Shabbat Vaera (I appeared) let my people go! Torah – Sh’mot/Exodus 6:2-9:35 Sefaria link: click here Triennial Year 1 – Sh’mot/Exodus 6:2-7:7 Sefaria link: clickhere Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25-29:21 Sefaria link: click here
Services are in person and streamed click here to access all services – password is Shalom
Religious School & Youth Group does not meet
Sun Jan 18
Hebrew School meets
Wed Jan 21
Clean Up MKT Trailhead
Sun Jan 18 @ 10 am
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.
In the early morning hours of January 10, 2026, the Jackson Mississippi Fire Department was alerted to a fire at Beth Israel Congregation. Damage was extensive, structurally and to objects within the building. Torah scrolls and other Judaica were damaged/destroyed in the fire.
The cause of the fire is arson, and a suspect has been arrested. Statements made by the suspect confirm antisemitic motives for the attack and a hate crime enhancement was added to the charges.
Beth Israel Congregation, the largest synagogue in the state of Mississippi and a fixture in Jackson for more than 160 years, survived attacks like this in the past, including a KKK bombing in 1967. The community maintained its presence and rebuilt its building and will do so again.
The best way to support Beth Israel is to contribute to the rebuilding fund: click here.
For more information about Beth Israel and the Institute for Southern Jewish Life, click here.
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.
The CBS Book Club will meet Sunday, March 22nd at 3 pm in the farmhouse. We will discuss Peony by Pearl Buck.
Sophie Karchawer
29 Tevet/January 18 Joan Luterman’s mother
Stephen Schneider
6 Shevat/January 24 Hank Schneider’s brother
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
Joan Luterman
Steve & Mary Weinstein
Margie Sable & George Smith
In memory of Debbie Shenker
Joan Luterman
Margie Sable & George Smith
Richard Barohn
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.
