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CBST Trans Pride Kiddush Cup

In celebration of Trans Day of Visibility, CBST is thrilled to offer a custom Trans Pride Kiddush Cup created through a partnership with Israeli Judaic Art designer Yair Emanuel. TDOV is dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments and victories of transgender, non-binary, & gender nonconforming people while raising awareness of the work that is still needed to save trans lives. To receive a Trans Pride Kiddush Cup, please follow the instructions below to make a contribution of your choosing from $18 to $180 to help fund Trans, Non-Binary, & Gendernonconforming Programming at CBST. UPDATE: We are currently out of stock. Contact Jkatz@cbst.org with any questions.

Shabbos as an All Gender Experience
"If we take the opportunity to show up for G-d on Shabbos, if we have the capacity to experience G-d, whether G-d is Queen, King, She, He, or They, we are well on our way to appreciating those different from ourselves. By showing up for God, we learn to show up for everyone." Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, CBST's Scholar-in-Residence, Trans and Queer Jewish Studies

Specifications
The dimensions of the cup are 12cm height, 6cm diameter. It holds 100ml liquid.
The weight of each cup including the plate is 320 grams. 
The cup and plate are stainless steel, the rings are aluminum, and the color is anodize.
Plate included with cup. Plate and cup are not dishwasher safe.


Artist Bio 
The artist Yair Emanuel, a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, lives and works in Jerusalem. Emanuel's designs of Judaic art are based upon a fusion of traditional motifs and ancient Jewish manuscripts with modern and Oriental art. Vivid and harmonious colors as well as a mixture of the old and new characterize Emanuel's work, which he designs and crafts in his Jerusalem studio. The principle techniques utilized encompass painting on silk, hand embroidery, raw silk applique, painting on wood and metal designs. Among the staff are new immigrants and employees with special needs.  A portion of the studio's profit is donated to charity. https://www.emanuel-judaica-israel.com/main-page/

Instructions - PLEASE NOTE WE ARE CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK 
1) Click here (link has been deactivated as we are out of stock)
2) Under "Additional Contribution Options" in "I'd like to contribute to:" Select "Social Justice" from the drop-down menu.
3) Enter a numerical amount from $18.00 to $180.00. Your contribution above $18 helps to keep the pricing low for those who need it.
4) Select "Yes" under "Are You Making a Tribute?"
5) Select "On Occasion Of" under "Tribute Type:"
6) Under "Honoree Name" type: "TDOV Kiddush Cup"
7) Skip the rest of the fields and scroll to the bottom and select "Next Page"
8) Select your method of payment and follow the instructions to complete the transaction. You will have the opportunity to review before completing.

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Careers

Director of Development, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST)

CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH

Located in New York City, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) is a vibrant spiritual community and a progressive voice within Judaism. Founded in 1973, CBST attracts and welcomes LGBTQ and straight individuals and families who share common values. Passionate, provocative, and deeply Jewish, CBST champions a Judaism that rejoices in diversity, denounces social injustice everywhere, and strives for human rights for all.

THE ROLE

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Reporting to the Executive Director and working closely with the Board President, Senior Rabbi, and the Development Chair(s) and Committee, the Development Director is responsible for designing, implementing and leading a sustainable development strategy to support CBST’s many ambitious goals for today and for securing its financial health for the future. Development is an essential and integral part of CBST and is interwoven in everything the synagogue does to support its mission.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintain and enhance the current giving infrastructure to expand, develop and cultivate the donor base.
  • Increase funding for the capital reserve fund established to support and maintain the facility.
  • Develop a strategy to establish an endowment fund to ensure the long-term sustainability of the institution.
  • Seek new grant opportunities, while continuing to build upon existing relationships with family and institutional foundations.
  • Lead CBST’s major annual fundraising efforts, which include its Annual Appeal, Annual Gala, two major annual Concerts, Membership, and other special funds and initiatives.
  • Provide regular progress reports to Board of Directors.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Fundraising experience in the nonprofit social justice-focused, Jewish, and LGBTQ communities, preferably in the NYC metro area.
  • Experience in managing annual campaigns, capital campaigns, planned giving, major gifts, corporate giving, and foundation giving is preferred.
  • A track record of success as a lead solicitor of major gifts.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Minimum of 5-7+ years of increasing responsibility in fundraising.
  • An undergraduate degree is required and an advanced degree is preferred.
  • Knowledge of data base and fundraising software.
  • Ability to work closely with Board and staff, as well as independently.
  • Excellent communications skills, written and verbal.
  • A collaborator who appreciates the value of building on strengths of individuals.
  • Ability to think and plan broadly and strategically.
  • Embrace the mission and values of CBST while creating an integrated development program and continuing the culture of giving.
  • Acts as an energetic, enthusiastic representative and advocate of the synagogue both to internal and external constituents.
  • Relationship builder who has strong planning and implementation skills in addition to being able to mold infrastructure while increasing organizational capacity.
  • Ability to foster a team-oriented environment and mentor others is critical, coupled with a creative, innovative and entrepreneurial technique for increasing contributed income.
  • Results-driven, experience establishing and using metrics to drive productivity.

