This is a guest post by Judi Gladstone, founder of the Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound. The year 2020 has provided many heartbreaks and responses to them, specifically the Black Lives Matter movement. It is incumbent upon us all […]
This post created with permission and thanks to The City Congregation in New York CHANUKAH BLESSINGS for a Secular Humanistic Chanukah Celebration (Sung to the traditional melody for lighting the candles) Blessing One Ba-ruch ha-or ba-oh-lahm Ba-ruch […]
This article was published in the Fall 2020 Issue of Humanistic Judaism Magazine. It was written by Rabbi Adam Chalom, rabbi of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in Deerfield, IL and the dean of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (IISHJ). […]
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SHJ members and donors received a glossy printed version of our 2020 Hanukkah handout in the mail, “Humanistic Ideals for Hanukkah Candle Lighting,” and we are sharing with everyone the electronic copy [PDF] for printout here. We hope you will […]
The below original Humanistic Judaism liturgy was written by Stan Eichner, a member of Kahal B’raira Boston Congregation for Humanistic Judaism who also serves on its liturgy committee. It was first recited during a Sunday service before Thanksgiving 2020, in […]
This is a reprint of an article written by Rabbi Jeffrey Falick entitled, “History Lessons” first published in Humanistic Judaism Magazine, Winter 2017. Rabbi Falick is the rabbi of the Birmingham Temple, Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Farmington Hills, Michigan. […]
This is a guest post by Rabbi Jeffrey Falick of The Birmingham Temple Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Farmington Hills, Michigan. With the Thanksgiving-Chrismukkah season upon us and very few safe activities to occupy us, it’s time to turn to […]
This is a guest post by Bill Parsons. Each semi-annual meeting of the Society for Humanistic Judaism (SHJ) Board of Directors begins with one director reading the organization’s mission statement and providing a personal commentary on it. Below are the […]
This past Saturday evening, November 7, 2020, I sat with my family watching TV as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered her victory speech. It was the most electrifying moment one could possibly have in the den of a Staten Island […]