Celebrating 100 years
Incorporated in 1922, Congregation B’nai Israel will joyously celebrate its centennial in 2022. Special events are planned to mark this landmark milestone. Rooted in the legacy of its founders, membership still includes multi-generational families, along with many others who have migrated to our area.
Watch video above and then read about our history in: A History of Congregation B'nai Israel, The FIrst Hundred Years.
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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.
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There are no in-person services due to the high increase of Covid Cases, for your safety all services will be on Zoom or Live Streamed. If you are not on our email list you can join us at
https://www.facebook.com/CBIRumson
We are happy to welcome you back for in-person services in our chapel. All services will be livestreamed at https://vimeo.com/event/1331069.
At this time, all who attend our services age 12 and older must be vaccinated with proof of vaccination. Masks are required for all. To upload your vaccination card please use this form.
All CBI services and Cultural Programming lectures are shared via Zoom, with the exception of High Holy Day services which will be live streamed.
If you want to be added to our email event list, please email emilie.kovit-meyer@cbirumson.org.
service times
Shabbat
Friday
- Kabbalat Service ~ 7:30 pm
- First Friday of month: 6:00 pm wine & cheese, 6:30 pm service
Saturday
- Shabbat Service ~ 9:30 am
- Havdalah - 7:30 pm
weekday
Thursday
- Morning Minyan ~ 8:00am
Announcements
- 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.
Fri, January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
LIVESTREAMING
Morning minyan and Shabbat Services will be live streamed from our chapel. Please click here for recent services and to view live stream: https://vimeo.com/event/1331069
There are no in-person services due to the high increase of Covid Cases, for your safety all services will be on Zoom or Live Streamed.
If you are not on our email list you can join us at https://www.facebook.com/CBIRumson
E-Torah
E-Torah from Congregation B’nai Israel
January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
Of Commandments and Courage
By now, all of us have heard of the horrific events of last Shabbat in Colleyville, Texas, and the extraordinary courage shown by the rabbi of that small congregation. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker kept the mentally unstable gunman calm until he could not, and then he threw a chair at the terrorist and ushered his congregants to safety.
Rabbi Cytron-Walker is being properly lauded as a hero. But then, the Jewish Forward decided to print a story two days after the event detailing how the rabbi’s contract was not renewed a few months ago after 16 years of service, and even printed some allegations, leveled without proof, made against the rabbi by a disgruntled congregant who had left the congregation.
The Ten Commandments, which we read this week, are echoed in the book of Leviticus in chapter 19, where one of the verses reads “Do not go about as a talebearer amongst the people”. This is a prohibition of Lashon Hara, gossip and slander-because gossip and slander in our tradition are as deadly as murder. Every time a rabbi leaves a congregation, rumor and innuendo abound, and I assure you such attacks are devastating. That the Jewish Forward would engage in such an act days after this man saved the lives of his parishioners is beyond the pale.
It is tragic that Rabbi Cytron-Walker could survive a deadly attack by a terrorist, only to confront the slanderous gossip of a once great Jewish newspaper.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Doug Sagal
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