Rabbi Matt Derrenbacher ~rabbi.derrenbacher@gmail.com~ 315.576.3271 to make an appointment to meet with the rabbi, please contact him directly
Emily’s office hours: Tuesday through Friday 12 pm – 5 pm deadline for eShalom is Wednesday each week
Bikur cholim:If you know someone who is ill, or if you yourself are ill and would like a visit from Rabbi Derrenbacher, please contact the office at 573.499.4855 or the rabbi directly at 315.576.3271.
Note that hospitals no longer notify us when a community member is admitted.
NOTE: Before scheduling a meeting or event in either the farmhouse or sanctuary building, please contact Emily Colvin in the CBS office at 573.499.4855.
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Friday Night
New Member Shabbat Kabbalat Shabbat Servicesled by Rabbi Matt Derrenbacher @ 6 pmfollowed by Dinner @ 7 pm Siddur: Mishkan Tefilah
This year, we will hold our CBS Annual Meeting on Sunday, May 19 at 10 am. The meeting will be both in person and via Zoom; the link will be posted prior to the meeting.
Each year, three members of our nine-member board have their terms expire, and the congregation elects three members to three-year terms. This year, the terms of Michael Gardner, Seth Rosner, and Tim Parshall will expire. Michael has indicated his willingness to stand for election for another term. Seth and Tim have indicated their intention to leave the Board upon the expiration of their terms.
The nominating committee is now accepting nominations for candidates for three positions on the CBS Board of Directors.
Any member of the Congregation in good standing who is interested in serving on the Board should contact Tim Parshall, president of the congregation, to express a desire to serve; please submit a brief paragraph stating your reasons for serving.
The deadline for nominations is April 17. Tim will forward names to the nominating committee to evaluate the candidates’ qualifications. The committee will then propose a slate of three candidates for consideration at the annual meeting. The composition of the slate, along with the names of any other candidates, will be shared with the Congregation in advance of the annual meeting.
Regardless of whether the nominating committee puts a candidate on the slate, all candidates considered by the nominating committee are free to run, and the congregation may elect any three of the candidates. Because of the logistics of a hybrid meeting (with virtual and in-person participation), we will not accept nominations from the floor at the annual meeting. In other words, only members of the congregation who express interest to the nominating committee by April 17 may run for the board at the annual meeting.
Anyone with questions about the process, or interested in serving on the Board, should contact Tim Parshall: thpcbs21@gmail.com or 573.489.9987. The members of the nominating committee are Ben Trachtenberg (chair), Shari Weinman, and Mary Hartigan.
We thank you for considering service to CBS, and we look forward to seeing you virtually or in person at the annual meeting.
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Chag Sameach Pesach!
l to r: Amy Simons, Howard Reich and Rabbi Matt Derrenbacher
What a week! Our community extends a tremendous thank you to Howard Reich for spending a few days with us, sharing his story and the story of his family. He touched the hearts of many who attended the events with his deeply moving account of the many ways the Holocaust affects the lives of the next generations.
Thanks to CBS, Mizzou Hillel and the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism for making this possible.
Read MU President Mun Choi’s blog about the events here (scroll down).
Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski is a play by Clark Young and Derek Goldman and directed by Heather Hatton. Aaron Krawitz plays Karski, with live music by Julie Rosenfeld and Lydia Redding.
This is the true story of Jan Karski, a Polish Catholic who joined the Polish resistance during WWII. He learned what was happening to Jews in Poland, was taken to the Warsaw ghetto and an early Polish concentration camp, and worked to inform the West while there was still time to stop it. His legacy of moral courage reminds us of the results of prejudice and hate.
Performance dates: May 17, 18, 24, 25 and 26. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7 pm and the Sunday show is a 2 pm matinee. Tickets are $20 for all performances; click here to order. Shows will be in the Compass Listening Room at Compass, Inc. at the Hillel Foundation, 1107 University Ave.
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Charles Prejean
6 Nissan/April 14 Pat Prejean’s husband
Iris Katzen Rubenstein
6 Nissan/April 14 Kay Libbus’s stepmother
Glen Lancaster
April 16 David Lancaster’s father
Jack Isgur
8 Nissan/April 16 Sedalia yahrzeit
Julius Cohn
9 Nissan/April 17 Sedalia yahrzeit
Felice Engelberg
10 Nissan/April 18 Bill Engelberg’s mother
Do we have your family’s information listed correctly? If not, or if you need to add someone, please send a note to Mary at maxmax@mchsi.com.
CBS maintains the yahrzeits of Temple Beth El in Sedalia.
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Mazal Tov to Sandy & Wendy Wax on the bar mitzvah of their grandson
David & 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.
Credit card or PayPal donations can be made via the CBS web page: https://cbsmo.org/ 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.
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Zola Sturtz and Angela Marcinic welcomed daughter Raina Maria Sturtz recently.
