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Machar is the Washington, DC metro area affiliated congregation of the Society for Humanistic Judaism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.shj.org/communities/find-a-community/ )〕 Founded in 1977,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.machar.org/about/our-congregation/ )〕 the nontheistic congregation celebrates Jewish culture, education and celebrations. The congregation has a Jewish cultural school, social action committee, and regular newsletter, and welcomes interfaith couples. "Machar" (מחר) is the Hebrew word for "tomorrow."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#en/iw/tomorrow )〕 ==Congregation== Nehama Benmosche began serving as Machar’s rabbi in April 2014. Rabbi Benmosche graduated the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2010 and has served as a congregational rabbi at Am Haskalah in Bethlehem, PA and as a student rabbi at Kol HaNeshama in Sarasota, FL, West End Synagogue in New York, NY and Beth Israel in Woodbury, NJ. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.machar.org/about/staff-and-leadership/ )〕 Machar is an inclusive community of people of all backgrounds, ages, and gender orientation, including intercultural and interfaith couples. The Association of Humanistic Rabbis supports an individual's right to marry someone based on love and the quality of their relationship, and the rights of rabbis to officiate and co-officiate at wedding ceremonies of people from different backgrounds. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.humanisticrabbis.org/co-officiating-at-wedding-ceremonies/ )〕 Machar is a member of Jewish Outreach Institute’s Big Tent Judaism Coalition. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://joi.org/bigtent/?org=dc-macharthewashingtondccongregationforsecularhuma/ )〕 Machar supports the 2005 statement on Conversion (Adoption) of the Association of Humanistic Rabbis that says in part, “We, the members of the Association of Humanistic Rabbis, welcome all individuals into the Jewish people who desire to link their lives with the experience of the Jewish nation/family to identify with its historic memories and to participate in its culture and future.” 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.humanisticrabbis.org/conversion-adoption/ )〕 The congregation has several committees and groups, including: ranging from Social Action to Community Service to Jewish Religious Text Study.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.machar.org/community/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Machar, The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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