TRIBUTES
Tribute Funds
Traditionally, many congregants like to make tribute gifts, in honor of or in memory of a loved one or to mark a special event. The minimum donation is $18 which includes recognition in our synagogue newsletter and a tribute card to the recipient. If you do not wish to send a tribute card, the minimum donation is $15.
To make a donation online, please select a specific fund. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the synagogue office during office hours.
Description of Funds:
Abram and Helen Green Fund
This fund supports all forms of Jewish education programs. Created to honor Abram and Helen Green.
Adult Education Fund
Adult Education supports all types of congregational learning, and features speakers, book talks, and other educational symposia.
Beautification Fund
This fund is used to enhance both the interior and exterior of our property, helping to create an environment that is welcoming and comforting to our members.
CBI Fund/General Synagogue Operating Fund
The fund is used to supplement the operating income of the congregation, which is primarily comprised of membership dues. Gifts are allocated wherever there is the most need.
Cemetery Fund
This fund supports the maintenance and beautification of the Congregation B’nai Israel cemetery grounds located in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
Education/Religious School Fund
This fund provides extras for educational programs, events and equipment for the religious school and the K-12 students.
Education/Gan Yeladim Fund
This fund provides extras for educational programs, events and equipment for the Gan Yeladim the preschool and its students.
Ezra Charities Fund
This fund is dedicated to social and charitable actions in our community.
Israel Scholarship Fund
Keeping the bonds strong between our community and Israel, this scholarship subsidizes long term and short term programs in Israel for our Hebrew high School students. These trips have been life transforming experiences and a crucial element of Jewish Education.
Landy/Sadoff Fund
This fund, established by Eugene and Gloria Landy to honor Gloria’s parents, Samuel and Eva Sadoff, is used to provide Security Equipment for Gan Yeladim, which was formed with seed money from the Landys during Gloria’s term as President at CBI.
Library Fund
The library, located in our synagogue, has a broad range of materials of interest to our members. Your gifts to this fund help the library purchase Jewish content books and films and allows our Library Committee to continue to sponsor and organize a wide variety of programming, including film events, poetry readings, guest authors and educational events which are held throughout the year.
Music Fund
This fund is used to encourage our members to express our Jewish identity through music. The CBI Choir has enhanced our religious services and other events throughout the years and we have made music part of the unique experience to be found at CBI.
Oneg/Kiddish Fund
The community Kiddush with refreshments, where our community comes together to socialize and celebrate, takes place after Shabbat and Festival services. Your gift will help underwrite these special events. Often, families sponsor a kiddush to celebrate a simcha or special event.
Rabbi Discretionary Fund
Under the direction of our Rabbi, this fund is used to help those in need. The Rabbi, at his discretion, disburses your gifts as the needs for Chesed arise to those who need clothing, shelter, medical or educational assistance. Recently, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, this fund received substantial donations which were used to provide food and shelter to members of our community whose homes were damaged or destroyed.
Rassas Fund
Samuel B. and Esther Z. Rosoff Memorial College Judaica Scholarship Fund
Samuel B. and Esther Z. Rosoff Memorial College Judaica Scholarship Fund
This fund provides college students with a stipend for classes in Jewish studies.
Staff Appreciation Fund
This fund provides our dedicated staff with holiday gifts and special recognition.
Torah Maintenance and Religious Articles Fund
This fund helps to defray the cost for the repair and purchase of religious and ritual items.
Tuition Scholarship Fund
This fund, started by Marna Feldt, helps provide scholarship monies for attending the SHMA Religious School for those who need it.
Tzedakah-Community of Caring Fund
This fund provides short-term comfort and support to congregants in need through various means including notes, telephone calls, visits and meals.
Yahrzeit Donation Fund
On the anniversary of a beloved one’s death, congregants are sent a yahrzeit letter and traditionally, congregants make a gift in memory of their beloved – a way to make their memory tangible in the world.
Youth Activities Fund
This fund subsidizes costs for youth programs so that financial need will not be an obstacle to participation. The fund may cover materials, membership dues or cost of specific programs. Donations can be made at any time.
Mon, March 8 2021
24 Adar 5781
VIRTUAL COMMUNITY Seder
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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) -
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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 -
Thursday ,
MarMarch 25 , 2021
Thursday, Mar 25th 8:00a to 9:00a
Morning Minyan includes Fast of the First Born -
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. -
Sunday ,
MarMarch 28 , 2021
Sunday, Mar 28th 9:30a to 11:00a
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Sunday ,
MarMarch 28 , 2021
Sunday, Mar 28th 6:00p to 10:00p
CBI's Virtual Seder led by Rabbi Sagal -
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 -
Saturday ,
AprApril 3 , 2021
Shabbat, Apr 3rd 9:30a to 11:00a
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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.