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Mark Your Calendar!All of our services and events at CBA are open to the community. While we do not have regular weekly or daily services, we hold a musical Friday service once a month, High Holiday services in the Fall and host events throughout the course of the year. For details on upcoming events and services, please scroll down.
***Don't miss out on what is happening in and around Jewish Buffalo. Check out our "Community" page to find out more!*** Highlights: CBA Vintage Jewish Movie Group: The Vintage Jewish Movie Group is back in full swing starting October 7th. We are showing The Third Half. Please see below for details. Special Program: Sunday, October 14th at 7:30pm at CBA. A reading by Author, Howard Wolf, Mourning Letters for My Father and Brother: Sitting Shiva in Words. See Below for details. Kabbalat Shabbat Services at CBA: Friday, October 26th at 6:30pm, please see below for details. CBA Book Club Meeting: Thursday, October 25th at 5:30 pm in CBA social hall. We will be discussing Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade. See below for details. Future Dates for Kabbalat Shabbat Services: November 16, December 21
The Vintage Jewish Movie Group is back in full swing in October! We will meet on Sunday, October 7th. Doors open at 4:30, movie starts at 5:00pm. We will be showing The Third Half (2012).
Here's a synopsis from the IMDb: Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but - when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city and Rebecca, the beautiful daughter of a local banker, elopes with his star player, all Dimitry's plans must change. Click here to view the trailer. If you have any questions, or need more information about the Vintage Jewish Movie Group, please contact Marty.
Please join us for a special presentation by Howard R. Wolf, Emeritus Professor and Senior Fellow (English, UB), author of a novel (Broadway Serenade), a play (Home at the End of the Day), travel essays (Far-Away Places), and many other books. Howard will read from a series of "mourning letters" for his father, written in South Africa, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 1988 and more recently for his brother who passed away in August.
These letters were for Howard a form of “shivah” and their reading is meant to evoke a lively discussion of the Jewish traditions of mourning, both ancient and modern. The program will include musical accompaniment (secular and sacred) by Marty Kerker and will take place at Congregation Beth Abraham, 1073 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY on Sunday, October 14 at 7:30PM. Light refreshments will be served.
Please join us for our October Kabbalat Shabbat Service, Friday, October 26th at 6:30pm. After services we will gather for Kiddush and a potluck oneg in the CBA social hall. Please bring a kosher dairy/non-meat dish or dessert to share and kindly label it if it contains nuts or other allergens.
We hope you can join us as we celebrate Shabbat in our historic synagogue. Contact Cantor Gelman or Marty Kerker if you are interested in playing an instrument. We will have small percussion items available to play, too. Directions and parking information can be found on the right side of this web page. This service is open to the community, so please feel free to bring your friends!
Please join us at the shul when The Congregation Beth Abraham Book Club will be meeting Thursday, October 25th at 5:30 pm to discuss Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade. It is available from various booksellers on the internet.
Here is a summary of the book excerpted from Amazon and LibraryThing.com: An ambitious, three-volume novel set in Lithuania between the wars, with its everyday problems and its spiritual yearnings. The characters portrayed will strike responsive chords in today's readers. 'The Rebbetzin' is the account of an ambitious woman who constantly pushes forward her scholarly husband, with the image always before her of the more eminent rabbi to whom she was once betrothed. This novel is known for its richness of character and its moral concerns, as well as the depiction of spiritual yearnings and the secular roadblocks that stand in their way. Please RSVP to Shelly at if you plan to join us so that we can notify you of any time or location changes. ***Our November meeting will be November 29th at 5:30 pm in the CBA Social Hall. We will be discussing See Under: Love by David Grossman. |
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In the past year, CBA has benefited greatly from your time and talents - from the DIY'ers who have taken on the building repairs, to our daveners and musicians. At this year's Congregation Meeting, many new ideas for CBA activities and improvements were suggested. If you would like to help with Ritual, Programming, or Building DIY, please contact our volunteer coordinators:
Cantor Gelman and the CBA Band have recorded our Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat tunes for your listening and learning pleasure!
Now you can listen to our Shabbat songs on YouTube or CD and follow along with the transliterations using the links below: Click CBA on YouTube to listen to/learn our Shabbat songs online. Click Here to download song transliterations. Click here to Order a CD to play on your CD player.
Do you have old photographs of our shul? An article clipped from a newspaper? Memories from a rite of passage that your family celebrated at CBA? A special story to share about CBA's past?
We are in the early stages of creating a CBA archives that would hold all of our legal and historical documents in one place, including our Articles of Incorporation and property documents, as well as your photographs, articles, and written memories. If you are interested in helping out with this project, please let us know by email. Click cba_timeline.pdf to download a timeline of the shul's history, starting from its origins in 1919. 
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