Congregation for Humanistic Judaism

Seaside Beach Cleanup
2024-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Coordinated by Kyla Reisberg, Mitzvah student.
Glove and bags will be provided.
Open to all CHJ members.

Shabbat Candle Lighting
2024-08-30 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-08-23 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-08-16 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-08-09 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-08-02 19:00 - 19:30
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.

Women to Women
2024-08-25 10:30 - 12:30, 2024-07-28 10:30 - 12:30, 2024-06-30 10:30 - 12:30
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 will be held at a member’s residence. Watch the listserv for the address.

Havdalah Pizza Party
2024-08-24 17:00 - 19:00
A Havdalah service will be performed before the pizza party.
For CHJ members only. RSVP skboyar@optonline.net

Board Meeting
2024-08-13 19:00
We will begin to work for next 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.

Book Club - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2024-08-10 10:30
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.
Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
Come join in on the discussion at a member’s residence. Watch the listserv for the exact address.

Jewish Earth Alliance
2024-08-08 08:00 - 17:00

Men's Rap
2024-08-04 09:30
Come and join us for kibbitzing and noshing.
Noshing starts at 9:30am.
Meeting at 10am.
RSVP –mitchtilk@gmail.com

Communal Shabbat
2024-07-26 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-07-19 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-07-12 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-07-05 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-06-28 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-06-21 19:00 - 19:30, 2024-06-14 19:00 - 19:30

Fight Climate Change - U.S.Rep.(D-MD), Jamie Raskin
2024-07-16 20:00
Fight Climate Change

U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on:
Why Every Voice Matters

Jewish Earth Alliance Network Briefing and
Virtual Lobby Day Preparation
Tuesday, July 16th
8:00 PMVisit Jewish Earth Alliance for all detailsRegister for July Network Briefing
Video recordings of the monthly Network Calls are available if you missed them. Check it out!
Jewish Earth Alliance Youtube Channel

Forum on Israel and Anti-Semitism
2024-07-14 10:30 - 12:00
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.

RSVP is requested so we can plan accordingly. Please email Loretta at lorettacjay@gmail.com.

Havdalah at the Beach
2024-07-13 18:00
Get ready to welcome summer at the beach with fellow members, friends and guests on Saturday July 13, 6 p m at the Compo Beach in Westport as usual.
Desserts, drinks and parking compliments of CHJ, bring your chairs and dinner.
Please RSVP No Later than Wednesday July 10 in order to plan for desserts and drinks.
RAIN DATE JULY 20

Ask for CHJ parking at the gate. See you there.

Book Club - The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
2024-07-13 10:30
It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. “Sinister and strangely alluring” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.
Come and join the discussion at a member’s residence. Watch the listserv for exact address.

Annual Meeting- Potluck/pool party
2024-06-23 12:30
All CHJ members are invited. Remember your pot luck luncheon dishes for Annual Membership Party and Meeting. CHJ will provide drinks and ice cream dessert
Our agenda will be shorter than usual, as Ruth has sent ahead the Minutes from last year’s annual meeting, Budget and Committee reports to read-ahead.
AGENDA:
1. Vote to approve minutes of meeting of June 12, 2023.
2. Vote to approve budget for 2024-2025
3. Vote to approve slate of nominees for officers.
(noting the “president problem”)
4. President’s report of year’s activities:
see written reports from each committee.
5. Appreciation of activities of members as volunteers
6. Other

Board Meeting
2024-06-11 19:00
Open to all CHJ members. Request the Zoom link from Ruth Light.
