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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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Sep
28
Thu
7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Sep 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Book Club @ Zoom
NJHN’s Book Club is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM on Zoom (holidays excluded). For information on our book selections and full details, visit our ...
Oct
1
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7:00 pm NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
Oct 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Commitments (Zoom)
For our new Exploring Humanism program, starting on October 1, 2023, we’ll be exploring the Ten Commitments, a set of Humanist values and principles that promote a democratic world in which ...
Oct
17
Tue
7:00 pm NJHN Monthly Dinner
NJHN Monthly Dinner
Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Monthly Dinner @ Omega Diner & Cafe
We meet on the 3rd 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 ...
Oct
26
Thu
7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Oct 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Book Club @ Zoom
NJHN’s Book Club is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM on Zoom (holidays excluded). For information on our book selections and full details, visit our ...
Nov
5
Sun
7:00 pm NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
Nov 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Commitments (Zoom)
For our new Exploring Humanism program, starting on October 1, 2023, we’ll be exploring the Ten Commitments, a set of Humanist values and principles that promote a democratic world in which ...
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Freethought Quotes

  • “I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.”
    by Dan Barker, co-President of Freedom From Religion Foundation; co-Founder of The Clergy Project
    Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
  • “Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final - resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
    by Edward W. Said
  • “To be an African woman who walks away from believing is almost unheard of, and that is  precisely why I think it is so necessary to talk about it. I walked away in order to open a world  for my children that no one else in my family history had ever experienced before, and I couldn’t be more proud. I had introduced my children to church when they were younger, and I have spent the last two years explaining my reasons for walking away from religion, including my wish for them to grow up open-minded and nonjudgmental. I have explained how much I want them to grow up knowing that only they are responsible for their own actions, that they have the power to decide for themselves what they want out of life, that their fate is not up to
    some god.”
    by Ruth Marimo
    Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion
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