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Our next Shabbat celebration on Friday, March 13 will be a Refugee Shabbat with Special Guest Rita Mancera, Executive Director of Puente de la Costa Sur. HIAS’ Eighth Annual Refugee Shabbat is a global initiative and an opportunity to celebrate the work being done with our partner organizations to educate and mobilize our community – especially […]
Read More »Coastside Jewish Community Book Club meets approximately once every two months at members’ homes. We read all kinds of books that are in some way related to Judaism, and generally ensure our books are available through a library. We usually get together in person, and make online access available if anyone tells us they need it. Quite importantly, we get together to enjoy each others’ company.
Sunday, March 1, 5pm – This year, our celebration will feature a new Purim Shpiel performed by CJC adults and children, followed by a potluck dinner at 6pm and a hamantaschen bake-off. Bring your own batch of hamantaschen and a panel of judges will award prizes to the winners. Purim actually begins on Monday evening, March 2, […]
Read More »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 »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 »Celebrate the birth of Torah!
Sunday, October 8 from 10am-noon in Half Moon Bay.
It will be like a birthday party for the Torah, complete with birthday cake and delicacies from local Israeli chef, Kobi Vardi!
Read More »By Annie Blair, June 2021
How does one go about buying a Torah? Think about that for a moment. Can you just go to Amazon.com? They have everything, right? Can you order a 3,500 year-old document, handwritten by a highly trained scribe on specifically prepared parchment? Would the Amazon truck actually deliver a package to your doorstep containing thousands of years of culture, history, and liturgy of the Jewish people?
Twenty-two years ago in June 1999, our young congregation asked the same question, “How do we go about buying a Torah?”. We couldn’t indefinitely borrow a Torah for High Holidays …..
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