Providing an inclusive community that supports connection to Jewish life, both cultural and spiritual, on the coast from Pacifica to Pescadero.
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Our next Shabbat observance will be on Friday, November 15, 6pm: Family Shabbat in Montara. Shabbat services with Rabbi Moshe will be held monthly at 6pm, often followed by a potluck dinner. Most services are held in-person with online access available. Additionally, some months will have an additional, family oriented service, also beginning at 6pm and […]
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 schmooze, we nosh, we even discuss the book we all read! Most importantly, we get together to enjoy each others’ company. Participants must be members of Coastside Jewish Community.
Wednesday, January 29, 7pm: The next book for will be One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World, by Michael Frank. If interested, contact Vaughn for details.
Read More »Meet the BZBs (Bubbies, Zadies, and Bubbelehs)
The BZBs is an intergenerational club designed to create connections amongst CJC members who wouldn’t ordinarily meet up much. Members are families with children and older folk who may or may not have grandchildren of their own, and anyone else who’d like to make some new friends. In other words, EVERYONE! We’ll have social get-togethers at peoples’ homes, parks, CJC events, and anyplace that has activities to entertain the bubbelehs.
Read More »PASSOVER BEGINS SOON. GET READY FOR ANOTHER GREAT SEDER! This year’s CJC Seder will be on the second night of Passover (Tuesday, April 23) in Half Moon Bay.
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 »Our community Sukkot celebration was held on Sunday, October 1, from 4-7pm. Sukkot provides a great opportunity for all members of our community – old, young, and everyone in between – to gather, participate in one of the oldest rituals in Judaism, eat, play & have fun. Starting at 4, we’ll decorate the sukkah. Bring […]
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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