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Scene 1. Surfing the net the other day I ran into an obituary-type article about David Wyman’s death on March 14, 2018. Professor Wyman is the author of The Abandonment of the Jews, Pantheon Books, 1984, a Holocaust-related remarkable work dealing with the USA’s reluctance to assist the death-endangered Jews in Europe during the German Nazi regime. The excellent article was written…
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This very moving and personal account of letting go was submitted by CBI's Hannah Limov. We hope you enjoy it. Rabbi Justin's six-week serialized sermon, "What is Prayer?", continues this Shabbat and concludes July 21. For more information, call the CBI office at 828-252-8660 Kneeling on the floor, wrapped in my tallis, I felt something unusual. I was crying. For…
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The following essay originally appeared on the American World Jewish Service's website. Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. This date commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. and 70 C.E., as well as a large number of other disasters said to have befallen the…
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The entire CBI family is proud to recognize and celebrate the tireless work of Deborah. May her commitment to reaching across religious, ethnic, culture and racial divides and find that which unites us, inspire us all. The following announcement is from the 6/20/2018 Mountain Express Deborah Miles, founding director of UNC Asheville’s Center for Diversity Education, has been named to…
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On Saturday, June 23, join us for Shabbat services as we welcome Tom and Connie Glaser into the the CBI family. Connie grew up in Detroit, Tom was raised in Grand Rapids. They met freshman year at University of Michigan, the beginning of a long friendship that resulted in their marriage in 1975. Their honeymoon was a year-long road trip…
I'll never forget my first day in Asheville. 1997, standing in the parking lot of the French Broad Food Co-op thinking, "I will live here one day." Throughout my years at Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in L.A., I often thought of Asheville and CBI. Danielle and I were married in Montford. Our aufruf (when the groom is called to the Torah) was in the small CBI chapel. To be honest, I never envisioned being a pulpit rabbi - I love community organizing and non-profit management - but if there was one place I would want to be a pulpit rabbi, I knew it would be here. (read more)