Harvest Moon Sukkot Potluck 5787
2026-09-25 17:30 (America/New_York) | Congregation Beth Israel, 53 Lois Street, North Adams, MA, 01247, United States
Join us in the CBI sukkah as we welcome Shabbat and Sukkot together! We’ll begin by blessing challah, juice, and candles before enjoying a potluck feast. After the meal, there will be opportunities to bentsch lulav (bless and shake the lulav and etrog) and sing songs with other community members.
Please bring a vegetarian/dairy dish to share, as well as instruments if you play one suitable for a singalong. If possible, we’re requesting that ingredient lists are supplied for any home-cooked dishes in order to assist those in our community with food allergies/dietary restrictions — thank you.
Please RSVP in advance if you plan to attend. All ages and stages are welcome, including families with children.
Major financial support for this event has been provided by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation & Sally Gottesman, as well as funding from other private donors.

Shemini Atzeret 5787 with Yizkor
2026-10-03 09:30
☆ To join us IN-PERSON, please click on the blue “Going” button on this page to RSVP.
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Please join Rabbi Pam Wax for our annual Shemini Atzeret service, where we’ll share the prayers of the morning service, including the praise-songs of Hallel. We’ll also offer the Yizkor memorial prayers that we recite in memory of our dead four times a year (on Pesach, Shavuot, Yom Kippur, and Shemini Atzeret). All are welcome!
To submit names for this year’s Yizkor Memorial Book, please click here. (DEADLINE: Friday, September 11, 2026)
Those who wish to attend onsite must RSVP via our website. Service will still be available online for those who wish to participate on Zoom; those joining digitally are invited to purchase a digital copy of the siddur if you’d like to follow along.

Simchat Torah Musical Celebration 5787
2026-10-03 19:00
Join Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and CBI community musicians for a music-filled celebration of Simchat Torah (“Rejoicing in the Torah”), the culmination of our fall festival season! A short-and-sweet festival ma’ariv (evening service) will have as its centerpiece seven hakafot/circle dances with the Torah. We’ll also hear the very end of Torah followed by the very beginning of Torah, connecting the end of our sacred scroll with the new year’s new beginnings.
Please RSVP in advance if you plan to attend; this service will be held onsite only. All ages and stages are welcome, including families with children.
Major financial support for this event has been provided by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation & Sally Gottesman, as well as funding from other private donors.
