This is a guest post by Marlene Cohen, SHJ Board Secretary and Chair of the Youth Education Committee. SHJ starts each board meeting with a board member reflecting on SHJ’s mission. Marlene started the August 20 Board Meeting with the […]
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This is a guest post by Rabbi Jessica Lenza, also known as @therebelrabbi, who lives in Manhattan and offers custom Jewish experiences and irreverent content for people all over the world. You could have easily mistaken the line winding to […]
Guest Author Rabbi Jeffrey L. Falick of Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit shares his insights and concerns about recent Supreme Court decision Kennedy v. Bremerton School District and the development of his awareness of separation of church and […]
[Excerpted from Natan Fuchs in “Here is Our Light: Humanistic Jewish Holiday and Life-Cycle Liturgy for Inspiration and Reflection,” pp. 53-54. For a printable PDF of this excerpt, please click here.] Those who come from a traditional Jewish background are […]
This is a guest post by Ronald Speelman of Lisbon, Portugal. We are happy to adopt him into the SHJ community and welcome him as a member of the Jewish people. His Hebrew name is Lior. Why become part of […]
This is a guest post by Rabbi Jeffrey Falick of the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit, founded in 1963 as the Birmingham Temple. Happy Sukkot! If there was ever a great example of bad holiday planning, it’s Sukkot. […]
This is a reflection from Greg Epstein who has been name the new chief Chaplain at Harvard. See article by Emma Goldberg at “The New York Times” August 26, 2021. Twenty-one years and a few weeks ago, I met a […]
Rabbi Jeffrey L. Falick describes how the first congregation for Humanistic Judaism received its new name. One of the core principles of Humanistic Judaism is that “we say what we mean and mean what we say.” That thinking is largely […]
This is a guest post by SHJ Board Member Libby Otto. To begin our meetings a Board Member is asked to reflect on SHJ’s mission statement. This is Libby’s reflection. I was raised by a former SHJ board member so […]
This is a guest post by SHJ member Kristen Koeblin who just adopted Judaism. Her Hebrew name is Tamar Jordana. This is her story. When I was 12, my family received our copy of The Book of Wikler. It is […]