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Each year, we bring the sweetest traditions of feasting and gathering together with the prayers and songs of this joyous holiday as we tell stories that strengthen our core identities. We find it especially meaningful to experience this journey with our CBST family.

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Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) is a vibrant spiritual community and a progressive voice within Judaism.

The Latest

Parshat Vayikra, 2025

CRRI Marques Hollie on the Mincha sacrifice offering and the importance of tangible actions alongside prayer to sustain communities.

Next Year in Freedom: A Pesach Teaching, 2025

A Pesach teaching about finding difference in the Seder nights and ourselves from Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Intern Marques Hollie

Shabbat Pekudei – Trans Day of Visibility Shabbat, 2025

Victoria Foster of Advocates for Trans Equality shared where we're at with our fight for trans rights, and what we must do to persist.

Events

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Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) is a vibrant spiritual community and a progressive voice within Judaism.

The Latest

Parshat Vayikra, 2025

Next Year in Freedom: A Pesach Teaching, 2025

Shabbat Pekudei – Trans Day of Visibility Shabbat, 2025

Events

CBST Office Closed

Multifaith Mondays

Living Successfully with HIV & AIDS

Introduction to Hebrew (continued from last semester) with Miya Rotstein

Families with Children

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