On July 13th, CBI Congregant Shelly Rimler will be having surgery to remove a recently diagnosed brain tumor. Shelly is the daughter of CBI Congregants Samy and Rachel Barnes. She is married to Jonathan Rimler who is a CBI Board Member, and they have two daughters, Talia and Adina. Going into Shabbat this week, prior…

Mark your calendar for June 20, 2021. Please join The Orange County Jewish Coalition for Refugees and bring your family and friends to The Mess Hall in Tustin for a fun, socially-distanced drive-in movie to celebrate World Refugee Day 2021! Proceeds will help OCJCR continue to assist refugees and asylum seekers. Click here to learn…

Learning Opportunities with The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism – Free for CBI Members Congregation B’nai Israel is a co-sponsor of the following Zoom programs: The Schechter Institutes Series – From Sorrow to Joy: The Spring Holidays Click here to register for the Schechter Institute Series Lectures.  CBI Members use Coupon code: TustinApr21 Tuesday, April…

Dear CBI Family For those of you who are familiar with the musical “Rent”, these may be familiar lyrics: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you measure? Measure a year? In the case of Rabbi Spitz, how can…

Click to Register for the April 8, 11:00am Yom HaShoah program hosted by Merage JCC  Click here Thursday, April 8th at 7:00pm to join the Yom HaShoah program hosted by Chapman University  

The future is bright! Don’t miss out on the best summer ever!! Camp B’nai Ruach registration is open! See below for our tentative calendar of events, brochure and registration form. Back together again! Camp B’nai Ruach is gearing up to be a fantastic summer. We have planned the great events of year’s past such beach trips…

Passover Audio Bytes: Seder Songs and Commentaries to Prepare and Share Carl Cedar and Rabbi Elie Spitz Click each title below to listen Click here to download the Pesach Songster please note below that the songs  by Carl Cedar are indicated by red and the commentaries by Rabbi Elie Spitz  are in blue An Introduction: How…

Psalm 101 Join CBI & CSP in welcoming Composer David Lang The study of Psalm 101 is dedicated to Professor Robert Alter Wednesday, February 17th at 12:30pm Register Here Lincoln Center commissioned, David Lang (my wife Linda’s cousin) to compose music for Psalm 101 for a 2017 festival on the music of the Psalms. David entitled his…

Click here to make a Mishloach Manot donation. Listen to a preview from this year’s, A little bit of this, a little bit of that… Purim Shpiel! In My Life Shushan on the Roof, The Great Shushan Songbook, Sushanian Rhapsody, Woodshlock, Beatles, all the greatest hits rolled in to one great shpiel! Zoom and sing…