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✡️ 2 Adar II ✡️
March 4–5
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Kabbalat Shabbat
Shabbat Morning Services
Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 | Meeting ID: 892 6861 4329
Havdalah Service
Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 | Meeting ID: 654 880 356
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Save the Date!
Purim with CBST is always a fabulous night of revelry! Join us on Wednesday, March 16th 2022 as we retell the story of queens and villains and victory. We begin at 6:00 p.m. with a festive Purim Musical Maariv service, our all-congregation Costume Parade, and our signature multi-lingual Megillah Reading (20 languages strong!).
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Purim Party for Families with Kids
Wednesday, March 16, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Free. Not a drop-off program; children must be supervised! Recommended for ages 3–12.
Bring the whole family in your favorite Purim costumes, bake hamentashen, wear a crazy balloon hat, and celebrate Esther's coming out as a Jew to the Persian king and saving our people. Younger kids will also listen to the megillah in a special interactive storytelling adventure by K’ilu Kits. Older kids will pack mishloach manot and design cards with Repair the World that will be delivered to Met Council on Jewish Poverty for their seniors living in their affordable housing. Everyone is welcome to join the Purim Parade at the end!
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Get ready to be front page news! This year's theme is “NEWSIES!”
Some costume ideas:
- 1920s Newsboy! Or Newsgirl! Or nonbinary Newshuman!
- Your favorite/most meme-able news story from the past year
- Your favorite news anchor who you want to laud or lambast
- Cover yourself in newsprint and magazines?
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Anything that makes you want to shout “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
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Friday, March 4 (1 Adar II)
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Parashat HaShavuah
This course is a study of the week's Torah portion, or parashah. This text study provides an opportunity to learn and grapple with the meaning of the weekly Torah portion, guided by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz.
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Kabbalat Shabbat
This Shabbat, we join with our colleagues at HIAS and Jewish communities across the country in honoring Refugee Shabbat. Our guest speakers—Ark Immigration Clinic Coordinator Noah Habeeb and Ark Team Leader Dylan Parent—will speak about why this work is so meaningful, both for volunteers and the immigrant friends we welcome.
In honor of Refugee Shabbat, we invite you to support this GoFundMe for Ark Mutual Aid, and/or donate to HIAS, the JDC, or anywhere on RUSA-LGBT’s suggested list in support of Ukrainians—both those staying in the country and those seeking safety elsewhere.
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Shabbat/Saturday, March 5 (2 Adar II)
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Shabbat Morning Services
Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 | Meeting ID: 892 6861 4329
*NEW PILOT PROGRAM!*
Join Rabbi Yael Rapport for La'asok B'divrei Torah—a hybrid Torah-centric Shabbat experience! This interactive minyan is offered for both in-person and online participation. Be with Rabbi Rapport onsite in the CBST Chapel, or online, as we daven an abbreviated Shabbat morning service (approx. 30 mins) and then deepen into an extended Torah study and discussion (approx. 60 minutes). No prior knowledge is needed, and all texts will be offered with translations. Come and see, and let us know what you think!
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Havdalah Service
Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 | Meeting ID: 654 880 356
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Sunday, March 6 (3 Adar II)
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Refuge: Art Songs by Jewish Composers—Cantor David Berger and Joyce Rosenzweig
Album Release Online Event
Celebrate the new album by Cantor David Berger and Joyce Rosenzweig! Refuge is a unique compilation of art songs for voice and piano composed by Jewish American refugees.
This release event will feature inspiring performances of music from the album, special guest appearances by Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Afghan composer Milad Yousufi, and HIAS, the Jewish community's most powerful organization working towards a world in which refugees find welcome, safety, and opportunity. Join us on Facebook or StreamSpot as we launch our efforts to bring this music, and the message it can teach, out to the world!
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Monday, March 7 (4 Adar II)
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Introduction to Mishnah
Rabbi Mike Moskowitz offers this daily (M–Th) in-depth text study and analysis of Jewish text with an opportunity for group chevrutah study, in which participants will analyze, discuss, and debate a shared text.
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Mishpachah Monday! Online Dinner, Fun, and Shmooze
with Judy Ribnick
Dial-in by phone: 646-876-9923 | Meeting ID: 513 521 023
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"Make the Best of Your Memory" with Alison Solomon, LCSW
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Note new Aging Together date and time!
Register here » (If you've registered for an Aging Together program in the past, no need to register, you're already on the list!)
CBST member Alison Solomon will discuss the difference between normal memory loss and something more serious, ways we can counteract normal memory loss and boost our brainpower, and how to help yourself or someone you know.
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Tuesday, March 8 (5 Adar II)
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Living Successfully with HIV & AIDS
5:00–7:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, March 9 (6 Adar II)
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Intermediate Hebrew Continued—Part 2
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The Ark Immigration Clinic at CBST
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Interested in volunteering? Email Clinic Coordinator Noah Habeeb at sanctuary@cbst.org to learn about training and join our team.
