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Published on Friday, May 02, 2008
By Holly Andres
TARZANA - As a Humanistic Judaic congregation, Adat Chaverim is the only one of its kind in the Los Angeles area.
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, an ordained Reform Judaism rabbi, founded the Humanistic Judaism movement in 1963 at Birmingham Temple in a suburb of Detroit. Humanistic Jews believe that a supernatural being did not create Judaism and that an ethical Jewish lifestyle can be created through Jewish history and culture.
It was at an Adat Chaverim memorial service for Wine, who died in a car crash in Morocco in 2007, that Wendy Heimann-Nunes found a group of individuals with like-minded philosophies of Judaism.
"It blew me away. We weren't praying to God. It was all about the power of you but in the context of a Jewish environment. I felt so excited," said Heimann-Nunes, who had been searching online for a Jewish congregation. "I'm committed to my Jewish identity, but God isn't the focus
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