Passover
PASSOVER BEGINS SOON. GET READY FOR ANOTHER GREAT SEDER! This year’s CJC Seder will be on the second night of Passover (Sunday, April 13) in Half Moon Bay. Stay tuned for details.
Read More »Shabbat
Our next Kabbalat Shabbat celebration will be on Friday, April 4 at 6pm, followed by a potluck dinner.
Read More »Book Club
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, April 2, 7pm: The Wind Knows My Name, by Isabel Allende. For more information, email Vaughn.
Read More »The BZBs (Bubbies, Zadies, and Bubbelehs)
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 »Simchat Torah
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 »Sukkot
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 »Coastside Jewish Community Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Receiving Our Torah
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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