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Seasonal Resistance with Rabbi Mike Moskowitz
Each Rosh Chodesh, New Month, we will explore the wisdom Jewish tradition offers about the texture of time and the ways it can inform our activism as spiritual practice. CBST Scholar-in-Residence for Trans and Queer Jewish Studies Rabbi Mike Moskowitz teaches this monthly course.
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Thursday, March 10 (7 Adar II)
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March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day!
Listen to this podcast interview with Ingrid Floyd, Executive Director of Iris House, speaking about her organization’s commitment to save lives by offering much needed services in Harlem, the South Bronx and Plainfield, NJ.
Our Chazak team recommends learning more about National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day here and here.
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Democracy! Team Action Group
Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 | Meeting ID: 874 4181 8544
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The Ark Immigration Clinic at CBST
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Interested in volunteering? Email Clinic Coordinator Noah Habeeb at sanctuary@cbst.org to learn about training and join our team.
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Attend Shabbat Services In-Person |
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Join us each Friday evening and Saturday morning for our weekly Shabbat services.
Under the guidance of our Medical Team, we are delighted to share that we have increased our capacity limits! Please note, everyone still must register in advance, as well as provide proof of being fully vaccinated, and of receiving a booster.
If you haven't done so already, please upload your proof of vaccination and booster HERE.
Registration opens every Monday morning and can be accessed on our website at: https://cbst.org/Shabbat-Signup. Here you’ll also find updated registration and Shabbat procedures and protocol with which to familiarize yourself.
We look forward to welcoming you! Shabbat Shalom.
📷: Harold Levine
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Jerusalem Open House
Friday, March 11
The Jerusalem Open House Arrives in New York! We are thrilled to welcome our friends from the Jerusalem Open House, who will join us for Shabbat services on Friday, March 11th! After their virtual visit last October, we are all delighted to finally have them here in person. Come meet Alon and Melody, the current generation of JOH leaders. And we’re glad to share this invitation from our friends at UJA-Federation of NY:
Cocktails & Conversation with the Jerusalem Open House
Tuesday, March 15, 6:30 p.m.
UJA-Federation of New York, 130 East 59th Street, New York City
This event will take place in person.
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Town Hall for CBST Members
Monday, March 14, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Topic: Next Generation Task Force
Our next Town Hall will be dedicated to CBST's Next Generation Taskforce, led by Johanna Sanders and Nora Isacoff. The Taskforce will present their findings and share some of their recommendations for attracting and retaining younger members as CBST steps into a new chapter. Members of all ages are welcome at this event.
The Members' Town Hall is available via Zoom for CBST members only. Members will receive a separate email invitation to register. Registrants will receive an email with Zoom info to attend, after submitting the registration form.
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Rainbow Connection:
Music Therapy Support Group
Ages 50+
Rainbow Connection, co-facilitated by CBST’s own song leader, Rachel Chang, is a free queer-focused music therapy group aiming to foster connection, create community, and explore identity. Through a variety of musical experiences and discussions, the group will explore LGBTQ-related themes ranging from the life-long process of discovering and developing identity to understanding the self within the community.
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Ta'anit Esther with Hadar |
Fasting: Who? What? Why?
Wedesday, March 16,
The Fast of Esther offers an opportunity to reflect, pray, and mark moments of need, both historical and contemporary. This Ta'anit Esther, join Hadar for a day of learning where we’ll explore the particular history behind the Fast of Esther, the unintended consequences of fasting, and the ways in which fasting, prayer, and justice all wind together. CBST is proud to co-sponsor this event. Sign up and learn more here.
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Lunch & Learn: Never Simple, A Memoir by Liz Scheier
CBST Member Liz Scheier joins Associate Rabbi Yael Rapport for a special reading and discussion of her new memoir. Deeply exploring Jewish life and values, with scenes starring Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, former Associate Rabbi Rachel Weiss, and current Associate Rabbi Yael Rapport, Never Simple is a darkly funny and touching memoir—with shades of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók’s The Memory Palace—of growing up in ’90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother. Click here for more info.
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Registration Coming Soon!
CBST Congregational Retreat 2022
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📷: Harold Levine
Save the date! This year's CBST Retreat will be Friday, April 29, through Sunday, May 1, 2022. All CBST Members will be notified when registration opens in early March.
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Your membership is the foundation of CBST’s financial health. As 2022 begins, consider making your membership in monthly payments. Easy for you, and you automatically renew. Click here to learn more.
CBST provides spiritual space, deep learning, social justice, and a vibrant, connected LGBTQ Jewish community. Your donation empowers our work. Your generosity keeps us Joyful, Spiritual, Proud. Thank you!
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