Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Tazria-Metzora!
Kabbalat Shabbat Services This Week Join us in the CBI Zoom room at 7:30pm on Friday evening for Kabbalat Shabbat services led by Rabbi Rachel! We’ll welcome Shabbat with song, poetry, and […]
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Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Shmini
Shabbat Services This Week Join us in the CBI Zoom room at 9:30am on Saturday morning for Shabbat morning services led by Rabbi Jarah. Torah Portion and Commentaries This week we’re reading from […]
Seder supplies
Dear all, I’m looking so forward to celebrating with you at our Second Night Community (Zoom) Seder. Like last year, our seder will be co-facilitated by me and by R. […]
Shabbat HaGadol: From Where We Are
A slide from Bayit’s Pesach offerings this year. Many of you have heard me say that on Shabbat HaGadol, the Shabbat before Pesach, it’s customary for the rabbi to give […]
On policing and recent news
Dear CBI community, The last year has been challenging in many ways. The global pandemic, of course, has impacted all of us in ways too numerous to list. We have […]
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat… and Pesach!
Shavua tov — and chodesh tov; a happy new month of Nissan to all. Passover is coming! Kabbalat Shabbat! Join us in the CBI Zoom room at 7pm on Friday evening […]
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Purim and Shabbat
Shavua tov! Thanks to all who joined us for our masked and costumed Purim Parade yesterday, and especially to our storyteller and family educator Jane Shiyah. That was our first […]
Perseverance and the portable ark
“וְעָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם׃ / Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell within them.” (Ex. 25:8 – in this week’s Torah portion, T’rumah.) The word […]
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Repro Shabbat and more
Join us in the CBI Zoom room at 9:30am on Saturday morning for Shabbat morning services led by Rabbi Rachel. This week has been designated as Reproductive Justice Shabbat by the National […]
I Will Sing
In this week’s Torah portion, Beshalach, we read the Song at the Sea. “I will sing to God…” Our commentators note that this verse is in future tense: not “I […]
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