1972 NW Flanders Street, Portland, Oregon 97209 | (503) 222-1069
1972 NW Flanders Street, Portland, Oregon 97209 | (503) 222-1069
Join us for our Shabbat, educational, musical, and social programming! All the links you need to participate in CBI’s virtual programming can be found below in chronological order. If you missed or want to revisit one of our past programs, scroll down to the bottom of the page. We’ve archived the recordings in the drop-down menu below.
In continued response to the Covid-19 pandemic, masks are optional–but certainly welcome–for all who join us on the CBI Campus. We continue to strongly encourage members of our community, and of the greater Portland community, to be fully vaccinated.
Kabbalat Shabbat
Fridays, 6:00 PM
Torah Study
Saturdays, 9:00 AM
Shabbat Morning Services
Saturdays, 10:30 AM
Mahjong
Friday, February 3, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants be masked
Refugee Shabbat
Friday, February 3, 6:00 PM
In-Person and Online
Pollin Chapel
Tot Shabbat
Saturday, February 4, 9:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Pollin Chapel
Bar Mitzvah of Oliver Papkin and Shabbat Morning Services
Saturday, February 4, 10:30 AM
In-Person and Online
Main Sanctuary
Date Night
Saturday, February 4, 5:00 PM
In-Person ONLY
Goodman Hall
Signup link forthcoming
Book Club
Sunday, February 5, 10:00 AM
Online ONLY
Knit-a-Mitzvah
Wednesday, February 8, 10:30 AM
In-Person ONLY
Goodman Hall
Sisterhood Quarterly Gathering: Mindfulness through Jewish Yoga
Led by Cantor Cahana and Cantor Green
Thursday, February 9, 6:30 PM
In-Person ONLY
Goodman Hall
Mahjong
Friday, February 10, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants be masked
Oneg! Shabbat
Friday, February 10, 6:00 PM
In-Person and Online
Pollin Chapel
Shabbrunch with JND
Saturday, February 11, 10:30 AM
In-Person ONLY
Goodman Hall
$10; RSVP Required
Mahjong
Friday, February 17, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants be masked
Tot Shabbat
Saturday, February 18, 9:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Pollin Chapel
Bar Mitzvah of Shai Braun and Shabbat Morning Services
Saturday, February 18, 10:30 AM
In-Person and Online
Main Sanctuary
No Religious School
Sunday, February 19
The Neglected Survivors: Soviet Jews Under Nazi Rule
A lecture featuring Professor Natan M. Meier
Sunday, February 19, 2:00 PM
Pollin Chapel
In-Person and Online
Co-sponsored by Jewish Family and Child Services (JFCS), the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Thanks also to The Jewish Federations and the Center on Holocaust Survivor Care for supporting this program.
Mahjong
Friday, February 24, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants be masked
Sisterhood Shabbat
Friday, February 24, 6:00 PM
In-Person and Online
Pollin Chapel
Social Action Committee Meeting
Wednesday, March 1, 3:00 PM
Online ONLY
Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87452970221
Mahjong
Friday, March 3, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants wear masks
Tot Shabbat
Saturday, March 4, 9:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Pollin Chapel
Bar Mitzvah of Aaron Geller and Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, March 4, 10:30 AM
In-Person and Online
Main Sanctuary
Join via our Livestream: https://www.bethisrael-pdx.org/worship/watch-services-live/
Date Night
Saturday, March 4, 5:00 PM
In-Person ONLY
Goodman Hall
