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Cantor Breitzer spoke to the welcoming, inclusive spirit of our annual Simchat Torah Across Brooklyn celebration in this feature story on the challenges and opportunities in coming together across the Jewish religious and political spectrum.

Oct 16: “In an Oprah-like moment…”

Rabbi Timoner’s surprise Rosh Hashanah gift of star-of-David necklaces inspired a feature story in NY Jewish Week. For those who still would like a necklace, we are ordering 2,000 more and will update everyone when they’re available to pick up.

Oct 16: “The Urban Sukkah”

See CBE’s 8th Avenue Sukkah along with many other examples In NYC in this celebratory Sukkot round-up that quotes Rabbi Timoner: “People get a big smile on their face and they’re totally delighted to experience this aspect of Judaism that’s not necessarily something everyone is familiar with.”

Oct 10 episode: The “Casting at Persians” Edition

Host Noah Efron says Rabbi Timoner’s “moving and unsettling” Rosh Hashanah sermon exemplifies how a spiritual guide really can make a difference in the world—making it “possible for us to hear things that, coming from someone else, we may not be able to listen to.” This part of the conversation begins at 59:00.

Rabbi Timoner spoke at a Union Square rally last Sunday, joining protestors across the country to call for the return of hostages and an end to the war. As reported in Haaretz, they stood in support of “The Time is Now,” a major peace event held in Tel Aviv one day later.

For a thoughtful and thought-provoking conversation about why this year’s Passover is  different, listen to last Thursday’s All of It, featuring Rabbi Green.

A New York Times article profiling Senate Majority Leader and CBE member Chuck Schumer following his controversial speech on the Senate floor last week highlights the role Rabbi Timoner played as his rabbi.

Rabbi Timoner argues that Franklin Foer’s recent Atlantic piece about the end of “the Golden Age of American Jews” tells a dangerous story. Rabbi Timoner writes: “The way to safety and freedom for American Jews cannot be backward. It must be forward, to the next wave of liberal democracy that includes us all.”

Rabbi Timoner was interviewed in Politico about Senator Schumer’s speech.

A group of community volunteers that prepares Jewish bodies for burial is featured in this JTA article, and includes testimony from Rabbi Timoner, one of the group’s founding members. You can hear Rabbi Timoner and learn more about the movement to elevate, normalize, and demystify Jewish end-of-life rituals by listening to this Exit Strategy podcast episode.

March 3rd’s Israelis for Peace protest in Union Square was featured in this Forward article, including photographs of Rabbi Timoner lifting a bullhorn to say that although she supports Israel’s right to defend itself, “continued war and Israeli occupation of Gaza will be an unmitigated disaster” and “a bilateral ceasefire with hostage and prisoner release has never been more urgent.”

“It’s important for a lot of CBE members to care about both people — the lives of Israelis and Palestinians — and care about the rights and the future of those people,” Rabbi Timoner said in an interview about the post-October 7 moment.

Rabbi Timoner was one of several Jewish Americans featured on PBS’s segment about different perspectives to the war and rising antisemitism in the US. Watch it here.

The Forward covered CBE’s attendance at the March for Israel on the National Mall in DC. About 150 CBE members and friends from other Brooklyn synagogues and minyanim attended. Read the article here.

Rabbi Timoner was featured in the CNN article, “Progressives should never tolerate antisemitism.” Read it here.

Rabbi Timoner was one of three rabbis highlighted in the article, “These 3 progressive rabbis are the voices I trust right now.” Read it here.