Congregation for Humanistic Judaism

Havdalah at the Beach
2024-07-13 18:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Communal Shabbat
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
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
2024-06-30 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.

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.
