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Open your mind and expand your soul with programs and workshops. Join the conversation between ancient texts, modern challenges, courageous insights and timeless wisdom
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Green Burial: Violation or Virtue?

The Climate Crisis & Jewish Law with Rabbi Adina Lewittes.

February 11 & 18, 2025, 8-9:30pm EST

Cost: $54 per person for two sessions

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Torah of Death with Rabbi Adina Lewittes

Session 1: Why & How to Die 
Wednesday, February 19
The Birth of Death
7:00-8:00 pm EST 
An immersive exploration of texts and traditions about why life was designed to come to an end. 

Wednesday, February 26
Narratives of Death
7:00-8:00 pm EST 
Jewish deathbed stories and the insights they teach us.

 

Session 2: Death & Innocence 
Wednesday, March 12
The God of Tragedy
12:00-1:00 pm EST 
How have Jewish thinkers throughout the ages explained why God allows the innocent to suffer? 

Wednesday, March 19
October 7 & the Future of Faith
12:00-1:00 pm EST
What sense can we make of the most brutal massacre of Jews since the Shoah? 

Previous Programs

Invite Dini to your community for one of the exciting programs below!
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Family Hanukkah Party

Featuring a magical experience with Jody Mihaly of Montreal Magic

Please join us for the Inaugural Event
of the LJCC@CBB

DECEMBER 29, 5 pm – 7 pm.

IVRY SUR LE LAC

Address provided upon registration

Cost: $5 per person or $18 per family

Registration in advance is appreciated via email - info@cbbmtl.org. A portion of the registration proceeds will be donated to our IVOW (Israeli Veterans of War) program

Made possible by the Morris & Rosalind Goodman Family Federation, the Azrieli-Blanc Family and the Howard Stotland Family Foundation.

REGISTER HERE
What Now?
One year later: Belief. Obligation. Prayer. Belonging.

October 7, the war in Israel and the explosion of antisemitism around the world prompted many and varied Jewish crises and opportunities. Some people lost - and some found - faith, community, and observance. Many struggled to maintain their Jewish coherence in a profoundly and painfully altered world. One year later, it’s time to get back to basics and consider our relationships to the foundations of our Jewish lives: belief; obligation; prayer; and belonging. How have they changed? How have they been challenged? How have they been sustained? What can the tradition itself offer as we reimagine and renew our Jewish selves for the year ahead? 

Tuesdays, 7 pm – 8:30 pm: Nov, 26, Dec 3, 10 & 17.

Cost: $144 per person for 4 sessions

 

Online and in person in NYC (location TBA)

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Shabbat
Havdalah Gathering December 7, 2024

Join Dini to mine the spiritual beauty of the last hour of Shabbat with soothing melodies, deep wisdom, and grounding meditations.

December 7, 2024, 4 pm-5:45pm. 

 

At a private home on the Upper West side. Location shared upon registration.

Cost: $36 per person

REGISTER HERE
Groundwaves
GroundWaves Special Election Edition: What Just Happened?

With tensions, fears and hopes running high around the recent US Presidential election, GroundWaves will offer a special edition to reflect upon and process the results that will shape the USA and the world for the coming four years and beyond.

GroundWaves is a unique, online audio/visual podcast that weaves beautiful music, deep Jewish wisdom, and inspiring conversation with a guest leader, activist, artist or thinker. Hosted by Dini and musician Dan Nadel.

THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.

MORE INFO SOON!
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Intermarriage Beit Midrash
The Intermarriage Beit Midrash

The Pew 2020 study of American Jews confirms that the overall rate of marriage between Jews and people of other faiths or cultural backgrounds is holding steady at 60%, with those outside of the Orthodox community…

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