The Search Committee is excited to welcome Rabbi Roger Lerner, our third rabbinical candidate January 8th – 11th!
Rabbi Lerner will lead services this weekend, January 9th and 10th.
On Friday night, services will begin at 6:30 pm, followed by a potluck supper at 7:15 pm. CBS will provide vegetarian pasta dishes from Pasta La Fata and we ask congregants to bring a salad/side dish, dessert or beverage to complement the main course.
Please RSVP and sign up here to bring a dish, dessert or beverage.
Saturday morning services begin at 10 am, followed by kiddush.
Plan to attend services and meet candidate #3!
As we move forward in the search for a settled rabbi, the Rabbi Search Committee would greatly appreciate your feedback on our second visiting candidate, Morgan Tobey.
Please complete it by 11 pm tonight – Thursday, January 8th.
Rabbinic and Cantorial Leadership Fund
Dear CBS Friends,
Over the course of six weeks, Congregation Beth Shalom will have hosted three applicants for our open position of rabbi. We hope you’ve met with or at least listened to the first two candidates, and you’ll have several opportunities to get acquainted with our third candidate later this week and into the weekend.
Our recent messages about the Rabbinic and Cantorial Leadership Fund have outlined the purpose of the campaign (link) and how much money we are trying to raise to ensure that CBS is competitive in the rabbinic hiring process.
So far, roughly one-third of our member households have stepped up and have already donated or pledged over three years nearly $150,000!
We’d love to get that total dollar figure across the $200,000 mark, but to do so we need more of you to consider how important having a full-time rabbi is to you. We understand that households’ means vary significantly across our community, so we are not seeking specific amounts from any of you, but we want your participation. We don’t need the actual money yet; we are just asking for commitments to show how strongly a large percentage of our membership supports hiring a full-time religious leader.
Originally, we had set a deadline of January 31, 2026, for these pledges. The timeline for hiring has shifted, however, so we would greatly appreciate having your commitments in writing as soon as possible—this week if you can.
If you have any questions, please either contact Janna Lancaster or Tim Parshall or fill out and submit the Future 50 Campaign pledge form (link).
Thanks for your commitment to CBS and to our Jewish community’s future.
Tim Parshall, Co-chair, Future 50 Campaign thpcbs21@gmail.com
573.489.9987
Years ago, CBS adopted the parking lot at the MKT Stadium trailhead as part of the city’s “Adopt-A-Spot” litter control program. The area could use a cleanup before Martin Luther King Day festivities take place there on the January 19th holiday.
The Tikkun Olam committee needs volunteers from the congregation who are willing to help with this cleanup on Sunday January 18th from 10 am to noon. Please let Noah (heringmann@missouri.edu) or Brent (brentdeelg@gmail.com) know by email if you can help.
Daniel Boone Regional Library has been awarded a grant and selected as one of the 50 US libraries to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The exhibit examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
The exhibit will be on display in the Quiet Reading Room of the Columbia Public Library February 9 – March 16, 2026.
CBS has partnered with the library on this important exhibit. We are looking for knowledgeable volunteers from our community to serve in two possible roles: (1) a support role to the docents from the library, and (2) lead docents.
Click here to view the exhibit information on the DBRL website. Click here to fill out the form to indicate your interest in participating in the events.
CBS is grateful to receive donations in memory of loved ones on their yahrzeit.
Donate by credit card using your ShulCloud account, or send a check to CBS, 500 W Green Meadows Rd, Columbia MO 65203.
In memory of David Gardner
Susie & David Gitt
In memory of Debbie Shenker
Ellen Gardner
Donations are a good way to remember or honor people and special life events. Your gift can be directed to the CBS general fund, the rabbi’s discretionary fund (RDF), the endowment fund, Tikkun Olam, the library, the Sasha Yelon book fund, the school scholarship fund or the sacred music fund.
Donate by credit card using your ShulCloud account or send a check to CBS, 500 W Green Meadows Rd, Columbia 65203, with a note with details about honorees and where you’d like the notification sent. We’ll send a handwritten card as you direct.
