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Runway to the Days of Awe 1: Seven weeks until Rosh Hashanah

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Dear CBI Members and Friends, We’ve just come through the door of Tisha b’Av, the most grief-soaked day on the Jewish calendar. After Tisha b’Av, the Seven Weeks of Consolation […]

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This week: Tisha b’Av and Shabbat Va’etchanan

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Shavua tov – a good new week to you! This week our Zoom offerings include Rabbinic Drop-In Hour (1pm Mondays), Tisha b’Av (Thursday 5pm),  Friday Morning Meditation (9am Fridays), and Shabbat Morning services […]

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Who’s to blame?

“These are the words that Moshe addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan…” (Deuteronomy 1:1) The book of Deuteronomy is in large part a retelling of […]

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Coming up: Shabbat Devarim and Tisha b’Av

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Shavua tov – a good new week to you! This week our Zoom offerings include Rabbinic Drop-In Hour (1pm Mondays), Friday Morning Meditation (9am Fridays), and Kabbalat Shabbat Services (7:30pm Friday), all in the CBI […]

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Wake up: change is coming

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“…If a man makes a vow to God or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has […]

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Wholeness, justice, and peace

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  A d’varling for Pride Shabbat and Shabbat Korach. In this week’s Torah portion, Korach, there’s a rebellion. Korach stands up against Moses and demands power. He cloaks his demand […]

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Zoom offerings this week at CBI

Shavua tov – a good new week to you! This week our Zoom offerings include Rabbinic Drop-In Hour (1pm Mondays), Friday Morning Meditation (9am Fridays), Kabbalat Shabbat Services (7:30pm Friday), and Let’s Talk About Racial […]

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Days of Awe 5781

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Dear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends, I’ll never forget my mother’s first video call. My son was an infant, and she lived two thousand miles away. We arranged her […]

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In the cloud

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“When the cloud lifted, they would break camp…” (Numbers 9:21) This week’s Torah portion, B’ha’a’lotkha, describes, again, how the children of Israel would stay put when the cloud of God […]

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Lament, grief, rage – and change

Dear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends, Today has been declared a National Day of Mourning and Lament. And oh, there is so much to mourn. Right now we’re living […]

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Zoom offerings, Torah portion / commentaries, and Shabbat info for this week

Shavua tov – a good new week to you! This week our Zoom offerings include Rabbinic Drop-In Hour (1pm Mondays), Friday Morning Meditation (9am Fridays), Psalm-Writing Weekly Workshop (1pm Fridays, for members of CBI and […]

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National Day of Mourning and Lament

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Today is an interfaith National Day of Mourning and Lament for the more than 100,000 victims of COVID-19 in our nation and many more around the world. We mourn the […]

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A video message from Rabbi Rachel

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Here’s a short video message from Rabbi Rachel, including a prayer-poem by Beth Schafer: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEBItVTSk] If you can’t see the embedded video, you can go directly to it here.

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God, and community, in the space between

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The Israelites shall camp each with his standard, under the banners of their ancestral house; they shall camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance. (Numbers 2:2) Tn this […]

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CBI Guidelines For Gathering: Pandemic and Beyond

Dear CBI Community, This has been an extraordinarily difficult and painful time. We all dream of the day when we can safely gather in person again. And, epidemiologists are clear […]

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