Rabbi Steve Cohen Friday, January 9, 2015 An excerpt from Rabbi Cohen's sermon "Amidst all of the articles and comments I read yesterday and today, one comment in particular left me thinking. It just appeared on a long thread of comments, saying “I believe that nothing is sacred; or rather, that nothing sacred is made [...]
Rabbi Stone's Sermon: THE GOD PARTICLE Aug. 3, 2012 "In addition to feeding the homeless, they were working to create job training programs throughout the city. While tutoring kids in low-income communities, they were also creating thoughtful relationships with their senators to work on educational reform. And all the while, they were doing it within [...]
Rabbi Suzy Stone's Yizkor Service 5773 September 26, 2012 "That was the day that my heart stopped beating in the same way. After almost 50 visits with this one patient, I could not understand how God could have let such a wonderful child endure such pain and suffering. The God I knew‐‐ one of goodness, [...]
Rabbi Stone's sermon from Aug. 17, 2012 Rightness or Righteousness? "For better or for worse—in the Jewish community we don’t use the word “sin” in such an easygoing manner. It is for better —because I would argue that we have enough Jewish guilt—we don’t need to be slinging the word sin around to make ourselves [...]
Rabbi Suzy Stone's sermon from Sept. 19, 2012 An excerpt: "When I first arrived at CBB many people asked me — ‘how are you with names?’ I would answer: “Good...I think!?” But now, having encountered at least 1,000 new people in the last two months, I need to amend my answer and say, “I am [...]
Here is a link of Rabbi Cohen's excellent Invocation during Tuesday's Board of Supervisor's meeting.
Congregation B’nai B’rith, The Santa Barbara Jewish Community Foundation Fund, Jewish Federation of Santa Barbara, and Camp Haverim combine efforts to provide scholarships to Santa Barbara youth. Click here to download the 2015 application for scholarships to Jewish overnight and day camps. 2015 Camp Scholarship Application
Rabbi Cohen and Elizabeth Gaynes were guests on KZSB’s Community Matters radio show Dec. 22nd, 2014, talking about the Temple, Hanukkah, and the upcoming Gala and Mitzvah Day. Listen to the Recorded Interview
The Ubumwe Preschool Project began in the Fall of 2010. Our goal was to build a preschool for the children of Gisenyi, Rwanda and to raise awareness here at CBB about the on-going effects of the Rwandan genocide that took place in 1994. With several other Santa Barbara organizations we raised all of the funding [...]
Jana Brody of Morris B. Squire Foundation describes Hebrew letter series sculptures at Congregation B’nai B’rith in Santa Barbara, Ca, which are constructed of steel and painted acrylics.