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The WCHJ community is a warm, supportive meeting place for non-theistic Jews and their families. We celebrate and explore our Jewish identity through thoughtful, creative and questioning engagement with Jewish traditions, ethics and culture. Our members share a fundamental belief in the power of human reason and responsibility, rather than of supernatural authority. Members participate actively in creating our own Read more...

We are a secular Humanistic community serving those who identify with the Jewish people through family, culture and history, rather than through religion. Serving the Greater East Bay with holiday celebrations, opportunities to express your progressive social values, and education for children, adults and families. We are affiliated with the Cultural and Secular Jewish Organizations. Read more...

Machar’s Sunday school integrates Jewish history, culture, values, and practice into a developmentally appropriate curriculum at each grade level, from our “Tots” class for preschool-aged children through the B Mitzvah year. We also provide post-mitzvah aged teens an opportunity to play a leadership role by having them assist in Jewish Cultural School classrooms and helping to organize community service activities on behalf Read more...

Machar is a welcoming and diverse community founded on Humanistic ideals and dedicated to enhancing Jewish cultural identity. Our congregation believes that Judaism encompasses far more than an ancient religion. It is a complete and vibrant culture with a rich history, an evolving ethical outlook, languages, music, literature, and folk traditions. We see the Jewish people as an international family Read more...

Our motto, “Doing Jewish Differently,” applies to our long history of welcoming everyone. We want to celebrate Jewish life with our full and true selves in all our diversities. We embrace the reality of intercultural marriage by fully celebrating everyone’s life partner and their family. Children of intercultural families can be both Jewish and something else, rather than either/or. We actively welcome LGBTQIA+ Read more...

Rabbi Dr. Tzemah Yoreh, leader of The City Congregation, is one the intellectual leaders of Jewish humanism. He has been a student of the Bible since his earliest days, winning the Diaspora Division of the International Bible Contest in childhood. He attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he obtained his Ph.D. in biblical criticism in record time. He earned Read more...

With over 25 years of experience, I have been performing weddings, commitment services, and other life-cycle events in Metropolitan New York and on Long Island. If you are seeking an alternative to mainstream religious practice, if you would like to celebrate the milestones of your life in a way that is in keeping with your beliefs, then I can help you Read more...

Our youth education is called the Spinoza Program and it provides our young people with a positive and enriching Jewish cultural educational experience that will empower them to make choices about how to incorporate Jewish culture and heritage into their own lives, supplying them with the tools to make informed decisions about their Jewish identities. We also place an important emphasis on Read more...

Humanistic Judaism celebrates Jewish life while putting our faith in human reason and human power as the best vehicles for improving the world. ​Humanistic Judaism offers a connection to Jewish identity and community for people who identify as “just Jewish,” culturally Jewish, “Jew-ish,” “Jewish and . . .,” “half-Jewish,” multicultural, “not religious,” secular, humanistic, atheist and/or agnostic. ​Humanistic Judaism provides Read more...

Jack holds dual ordination. He is first a Madrikh/Vegvayzer, conferred by the International Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism where he also participated in rabbinic studies. Second, he holds rabbinic ordination by the Rabbinical Seminary International, a non-denominational seminary which is focused on preparing rabbis for the modern world.   Read more...