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  • Wine & Cheese Tu BiShvat Seder: New Year of the Trees 5786 / 2026
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    Wine & Cheese Tu BiShvat Seder

    Congregation Beth Israel 53 Lois Street, North Adams, MA, United States

    Join Rabbi Rachel and the CBI community for a special wine-and-cheese tasting aligned with the four seasons, the Four Worlds of Jewish mysticism, and the journey through the spiritual year that is central to Tu BiShvat! We’ll bless and taste four wines (or juices) and cheeses alongside the customary tree fruits and nuts, celebrating the sap rising outside and the spiritual energies of spring’s renewal rising within us. $18 per adult; please register by no later than Monday, January 26.

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  • Clipart of a loaf of challah on a laptop screen.
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    First Friday Shabbat Zoom Gathering

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    Please join us for our monthly gathering around the Virtual Shabbat Table! We will gather together to share community and conversation as we celebrate the Jewish traditions of Shabbat, light the candles, and bless the wine and challah. Stay connected with CBI friends and neighbors, or meet new ones, as we enjoy the joys of fellowship and comfort of camaraderie.

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  • Rabbi and Torah

    Shabbat Morning Service

    Congregation Beth Israel 53 Lois Street, North Adams, MA, United States

    Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular views from our sanctuary, which connect us with the natural world and with our Source.

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  • Soul Spa with Congregation Beth Israel & Congregation Shir Ami
    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    Join us for our new Shabbat morning Zoom Torah study every Saturday! Jointly led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (CBI) and by Rabbi David Markus (Congregation Shir Ami), we’ll be exploring the weekly parsha through the lens of women’s commentaries and midrash. If anyone is observing a yahrzeit and needs to say kaddish, we'll close with Mourner's Kaddish. All sessions will be held online in Shir Ami's Zoom room and archived on Shir Ami's website.

  • Rabbi and Torah

    Shabbat Morning Service

    Congregation Beth Israel 53 Lois Street, North Adams, MA, United States

    Join us on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat with prayer, song, and poetry. We'll hear some words of Torah (and some words about Torah) as we bask in Shabbat's sweetness. Our spiritual tools include traditional liturgy, contemporary poetry, chant, and song… as well as the spectacular views from our sanctuary, which connect us with the natural world and with our Source.

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  • Soul Spa with Congregation Beth Israel & Congregation Shir Ami
    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    Join us for our new Shabbat morning Zoom Torah study every Saturday! Jointly led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (CBI) and by Rabbi David Markus (Congregation Shir Ami), we’ll be exploring the weekly parsha through the lens of women’s commentaries and midrash. If anyone is observing a yahrzeit and needs to say kaddish, we'll close with Mourner's Kaddish. All sessions will be held online in Shir Ami's Zoom room and archived on Shir Ami's website.

  • The Photographer at Sixteen The Death and Life of a Fighter by George Szirtes
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    CBI Book Club

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    The CBI Book Club will meet over Zoom to discuss The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter by George Szirtes. The Photographer at Sixteen is a poet’s memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history – a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey. Those who plan on joining us should RSVP via our website; Zoom information will be sent to all who RSVP once the date gets closer.

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  • Rabbi Barenblat leading services

    Kabbalat Shabbat Service

    Congregation Beth Israel 53 Lois Street, North Adams, MA, United States

    All are welcome as we celebrate Shabbat together with prayer, song, poetry, and heart. Some weeks the CBI choir and musicians will join Rabbi Rachel in leading prayer. Expect music, poetry, Torah teaching, and an opportunity to ritually let go of the week as we move together into sacred time.

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  • Soul Spa with Congregation Beth Israel & Congregation Shir Ami
    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    Join us for our new Shabbat morning Zoom Torah study every Saturday! Jointly led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (CBI) and by Rabbi David Markus (Congregation Shir Ami), we’ll be exploring the weekly parsha through the lens of women’s commentaries and midrash. If anyone is observing a yahrzeit and needs to say kaddish, we'll close with Mourner's Kaddish. All sessions will be held online in Shir Ami's Zoom room and archived on Shir Ami's website.

  • Decorated hamentaschen for Purim
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    Bake & Deliver Hamantaschen

    Bring Purim joy to homebound seniors and community members by baking fresh Hamantaschen and delivering misloach manot packages! This event will be held offsite in Bennington, VT.

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  • Soul Spa with Congregation Beth Israel & Congregation Shir Ami
    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Soul Spa | Zoom Torah Study

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    Join us for our new Shabbat morning Zoom Torah study every Saturday! Jointly led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (CBI) and by Rabbi David Markus (Congregation Shir Ami), we’ll be exploring the weekly parsha through the lens of women’s commentaries and midrash. If anyone is observing a yahrzeit and needs to say kaddish, we'll close with Mourner's Kaddish. All sessions will be held online in Shir Ami's Zoom room and archived on Shir Ami's website.

  • Why Don’t We Talk About Chapter 9? Pre-Purim Megillat Esther Discussion
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    Pre-Purim Discussion: Why Don’t We Talk About Chapter Nine?

    Congregation Beth Israel 53 Lois Street, North Adams, MA, United States

    When we think of Purim we may think of Esther and Mordechai, court intrigue, and graggers drowning out the name of the wicked Haman. But most liberal communities (including ours) rarely read or retell the penultimate chapter of the megillah. Join Rabbi Rachel for a text study of that final chapter alongside some of our tradition’s commentaries as we delve into the deep spiritual question of what this text can teach us and how we choose to relate to it today.

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