#ShowUpForShabbat: Thank you to our community of friends for showing up for Shabbat! News coverage here: Strength and unity in Santa Barbara following tragedy in Pittsburgh - KEYT Vigil Evokes National Sadness and Decries Acts of Hate -Voice Magazine, issue 11.2.18 (Cover Mention and page 23)
A Night of Solidarity: On Tuesday October 30, 2018, the Santa Barbara Community gathered together at CBB in memory of those killed at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pennsylvania. Over a thousand people stood together as a force of love, peace, and solidarity. News coverage in the Santa Barbara NewsPress and in the Edhat cover story. [...]
History of Pribram Jews First mentioned in 1238, one of the oldest Jewish settlements in the Czech lands. In 1568 the Jews were expelled from the town. Historical sources refer to their number at the time as “sizeable.” In 1853 the first Jewish family moved back, in 1880 there were 332 Jewish citizens, in 1900 [...]
Our Year of Living Torah: My Journey By Judy Mannaberg-Goldman Originally printed in CBB's Voices magazine, Spring 2013 (page 15). In the summer of 2011, I became involved with the restoration of our Czech Holocaust Memorial Scroll #35 from the Czech town of Pribram. My connection was extremely personal; my paternal family was from Czechoslovakia so my [...]
How the Scrolls Were Saved After the defeat of Germany, a free and independent Czechoslovakia emerged, but it was a country largely without Jews. Most of the surviving Jews in Prague and the rest of Bohemia and Moravia were from Slovakia and further east from Subcarpathian Ruthenia. Prague, which had had a Jewish population of [...]
Read Erin Graffy's article from the Spring/Summer 2017 Montecito Journal here: 2017 Graffy CBB story
There's something for everyone! CBB aims to foster positive connections within our Temple community, and between our members and the Santa Barbara Community. We do this by providing opportunities for Tikkun Olam and Mitzvot in a variety of different ways. Whether it’s a visit, a meal, a ride, or a friendly face, there’s a way [...]
CBB held a Social Action Fair on March 5, 2017 where attendees learned about a broad range of local opportunities to take action on causes they care about. Click here to view the complete program of presenters and contact information. The program included short presentations by representatives from each organization followed by time for attendees [...]