
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Join us on Friday night as we light candles and welcome Shabbat with prayer and song. Let go of the week, breathe in the "extra soul" that Shabbat brings, and […]
Join us on Friday night as we light candles and welcome Shabbat with prayer and song. Let go of the week, breathe in the "extra soul" that Shabbat brings, and […]

Join CBI this summer for a potluck picnic with family-friendly activities on the lawn at 12:30pm and live music at 2:30pm featuring the BSO & Tanglewood Festival Chorus! Each person will need to purchase their own ticket in order to attend; lawn seats for this event are $46 per adult. Please RSVP by no later than Friday, August 22.
Join Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and Rabbi David Evan Markus of Congregation Shir Ami for this year's seven-week journey to the High Holy Days! Members of CBI & Shir Ami are able to attend for free; the cost of the full seven-week course for non-members is $120. Registration is required in order to receive the Zoom information.
Please note that we will not be holding regular Shabbat morning service at CBI this weekend.
Join Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and Rabbi David Evan Markus of Congregation Shir Ami for this year's seven-week journey to the High Holy Days! Members of CBI & Shir Ami are able to attend for free; the cost of the full seven-week course for non-members is $120. Registration is required in order to receive the Zoom information.
Join us on Friday night as we light candles and welcome Shabbat with prayer and song. Let go of the week, breathe in the "extra soul" that Shabbat brings, and let poetry and melody begin to replenish heart and soul.
Instrument players ages 7 and older who are able to follow musical notation or chords are invited to gather with their parents for our first rehearsal of CBI & Nefesh's High Holiday Band! Rehearsals will take place at a private home in Lanesborough, MA; for further details, please contact [email protected].
Join Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and Rabbi David Evan Markus of Congregation Shir Ami for this year's seven-week journey to the High Holy Days! Members of CBI & Shir Ami are able to attend for free; the cost of the full seven-week course for non-members is $120. Registration is required in order to receive the Zoom information.
Instrument players ages 7 and older who are able to follow musical notation or chords are invited to gather with their parents for our second rehearsal of CBI & Nefesh's High Holiday Band! Rehearsals will take place at a private home in Lanesborough, MA; for further details, please contact [email protected].
Please join us for our annual Selichot service, led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. All are welcome!
We invite you to our annual Service of Remembrance at the Beth Israel Cemetery (512 Walker Street in Clarksburg, MA). Whether or not your loved ones are buried in this […]
Our next meeting of the CBI Book Club, facilitated by Dr. Suzanne Levy Graver, Professor Emerita at Williams College, will take place over Zoom on Monday, September 15 at 7:30pm (EDT). We will discuss Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen. Chinese-American teenager Mona Chang moves with her newly prosperous family to posh Scarshill, New York in 1968, where she is suddenly thrust into a new social landscape and does her best to fit in – even if it means converting to Judaism.





