Cultural Programming
Cultural Programming Calendar: October - December, 2021
NOTE: All scheduled programs are LIVE as well as on ZOOM unless specified below.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED to attend in person or get the Zoom links.
Please check the event pages at cbirumson.org for the links to register.
October 3: Rabbi Sagal – Origins of Conservative Judaism – Part I
Subtitled “How a Shellfish Dinner Created a Movement!”
(Sunday, 10:30 AM)
October 10: Rabbi Sagal – Origins of Conservative Judaism – Part II
Subtitled “From Shtetl to Suburb”
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
October 14: Ron Balson discusses his book Defending Britta Stein. ZOOM ONLY
Co-sponsored with Congregation Torat El’s “Meet the Author” program.
Registration required at
https://www.torat-el.org/events/meet-the-author-ron-balson-2/
(Thursday, 8:00 PM)
October 17: Andrew Meyer – Introduction to Zionism – Part I
Part 1 of 4-part lecture series. (Sunday, 11:30 AM)
October 24: Rabbi Sagal – The Golden Age of Conservative Judaism
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
November 7: Rabbi Sagal – The Future of Conservative Judaism
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
November 14: Andrew Meyer – Introduction to Zionism – Part II
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
November 21: Sandy Gordon – Jewish Artists in the Holocaust
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
December 5: Dan Rozett in Dialogue with Rabbi Sagal about Israel
Dan is the Manager of Community Relations and Israel Engagement for Jewish Federation in the Heart of NJ.
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
December 9: Alan Zweibel discusses his book Laugh Lines. ZOOM ONLY
Co-sponsored with Congregation Torat El’s “Meet the Author” program.
(Thursday, 7:30 PM)
December 12: Andrew Meyer – Introduction to Zionism – Part III
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
December 19: Andrew Meyer – Introduction to Zionism – Part IV
(Sunday, 11:30 AM)
Programs are free and sponsored by the CBI Cultural Programming Committee.
Registration is required for both in-person and Zoom, and Covid protocols will be followed, subject to change.
Recordings of our programs are available to view on our website at cbirumson.org.
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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.
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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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