APPLICATIONS

To apply online, please visit https://app.trinethire.com/companies/22607-cbst/jobs

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Emet: Trans and Non-Binary Team

CBST maintains space (currently online!) for transgender, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and gender-expansive people to build community and engage politically at CBST. Emet welcomes people who are questioning. Save-the-date for our next meeting! Sign up for Emet Team updates here or contact transjews@cbst.org. Emet will meet on the first Thursday of each month to learn together with Ze'evi Berman (they/them or ze/zem/zer), CBST’s Guest Cantorial Student, and Ariel Zitny (he/they) Convening Director.

Emet: Trans & Non-Binary Team Meetings
Frist Thursday of each Month at 7:00 pm (ET)

For more CBST resources, visit the Trans Jews Are Here page.

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Class Recordings, Shabbat Programs, & E-Newsletters

This week's Shabbat service details

PROGRAM & CLASS RECORDINGS! ...More recordings will be available soon. We update this page as regularly as we can.

If you are enrolled in a Lehrhaus Hebrew Class, please contact jkatz@cbst.org for those class recordings.

  • Lunch & Learn: Reckoning with the Past - Watch here
  • The Language of Oppression: A Teaching on Language, Women, and the Environment - Watch here
  • Lunch & Learn: Using Stories to Build Connections – and Community - Watch here
  • Chaver Up Book Launch - 4/29/21 - Watch here 
  • Lunch & Learn: Every Last Breath - 4/28/21 - Watch here
  • Two Dads Talking About Talking About Gender - 3/8/2021 - Watch here
  • Poetry at CBST: Joy Ladin in Conversation with Ariel Zitny - 2/1/2021 - Watch here
  • CBST Gathering in Response to the U.S. Capitol Building Riots - Watch here
  • Lunch & Learn: Religious Freedom & Pluralism in Israel - Watch here
  • Gratitude & Stretching Meditation - Watch here
  • Tov L'Hodot and Thanksgiving: A Gratitude Workshop - Watch here
  • Practicing Allyship on Trans Day of Remembrance - Watch here
  • The Role of Prosecutors in Ending Mass Incarceration - Watch here 
  • Mussar Meditations Series with Rabbi Moskowitz - Rabbi Moskowitz will stream each teaching live from the CBST Facebook Page. Recording of each teaching will be immediately available in the CBST Facebook Videos section archive.
  • Rambam (Maimonides)'s Hilchot Teshuva - The Laws of Repentance with Rabbi Moskowitz - Rabbi Moskowitz streamed each teaching live from the CBST Facebook Page. Recording of each teaching is available in the CBST Facebook Videos section archive.
  • Homeless in NYC Oneg Conversation - Watch here
  • Meet the Machzor: CBST's High Holy Day Prayer Book - 8/31, 9/7, 9/14
  • "Prepare Me to Be a Sanctuary" - Watch the video here and view the associated resources below:
  • Round Challah & Chopped Liver Class - Watch the video recording here and view the recipe here.
  • Yom Iyyun: Day of Learning for All Ages: “Aging Begins at Birth!” - Program Here & Recordings Here 
  • Challenges and Coping Strategies of the COVID-19 Pandemic - 7/14, 7/21
  • "Unorthodox" Conversation - with Abby Stein, Chani Getter, Rabbi Moskowitz, and Rabbi Kleinbaum - Click here for the recording and view further reading and resources here.
  • Psalms Study with Rabbi Kleinbaum, Rabbi Rapport & Harold Levine - Psalm Study YouTube Playlist - Click Here - This playlist goes back to July 2020. For older classes see below:
  • 6/30, 6/29, 6/25, 6/24, 6/23, 6/22, 6/18, 6/17, 6/16, 6/15, 6/11, 6/10, 6/9, 6/8, 6/4, 6/3, 6/2, 6/1
  • 5/28, 5/27, 5/26, 5/21, 5/20, 5/19, 5/18, 5/14, 5/13, 5/12, 5/11, 5/7, 5/6, 5/5, 
  • 4/30, 4/29, 4/28, 4/27, 4/23, 4/22, 4/21, 4/20, 4/14, 4/13, 4/8, 4/7, 4/6, 4/2, 4/1
  • 3/31, 3/30, 3/26, 3/25, 3/24, 3/23, 3/19, 3/18, 3/17
  • Pirkei Avot Class with Rabbi Moskowitz - 12/23, 12/22, 12/21, 12/16, 12/15, 12/14, 12/10, 12/9, 12/8, 12/7, 12/3, 12/2, 11/24, 11/23, 11/19, 11/18, 11/17, 11/16, 11/11, 11/10, 11/9, 11/5, 11/4, 11/3, 11/2 
  • CBST Member Only Town Halls: Available via Zoom for CBST members only. Any questions? Email membership@cbst.org, or you may Renew/Join CBST online.
    • Town Hall 1 with Judith Turkel, Esq., and Dr. Nathan Goldstein discussing legal and medical issues.
    • Town Hall 2 with Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Executive Director Yolanda Potasinski, and President Gregg H. Passin, discussing CBST during the pandemic.
    • Town Hall 3 on "Social Justice in the Age of Covid-19: What Are CBST Social Justice Teams Doing, and How Can You Be Involved?"
    • Town Hall 4 with New York City Speaker Corey Johnson on "The State of the City in the Time of Covid-19."
    • Town Hall 5 "Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19" with Judy Ribnick and Dr. Diane Burhenne.
    • Town Hall 6 "Updates on How CBST is Doing During This Crisis"
    • Town Hall 7 “Reopening Schools Safely and Responsibly” with Randi Weingarten
    • Town Hall 8 "Medical updates in this chapter of COVID-19." Rabbi Kleinbaum moderates a conversation with Dr. Nathan Goldstein and Dr. Jacqueline Weingarten-Arams.
    • Town Hall 9 "How CBST Will Observe the Yamim Noraim/High Holy Days This Year."
    • Town Hall 10 "CBST Votes!" Featuring Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum; American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten; Director of Social Justice Programming Rabbi Marisa Elana James; and CBST Votes initiative leaders Sabrina Farber and Harold Levine.
    • Town Halll 11 "Medical updates in this chapter of COVID-19." Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum in conversation with Dr. Nathan Goldstein.
    • Town Hall 12 "Let's Get it Done - Seven Important Documents to Complete and Decisions to Make for Your Peace of Mind!" Associate Rabbi Yael Rapport in conversation with Judy Ribnick, CBST's consulting Director of Aging Initiatives, Kenneth Karpel, CBST Board Member and Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Fellow Deborah Megdal.
    • Town Hall 13 Post January 20, what's next for New York, the country, and our world. How do we bring our Jewish LGBTQ values to this moment? Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum moderates a panel with CBST members New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and human rights scholar and activist Tanya Domi.
    • Town Hall 14 (recording pending) "The COVID-19 Vaccine" Senior Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum moderates a panel with CBST Board of Directors Executive Officer Dr. Regina Linder and former CBST President Dr. Nathan Goldstein. 
    • Town Hall 15 (recording pending) Trans Jews are Here Convening
    • Town Hall 16 Safe Return to 30th Street and Imagining our Post-Covid Future
    • Town Hall 17 (recording pending) Social Justice at CBST
    • Town Hall 18 Rabbi Kleinbaum's Trip to Israel
    • Town Hall 19 The High Holy Days at CBST

