Services & Ritual Activities...

Kabbalat Shabbat: Friday evenings

Shabbat Morning Service: Saturdays

Israel-at-60 Shabbat and "Beyond Falafel" Potluck Dinner
Fri, May 9, 6:15 pm, O’Mansky Hall
This special Shabbat Service will celebrate the 60th Birthday of the State of Israel. Adults, children, singles, and families are invited to join in this celebration in music, prayer, and pictures. Bring an Israeli dairy or pareve dish feeding 10-12 to share.

Social Action Shabbat: Fri, May 16, 8:15pm
Join Rabbi Alexander, Sharon McCord, and the CBI Social Action Committee in our Shabbat celebration of commitment to the core Jewish values of responsibility to our fellow creatures and the earth. The Tzedakah Fund Committee has also invited the recipients of this year’s grants to attend. Grants were made to the following programs. These organizations have been invited to attend this Shabbat service. Please join us in welcoming this year’s recipients to the Social Action Shabbat.

An Art Auction - Israel-at-60! Sat, May 10, 7pm
Join us for festive music, delicious refreshments, & the opportunity to bid on Judaica, original works of art by Israeli and Jewish artists, and pieces donated by local artists. more info

Annual Congregational Meeting: Tues, May 20
6:00 pm: Reception (Courtyard)
6:30 pm: Business Meeting (O’Mansky Hall)
All members are encouraged to attend so that a quorum is established. An announcement of the meeting and slate of officers, directors, and trustees nominated for election at this meeting was mailed to each member household in April. Please contact the office (295-6382)  if you have not received that information, or if you have any questions.

Support CBI Preschool: while shopping for groceries. more info

CBI Preschool T-Shirts for Sale: Help raise funds for CBI Preschool. Each shirt was created by a class of CBI Preschool students. All shirts are $5 each. Adult and Children's sized shirts are available in multiple colors. Stop by the Preschool Office to purchase your shirt today!

Judaica Shop: Please make Judaica shop purchases and other business transactions during regular office hours 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. For special orders contact Sari Bennett (978-4183)

Design a Canvas Shopping Bag for CBI! It’s time to get creative and design an environmentally-friendly custom shopping bag for CBI! You can pick up entry forms in the CBI office or contact Erica Goldfarb (963-7848). Entries must be contained to the space provided on the entry form, with one color and no shading. The deadline for entries is Monday, June 1; simply send it by mail or drop it off in the CBI office. All ages are encouraged to enter! We will announce the winner in June and you will see your design on our very own CBI bags this September.

Opportunity to Dedicate a New Prayerbook: A new prayer book is an opportunity to remember a loved one or mark a simcha, like a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, Brit Milah, Brit Bat, Naming, Conversion or Wedding. For $30 per book you could dedicate one of the new prayer books soon to be used at CBI. Use this form

• Mishkan T'Filah - Friday Evening Service
• Sim Shalom - Saturday Morning Service
• Kol Han'oar - Family Service
• Tot Shabbat - Tot Service

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Sun, May 11, 12:00-3:00pm: Israeli Independence Picnic (McIntire Park)  Sponsored by CBI and Charlottesville Hadassah. Come celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday with Kosher hotdogs, music, games, crafts, and fellowship. Please bring a PAREVE (No Dairy) dish to share as follows:

United Jewish Fund of Charlottesville: providing scholarships for summer camp more info

Make Your Bubbe Proud Soup Cook-Off: get the winning Butternut Squash recipe which will be served at this fall's New Member Shabbat. All the other soup recipes are also listed.

Camp CBI for summer 2008! Brochure and Registration Form

Camp CBI Counselors Needed: apply today! learn more

Scholarship Fund raiser for Camp CBI: Please donate your used inkjet printer cartridges, laser printer cartridges, photocopy machine toner cartridges and old cell phones in the collection boxes in lobby. more info.

Hadassah: lots of activities going on - more info

Jewish Theater during the Holocaust: Art in Extreme Situations: Thurs, May 15, 4-5:30 pm, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. VFH Fellow Viktoria Sukovata will discuss intersections among art, spirituality, and resistance in Holocaust and war-time theater, music, and paintings and summarize her view of how Jewish theater, music, and art functioned during violent times and analyze specific images from the Holocaust in East European/Soviet and Western visual culture.

Volunteer Opportunities

"Torah Study, Online & Interactive"
After two successful years of "10 Minutes of Torah," the Union for Reform Judaism is adding a new dimension to its e-mail  Jewish study programs: Eilu V'eilu. Eilu V'eilu  differs from 10 Minutes in that Eilu V'eilu will give you a chance to participate, ask questions, and get responses from today's most brilliant Jewish scholars.

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