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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.

Office Hours:
Monday-Thursday 10 am-5 pm
Friday 10 am-2:30 pm
Closed weekends & holidays
 

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This Month At CBI

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat
Rosh Chodesh Kislev
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     9:00am Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Rosh Chodesh Kislev
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     8:00am Rosh Chodesh Kislev
 
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     7:00pm Talmudic Tales: The Greatest Hits
 
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     5:30pm Maariv
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     5:30pm Reparations
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     7:00pm Living a Meaningful Jewish Life
 
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     8:15am Morning Meditation Group
  • 3:30pm ALMA classes
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     6:30pm Chanting Torah Class
 
  • 11:30am Standing Together
  • 4:00pm Candle Lighting
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     5:00pm Shiru Shabbat
Vayetzei
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     9:30am Shabbat morning services
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     9:30am Lily Martin adult bat mitzvah
  • 9:45am Shabbat Morning Talmund Study
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     10:00am ALMA Classes
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     10:20am Shabbat Shabloom
  • 5:00pm Havdalah
 
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     11:00am Chanuka Boutique
 
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     5:30pm Maariv
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     7:00pm Living a Meaningful Jewish Life
 
  • 3:30pm ALMA classes
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     6:30pm Chanting Torah Class
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     7:00pm Abundance Farm End of Season Virtual Open House
 
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     12:00pm Weekly Parsha Class
  • 4:01pm Candle Lighting
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     5:00pm Kabbalat Shabbat
Vayishlach
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     9:30am Shabbat morning services
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     10:00am ALMA Classes
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     10:20am Shabbat Shabloom
  • 5:01pm Havdalah
 
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     10:30am Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Kabbalah--That We Can Learn in a Sunday Cafe with Larry Fine
 
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     6:00pm Chanukah Fry
 
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     5:30pm Maariv
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     7:00pm Living a Meaningful Jewish Life
 
  • 3:30pm ALMA classes
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     6:30pm Chanting Torah Class
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     6:30pm Women’s Niggunim* Sound Healing Havurah
 
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     12:00pm Weekly Parsha Class
  • 4:03pm Candle Lighting
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     5:00pm Shiru Shabbat
Vayeshev
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     9:30am Shabbat morning services
  • 9:45am Shabbat Morning Talmund Study
  • 5:04pm Havdalah
Erev Chanukah
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     5:30pm Maariv
Chanukah
    Chanukah
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       12:00pm Weekly Parsha Class
    • 4:07pm Candle Lighting
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       5:00pm Kabbalat Shabbat
    Chanukah
    Shabbat Mevarchim
    Miketz
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       9:30am Shabbat morning services
    • 5:08pm Havdalah
    Chanukah
      Chanukah
        Chanukah
        Rosh Chodesh Tevet
          Chanukah
          Rosh Chodesh Tevet
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             5:30pm Maariv
          Chanukah
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             8:15am Morning Meditation Group
           
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             12:00pm Weekly Parsha Class
          • 4:13pm Candle Lighting
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             5:00pm Kabbalat Shabbat
          Vayigash
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             9:30am Shabbat morning services
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             9:30am Kristin Ruben Bat Mitzvah
          • 9:45am Shabbat Morning Talmund Study
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             10:00am ALMA Classes
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             10:20am Shabbat Shabloom
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             5:00pm Hold for evening bat mitzvah party at CBI
          • 5:14pm Havdalah

           

          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.

          Mon, December 2 2024 1 Kislev 5785