.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.

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. We are looking for a host. If no host volunteers it will be on Zoom. 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.    

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.

  Due to conflicts on the CHJ calendar this meeting is on the next to last Sunday of the month.   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. We are looking for a host. If no Continue Reading »

After lighting of the sabbath candles, members will talk about their past seder memories. Watch the listserv for the Zoom link.

For more information and tickets click jewishfestivaloffairfieldcounty.com Let’s join together to show our solidarity with the Jewish people and support of Israel.  Am Yisrael Chai!  

These groups are organized by Loretta Jay, Michelle Tomarkin and Jessica Wolf for CHJ members to have a safe place to talk about Israel, anti-Semitism and other related topics and how we are affected. George Rockmore has volunteered to serve as a back-up facilitator. See listserv for venue. RSVP  forum@humanistcjews.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.    

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.    

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.

Long-term member, Ellie Shafer, passed away peacefully at home on April 5th. A visitation and memorial service will be held on May 18th in Fairfield from 10AM to Noon. The Congregation wishes to express our extreme sadness at her passing and convey our condolences to her family for her loss. May her memory be a 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.

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 and join us for kibbitzing and noshing. Noshing starts at 9:30am. Meeting at 10am. RSVP - danapreis@gmail.com Watch the liserserv for venue.    

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.

All CHJ members are invited to discuss Trust by Hernan Diaz at a member's residence. See listserv for address There are four sections to “Trust,” a novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author Hernan Diaz. The first is a novel itself, a fictionalized life of a legendary and enormously successful 1920’s financier in New York City and Continue Reading »

Join us for a discussion of Table for Two by Amor Towles. The author writes of this book: Table for Two includes six short stories and a novella which I wrote in the last ten years. The six stories, all set in New York, mostly take place around the turn of the Millennium. So, unlike 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.

Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday June 21, 6:30 p m at the Compo Beach in Westport as usual. 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 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. RSVP: rcfnpl2@gmail.com    

These groups are organized by Loretta Jay, Michelle Tomarkin and Jessica Wolf for CHJ members to have a safe place to talk about Israel, anti-Semitism and other related topics and how we are affected. George Rockmore has volunteered to serve as a back-up facilitator. See listserv for venue. RSVP  forum@humanistcjews.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.    

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.    

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.

Join a discussion of  Table for Two by Amor Towles Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 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.

Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday July 26, 6:00 p m. at the Sherwood Island State Park. Parking is free for CT residents as long as your car has a CT license plate. We will meet at the Pavilion. We ask those coming from out of state Continue Reading »

  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. RSVP: rcfnpl2@gmail.com    

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.

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love. Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American Continue Reading »

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.    

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.

Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday August 23, 6:00 p m. at the Sherwood Island State Park. Parking is free for CT residents as long as you car has CT license plate We will meet at the Pavillion. We ask those coming from out of state to Continue Reading »

Come and join us for kibbitzing and noshing. Noshing starts at 9:30am. Meeting at 10am. RSVP - george.unser@gmail.com Watch the liserserv for venue.    

Come and join us for kibbitzing and noshing. Noshing starts at 9:30am. Meeting at 10am. RSVP -manny67258@gmail.com Watch the liserserv for venue.    

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.

  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. RSVP: rcfnpl2@gmail.com    

These groups are organized by Loretta Jay, Michelle Tomarkin and Jessica Wolf for CHJ members to have a safe place to talk about Israel, anti-Semitism and other related topics and how we are affected. George Rockmore has volunteered to serve as a back-up facilitator. See listserv for venue. RSVP  forum@humanistcjews.org.

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.    

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.

Bid Shabbat farewell at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday Sept.13, 5:00 p m. at the Sherwood Island State Park. Parking is free for CT residents as long as you car has CT license plate We will meet at the Pavillion. We ask those coming from out of state to contact 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.

We are pleased to present our 2025 Rosh Hashanah services in person to our members, their families and guests. We will also be live-streaming the services to members and non-members who wish to join us virtually. As always, our services are free of charge. CHJ celebrates Rosh Hashanah  with contemplative services incorporating music, readings, and Continue Reading »

We invite our members to join us on the first day of Rosh Hashanah for a Taschlich ceremony, in which we symbolically cast off our bad actions and thoughts.

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 are pleased to present our 2025  Yom Kippur service in person to our members, their families and guests. We will also be live-streaming the service to members and non-members who wish to join us virtually. As always, our services are free of charge. CHJ celebrate Yom Kippur with contemplative services incorporating music, readings, and Continue Reading »

Members' Workshop via Zoom. Topic TBD  @ 1:00pm Meditation via Zoom @ 2:30pm Memorial/ Closing Service @ 5:00p Members will receive links to the live-stream service through the Listserv.  Non-members who wish to view our services virtually are asked to please register in advance by clicking here and going to the bottom of the webpage.To follow 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.

We will be presenting the little known, yet fascinating topic of Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean. Manny Ratafia will introduce the presentation, and then we will show two short videos, followed by time for questions after each video. This program was inspired by a book about Jewish pirates (recommended by Manny) that our CHJ book 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.

These groups are organized by Loretta Jay, Michelle Tomarkin and Jessica Wolf for CHJ members to have a safe place to talk about Israel, anti-Semitism and other related topics and how we are affected. George Rockmore has volunteered to serve as a back-up facilitator. See listserv for venue. RSVP  forum@humanistcjews.org.

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.    

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.

9:30 kibbutzing 10 Meeting RSVP lbwtz35@gmail.com Watch the listserv for the venue.

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.

PROGRAM TBA Watch the listserv for the Zoom link.

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.

  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. This month the meeting will be held on Zoom Please watch the listserv for the link. RSVP: rcfnpl2@gmail.com    

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.    

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.