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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: Kabbalat Shabbat Services at CBA: Friday, February 15th at 6:30pm. Please see below for details. CBA Book Club Meeting: Tuesday, February 12th at 5:30 pm in CBA social hall. We will be discussing Love and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. See below for details. CBA Vintage Jewish Movie Group: The next Vintage Jewish Movie Group meeting is Sunday, February 24th at 4:00pm. We will be watching The Last Suit. Please see below for details. Future Dates for Kabbalat Shabbat Services: March 22nd (Joint service and Shushan Purim Spiel at TBZ downtown), March 29th (Sephardic-style service at CBA), April 12th, May 24th, June 14th, July 12th and August 16th.
Please join us for our February Kabbalat Shabbat Service, Friday, February 15th 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! ***Congregation Beth Abraham is collecting non-perishable food items on a continuing basis to distribute to those less fortunate in our immediate surrounding community. Please bring a non-perishable food item to show your support!
Please join us at the shul when The Congregation Beth Abraham Book Club will be meeting to discuss our next book on Tuesday February 12 at 5:30 pm. We will be discussing Love and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. Copies can be purchased through book sellers on the internet.
Here is a summary of the book excerpted from Prakn Tragr: The structure of Life and Fate is similar to that of Tolstoy’s War and Peace: the life of a whole society is evoked by means of a large number of different sub-plots centered around one family. It is a broad but accurate portrayal of life in Russia from the pre-Revolutionary period, the Second World War, and under Stalinist rule. Please RSVP to Shelly at if you plan to join us so that we can notify you of any time or location changes. For those who like to read ahead, our next selection is Mori Sa’id by Hayim Hazaz, which we will meet to discuss in March at the shul. Watch our website for further information.
The next Vintage Jewish Movie Group meeting is Sunday, February 24th at 4:00 pm (doors open at 3:30 pm). We will be watching The Last Suit.
Here is a plot synopsis: A Polish-born Holocaust survivor decides to travel from Buenos Aires to Lodz to fulfill a promise he made nearly 70 years earlier. Despite a bum right leg that he nicknames “tzuris” because of the aggravation it gives him, stubborn, 88-year-old retired tailor Abraham Bursztein still has plenty of fight and flair left in him. Unfortunately, his family refuses to recognize it. Argentine writer-director Pablo Solarz’s touching, albeit occasionally heavy-handed, drama, late-life road movie boasts plenty of poignant and humorous moments and Jewish-interest content. Click here to view the trailer. If you have any questions, or need more information about the Vintage Jewish Movie Group, please contact Marty.
CBA is excited to host a Sephardic-style musical Kabbalat Shabbat service on March 29th. But before we do, we are inviting the Buffalo Jewish Community to participate in an open rehearsal at CBA, Thursday, March 14th at 6:00pm, where you can listen, learn and sing along!
Pizza, salad and drinks will be provided (giving new meaning to the term, “rehearsal dinner”). Please RSVP to Marty Kerker if you are planning on coming to the rehearsal to ensure there will be enough food for everyone. Additionally, you can listen to the new songs on CBA’s YouTube channel so that when you come to our Sephardic-style service on March 29th, you can hit the ground running! Click HERE See you there!
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. To listen to the NEW songs for our upcoming Sephard-ish service, click HERE |
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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:
New Sign Added to CBA Exterior...
CBA has new signage on the front door of our building. The new sign is a beautiful scroll design and showcases contact information for the shul. The sign was designed by Grant Golden and hung by Jim Carr (pictured).
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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