CBI admin 7 hours ago 2 min Reb Lisa's Message This week’s Parasha, Ki Tisa, brings us the infamous story of the Golden Calf. The dynamics involved in this episode provide a fascinatin...
CBI admin Feb 24 1 min Reb Lisa's Message - Purim Purim! Tomorrow! Come Celebrate in Community! Purim is many things, some of which are actually quite paradoxical. During Adar, the month ...
CBI admin Feb 10 1 min Reb Lisa's Message Ready for a change in mood and energy?! Ready to come out of the darker, colder, days of winter?! Want to step out of the serious, conce...
CBI admin Feb 3 2 min Reb Lisa's Message Yesterday during Shul School, we talked about the Aseret HaDibrot, Ten Commandments, which appear in this week’s parasha, Yitro. First we...
CBI admin Jan 27 2 min Reb Lisa's Message Today is a significant day, on both the world’s calendar and the Jewish calendar: International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day in...
CBI admin Jan 20 1 min Reb Lisa's Message אור תקווה יחד אהבה We have been through a lot in the past two weeks, in the past two month, the past year. There has been los...
CBI admin Jan 13 2 min Reb Lisa's Message - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Last week we began the Book of Shemot (Exodus), which t...
CBI admin7 hours ago2 minReb Lisa's MessageThis week’s Parasha, Ki Tisa, brings us the infamous story of the Golden Calf. The dynamics involved in this episode provide a fascinatin...
CBI adminFeb 241 minReb Lisa's Message - PurimPurim! Tomorrow! Come Celebrate in Community! Purim is many things, some of which are actually quite paradoxical. During Adar, the month ...
CBI adminFeb 101 minReb Lisa's MessageReady for a change in mood and energy?! Ready to come out of the darker, colder, days of winter?! Want to step out of the serious, conce...
CBI adminFeb 32 minReb Lisa's MessageYesterday during Shul School, we talked about the Aseret HaDibrot, Ten Commandments, which appear in this week’s parasha, Yitro. First we...
CBI adminJan 272 minReb Lisa's MessageToday is a significant day, on both the world’s calendar and the Jewish calendar: International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day in...
CBI adminJan 201 minReb Lisa's Messageאור תקווה יחד אהבה We have been through a lot in the past two weeks, in the past two month, the past year. There has been los...
CBI adminJan 132 minReb Lisa's Message - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Last week we began the Book of Shemot (Exodus), which t...
CBI adminJan 132 minNational Reading of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"Please email reblisa@cbichico.org if you would like to participate in the reading. Please see eBlast for link to the live stream. On Apri...
CBI adminJan 62 minJoy and Obstinacy – A Dvar Torah on Vay’chi 18 Tevet 5781 – January 1, 2021 וַיִּקְרָ֥א יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֶל־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ וְאַגִּ֣ידָה לָכֶ֔ם אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־יִקְרָ֥א אֶתְכֶ֖...
CBI adminJan 43 minSmicha from Reb SteveA Wonderful Simcha for CBI – Our Cantor Is Receiving Smicha Please do me the honor of attending as I receive smicha (ordination) as hazza...
CBI adminDec 23, 20201 minReb Lisa's MessageFormer chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l, claims that the concept of forgiveness was introduced in this week’s Parasha, Vayigash. He says th...
CBI adminDec 9, 20201 minReb Lisa's Message - HanukkahHanukkah begins tomorrow evening at sundown. I look forward to celebrating and connecting with our community during this eight day Festiv...
CBI adminDec 2, 20202 minReb Lisa's Message: What’s in a name and how does this affect our identity, our destiny?We learn in this week’s parasha, Vayishlach, that our Patriarch Jacob has a mysterious encounter with an angel. They wrestle and struggle...
CBI adminNov 25, 20201 minReb Lisa's Message - HODU! Let's Give Thanks!The Hebrew word for Jew is Yehudi, which is connected to the Hebrew word for thanks and gratitude: hoda'ah. What an incredible ancestral ...
CBI adminNov 25, 20202 minHoliday Blood DriveAs you may know, Congregation Beth Israel partners with Vitalant to host at least one blood drive a year. COVID-19 has made the blood sup...
CBI adminNov 18, 20202 minReb Lisa's MessageI continue to reflect on what it means for us to live in a country so deeply divided. Of course this is most visible and present in the r...
CBI adminNov 18, 20201 minBlood DriveWinter Blood Drive: The Tikkun Olam Committee will hold a special winter CBI blood drive at the request of Vitalant, our regional blood ...
CBI adminNov 18, 20201 minThanksgiving Run/Walk with the Quaker Friend's MeetingAt the invitation of members of the Friend’s Meeting, we invite those able to do so, to join in a “walk together” with members of our nei...
CBI adminNov 18, 20202 minSafe Space Winter Shelter's Project Room Key Donation - UpdatedCBI Tikkun Olam Fall—Winter Drive Commencing Thanksgiving and ending the 8th night of Hanukkah. This tzedakah opportunity will benefit ...
CBI adminNov 11, 20201 minTeaching Torah while standing on one foot - Reb Lisa's MessageThis is a good time to remember one of the most central Jewish values, a teaching from the Talmud (Shabbat 31a). This text is referenced ...
