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. […]
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 […]
This is a guest post by Rabbi Jeffrey Falick of the Birmingham Temple, Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, the first congregation for Humanistic Judaism, in Metropolitan Detroit. This morning I made one of my very rare visits to Facebook to wish […]
This is a statement adopted by the Association of Humanistic Rabbis in September 2018. Background From the time of its founding, Secular Humanistic Judaism has demonstrated an openness to societal change. This has included calls for the freedom, equality, and […]
This is a guest post by Victoria Ratnaswamy, a member of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation and Vice President of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, shared at the April 2021 Board Meeting. The Society for Humanistic Judaism Mission Statement approved by […]
THE UNWRITTEN EULOGY This is a guest post by Jodi Kornfeld, Rabbi of Beth Chaverim Humanistic Jewish Community in Deerfield, Illinois. The Unwritten Eulogy was first presented at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism’s end of the year 2020 […]
This is a guest post by Jeffrey L. Falick, Rabbi of the Birmingham Temple Congregation for Humanistic Judaism in Metro Detroit, Michigan. (March 2 is Theodor Geisel’s birthday.) Last year at just about this time I was preparing a Friday […]
This is a guest post by Francis Erdman. Francis is a member of SHJ and a software/blockchain professional based on Cape Cod, MA. He is a cat person and, as a life-long Red Sox fan, still holds that the greatest […]