Featured Events

Here’s a list of upcoming featured events at CBE. For a more comprehensive list of events, click here. Or, to view just a list of upcoming services, see our Schedule of Services page.

Cantor Breitzer invites you to join us at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, as Austria-based soprano Melanie Henley Heyn and pianist Deirdre Brenner explore the personal and musical journeys of a group of Jewish composers who fled Austria just before WWII and eventually found their way to Los Angeles. Through a combination of song, narrative, and theatre, they look at what it was about LA during the 1930s and 40s that attracted the likes of Arnold Schoenberg and Erich Korngold along with the relatively unsung Ernst Krenek, Hanns Eisler, Ernst Toch, and Eric Zeisl. The interactive, multimedia program will last approximately 80 minutes with havdalah and desserts to follow. For further information and sneak peeks, visit http://www.viennatohollywood.com.

We are pleased to announce that our showing of “Vienna to Hollywood” is part of the Second Annual Sacred Sites Open House Weekend May 19 – 20, brought to you by The New York Landmarks Conservancy. We encourage you visit our good friends at Old First Reformed Church for their Open House on Sunday May 20, 1-5 p.m., also part of the Sacred Sites Open House weekend! Click here to view or download a flier for Old First’s Open House.

To RSVP for “Vienna to Hollywood,” please contact Amy Daly-Fisher at afisher@cbebk.org.

Generously sponsored by the The Tom Kolar Holocaust Education Memorial Fund.

CBE Connects: “Let Us Rejoice!” — Neran’nah | נְרַנְּנָה
Celebrating Departing Board Members, Rosh Chodesh Sivan, and the HUC-JIR Class of 2012

6:00-7:30 p.m., Sanctuary

It’s the last day to cast your vote and the first day of a new Jewish month! Join the CBE Board of Trustees, clergy team, and special guests for a joyful community sing-, study-, and play-along featuring you on BanG Studio’s “Jacob’s Ladder!” Bring your voices, instruments, and enthusiasm; we’ll bring light refreshments, percussion, and the most innovative 100-year old worship space imagineable. RSVP by Thursday, May 17 on Facebook or by email to Amy Daly-Fisher at afisher@cbebk.org.

Join us for Jewish Books Cooking, a new musical based on Jewish-themed children’s books and created and directed by award-winning composer and author Elizabeth Swados!

The production is based on a selection of popular children’s books, with a group of young, professionally trained actors interpreting selected scenes with original musical arrangements in vaudeville-style mini-skits. Among the popular books featured in the production are Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher, by Laurel Snyder; Mr. Mentch, by The Mamas; and Beautiful Yetta – The Yiddish Chicken, by Daniel Pinkwater.

Jewish Books Cooking is coming to CBE on Sunday, June 10, at 11 a.m. The show is free! Reserve your spot in advance here, and we’ll see you at the show.

For more information, visit jewishbookscooking.org.

Jewish Books Cooking is being presented with the generous support of The Covenant Foundation.

Click here to view or download a flier for this event.

Annual Meeting Honoring Rose Moskowitz’s 25 Years of Music

Please join us for our 2012 Annual Meeting—this year honoring Rose Moskowitz’s 25 years of music at CBE.

6-7 p.m. Preludes and savory hors d’oeurves, Sanctuary
7-8 p.m. Interlude, business, Rotunda
8-9 p.m. Postludes and sweets, Sanctuary

In accordance with civic regulations and in recognition of our beloved accompanist’s milestone, join the Board of Trustees and CBE musicians past, present and future for an evening full of melody, harmony, rhythm, and a few Brooklyn premieres! Featured performers include (in approximate chronological order):

• Norma Hirsh (longtime cantorial soloist)
• Jules Hirsh (past president and bassist extraordinaire)
• Nashira (f.k.a. the CBE Singers)
• Cantor Lisa Doob, Temple Isaiah, Lexington, MA (student cantor, 2000-2001)
• The Eclectics
• Debbie Brukman
• Galeet Dardashti
• Noah Aronson
• Cantor Samantha Natov (rabbinic intern-to-be)
• Meshorerim (new Yachad a cappella group)
• Al HaKol (new Brooklyn Jews-aged a cappella group)
• Makheyla (new adult a cappella group)

Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime gathering of artistic creativity!

Aural Torah: “Sanctify the Moon” — Kiddush Levanah | קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה
A Contemporary Concert Ma’ariv with Noah Aronson and friends

7-9 p.m., Chapel
9 p.m. Desserts, Lobby

Mark the end of the secular school year, the start of the Jewish month of Tammuz, and make the moment holy by bidding lehitra’ot to the talented Noah, who will lead us in a unique combination of worship and performance framed by the traditional evening liturgy and the mystical rite of blessing the new moon. RSVP by June 15 at Facebook or by email to Amy Daly-Fisher at afisher@cbebk.org.

CBE is a proud participant in the UJA-Federation of New York’s Connect to Care program: “Connect to Care takes aim at the impact of the economic downturn in the Jewish community throughout all of New York City. This program provides a broad array of coordinated services designed to offer you and your family the help you need where and when you need it. Services are easy to access, discreet, and comprehensive, addressing a broad range of challenges you or your family may be facing.”

Some classes and programs take place at CBE; many events are hosted elsewhere. Click here for a current list of all ongoing Connect to Care events.

Click here for more information about Connect to Care on the website of the UJA-Federation of New York.