UPCOMING EVENTS
February 2020
Chevre Torah with Rabbi Kline
What Torah do we learn from the early rabbis? Chevre Torah, with Rabbi David Kline, is looking to Rashi, great medieval commentator, master of Midrash. In the weekly parasha we see the journey from our roots in antiquity to our congregation on Garfield.
Find out more »CANCELLED: Shabbat Study with Rabbi Timoner
After services, pick up some treats at kiddush and head into Rabbi Timoner’s study for 20 minutes of learning on a big Jewish question. We will begin after kiddush, usually around noon. Duration is 20 minutes, we will always finish by 12:25 PM.
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 6 months-1 year old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 1-2 years old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Morning Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Mussar
Mussar seeks to improve our relations with others and ourselves. The class is discussion based and focuses on character traits, or middot, such as patience, generosity, gratitude, anger, and humility. The method is to study these traits and put into practice what we study. The goal is to make us not just more insightful, but to effect a change in behavior by making the heart feel what the mind knows. We draw upon both classic and modern Mussar writings, though…
Find out more »Basic Judaism
Looking to learn more about Judaism? Check out Basic Judaism with Rabbi Green, Tuesdays at 7:30 PM, beginning October 29 at CBE. This 24-week course is designed to give you a basic fluency in Jewish history, text, ritual, and thought. Click here to read more information, and also to sign up for this year's course. Register Now
Find out more »Evening Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Parashat HaShavuah
Taught by Rabbi Timoner, Rabbi Green, Rabbi Epstein, and Cantor Breitzer in rotation, join us for an exploration of the weekly Torah portion. We'll examine the parsha, alongside both classical and contemporary commentaries. No experience, Hebrew, or Torah knowledge necessary. No registration needed.
Find out more »Israeli Dancing
Whether it's fun, exercise, culture, or community that you are looking for, you will find all of that and more in Israeli Dancing with Rina Rinkewich. $10 admission at the door, $8 for CBE members. First class is free!
Find out more »Caregiver Support Group
CBE’s monthly caregiver support group provides a safe environment and allows caregivers to talk to others who are experiencing the same challenges and rewards and who can not only empathize, and share moments of humor but can also offer valuable insights and suggestions. The meeting takes place at CBE and is facilitated by a social worker from Jewish Community Services of The Jewish Board.
Find out more »Chevre Torah with Rabbi Kline
What Torah do we learn from the early rabbis? Chevre Torah, with Rabbi David Kline, is looking to Rashi, great medieval commentator, master of Midrash. In the weekly parasha we see the journey from our roots in antiquity to our congregation on Garfield.
Find out more »Shabbat Study with Rabbi Timoner
After services, pick up some treats at kiddush and head into Rabbi Timoner’s study for 20 minutes of learning on a big Jewish question. We will begin after kiddush, usually around noon. Duration is 20 minutes, we will always finish by 12:25 PM.
Find out more »K-2 Havdallah Pool Party
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Find out more »March 2020
Parent/Child Swimming Class – 6 months-1 year old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 1-2 years old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Morning Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Basic Judaism
Looking to learn more about Judaism? Check out Basic Judaism with Rabbi Green, Tuesdays at 7:30 PM, beginning October 29 at CBE. This 24-week course is designed to give you a basic fluency in Jewish history, text, ritual, and thought. Click here to read more information, and also to sign up for this year's course. Register Now
Find out more »Evening Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Parashat HaShavuah
Taught by Rabbi Timoner, Rabbi Green, Rabbi Epstein, and Cantor Breitzer in rotation, join us for an exploration of the weekly Torah portion. We'll examine the parsha, alongside both classical and contemporary commentaries. No experience, Hebrew, or Torah knowledge necessary. No registration needed.
Find out more »Brooklyn By the Book: Organized by the Community Bookstore – Featuring the New Release by David Plouffe
For more information, please visit communitybookstore.net. Buy Tickets
Find out more »Thursday Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Green
In each session, we will examine concepts in Jewish political thought. We will explore big themes in political thought such as monarchy, democracy, dissent, welfare, and so on, through the lens of biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern Jewish texts. As in years past, will continue the tradition of holding this class every other Thursday. Bring lunch for yourself and Rabbi Green will supply the learning.
Find out more »Israeli Dancing
Whether it's fun, exercise, culture, or community that you are looking for, you will find all of that and more in Israeli Dancing with Rina Rinkewich. $10 admission at the door, $8 for CBE members. First class is free!
