All members are welcome to attend. If you are not a board member, please let President Larry Lawrence know you wish to attend so that we may contact you in case of a sudden cancellation.

As part of HIAS’s National Refugee Shabbat, Machar’s Tikkun Olam Committee is sponsoring a Havdalah to mark the end of Shabbat at 6:00 pm on March 21, in the chapel at Cedar Lane UU Church (MAP). All Macharniks are invited to celebrate the roles of immigrants and refugees in our country and in Jewish history.…

COFFEE, JUICE, BAGELS AND SONG SOCIAL TIME 9:30 am JCS Session 10:00 – 11:30 am Tots - B Mitzvah classes Adult Ed 10:00 – 11:30 am

Log on with Rabbi Jeremy to learn a Jewish text relevant to the upcoming Passover holiday. This session will focus on selected parts of the traditional Passover Haggadah and explore whether/how they can be relevant to Secular Humanistic Jews today.

Learn — or refresh your memory! — about setting up and leading a Passover Seder. This session will cover the physical setup: how the Seder plate is set up, what goes on the Seder plate and why, and what else might be on the table.

Dear HuJews Conclave Participants,   In the wake of the cancellation of the 2020 HuJews Conclave, the SHJ HuJews Youth Council is excited to announce HuJews 2020 Cyber Conclave. The conclave will take place the same weekend that the in-person conclave was scheduled, with sessions on Friday March 27 and Saturday March 28, 2020.  …

Join Rabbi Jeremy for songs and stories with a Secular Humanistic Jewish twist, intended for families with children 10 years and younger — whether or not they’re Machar members!    

From now until at least the end of pandemic containment measures, we will have a “Texts on Tuesday” series. During our first session, we looked at specific parts of the Passover Haggadah and discussed how they affect our understanding of different parts of the Seder. This week’s session will take a look at the history…

During Part I, we talked about what appears on the Seder table, and we asked what might be the minimum we’d need to be able to have a Seder that at least felt like a Seder, whether alone or with family. This week, we’ll focus on the Haggadah and ask some of the same questions: How…

Each week is a challenge, and seven days of social distancing can make it hard to know what day it is! Shabbat gives us a built-in chance to think about how we might get some rest. Join Rabbi Jeremy a musical start to Shabbat, check in with the Machar community, and mark the start of…