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Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Tetzaveh and to Purim
Shabbat
Shavua tov — a good new week to you!
Join us for Shabbat services at 9:30am on Saturday morning led by Rabbi Rachel. This week we’re reading from parashat Tetzaveh. If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s parsha,…
Coronavirus preparedness and CBI
From The Rabbi
Update as of 3/13: we are taking several concrete steps to slow the spread of the virus. Read about them here: Update: CBI in this time of pandemic.
Also see: Like a fiddler on the roof, my message to the community before Shabbat on 3/13.
Dear…
Whose heart so moves
community, divrei Torah
Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart so moves him.... And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. (Ex. 25:2, 8)
I recently gathered a bunch of paperwork…
Shavua tov and Chodesh tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Terumah and to Purim.
Adar, Purim, Shabbat
Shavua tov — a good new week to you! And Chodesh tov -- a good new month to you; the new lunar month of Adar begins tonight at sundown, which means it's two weeks until Purim!
Join us for Shabbat services at 9:30am on Saturday morning…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Mishpatim
Shabbat
Shavua tov — a good new week to you!
Join us for Shabbat services at 9:30am on Saturday morning led by Rabbi Pam Wax. This week we’re reading from parashat Mishpatim. If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s parsha,…
Community in our hands
divrei Torah
But Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing you are doing is not right; you will surely wear yourself out, and these people as well. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone." (Exodus 18:17-18)
This week's Torah portion…
Join us for Purim at CBI!
Purim
Purim is coming! Join us at 6pm on Monday March 9 to celebrate.
Actors in our Purim play... a few years back!
Come in costume -- or augment your regular clothes with costume pieces from Jane Shiyah's costume box!
Enjoy desserts --…
Shavua tov and happy Tu BiShvat!
Shabbat, Tu BiShvat
Dear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends,
Shavua tov -- a good new week to you!
Tree fruits representing different seasons and different "worlds." Happy Tu BiShvat!
Join us Monday afternoon at 3:30 for our Tu BiShvat seder.…
A letter from the Board and the rabbi
community
Dear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends,
Shavua tov: a good new week to all. We hope that everyone’s Shabbat was sweet. We’re writing to say that we hear you -- and that we want to hear from you even more.
Reverberations…
To Know God
divrei Torah
Do we harden our hearts like Pharaoh, or do we let them soften?
This week's Torah portion (Bo) begins like this:
God said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Bo
Shabbat
Shavua tov — a good new week to you!
Join us for Shabbat services at 9:30am on Saturday morning led by Rabbi Rachel. This week we’re reading from parashat Bo. If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s parsha,…
Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Vaera
Shabbat
Shavua tov — a good new week to you!
Join us for Shabbat services at 9:30am on Saturday morning led by Rabbi Pam Wax. This week we’re reading from parashat Vaera. If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s parsha,…
The world is our kin: lessons from Moshe about being an upstander
divrei Torah
וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֗ם וַיִּגְדַּ֤ל מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיֵּצֵ֣א אֶל־אֶחָ֔יו וַיַּ֖רְא בְּסִבְלֹתָ֑ם וַיַּרְא֙ אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִ֔י מַכֶּ֥ה…
Vayechi: angels, memory, blessing
divrei Torah
Jacob blesses Ephraim and Menashe on his deathbed.
This week's Torah portion, Vayechi, begins with Jacob on his deathbed. Joseph comes to him with his sons Ephraim and Menashe, and Jacob marvels: he hadn't expected to see Joseph again, and…
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