Featured Events

Tu Bishvat Seder Wednesday, January 27, 6:00-7:15pm

Let’s welcome Tu Bishvat—the New Year for the Trees—with all of our senses! Join Cantorial Intern Sam Rosen and CRRI Dave Yedid for a Tu Bishvat Seder on Wednesday January 27th, 6:00-7:15pm. We will learn about the origins of the holiday (and their Kabbalistic/mystical significance!), sing together, drink four cups of wine or grape juice, and bless and eat symbolic foods. us02web.zoom.us/j/88407252036 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 884 0725 2036

Thursday, January 28, 6:00-7:00pm Join us for a lecture and Q&A on US immigration history with Professor Hasia Diner, Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University. We encourage all clinic volunteers to attend and all CBST members are very welcome to join us! Professor Diner teaches and writes about American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and the history of American women. In 2009, her book We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust won a National Jewish Book Award and the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Prize. RSVP and send a question in advance >> us02web.zoom.us/j/83681958595

Events This Week

Please arrive 10 minutes early. All programs will be locked at their start time.

Friday, January 22

Mussar Meditations Series 8:30-8:45am View on CBST Facebook Page >> Read the text >> Connecting in Community with Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Fellow Deborah Megdal 3:00-4:00pm Join us for text study and discussion in small groups, as we transition into Shabbat. us02web.zoom.us/j/256347787 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 256 347 787

Guide to This Week's Services >> Need tech help during a service?  Text 646-450-3556

Pandemic "Post Secret" Sharing Event 6:00-6:30pm Be with us for a prelude to Shabbat services for Pandemic “Post Secret”—an event featuring short, anonymous thoughts and feelings about our lives this past year. View on CBST Facebook Page >>

Kabbalat Shabbat Services 6:30pm  View on CBST Facebook Page >>

Saturday, January 23

Liberal Minyan Shabbat Morning Service 9:30am Learn more about this service >> us02web.zoom.us/j/88531560788 Dial-in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 885 3156 0788

Havdalah Service begins at 7:00pm Post-service program begins at 7:30pm zoom.us/j/654880356 Dial-in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 654 880 356

Sunday, January 24

Mussar Meditations Series 8:30-8:45am View on CBST Facebook Page >> Read the text >>

Monday, January 25

Mussar Meditations Series  8:30-8:45am View on CBST Facebook Page >> Read the text >> Psalm Study with Rabbi Kleinbaum 10:00-10:45am zoom.us/j/513468144 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 513 468 144 Write to Jesse Katz jkatz@cbst.org to join the Psalms Study mailing list. Join the Psalms Study Facebook group >> Talmud Study  3:30-4:15pm  Registration is currently closed. Write to jkatz@cbst.org to join a wait list. Mishpachah Monday! Online Dinner  5:00-6:00pm  us02web.zoom.us/j/513521023 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 513 521 023 Learn more about Mishpachah Monday Online Dinner >>

CBST Members Town Hall Topic: Life After the Inauguration 6:00-7:15pm  Post January 20, what's next for New York, the country, and our world? How do we bring our Jewish LGBTQ values to this moment? Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum moderates a panel with CBST members New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and human rights scholar and activist Professor Tanya Domi. Members will be emailed a link prior to the meeting. Members will receive a link to RSVP on Friday, January 22 at 3:00pm. Learn more >>

Tuesday, January 26

Mussar Meditations Series 8:30-8:45am View on CBST Facebook Page >> Read the text >> Psalm Study with Rabbi Kleinbaum 10:00-10:45am zoom.us/j/513468144 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 513 468 144

Talmud Study  3:30-4:15pm

Living Successfully with HIV & AIDS 5:00-7:00pm  Learn more and register >>

Wednesday, January 27

Mussar Meditations Series 8:30-8:45am View on CBST Facebook Page >> Read the text >> Psalm Study with Rabbi Kleinbaum 10:00-10:45am zoom.us/j/513468144 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 513 468 144 Talmud Study  3:30-4:15pm

🟢 Special Service Tu Bishvat Seder 6:00-7:15pm us02web.zoom.us/j/88407252036 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 884 0725 2036

Thursday, January 28

Mussar Meditations Series  8:30-8:45am View on CBST Facebook Page >> Read the text >> Psalm Study with Rabbi Kleinbaum 10:00-10:45am zoom.us/j/513468144 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 513 468 144 RESISTANCE: Calls & Cards meets Democracy Action Team 12:30-1:15pm us02web.zoom.us/j/87441818544 Dial in by phone: 646-876-9923  Meeting ID: 874 4181 8544 Learn more >>

🟢 Special Program New Israel Fund Presents— A Life Exposed: Military Invasions of Palestinian Homes in the West Bank 1:00pm Featuring Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), Yesh Din—Volunteers for Human Rights, and Breaking the Silence. Learn more and register >>

Talmud Study  3:30-4:15pm  🟢 Special Program US Immigration History with Prof. Hasia Diner 6:00-7:00pm RSVP and send a question in advance >> us02web.zoom.us/j/83681958595

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