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With the incoming High Holidays, we have a chance to prepare our souls and spirits for the work of starting the year anew. This year, we have the unique opportunity to focus on both our own spiritual accounting of the past year, and The Metropolitan Opera's new opera, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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High Holy Days

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah

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Registration is now open for the High Holidays. Rosh Hashanah services take place at Masonic Hall and Yom Kippur services in the magnificent River Pavilion at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.

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

The Latest

Shabbat Ki Tavo, 2025

Rabbi Jason Klein on self-reflection, credentialing ourselves to God, and Heshbon Hanefesh, personal accounting as we approach the High Holidays.

Kavalier, Clay, and Shabbat

In conversation, composer Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer discuss their opera "The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay."

Social Justice Action Roundup, July-August 2025

As usual, CBST is out in the community doing all kinds of work to repair our broken world, showing up to live our values in public.

Events

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