Newsletters
February 2020
A Community of Friends February 2020 President's Message Dear Members of Kahal Chaverim, I hope today finds you happy and healthy! As you may know, we recently met for our annual Midyear Meeting. Although we had several difficult topics to discuss, it is my sincere...
October 2019
October 2019 President's Message I hope everyone had a fantastic Rosh Hashanah! Rob, I truly appreciated both your services. Also, I would like to thank everyone who brought food and drinks, helped out with set up, breakdown, serving, and clean up on both days. In...
November 2019
President's Message This year marks our 20th Anniversary. On Saturday, October 19, many of us came together to celebrate this momentous achievement. I thought I would share my opening remarks from that evening here, to reiterate my feelings about the magnitude of the...
News
Finding Humanistic Judaism
Finding Humanistic Judaism by Rick Pascal What does being Jewish mean to me? I was born into a Jewish family. My grandparents were Jewish and so were theirs. I am Jewish by default, labeled by society as a Jew. Do I practice Judaism the same way that my ancestors...
Joining Kahal Chaverim
I was raised as a Conservative Jew, had a Bat Mitzvah at 13, participated in United Synagogue Youth (USY) in high school, and attended Chabad during college. When I married my husband, who was an atheist, he was comfortable with us being married by a Rabbi as he felt...
SCHOOL CHOICE AND SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
SCHOOL CHOICE AND SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue – a case that may have major implications for the free exercise of religion and the future of school choice and public education....
How ‘One Nation’ Didn’t Become ‘Under God’ Until The ’50s Religious Revival
The words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and the phrase "In God we trust" on the back of a dollar bill haven't been there as long as most Americans might think. Those references were inserted in the 1950s during the Eisenhower administration, the same decade...
As humanistic Jews we live by the idea of helping others,
Yom Kippur is typically a time of remembrance, humility, and most of all atonement. As humanistic Jews we live by the idea of helping others, doing right by others, protecting others, which of course begs the question: What could we possibly have to atone for? ...
Aiding Moroccan Orphans
This Bat Mitzvah student educated her friends and their families regarding the hardships and needs of Moroccan orphans and unwed mothers and their children. Through email campaigns, she collected toothbrushes, toothpaste, school supplies, clothing, scanning...
