Please join us over Zoom at 10am on Wednesday, April 12 for a gentle morning service with Yizkor on the seventh day of Passover. We’ll pray the prayers of the morning service, including the praise-songs of Hallel. We’ll also offer the Yizkor memorial prayers that we recite in memory of our dead four times a […]
Please note that this service will be held over Zoom only. For Zoom information, please check our weekly announcements. 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. Our spiritual tools include traditional […]
Our March meeting of the CBI Book Club will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, March 22 at 7:30pm to discuss Michael Frank's One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World (2022). One of The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year, One Hundred Saturdays tells the remarkable story […]
Midrash are interpretive stories that explore the blank spaces in Torah, often offering answers to questions of meaning, character, and inner life. We’ll read some classical midrash and explore what driving questions fueled the sages. Then with guided writing exercises, creative prompts, and gentle feedback, we’ll also write and share our own midrashic responses to […]
Please join us on Sunday, March 12 at 1pm (EDT) over Zoom for a fascinating and culturally insightful presentation on the history of the Jews of India, given by Dr. John Grayzel, PhD. An anthropologist with over 40 years of worldwide multicultural experience, his international career spans the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Philippines, India, […]
Midrash are interpretive stories that explore the blank spaces in Torah, often offering answers to questions of meaning, character, and inner life. We’ll read some classical midrash and explore what driving questions fueled the sages. Then with guided writing exercises, creative prompts, and gentle feedback, we’ll also write and share our own midrashic responses to […]
Stay connected with friends and neighbors, or meet new ones, as we gather together around the Zoom table to celebrate the Jewish traditions of Shabbat and light the candles, bless the wine and partake of our challah breads.
Midrash are interpretive stories that explore the blank spaces in Torah, often offering answers to questions of meaning, character, and inner life. We’ll read some classical midrash and explore what driving questions fueled the sages. Then with guided writing exercises, creative prompts, and gentle feedback, we’ll also write and share our own midrashic responses to […]
Please join us on Zoom on Wednesday, February 22 at 4pm (EST) for "Reckoning with Loss: Moroccan Jews Return in Literature and Film," an informative and fascinating presentation on the accounting of Morocco's emigrated Jewish population. Our speaker will be Indigenous Amazigh scholar, Dr. Brahim El Guabli, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature […]
Our upcoming February meeting of the CBI Book Club is an extra special one: Aaron Tillman, the author of the short stories we'll be discussing, will be joining us over Zoom! We'll be discussing three of Tillman's engaging and provocative stories (chosen by him), along with Malamud's The Jewbird, which the group read in 2022 […]
Midrash are interpretive stories that explore the blank spaces in Torah, often offering answers to questions of meaning, character, and inner life. We’ll read some classical midrash and explore what driving questions fueled the sages. Then with guided writing exercises, creative prompts, and gentle feedback, we’ll also write and share our own midrashic responses to […]
Join Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and Rabbi David Markus (Temple Beth-El of City Island) for a mystical welcome to Jewish spiritual spring. See the sap beginning to rise (four cups will help!) Poetry, mysticism, and music will be our companions as we journey through the four worlds and the four seasons. Please note that this event […]
