Our June meeting of the CBI Book Club will take place over Zoom on Monday, June 3 at 7:30pm (EDT) to discuss Apeirogon by Colum McCann (Penguin Random House, 2020; translated into Hebrew in 2022). A daring, symphonic, and challenging novel, named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, it features two […]
Please note that this service will be held over Zoom only. 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. Those joining digitally are invited to purchase a digital copy of the siddur […]
☆ To join us ONLINE, please click here to register via Zoom. After a lot of thought and discussion, the Board has voted on revisions to the CBI Bylaws. The proposed changes to the Bylaws can be viewed here. We will be holding an open meeting to discuss them on Wednesday, May 8 at 7:30pm (EDT). This […]
Our May meeting of the CBI Book Club will take place over Zoom on Monday, May 6 at 7:30pm (EDT) to discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (2023, Penguin Random House). McBride's novel is set in Pottstown, PA in 1972, at a time when the Black and immigrant Jewish residents living in […]
Stay connected with CBI friends and neighbors, or meet new ones, as we gather together around the Zoom table to celebrate the Jewish traditions of Shabbat, light the candles, and bless the wine and challah. Please join us for our final gathering before we break for the summer; we will resume in the fall.
☆ To join us ONLINE, please click here to register via Zoom. Join us on Zoom at 10am on Monday, April 29 for a short morning service that will include Yizkor (the memorial prayers said four times a year) and Hallel (the psalms of praise we sing at every festival). Yizkor is recited on the […]
Join us over Zoom on Shabbat morning as we celebrate Shabbat and National Poetry Month! Our liturgy will be enlivened by poetry both ancient and contemporary as we celebrate Shabbat with poem and song! Those joining digitally are invited to purchase a digital copy of the siddur if you'd like to follow along. Please note […]
Stay connected with CBI friends and neighbors, or meet new ones, as we gather together around the Zoom table to celebrate the Jewish traditions of Shabbat, light the candles, and bless the wine and challah. We will build community through discussion of timely events as we are hopeful for movements toward peace for Israel and […]
Stay connected with CBI friends and neighbors, or meet new ones, as we gather together around the Zoom table to celebrate the Jewish traditions of Shabbat, light the candles, and bless the wine and challah.
☆ To join us ONLINE, please CLICK HERE to register via Zoom Elizabeth Graver’s novel Kantika ("song" in Ladino) was inspired by the life story of her maternal grandmother Rebecca Cohen, daughter of the Sephardic elite of early twentieth-century Istanbul, whose shapeshifting journey took her to Cuba, Spain and New York. New York Times reviewer Ayten […]
Stay connected with CBI friends and neighbors, or meet new ones, as we gather together around the Zoom table to 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 gather together around the Zoom table to celebrate the Jewish traditions of Shabbat, light the candles, and bless the wine and challah.
