Adult Education Learn with Rabbi Shapiro - Bread and Torah Every Shabbat morning 9 am on Zoom - Monday Evening Classes beginning October 19 7:30 pm, Topic TBA Congregation B’nai Jacob wishes you a hea ...

We are excited to announce that beginning Friday night, July 24, (weather permitting), Shabbat evening services will be held OUTDOORS in the courtyard in accordance with guidelines for social distanci ...

Our Building is Closed, but Our Community Open! Please join us on livestream or zoom! To register for a Zoom event, please call the office at (203) 389-2111 Shavuot livestream or Zoom Thursday, May 28 ...

Guest Speaker Series Sunday, March 15 at 10 am Debra Sachs, M.A. Hearing Loss:  Listening and Communication Tools and Tips Do you have a hearing loss or do you know someone who does?  Are you ever fru ...

Learning and Prayer Bread & Torah Every Shabbat Morning Before Services, 9:00 - 9:45am Rabbi Shapiro explores the weekly Torah portion and how its story relates to our own.  She is currently teach ...

Learning and Prayer Bread & Torah Every Shabbat Morning Before Services, 9:00 - 9:45am Rabbi Shapiro explores the weekly Torah portion and how its story relates to our own.  Lively discussion over ...

Learning and Prayer Bread & Torah Every Shabbat Morning Before Services, 9:00 - 9:45am Rabbi Shapiro explores the weekly Torah portion and how its story relates to our own.  Lively discussion over ...

Guest Speakers Sunday, October 27, 10 AM Adina Hoffman: “Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City” Award winning essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman will discuss her book “Till We Have ...

CBJ’s Big Read 2019 “Eternal Life” Our big read this year, “Eternal Life,” is Dara Horn’s most recent novel about a woman who lives forever despite her overwhelming desire to die.  Born at the time of ...

Shabbat Lunch & Learn Saturday, May 4, after Kiddush (12:30 pm) Mark Gottdiener, PhD, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, U. at Buffalo, Winner of the Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award of the American ...

Community Event Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum is the founder of ZION:  An Eretz Israeli Congregation in Jerusalem; and co-founder of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis at the Hartman Institute and HaMid ...

Guest Speakers Cormac Levenson, Executive Director and Lead Meditation Instructor, Elm Village, New Haven, Sunday, February 3 at 10:00am “The Sh’ma and Mindfulness:  How the practice of meditation can ...

Special Events Martin Luther King Commemorative Weekend The Shoreline Soul Gospel Choir, led by Angela Clemens, Friday, January 18 at 6:30 pm.  MLK Friday night service featuring the Shoreline Soul Go ...

Special Events Martin Luther King Commemorative Weekend The Shoreline Soul Gospel Choir led by Angela Clemens, Friday, January 18, 6:30 pm MLK Friday night service featuring the Shoreline Soul Gospel ...

Guest Speaker Series Saturday, December 1, 12:30 pm, after Kiddush Jaime Gerber, MD, FACC Assoc. Prof. Clinical Medicine, Yale University “You Should Live so Long!  A Guide to Longevity” Israel ranked ...

Guest Speaker Series Sunday, November 4, 10 am at BEKI, New Haven Rabbi Martin S. Cohen, Editor of the new Lev Shalem edition of Pirke Avot:  Ethics of the Fathers “How to Live a Good Life:  What does ...