#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. [...]
This past Sunday, January 15, 2017, the Santa Barbara News-Press published a beautiful two-page color spread on the history of Congregation B'nai B'rith, on the occasion of our 90th Anniversary and Cantor Mark Childs's 25th Year. Click here to read the News-Press story.
It has been almost exactly one year since my father died. During the year before he died, he spoke less and less. Our time together was filled with longer silences, and fewer full sentences. Eventually he could produce no sentences at all, only fragments, and one word responses to questions. Often when I asked him [...]
By Sebastian Fishman The Men of B'nai B'rith (MoBB) got together at the end of August to do some hands on work on CBB. This kind of volunteering is at the core of the group, we are not just getting together to have fun and meet more people (which is a big part of it), but [...]
Our Congregational Meeting was a huge success yesterday – we voted in the new Board of Trustees and approved the 2016/17 budget! As always, Cantor’s Year-in-Review video was a highlight. Click below to view! […]
“My Cantor… The Doctor!” A Concert in Honor of Cantor Mark Childs Sunday, May 22 7 PM Join us for a very special concert honoring Cantor Mark Childs and his entire cantorial school graduating class. […]
SB Cares is responding to the global refugee crisis through community education, and by fundraising for refugee family sponsorship and humanitarian aid. SBCares is a Santa Barbara community partnership. We work on programming efforts to fundraise for humanitarian aid and family sponsorship, and to educate our community with the aim of inspiring our friends and [...]
Jana is back form her visit to the Ubumwe Center in Rwanda. April 24th 4-6pm. Park at CBB and take the shuttle van to the Squire Estate down the street. Learn More Come see her photos and hear her story, see Fredericks latest art and donate to the school's growing needs.