Newsletter

Saturday Morning
Rabbi Cohen leads a Reform Shabbat morning service at 10 am in person (outdoors in the tent) and via Zoom. Prayerbooks are not needed. B’nai mitzvah students and their families are encouraged to attend. We’ll sing, chant, read from the Torah, have a few words of Torah.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83900854580 ~ Meeting ID 839 0085 4580

Torah study follows Reform services in person and via Zoom at 11 am.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84491167901 ~ Meeting ID: 844 9116 7901

Parashat Chol ha-Moed Sukkot

Haftarah – Ezekiel 38:18-39:16

Here are links to this week’s texts via Sefaria: 
Torah: https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.33.12-34.26?lang=bi&aliyot=0
Haftarah: https://www.sefaria.org/Ezekiel.38.18?lang=bi

Religious School meets 9:30 am-11:30 am and Hebrew School meets 11:30 am-12:30 pm on Sunday, outdoors on the CBS lawn. Please send your student with a snack and reusable water bottle. Hebrew School meets Wednesday from 6:30 pm-7:30 pm.  
 
CBS’s Temple Youth Group (TYG) is affiliated with NFTY. Since we are a small congregation, this year our TYG is open to all students in grades 8-12 or post b’nai mitzvah. Students who are in grades 6 and 7 and have not yet had their bar/bat mitzvah will be included in programming events. We encourage and welcome engagement of all our teens. 
 
Our TYG will meet on Sundays from 11:30 am-12:30 pm in the sanctuary building with masks on and windows open. Youth group will follow the same school calendar as the religious school. Ben Rouder is our TYG advisor. Stop by and meet him on Sundays. He also teaches the 6^th and 7^th grade religious school class. With questions, contact Debbie Kaplan at debbiecolekaplan@gmail.com or Ben Rouder at benrouder@gmail.com.
 
Work on our playground includes weeding, adding a weed barrier and new mulch, and power washing and sealing the equipment. The mulch, washing and sealing will cost around $1,000.  Paul Eisenstein is organizing help with the weeding and mulching on October 2. If you can help, sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D48AAAE2CA2FC1-cbsplayground. We will hire someone to power wash and seal, unless someone volunteers the equipment and time.

Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D48AAAE2CA2FC1-cbsplayground

Hope to see you then!

Join the Schermer family as they celebrate Judy’s birthday
with a music-filled Kabbalat Shabbat service & concert
on the CBS lawn (weather permitting)

Friday, October 8  @ 6:30 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat services followed by a concert of sacred music
CBS lawn, weather permitting*
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84124865329

We hope you can join us for a music-filled evening!  Rebekka Goldsmith from Philadelphia and Eitan Kantor from St. Louis will delight us with vocals and violin.  
 
Rebekka performs and leads sacred music throughout North America.  She uses voice as a physical, emotional and spiritual practice for activating personal development and supporting deep group connection. Learn more about her at http://rebekkagoldsmith.com.  
 
Eitan is a musician, composer and educator who raises curiosity, playfulness and faith in the ability of each person to be an essential thread in the communal music tapestry. Learn more about him at http://eitankantor.com.
 
No Gifts Please. If you’d like to honor Judy, make a donation to the new Sacred Music Fund, ℅ Congregation Beth Shalom. Proceeds will go toward bringing sacred music performers to CBS annually. 
 
*If weather moves us inside, vaccinations or a negative COVID test required ~ masks required outdoors or indoors

PS: A hearty Todah Rabbah to Julie Deering for keeping True North supplied with desserts nearly every week this past summer!

Josh Parshall will give a talk on secular Yiddishkeit in the American South, on September 30 at 6 pm. Jordan Wax will perform three songs as part of the presentation.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OUYXGG_TRn27KH3ud9eLAw