Find out more »CBE Adult Purim Party
Join other CBE adults of all ages for a special Purim tisch in the CBE ballroom. We'll have an open bar, ample nosh, a word of Torah and...most importantly...entertainment! There will be live music, a little schtick from your clergy, and a TALENT SHOW featuring performances from CBE community members. RSVP Now
Find out more »Chevre Torah with Rabbi Kline
What Torah do we learn from the early rabbis? Chevre Torah, with Rabbi David Kline, is looking to Rashi, great medieval commentator, master of Midrash. In the weekly parasha we see the journey from our roots in antiquity to our congregation on Garfield.
Find out more »Shabbat Study with Rabbi Timoner
After services, pick up some treats at kiddush and head into Rabbi Timoner’s study for 20 minutes of learning on a big Jewish question. We will begin after kiddush, usually around noon. Duration is 20 minutes, we will always finish by 12:25 PM.
Find out more »Community Purim Carnival and Megillah Reading
Bring the whole family to our West Side Story themed Purim Carnival! We’ll have a bounce house, carnival games, crafts, face painting, puppet show, hamantaschen, yummy treats, and more! There will be special activities for older kids in the Rotunda as well. At 11:30 AM, join our whole clergy team for a parade, Megillah reading, and West Side Story songs, Purim-style! Don’t forget to spring ahead one hour—it’s daylight savings time! All-access kids passes for games and activities are $20…
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 6 months-1 year old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 1-2 years old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Purim Across Brooklyn: Megillah Reading & Party
Admission to megillah reading is free. Party is $20 per RSVP Jewish communities from all over Brooklyn gather at CBE for a mega-festive Megillah reading and joyfully-spirited afterparty! RSVP Now
Find out more »Morning Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Mussar
Mussar seeks to improve our relations with others and ourselves. The class is discussion based and focuses on character traits, or middot, such as patience, generosity, gratitude, anger, and humility. The method is to study these traits and put into practice what we study. The goal is to make us not just more insightful, but to effect a change in behavior by making the heart feel what the mind knows. We draw upon both classic and modern Mussar writings, though…
Find out more »Basic Judaism
Looking to learn more about Judaism? Check out Basic Judaism with Rabbi Green, Tuesdays at 7:30 PM, beginning October 29 at CBE. This 24-week course is designed to give you a basic fluency in Jewish history, text, ritual, and thought. Click here to read more information, and also to sign up for this year's course. Register Now
Find out more »Evening Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Parashat HaShavuah
Taught by Rabbi Timoner, Rabbi Green, Rabbi Epstein, and Cantor Breitzer in rotation, join us for an exploration of the weekly Torah portion. We'll examine the parsha, alongside both classical and contemporary commentaries. No experience, Hebrew, or Torah knowledge necessary. No registration needed.
Find out more »Israeli Dancing
Whether it's fun, exercise, culture, or community that you are looking for, you will find all of that and more in Israeli Dancing with Rina Rinkewich. $10 admission at the door, $8 for CBE members. First class is free!
Find out more »Chevre Torah with Rabbi Kline
What Torah do we learn from the early rabbis? Chevre Torah, with Rabbi David Kline, is looking to Rashi, great medieval commentator, master of Midrash. In the weekly parasha we see the journey from our roots in antiquity to our congregation on Garfield.
Find out more »Shabbat Study with Rabbi Timoner
After services, pick up some treats at kiddush and head into Rabbi Timoner’s study for 20 minutes of learning on a big Jewish question. We will begin after kiddush, usually around noon. Duration is 20 minutes, we will always finish by 12:25 PM.
Find out more »Altshul Beit Midrash
Larry Magarik of Altshul is teaching four sessions on Darchei Tefilah - the meaning (rather than the mechanics) of prayer. The learning sessions will be held on Jan. 25, March 14, April 25, and May 9 from 1:15-3:00 PM, after Altshul's kiddush. All source materials will be available in both English and Hebrew. Serious learners of all ages are welcome! Please email miriamweiner@hotmail.com if you are interested in joining this warm and intelligent study community.
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 6 months-1 year old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 1-2 years old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Morning Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Basic Judaism
Looking to learn more about Judaism? Check out Basic Judaism with Rabbi Green, Tuesdays at 7:30 PM, beginning October 29 at CBE. This 24-week course is designed to give you a basic fluency in Jewish history, text, ritual, and thought. Click here to read more information, and also to sign up for this year's course. Register Now
Find out more »Evening Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Parashat HaShavuah
Taught by Rabbi Timoner, Rabbi Green, Rabbi Epstein, and Cantor Breitzer in rotation, join us for an exploration of the weekly Torah portion. We'll examine the parsha, alongside both classical and contemporary commentaries. No experience, Hebrew, or Torah knowledge necessary. No registration needed.
Find out more »Thursday Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Green
In each session, we will examine concepts in Jewish political thought. We will explore big themes in political thought such as monarchy, democracy, dissent, welfare, and so on, through the lens of biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern Jewish texts. As in years past, will continue the tradition of holding this class every other Thursday. Bring lunch for yourself and Rabbi Green will supply the learning.
