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Secular Jews celebrate Shavuot, the minor, ancient festival that marked the spring harvest, with picnics, and by honoring educational achievements.

Rosh Hashana enables secular Jews to reflect on their actions over the preceding year and to resolve to improve their conduct. The symbol of the shofar connects us inextricably with our past.

Yom Kippur embodies the basic tenet of humanism that we as human beings are responsible for our own destinies; that if we repent when we err, we can be forgiven and commit to a better future.

The harvest festival teaches cultural Jews to live in harmony with the environment and to appreciate life and its many seasons

For secular Jews, Chanukah celebrates the victory of human achievement and freedom from oppression. The holiday gives us the liberty and the responsibility to tell the real story of Chanukah, and to differentiate between history and legend.

To purchase a copy of The Liberated Haggadah, click here. For cultural Jews, the Passover seder is a lesson in the importance of freedom for everyone, and the awareness of social problems that still plague the world today

Cultural Jews can celebrate Shabbat, traditionally a day of rest, by choosing to make the day a time of renewal.

A Havdalah service created by Rabbi Binyamin Biber for the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews, San Francisco, 2004

The secular and cultural baby naming ceremony marks your child's membership in the Jewish community and recognizes the child's individuality.

The Bar/Bat Mitzvah is a time for Jewish youth to assume greater responsibility in their community and in their own lives.

A ceremony to honor those who have completed a program of college or university study

A cultural Jewish marriage ceremony is a friendship of equality in which reproduction is an option. The wedding is based on personal values, and includes those aspects of the traditional Jewish ceremony that are meaningful to the couple and consistent with humanistic values of equality and dignity.

Cultural Jews celebrate the life of the deceased, stress the importance of honoring the needs of the living, and affirm the immortality of memory.

A service of memorial

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