Signup link forthcoming
CBI Book Club
Sunday, March 5, 10:00 AM
Online ONLY
Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83962733008
Purim Carnival
Sunday, March 5, 9:30 AM
In-Person ONLY
Goodman Hall
Schpielin’ in the Rain
CBI’s 5783 Purim Schpiel
Monday, March 6, 6:00 PM
In-Person and Online
Main Sanctuary
Join via our Livestream: https://www.bethisrael-pdx.org/worship/watch-services-live/
Knit-a-Mitzvah
Wednesday, March 8, 10:30 AM
In-Person ONLY
Goodman Hall
Discussion with Author Maggie Anton
Presented by WRJ/Beth Israel Sisterhood
Wednesday, March 8, 7:00 PM
Online ONLY
Zoom link to follow
WRJ/Beth Israel Sisterhood Board Meeting
Thursday, March 9, 6:00 PM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
A Climate of Self-Censorship
Presented by CBI’s Adult Education Committee
Thursday, March 9, 7:00 PM
In-Person and Online
Pollin Chapel
Mahjong
Friday, March 10, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants wear masks
Oneg! Shabbat
With CBI’s youth band and choir, the Oneg Singers and Oneg Band
Friday, March 10, 6:00 PM
In-Person and Online
Pollin Chapel
Join via our Livestream: https://www.bethisrael-pdx.org/worship/watch-services-live/
Bar Mitzvah of Joseph Oderberg and Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, March 11, 10:30 AM
In-Person and Online
Main Sanctuary
Join via our Livestream: https://www.bethisrael-pdx.org/worship/watch-services-live/
Mahjong
Friday, March 17, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants wear masks
Taste of Temple: The Next Course
Sunday, March 19, 5:00 PM
In-Person Only
Goodman Hall
Details and tickets at https://www.bethisrael-pdx.org/taste/
Mahjong
Friday, March 24, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants wear masks
Religious School Spring Break
Sunday, March 26
Sunday, April 2
Mahjong
Friday, March 31, 10:00 AM
In-Person ONLY
Shirley and Herbert Semler Board Room
Players request that all participants wear masks
Reparations: Confronting Racial Injustice (Part I of IV)
The Historicity of Chanukah: and Adult Education
Visualizing the Sacred: the Windows of the Sanctuary
Adult Education: to Zoom or Not to Zoom?
Visualizing the Sacred: The Craftspeople Who Built and Designed the Sanctuary
Mitzvah Day Voter Rights and Suppression 5.16.21
Teaching Tuesdays with Eileen Kane: 5.12.21
Combating Hate Crimes with Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum: 02.02.21
Teaching Tuesday Travel Photography with Beth and Richie Wolff: 1.26.2021
Tiny Taste of Temple Dough Preparation: 1.24.21
Sisterhood Community Havdalah: 1.23.21
Adult Ed: Anti-Semitism Today: 1.20.21
Congregational Candle Lighting and Author Eric Kimmel: A Chanukah Conversation: 12.17.20
Social Action Candle Lighting and Sharing the Light Fair: 12.16.20
Congregational Candle Lighting and Stump the Singers: 12.15.20
Sisterhood Candle Lighting: 12.14.20
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: 12.13.20
Diverse Communities Candle Lighting: 12.13.20
Mini Mensch Chanukah Celebration 12.12.20
Challah-Kuh Braiding Class: 12.11.20
Air Fryer Sufganiyot How-To: 12.10.20
Teaching Tuesday: Immunology with Rita Effros: 12.8.20
Anti-Racism Social Action Sisterhood Discussion: 12.02.20
Gender Identity and Jewish Tradition: 11.19.20
Adult Education: Prophets and Islam: 11.12.20
Adult Education: The Prophets and Mormonism: 10.29.20
Rabbi Cahana on the Passing of Justice Ginsburg (z”l)
