Welcome to Congregation B'nai Israel!
Congregation B’nai Israel (CBI) has defied national trends to enjoy robust growth with approximately 500 member households in Northampton, Massachusetts. CBI is a Jewish community campus including a synagogue associated with the Conservative Movement, Abundance Farm, Gan Keshet preschool, Alma religious school, and havurah micro-communities. Our innovative programming and opportunities for social justice have drawn a widely diverse community. We are proud of our long-standing, dedicated, and intergenerational members who are committed to ever evolving and being among some of the most forefront voices of modern American Jewry through an embrace of culture, art, engagement, compassion, and education. Our visionary rabbinic, professional, and lay leaders are committed to exploration, moral integrity and spiritual vibrancy.
Please use the calendar below to explore some of our upcoming events and offerings. First time visiting? Learn more about our religious services here.
Monday-Thursday 10 am-5 pm
Friday 10 am-2:30 pm
This Month At CBI
Excerpt from our Letter to the Community Regarding October 7th
Our CBI community embodies a wide range of opinions on the current crisis in Israel and Palestine. There are few other Jewish communities that strive to maintain a tent wide enough to contain the diversity that we hold so dear. However you are choosing to respond to this current moment, we want and need all of you here.
Numerous members of our community have stepped forward to make their voices heard, at times in ways that seem to conflict. Building trusting relationships with each other, even and especially through difference, can only help us to be a more resilient community. In this most challenging time we commit to doing what we can to help us turn toward one another rather than away. Building true community takes work, and we are committed to doing that work together with you.
Read the complete letter here.
We are grateful to our major funders, including:
Congregation B’nai Israel recognizes and honors the original inhabitants who first settled in the valley of the Kwinitekw River. CBI acknowledges that we are on Nonotuck land. We also acknowledge our neighboring Indigenous nations: the Nipmuc and the Wampanoag to the East, the Mohegan and Pequot to the South, the Mohican to the West, and the Sokoi Abenaki to the North.