Monthly Shabbat Meetings

One Friday or Saturday evening a month, we offer either a Shabbat service (which includes humanistic, secular blessings over candles, challah and wine) and/or a cultural program of some kind. These include potluck dinners, discussions and guest speakers. Topics of discussions have included "Righting Wrongs", (focusing on war and justice in different national contexts); the origins of the Jewish Sabbath and its meaning to Humanistic Jews; an audio-visual overview of secular Jewish history; Jewish humor; new member orientations and more.

Note: For information on other holiday celebrations, please see our main holidays page.

Shabbat Dinner

Friday March 19, 2010, 6:00pm at Lifelong.

Kol Haverim is sponsoring a catered shabbat dinner with Binyamin Biber, Humanistic Rabbi at Machar in Washington, DC. Rabbi Biber will speak about "Naturalistic Spirituality." This is a catered dinner requiring reservations and will be held at Lifelong, 119 W. Court in Ithaca. Hope you can make it. (More information soon).

Free to members, there is a charge for non-members.