Sexy Scriptures Part 4: 8.12.20
Sexy Scriptures Part 3: 8.5.20
Sexy Scriptures Part 2: 7.22.20
Sexy Scriptures Part 1: 7.15.20
The Blessing for Wearing a Mask: 6.29.20
A Look at Jewish Folk Medicine (Part 2): 6.22.20
Kathleen Sadat D’var on Juneteenth: 6.19.20
A Look at Jewish Folk Medicine (Part 1): 6.14.20
Romance of the Sephardim 6.10.20
Sisterhood Board Installation: 6.5.20
Tiny Taste of Temple Dough Preparation: 1.24.21
Congregational Candle Lighting and Stump the Singers: 12.15.20
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: 12.13.20
Mini Mensch Chanukah Celebration 12.12.20
Mini Mensches: Gratitude Shabbat: 11.20.20
Mini Mensches: The Unicorn Song: 10.23.20
Mazel Tov Class of 5780: 8.7.20
Middle School Town Hall: 8.5.20
Upper Elementary Town Hall: 8.4.20
Shabbat Morning Service and Bat Mitzvah of Ella Weprin: 1.16.21
Shabbat Morning Service and Bar Mitzvah of Lev Mitchell: 12.19.20
Havdalah Bat Mitzvah of Molly McCoy: 12.11.20
Shabbat Morning Service and Charlotte Wylde’s Bat Mitzvah: 11.24.20
Havdalah Service and Hannah Waxman’s Bat Mitzvah: 10.24.20
Havdalah Service and Brady Girard’s Bar Mitzvah: 10.17.20
Havdalah Service and Madeleine Garfinkle’s Bat Mitzvah: 10.10.20
Havdalah Service and Everett Hoffman’s Bar Mitzvah: 10.3.20
Sophia Hoffman’s Bat Mitzvah: 10.1.20
Shabbat Morning Service and Shai Gerard’s Bar Mitzvah: 9.12.20
Havdalah Service and Coco Pike’s Bat Mitzvah: 9.5.20
Shabbat Morning Service and Lila Bean’s Bat Mitzvah: 9.5.20
Havdalah Service and Ben Kane’s Bar Mitzvah: 8.29.20
Shabbat Morning Service and Ali Koplan’s Bat Mitzvah: 8.29.20
Havdalah Service and Maia Groner’s Bat Mitzah: 8.22.20
Gaby Halmos’ Bat Mitzvah: 8.20.20
Havdalah Service and Miriam Chapiro’s Bat Mitzvah: 8.8.20
Shabbat Morning Service and Anouk Cohen’s Bat Mitzvah: 8.1.20
Havdalah Service and Zachary Goldwyn’s Bar Mitzvah: 6.20.20
Shabbat Morning Service and Bat Mitzvah of Dana Josephson: 6.13.20
Sisterhood Shabbat with Guest Cantor Havilio: 02.12.21
Sisterhood Community Havdalah: 1.23.21
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr Shabbat: 1.15.21
Chanukah Shabbat Celebration 12.11.20
Mini Mensches: Gratitude Shabbat: 11.20.20
Meditative Kabbalat Shabbat: 10.30.20
Rabbi Joseph’s Sermon during Kabbalat Shabbat: 6.12.20
Rabbi Cahana’s Sermon during Kabbalat Shabbat: 6.5.20
How to be an Anti Racist Havdalah: 6.6.20
Mini Mensches Tot Shabbat: 5.16.20
Sisterhood Community Havdalah: 1.23.21
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr Shabbat: 1.15.21
Congregational Candle Lighting and Author Eric Kimmel: A Chanukah Conversation: 12.17.20
Social Action Candle Lighting and Sharing the Light Fair: 12.16.20
Congregational Candle Lighting and Stump the Singers: 12.15.20
Sisterhood Candle Lighting: 12.14.20
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: 12.13.20
Diverse Communities Candle Lighting: 12.13.20
Mini Mensch Chanukah Celebration 12.12.20
All Congregation Candle Lighting and Havdalah Service: 12.12.20
Chanukah Shabbat Celebration 12.11.20
Challah-Kuh Braiding Class: 12.11.20
Congregational Candle Lighting: 12.10.20
Air Fryer Sufganiyot How-To: 12.10.20
Re-watch 5781 Rosh Hashanah Services
Re-watch 5781 Yom Kippur Services
Selichot Havdalah Service: 9.12.20
Tisha B’Av, Music and Poetry: 7.29.20
Kathleen Sadat D’var on Juneteenth: 6.19.20
Shavuot Story Telling Panel:”You Don’t Look Jewish” : 5.30.20
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