Last week, another serious heartbreak was felt around the Jewish world as a result of the COVID-19 virus. This time the victim was our precious URJ Summer Camps and Israel trips that have now been cancelled due to the dangers posed by continuing to host these activities this summer. These powerful summer experiences provide, every […]
Join Hillel at Davis and Sacramento for an amazing Shabbat with guest speaker Rachel Tessema, who is of Ethiopian Jewish descent and the Israel Fellow at Cal Poly SLO Hillel. We will hear how Rachel’s family traveled from their home in Ethiopia to Israel during Operation Solomon. There will be time for your questions and […]
Over $5 million is available for interest-free loans to help with financial hardships related to Covid-19. Loans offered to Jewish individuals throughout Northern California and to all employees of Northern California Jewish organizations (regardless of religion). Please follow this link for information. From the Hebrew Free Loan website: Loans of up to $20,000 are available to […]
April 6, 2020 Dear Friends: On behalf of the CBH Board of Directors, we write to offer our best wishes for your physical and spiritual good health in these times of crisis and great pain, and to give you an update on CBH operations and plans. We also want to wish you a happy and […]
Like the Children of Israel who are wandering through the wilderness right now in our cycle of reading the Torah, we, too, have been suddenly dropped into very strange and unfamiliar terrain. Nothing looks quite the same, everything seems a bit odd, out of place. Deserted, even. But we are wandering in a wilderness and […]
Join us this Shabbat and every Shabbat evening until circumstances change for services by a Zoom video conference. You can join on your computer, tablet or smartphone, although it is best if you have video and voice capabilities. No password required, but the links are on our password-protected Partners-only page. Times and service leaders vary […]
This week’s parasha is Ki Tissa, which contains the well-known, angst-filled scenario where the newly freed Israelites are awaiting Moses’ return from the top of Mt. Sinai with the freshly inscribed Tablets of the Covenant. But Moses is delayed. It seems like he has been gone forever. Maybe he’s not coming back at all. And […]
Out of an abundance of caution, given the current coronavirus situation and the likelihood that illnesses will get worse before they get better, the CBH Board voted unanimously on March 10, 2020 to cancel our Community Passover Seder this year. We take the action with great sadness, and with hope for seeing all our haverim […]
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