Links to recent Shabbat Programs

Links to recent weekly e-newsletters

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PRIDE 2019

Friday services are LIVESTREAMED on Facebook.

Support Pride at CBST

Pride Shabbat

Friday, June 28 / 26 Sivan, 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service
at Masonic Hall, 46 W 24th Street;  ONLY entrance at 71 W 23rd Street
Email accessibility@cbst.org with any accessibility needs.

TONY KUSHNER
Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright

Pride Marches,  

Sunday, June 30
This year, we're marching in both the Queer Liberation March and the NYC Pride March! Join us for either or both, wearing a CBST shirt, cap, or umbrella hat (purchase online and pick up at CBST during office hours). 

  • Queer Liberation March: Meet at 9am in front of Bleecker Street Pizza, 69 7th Avenue before marching the historic 1970 Christopher Street Liberation March route. More information and updates here!
  • **UPDATE** NYC Pride March: CBST will march with all the other LGBTQ Jewish groups this year! Line up is at 1pm at 31st Street, between Madison & Park Avenues. More details here!   

 

 

Support PRIDE at CBST

Support CBST's OPEN DOOR and PRIDE Advocacy
Enter a "SHOUT OUT" in the June 28 PRIDE Shabbat Bulletin.

CBST T-Shirts & Caps

If you do not receive a confirmation email after ordering, please call the CBST office (212 929 9498 x 815) to confirm your purchase. All orders for pick-up on June 28 must be placed before the office closes at 2pm. 

Umbrella Hat  $8 each / 2 for $10   
Cap (one size fits all) $5    
CBST Adult T-Shirts (available in S, M, L, XXL)  $20
CBST Child T-Shirts (limited sizes available)    $15

Questions? Contact Ruth at (212) 929-9498 x 815 or giving@cbst.org.

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