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Happy Hanukkah!

For all those celebrating Hanukkah, we hope your days and nights are filled with warmth, light, and time spent with friends and family.

The Society for Humanistic Judaism has information about Hanukkah and offers Humanistic Ideals for Hanukkah Candle Lighting and a contemporary reading of the symbolism behind each candle, The Eight Lights of Hanukkah.

Published 11/28/21

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12:00 pm NJHN Summer Picnic at Duke Islan...
NJHN Summer Picnic at Duke Islan...
Aug 24 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
NJHN Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park, Bridgewater @ Duke Island Park
  We invite you to join us for our Summer Picnic on Sunday, August 24, 12-5 PM, at the Oak Grove Pavilion, Duke Island Park, Old York Road, Bridgewater. This ...
Aug
28
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7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Aug 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN’s Book Club is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM on Zoom (holidays excluded). To join (no registration), click this recurring link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81619245436?pwd=T1NoOXNGMms3VXZBRWR2aklRenJOUT09 For information ...
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9
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7:00 pm NJHN Monthly Dinner
NJHN Monthly Dinner
Sep 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Monthly Dinner @ Omega Diner & Cafe
We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Omega Diner in North Brunswick for dinner with fellow humanists and atheists. It’s pretty informal and newcomers are always ...
Sep
25
Thu
7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Sep 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN’s Book Club is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM on Zoom (holidays excluded). To join (no registration), click this recurring link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81619245436?pwd=T1NoOXNGMms3VXZBRWR2aklRenJOUT09 For information ...
Oct
14
Tue
7:00 pm NJHN Monthly Dinner
NJHN Monthly Dinner
Oct 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Monthly Dinner @ Omega Diner & Cafe
We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Omega Diner in North Brunswick for dinner with fellow humanists and atheists. It’s pretty informal and newcomers are always ...
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NJHN HumanLight Celebration 12/17/23
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Freethought Quotes

  • “I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me.”
    by C. JoyBell C
  • “Secularism teaches us to be good here and now. I know nothing better than goodness.
    Secularism teaches us to be just here and now. It is impossible to be juster than just...
    Secularism has no castles in Spain. It has no glorified fog. It depends on realities, upon demonstrations; and its end and aim is to make this world better every day - to do away with poverty and crime, and to cover the world with happy and contented homes.”
    by Robert Green Ingersoll
    Works, Volume 8
  • “Humanists don't simply disbelieve religious explanations; rather, we find that such explanations don't stand up to reasonable scientific scrutiny. When supernatural claims of transcendence such as assertions of rebirth or divine intervention are confronted with with scientific review, it's not only clear that the evidence doesn't support them, but that including such religiously rooted ideas in our understanding of the world requires living with severe cognitive dissonance or undoing much of what we've learned about how the world actually works.”
    by Roy Speckhardt
    Creating Change Through Humanism
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