Find out more »Israeli Dancing
Whether it's fun, exercise, culture, or community that you are looking for, you will find all of that and more in Israeli Dancing with Rina Rinkewich. $10 admission at the door, $8 for CBE members. First class is free!
Find out more »Brooklyn By the Book: Hilary Mantel presents The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel joins us at CBE to present The Mirror & the Light, the conclusion of the Wolf Hall trilogy. Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her bestselling novels, Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. Wolf Hall has been translated into 36 languages, Bring Up the Bodies into 31 languages, and sales for both books have reached over 5 million copies worldwide. She is the author of fourteen books, including A…
Find out more »Chevre Torah with Rabbi Kline
What Torah do we learn from the early rabbis? Chevre Torah, with Rabbi David Kline, is looking to Rashi, great medieval commentator, master of Midrash. In the weekly parasha we see the journey from our roots in antiquity to our congregation on Garfield.
Find out more »Shabbat Study with Rabbi Timoner
After services, pick up some treats at kiddush and head into Rabbi Timoner’s study for 20 minutes of learning on a big Jewish question. We will begin after kiddush, usually around noon. Duration is 20 minutes, we will always finish by 12:25 PM.
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 6 months-1 year old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Parent/Child Swimming Class – 1-2 years old
This is a class for parents and their children that will introduce both parent and child to the introductory methods of acclimating young children to a water environment. Parents/caregivers will learn how to hold and handle their child in the water as the class explores basic water techniques based around songs and games. Weekly on Mondays, November 18, 2019-April 20, 2020 9:30-10:00 AM for parents with children 6 months - 1 year old 10:00 -10:30 AM for parents with children…
Find out more »Morning Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Mussar
Mussar seeks to improve our relations with others and ourselves. The class is discussion based and focuses on character traits, or middot, such as patience, generosity, gratitude, anger, and humility. The method is to study these traits and put into practice what we study. The goal is to make us not just more insightful, but to effect a change in behavior by making the heart feel what the mind knows. We draw upon both classic and modern Mussar writings, though…
Find out more »Basic Judaism
Looking to learn more about Judaism? Check out Basic Judaism with Rabbi Green, Tuesdays at 7:30 PM, beginning October 29 at CBE. This 24-week course is designed to give you a basic fluency in Jewish history, text, ritual, and thought. Click here to read more information, and also to sign up for this year's course. Register Now
Find out more »Evening Mah Jongg
All skills are welcome. Please join us, Mah Jongg is a fun social game and easy to learn. For more information about Mah Jongg at CBE, please email mahjongg@cbebk.org
Find out more »Parashat HaShavuah
Taught by Rabbi Timoner, Rabbi Green, Rabbi Epstein, and Cantor Breitzer in rotation, join us for an exploration of the weekly Torah portion. We'll examine the parsha, alongside both classical and contemporary commentaries. No experience, Hebrew, or Torah knowledge necessary. No registration needed.
Find out more »Israeli Dancing
Whether it's fun, exercise, culture, or community that you are looking for, you will find all of that and more in Israeli Dancing with Rina Rinkewich. $10 admission at the door, $8 for CBE members. First class is free!
Find out more »Caregiver Support Group
CBE’s monthly caregiver support group provides a safe environment and allows caregivers to talk to others who are experiencing the same challenges and rewards and who can not only empathize, and share moments of humor but can also offer valuable insights and suggestions. The meeting takes place at CBE and is facilitated by a social worker from Jewish Community Services of The Jewish Board.
Find out more »Chevre Torah with Rabbi Kline
What Torah do we learn from the early rabbis? Chevre Torah, with Rabbi David Kline, is looking to Rashi, great medieval commentator, master of Midrash. In the weekly parasha we see the journey from our roots in antiquity to our congregation on Garfield.
Find out more »Shabbat Study with Rabbi Timoner
After services, pick up some treats at kiddush and head into Rabbi Timoner’s study for 20 minutes of learning on a big Jewish question. We will begin after kiddush, usually around noon. Duration is 20 minutes, we will always finish by 12:25 PM.
Find out more »Joanie & Matt Havdallah Concert
Multi-award winning duo Joanie & Matt join us for a special Havdalah concert, right here at CBE! Proceeds will benefit BESTY, CBE's amazing youth group. About Joanie & Matt: Joanie & Matt (JAM) is made up of NYC-based multi-award winning singer/songwriters Joanie Leeds & Matthew Check. For their songwriting and 10+ recordings between them, they have earned an Emmy nomination, 1st place in the USA Songwriting Competition, Independent Music Award and John Lennon Songwriting Contest Finalist and have been featured…
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