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Doug Sagal was born in Morristown, NJ and raised in Summit and Berkeley Heights. He is a graduate of Governor Livingston High School.
He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, then attended seminary at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem and New York City, where he was ordained in 1990. He received a Masters in Sacred Theology from Yale University Divinity School in 1998 and in the summer of 2019 was named a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.
As a rabbinical student, Rabbi Sagal served as a hospital chaplain in New York City and as a student Rabbi in Pennsylvania. He served as Rabbi of Congregation Beth Shalom-Rodfe Zedek in Chester CT, Senior Rabbi of KAM Isaiah Israel in Chicago Il., and Senior Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Westfield NJ. He served as police chaplain in Westfield, NJ.
He currently serves as immediate past President of the New Jersey Region of Reform Rabbis.
Rabbi Douglas Sagal, D.D.
732-842-1800, x202
rabbisagal@cbirumson.org
RABBI EMERITUS JACK M. ROSSOF, D.D.
Rabbi Rosoff is Rabbi Emeritus at Congregation B’nai Israel, serving as Rabbi for 34 years, from 1964 to 1998. He came to CBI after serving as Jewish Chaplain at Fort Monmouth, in New Jersey. A graduate of Harvard College, Hebrew Teachers’ College, Hebrew University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he also has a Masters Degree in clinical and counseling psychology from Columbia University and an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In his spare time, he enjoys watching football, eating chocolate and listening to music, especially Andy Williams, Barbra Streisand, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Rabbi Rosoff lives with his wife of many years, Dr. Barbara Rosoff, in Jackson, NJ. They have three children and two grandchildren.
CANTOR EMERITA MARLA BARUGEL
Cantor Barugel was the Hazzan at Congregation B'nai Israel from 1987-2013 and became Cantor Emerita in June 2013. During her term as Cantor, she brought much spirituality to CBI by davening on Shabbat, Festivals and High Holy Days and by teaching lay people to daven, learn trope and sing Jewish music. She officiated at the B'nai Mitzvah ceremonies of over 600 students and participated in countless life-cycle events such as baby namings, weddings, funerals and Shiva Minyanim and spent hours visiting and singing to congregants at their bedsides, at home and in the hospital.
A 1987 graduate of the Cantors Institute/Seminary College of Jewish Music (now known as the H.L. Miller Cantorial School) at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, she was one of the first two women to receive the Diploma of Hazzan from the Seminary. She was also among the first group of women to gain membership into the Cantors Assembly, the professional organization of Conservative Cantors, in May 1991. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she obtained a B.A. in French and Spanish and an M.S. in Secondary Education, Cantor Barugel lived in Madrid and Paris and entertained audiences in France, Italy, Mexico and Israel.
Cantor Barugel made her debut as a soloist at the Cantors Assembly Convention in Milwaukee in June 1994 and is a member of the New Jersey Cantors Concert Ensemble. She has participated in KLEZKAMP, the Yiddish Folk Arts Festival sponsored by Living Traditions where she studied and performed Yiddish Art and Folk Song. She is also a specialist in the Judeo-Spanish song repertoire. Cantor has appeared on both radio and television and has been interviewed by numerous publications on the subject of women cantors. A recording artist, her CD “From Darkness to Light” was released in April 2000 and her second CD “Congregation B’nai Israel Celebrates Shabbat” was released in March 2006.
Cantor Barugel lived in Atlantic Highlands up until July 2014 when she became a Cantor in California. She is the proud mother of two sons, Michael Solomon Barugel and Avidor Moshe Barugel.
