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 ...

Sunday Morning Speaker Series Sunday, October 14, 10:00am Dan Oren, MD - “The Wedding Photo” Drawing from his new book, “The Wedding Photo,” B’nai Jacob member Dan Oren shares discoveries from his ext ...

Ongoing Classes With Rabbi Rona Shapiro Jewish Values and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Rabbi Rona Shapiro Monday nights, 7:30pm to 9pm, November 27; December 11; January 8, 22; February 12, 2 ...

The Installation of Cantor Malachi Kanfer Sunday, November 12, 2017, 3:00 pm To honor and celebrate our cantor, join us for the formal installation of Cantor Kanfer with a beautiful ceremony and CANTO ...

Shabbat Lunch & Learn September 9th, following Kiddush Edie Goodmaster – “Build Me a Home that I May Dwell Among You” The planning and design of Congregation B’nai Jacob’s beautiful home in Woodbr ...

B’nai Jacob Ongoing Classes Zohar: Kabbalah, Part 2 - Rabbi Rona Shapiro Monday nights, 7:30 pm to 9 pm - April 24; May 1 We will delve into this amazing, wild, and mysterious book and gain an underst ...

  Ongoing Classes Zohar: Kabbalah, Part 2 Rabbi Rona Shapiro/Monday nights, 7:30 pm to 9 pm/March 6, 13, 20; April 3, 24; May 1 We will delve into this amazing, wild, and mysterious book and gain ...

Ongoing Classes Zohar: Kabbalah, Part 2 Rabbi Rona Shapiro Monday nights, 7:30 pm to 9 pm February 13, 27; March 6, 13, 20; April 3, 24; May 1 We will delve into this amazing, wild, and mysterious boo ...