December 18 – Hanukkah as the Festival of Lights – Devin Shmueli

What does it mean to celebrate the light by bringing light into our lives and centering love in the darkness? American Rabbi and Jewish Scholar, Irving Greenberg, is quoted as saying: “The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.” 

Committal of Ashes for Barbara Krause

Immediately after worship on December 18th, Glenn Palmer invites members who knew Barbara to join in a brief service for the committal of her ashes in our memorial wall.