Sat, February 27 2021
15 Adar 5781
Purim 2021
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Sunday ,
FebFebruary 28 , 2021
Sunday, Feb 28th 10:30a to 12:00p
February 28: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Is Judaism a Religion of the Heart or the Mind – And Who Decides? Hasidism and its Opponents. March 14: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. What Do we Mean by Jewish Continuity? The Legacy of “Be Fruitful and Multiply”. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) March 21: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. How Much Should Tragedy Define Us? The Holocaust in Contemporary Jewish Life. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) April 18: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Can Commitment & Critique Coexist? Teaching Israel in the 21st century. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) -
Tuesday ,
MarMarch 2 , 2021
Tuesday, Mar 2nd 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Friday ,
MarMarch 5 , 2021
Friday, Mar 5th 6:00p to 7:00p
Virtual Wine and Cheese followed by Kabbalat Service at 6:30pm -
Tuesday ,
MarMarch 9 , 2021
Tuesday, Mar 9th 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Thursday ,
MarMarch 11 , 2021
Thursday, Mar 11th 7:30p to 8:30p
Rabbi Kagedan is the first female Orthodox Rabbi in the US to be hired by an Orthodox congregation. -
Sunday ,
MarMarch 14 , 2021
Sunday, Mar 14th 10:30a to 12:00p
February 28: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Is Judaism a Religion of the Heart or the Mind – And Who Decides? Hasidism and its Opponents. March 14: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. What Do we Mean by Jewish Continuity? The Legacy of “Be Fruitful and Multiply”. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) March 21: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. How Much Should Tragedy Define Us? The Holocaust in Contemporary Jewish Life. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) April 18: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Can Commitment & Critique Coexist? Teaching Israel in the 21st century. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) -
Tuesday ,
MarMarch 16 , 2021
Tuesday, Mar 16th 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Sunday ,
MarMarch 21 , 2021
Sunday, Mar 21st 10:30a to 12:00p
February 28: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Is Judaism a Religion of the Heart or the Mind – And Who Decides? Hasidism and its Opponents. March 14: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. What Do we Mean by Jewish Continuity? The Legacy of “Be Fruitful and Multiply”. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) March 21: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. How Much Should Tragedy Define Us? The Holocaust in Contemporary Jewish Life. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) April 18: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Can Commitment & Critique Coexist? Teaching Israel in the 21st century. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) -
Tuesday ,
MarMarch 23 , 2021
Tuesday, Mar 23rd 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Friday ,
MarMarch 26 , 2021
Friday, Mar 26th 6:00p to 6:30p
Family Shabbat Service designed for families and children with Shabbat Prayers, stories and songs and led by Rabbi Sagal. Zoom link will be sent out prior to services. Please note: there still will be a 7:30pm KAbbalat Service on Fourth Friday. -
Tuesday ,
MarMarch 30 , 2021
Tuesday, Mar 30th 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Friday ,
AprApril 2 , 2021
Friday, Apr 2nd 6:00p to 7:00p
Virtual Wine and Cheese followed by Kabbalat Service at 6:30pm -
Tuesday ,
AprApril 6 , 2021
Tuesday, Apr 6th 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Monday ,
AprApril 12 , 2021
Monday, Apr 12th 7:30p to 8:30p
Esperanto: L. L. Zamenhof’s Hopeful Language for Russia’s Jews & the World Brigid O’Keeffe Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College In 1887, L. L. Zamenhof launched Esperanto from the polyglot western borderlands of a tsarist empire in crisis. This presentation will explore Esperanto’s origins in the tsarist empire’s Pale of Settlement. Zamenhof came of age in an era of both global transformation and the pogroms that devastated Jewish communities in the Pale. As he wrestled with the Jewish Question, Zamenhof designed Esperanto as a universal language that would uplift Russia’s Jews and ultimately unite the whole world. Zamenhof intended for Esperanto to serve humanity as more than a practical utility to facilitate international communication. Esperanto was the foundation for what Zamenhof envisioned as a future global moral community of new, emancipated people – comfortable with their differences and equipped with an international auxiliary language designed explicitly to transcend those differences rather than efface them. -
Tuesday ,
AprApril 13 , 2021
Tuesday, Apr 13th 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Sunday ,
AprApril 18 , 2021
Sunday, Apr 18th 10:30a to 12:00p
February 28: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Is Judaism a Religion of the Heart or the Mind – And Who Decides? Hasidism and its Opponents. March 14: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. What Do we Mean by Jewish Continuity? The Legacy of “Be Fruitful and Multiply”. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) March 21: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. How Much Should Tragedy Define Us? The Holocaust in Contemporary Jewish Life. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) April 18: Dr Harvey Cohen: Debates Shaping Jewish Life. Can Commitment & Critique Coexist? Teaching Israel in the 21st century. (Sunday, 10:30 AM) -
Tuesday ,
AprApril 20 , 2021
Tuesday, Apr 20th 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Friday ,
AprApril 23 , 2021
Friday, Apr 23rd 6:00p to 6:30p
Family Shabbat Service designed for families and children with Shabbat Prayers, stories and songs and led by Rabbi Sagal. Zoom link will be sent out prior to services. Please note: there still will be a 7:30pm KAbbalat Service on Fourth Friday. -
Tuesday ,
AprApril 27 , 2021
Tuesday, Apr 27th 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
Thursday ,
AprApril 29 , 2021
Thursday, Apr 29th 7:30p to 8:30p
The Fraught Path to Inclusion: Newport's Jewish and African-American Communities in the Revolutionary Era." -
Friday ,
MayMay 7 , 2021
Friday, May 7th 6:00p to 7:00p
Virtual Wine and Cheese followed by Kabbalat Service at 6:30pm -
Friday ,
MayMay 28 , 2021
Friday, May 28th 6:00p to 6:30p
Family Shabbat Service designed for families and children with Shabbat Prayers, stories and songs and led by Rabbi Sagal. Zoom link will be sent out prior to services. Please note: there still will be a 7:30pm KAbbalat Service on Fourth Friday.