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  • Sat 13
    Children and adults playing music together outside.
    Featured September 13, 2025 Days of Awe 5786

    High Holiday Band & Havdalah | Session 2

    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].

    Free
  • Sat 13
    Selichot "Forgiveness"
    Featured September 13, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Days of Awe 5786

    Selichot (“Forgiveness”) Service

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

    Please join us for our annual Selichot service, led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. All are welcome!

    Free
  • Sun 14
    The Beth Israel Cemetery gate.
    Featured September 14, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Days of Awe 5786

    Service of Remembrance at the Beth Israel Cemetery

    Beth Israel Cemetery 512 Walker Street, Clarksburg, MA, United States

    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 cemetery, please join us for a short outdoor mincha (afternoon) service with opportunities for reflective prayer and memory. Please bring your own folding / camp […]

    Free
  • Mon 15
    Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
    Featured September 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    CBI Book Club | NEW DATE!

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    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.

    Free
  • Tue 16
    Runway to the High Holy Days 5786: "The Seven Habits of Highly Evolved People" with Rabbi Rachel Barenblat & Rabbi David Evan Markus. Seven Tuesdays at 7pm over Zoom beginning August 5. Free for members of Congregation Beth Israel & Congregation Shir Ami; $120 for non-members.
    Featured September 16, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Runway to the High Holy Days 5786

    Runway to the High Holy Days 5786: Seven Habits of Highly Evolved People

    Virtual Event (Zoom)

    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.

  • Sat 20
    Children and adults playing music together outside.
    Featured September 20, 2025 Days of Awe 5786

    High Holiday Band & Havdalah | Session 3

    Calling all musical children and parents! Children of all musical ability levels are invited to gather with their parents for our final 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].

    Free
  • Sat 20
    No Shabbat Service This Weekend
    Featured September 20, 2025

    No Shabbat Service This Weekend

    Please note that we will not be holding regular Shabbat morning service at CBI this weekend.

  • Sat 20
    A jar of honey next to a bowl of red apples.
    Featured September 20, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Days of Awe 5786

    Apple Cake & New Beginnings: A Rosh Hashanah Celebration at the Market

    Bennington Community Market 239 Main Street, Bennington, VT, United States

    Celebrate the sweetness of the Jewish New Year at the Bennington Community Market! We’ll bake delicious apple cake using freshly picked, local apples before heading outdoors to the farmer’s market to share the spirit of Rosh Hashanah with others by offering samples of our homemade apple cake and filling the air with joyful Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat melodies at the mic. All ages welcome!

    Free
  • Mon 22
    Erev Rosh Hashanah
    Featured September 22, 2025 @ 7:00 pm Days of Awe 5786

    Erev Rosh Hashanah Evening Service 5786

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

    Please join us for our annual Erev Rosh Hashanah service, led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat with support from CBI musicians and choir. All are welcome! Expect poetry, prayer, harmony, melodies both traditional and contemporary, and an introduction to this year’s high holiday theme.

    Free
  • Tue 23
    Rosh Hashanah I with Tashlich
    Featured September 23, 2025 @ 9:30 am Days of Awe 5786

    Rosh Hashanah I Morning Service 5786

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

    Please join us for our Rosh Hashanah I morning service, led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and Rabbi Jarah Greenfield. Blowing of the Shofar and Tashlich will follow. Please note that onsite parking for this service will be limited.

    Free
  • Wed 24
    Rosh Hashanah II "Four Worlds"
    Featured September 24, 2025 @ 10:00 am Days of Awe 5786

    Rosh Hashanah II 5786 “Four Worlds” Morning Service

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

    Join us for a creative / interpretive Four Worlds service featuring silent meditation, song / chant, Torah study, and the hearing of shofar. There will be minimal liturgy at this service as we focus on entering the new year experientially in body, heart, mind, and spirit. All are welcome!

    Free
  • Sat 27
    The Shabbat of Return
    Featured September 27, 2025 @ 9:30 am Days of Awe 5786

    Contemplative Shabbat Shuvah Service

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

    Join us for a contemplative, chant-based service led by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. On this “Shabbat of Return” between the two holidays, our service will feature an even more stripped-down liturgy and a lot of opportunity for sacred silence. All are welcome!

    Free
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