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Welcome 

Since 1922, Congregation B’nai Israel (CBI) located in Monmouth County, has served as a religious, cultural and educational synagogue for Jewish residents of the greater Red Bank area. Multi-generational and egalitarian, CBI is a place for prayer, spirituality, shared observance, Judaic learning and social mingling...a place to honor life-cycle events and celebrate Jewish holidays. A member of the conservative movement, CBI is dedicated to guiding our children and ourselves to appreciate the values, customs and history of our Jewish heritage, to live a life of mitzvot, to support Israel and to transmit the love of Judaism and pride in our Jewish identity to succeeding generations - L'Dor Va'Dor.

Join our Services 

All CBI services and Cultural Programming lectures are streamed on Zoom, with the exception of High Holy Day services that will be live streamed. If you want to be added to our email event list, please email emilie.kovit-meyer@cbirumson.org. You can also see all our programming on Facebook Live - Like us at @CBIRumson.

service times

Shabbat

Friday

  • Kabbalat Service ~ 7:30 pm
  • First Friday of month: 6:00 pm wine & cheese, 6:30 pm service
  • Fourth Friday of month additional service for families with kids - 6:00 pm

Saturday

  • Shabbat Service ~ 9:30 am
  • Havdalah - 7:30 pm

weekday

Thursday

  • Morning Minyan ~ 8:00am

 

VIDEOS

     Recipes:
                  Chocolate Babka
                  Hammentaschen
 

E-Torah

“God Aches for Us”

This week’s Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora speaks of the plague of tzaraat that can make its appearance both on human beings and the walls of homes.  This week the plague of violence made its horrific appearance on the campus of Virginia Tech.  At such times, people often ask, “Where is God?”  For me, one consoling answer comes in the rabbinic treatise Mishna Sanhedrin, chapter 5.  The sages declare that when human beings ache with pain, God aches with pain with us “It is My own head that aches, it is My own arm that aches” when humans ache.  God gave us free will to do good or ill, but when we suffer, God suffers with us.  We are not alone in our sorrow.

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Douglas Sagal

 

Announcements

  • Join us for a Congregation Read of Away by Amy Bloom. Amy will be discussing this book on June 27 at 11am on Zoom.
  • Services and Classes are streamed live on Facebook.   JOIN US
  • CBI is listed as an eligible charity on AMAZON SMILE! Go to Amazon Smile and select Congregation B'nai Israel (make sure it's our address) as your designated charity and make your purchases. Bookmark the Amazon Smile link so you can easily go through Amazon Smile when shopping.
Tue, April 20 2021 8 Iyyar 5781