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 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 […]
Due to technical difficulties, this month's Book Club meeting has been rescheduled to Monday, January 23 at 7:30pm (EST). For Zoom information, please contact Suzanne Levy Graver at [email protected]. Join the CBI Book Club via Zoom to discuss Bread Givers (1925) by Anzia Yezierska, probably the first novel to be published in America by an immigrant […]
Please join us on Tuesday, January 17 at 7pm (EST) for a didactic and interactive Zoom presentation and discussion: Welcome to Grandparenting: The Joys and the Challenges, given by Frances T. Bond, PhD. Dr. Bond — the mother of four sons, grandmother of eight grandchildren ages 13 to 40, and great-grandmother of a three-year-old — […]
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.
UPDATE: Due to expected black ice, this service will be held over Zoom only. Please check our weekly announcements for Zoom information. 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 […]
The CBI Book Club will be meeting virtually on Wednesday, December 21 at 7:30pm (EST). For December, we will be reading American Pastoral by Philip Roth, a challenging but wonderful novel. Winning the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, many readers regard it as Roth’s finest and most ambitious novel. It “tackles the subject or what […]
Join us on Friday night over Zoom as we light candles and welcome Shabbat with prayer and song. Let go of the week, breathe in the "extra soul" that Shabbat brings, and let poetry and melody begin to replenish heart and soul.
The CBI Book Club will discuss four short stories by Bernard Malamud. Enigmatic and mysterious, his stories mix the real and the fabulous, the natural and the supernatural. One effect of Malamud’s blend of the real and the fantastic is to endow the ethical with a sense of wonder and mystery. His blending of realism […]
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.
