Meet Our Executive Director
Meet Our Executive Director
Emilie Kovit-Meyer was brought in as our Synagogue Director in July 2013 and started the very same day as our then Cantor/Director of Education Dov Goldberg. This was fortuitous because Emilie first made her mark at CBI by serving ably on the Search Committee which resulted in finding Cantor Goldberg, who later became Rabbi of CBI. It was quickly realized that Emilie's strong background in Human Resources, project and people management could serve CBI well in a more official capacity and that plan has certainly succeeded. Emilie was promoted to Executive Director in June 2015.
Emilie is a native New Yorker who got her Bachelors in English Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton and then a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language from CUNY-Hunter College in New York City. She started out working in Publishing as an Editorial Manager and then was in HR for more than 13 years for internet and direct marketing companies and an ad agency in NYC. Her love of Judaism & Hebrew began when she went to an Orthodox Yeshiva in Long Island up through the 6th grade, after which she switched to public school. She continued her Hebrew learning off and on in public high school, in college as well as after college with a private teacher.
Emilie's early experience at the Yeshiva made taking on the role of Executive Director even more exciting and rewarding for her. In a way it felt like she was coming back full circle to her roots. While she doesn't get to speak Hebrew on a regular basis, she now is immersed in the ways and means of running a synagogue and has used her project management skills to accomplish all the tasks that she comes across in her much-loved position.
Emilie is a bright and welcoming face to both existing and potential members of CBI, and we very much hope you'll get to meet her soon.
Emilie can be reached at emilie.kovit-meyer@cbirumson.org or at
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) -
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MarMarch 2 , 2021
Tuesday, Mar 2nd 10:30a to 11:30a
Zoom discussion with Rabbi Doug Sagal -
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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) -
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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 -
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.