Sukkot
Sukkot this year is October 6-13. CJC will celebrate the holiday on Friday, October 10 at 6pm with Shabbat in the Sukkah in Half Moon Bay, a perfect place to come for a pilgrimage and harvest festival.
Read More »Passover
CJC’s 2025 Seder was on the second night of Passover (Sunday, April 13) at 5pm in Half Moon Bay.
CJC’s musical ensemble helped lead songs of remembrance and celebration During the seder, we retold the story of our enslaved ancestors who were freed from oppression and who then entered into a covenant of mutuality with the Divine and with one another in community. It took the Israelites forty years; we’re still finding our way. And yet we celebrate the fact that we are free to be on that journey, and free to renew the covenant which includes respect and reverence for all life. The seder was led by Rabbi Moshe and a host of volunteers, making it a joyous, musical, and fully participatory experience.
Read More »Happy Chanukah, 2024
In 2024, we celebrated Chanukah together on Friday evening, December 27. The party will begin with the lighting of the Chanukah and Shabbat candles, then there will be a Middle-Eastern dinner along with latkes and soufganiyot (jelly donuts), lively music, dreidel games, story time with Reb Moshe, and a latke-hamantash debate. Your kids will have […]
Read More »HMB Night of Lights Parade
Join Rabbi Moshe to celebrate Shabbat and march in Half Moon Bay’s Night of Lights Parade on Friday, December 6 at 5:30. We will conduct a brief service as we wait in position to march in the Night of Lights Parade in downtown Half Moon Bay! Don’t feel like marching in a parade? Join the […]
Read More »Halloween Party for Grownups
Presented by the Community Chavurah
Read More »Remembering our Yom Kippur observance
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Our community has been blessed over these past High Holy Days with a noticeable increase in engagement, connection, and synergy.
Read More »Rabbi Moshe’s Silver Soiree
SILVER SOIREE RECAP On Saturday, September 7th, 2024, CJC held its “Silver Soiree” fundraiser to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Rabbi Moshe’s ordination and his being awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity. There were about 90 members and friends of CJC in attendance. Philip Chapnick served as the emcee, inviting up city officials, community partners, […]
Read More »Meet J Street
On Monday, May 13, CJC’s Community Chavurah sponsored a presentation from J Street.
J Street organizes pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy Americans to promote US policies that embody our deeply held Jewish and democratic values and that help secure the State of Israel as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people. We believe that only a negotiated resolution agreed to by Israelis and Palestinians can meet the legitimate needs and national aspirations of both peoples.