Passover
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.
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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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