A spiritual, cultural, and intellectual hub CBE for Jewish life 2018-2019 ANNUAL REPORT A LETTER FROM 3

Dear Friends,

This was a difficult year to be a Jew in America. It was also a year in which I felt particularly grateful to be your .

On the morning of the Pittsburgh shooting, Cantor Breitzer and I were leading a joyful Shabbat morning service in which we celebrated two bat mitzvahs and an aufruf, the blessing for a wedding couple. Our sanctuary was full of life, with Yachad students and their parents, Shabbat morning regulars, celebrants, and guests. It was the kind of vibrant, loving, intergenerational Jewish communal experience for which we have become known, that we are blessed to enjoy so often at CBE. When we learned of the massacre, we felt in a deep way how precious it is to share our Jewish lives with one another and how wrong it is for any of us to feel threatened for being who we are.

The next day, I felt so proud of our CBE teens who organized the vigil at Grand Army Plaza in memory of those killed at Tree of Life . That night, hundreds of people gathered in our home for our community-wide sing along led by Debbie Brukman and friends called “We Need to Sing.” I stood in the doorway of our sanctuary, hugging so many of you as you came in crying, afraid, and brokenhearted. Together, we belted out those songs with all of our might, deeply comforted to be together. I will never forget how empowered we felt to collectively reclaim our space, how determined to bring hope and goodness into the world. By the end, there were no more tears.

The following weekend, the nationwide “Show Up for Shabbat” also happened to be Matt Green’s installation as our Assistant Rabbi. The sanctuary was packed for a moving evening of celebration and covenant, followed by a joy-filled tish with delicious food, drink, and dancing late into the night. That evening was matched only by our Founded in 1861, Congregation Beth Elohim— second installation of the year when we officially welcomed Rebecca Epstein as our Associate Rabbi Educator. fondly known as CBE—is a welcoming and inclusive Starting with a big intergenerational family-style dinner that included a flash mob and video tribute, then with a synagogue, proudly rooted in Jewish history and identity, service led by the voices of our children, Rabbi Epstein was embraced with inimitable CBE love. profoundly open to different backgrounds and divergent So much more happened this year, so many moments in which we showed up for one another: moments of points of view. We come together to learn, celebrate and celebration and sorrow and protest, moments of advocacy and service, moments of learning and teaching and worship, honoring each individual’s search for an authentic inspiration, moments of prayer, art, ideas, dialogue and travel. Through it all, what remains is the connections—to our tradition, to meaning and, most importantly, to one another. relationship to the divine. We are a preeminent institution, a spiritual, cultural, and intellectual center for CBE, thank you. Thank you for being the extraordinary community that you are—open to all, eager to experiment, committed to a Judaism that is both fresh and compelling. Thank you for allowing me to serve another year as Jewish revitalization, fostering community and extending your rabbi. As the Psalmist said, “You have turned my mourning into dancing, You undid my sackcloth and girded our congregational values of justice, education, and me with gladness. So that my soul might sing to You and not be stilled, Adonai, my G-d, forever will I thank You.” inspiration throughout the neighborhoods where we live (Psalm 30:12-13) and beyond. Yours, Rabbi Rachel Timoner 4 5

From the youngest to the oldest in our community, and from our newest friends to our most dedicated members, Shabbat is the foundation of our open tent, welcoming all ages and backgrounds.

This year, Friday nights were a focus of our spiritual, ritual, and cultural offerings. Beginning with a delicious preneg, we greeted Shabbat Our Spiritual Community with unhurried conversation and song. Following services, we extended our spiritual space beyond our Chapel walls with the launch of a new dinner AN OPEN TENT and speaker series, featuring renowned Jewish voices, including Joyce Antler, Ana Maria Archila, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Tal Keinan.

CANTOR JOSH BREITZER:

Music literally sets the tone of our communal prayer experiences. It spreads light and warmth throughout our Temple House on Friday nights. It sparks joy and excitement in the Sanctuary on Shabbat mornings. It enlivens

and motivates masses of Opposite, Top: Following the Tree Above: Shabbat at CBE is like of Life Synagogue massacre, we nothing else! Every Friday night we from all across Brooklyn filled the Sanctuary with comforting welcome all into our Temple House melodies, standing up against for this magical time of rest and gathered together on hatred with our community-wide renewal. gathering “We Need to Sing!”. Simchat and Shavuot. Right: On two special Shabbat Opposite, Left: Cantor Josh Breitzer evenings, our community This year we realized that celebrated the installations of Assistant Rabbi Matt Green and now, more than ever, we Associate Rabbi Educator Rebecca Epstein. need to raise our voices in song together.” 6 7

From generation to generation, CBE’ s children are our joy and promise. Our extraordinary educators and staff across our wide range of educational programs—Yachad, ECC, After School, and CBE KIDS— Children & Family Education ASSOCIATE RABBI EDUCATOR REBECCA EPSTEIN: are committed to ensuring our children’s bright future through hands-on teaching, memory-making Jewish This year’s Community Retreat FROM GENERATION education, and meaningful experiences beyond the was so special! It was such a treat classroom walls.

to get to spend time relaxing and Yachad (Hebrew for ‘together’), our K-12 Jewish TO GENERATION education program, seeks to inspire our students, connecting with members of all and their families, with lifelong pride in one’s generations. My favorite part was sitting on the Adirondack chairs around the fire eating caramel popcorn and drinking Rosé while chatting with folks about life. I also loved sharing my love for Zumba and yoga during our classes, and discussing Jewish texts while coloring an illustrated Pirkei Avot. This is something I will look forward to all year until it rolls Jewish identity, a love of Jewish learning and an Top: Our annual Community Above: In After School, we are understanding of life cycles, ritual, and ethical living. Retreat at URJ Eisner Camp brings inspired each and every day by the around again! ” members of all ages together enthusiasm and creativity of all of This school year, our extraordinary teachers and through Havdallah under the stars our CBE KIDS. students: and your favorite camp activities Opposite: The ECC is committed (including s’mores!). Launched the MENSCH program to create to teaching the whole child. We Left: Under the guidance of Rabbi strive to instill a lifelong passion for a caring school culture Timoner and Rabbi Epstein, learning and to foster friendships Created spiritual, musical weekly tefila (prayer) Chazakah is the culmination of that last a lifetime. services for K-6 students years of Yachad, when our 10th grade students proudly present Flourished in smaller class settings with additional what animates their Judaism. educators and support for all learning abilities 8 9

SENIOR RABBI RACHEL TIMONER: Neutrality when life is at risk is not a Jewish value. Silence in the face of injustice is not a Jewish value. The Jewish thing to do is to take a stand, to speak, to act. ”

Founded in 2003 as an experimental community ASSISTANT RABBI MATT GREEN: embedded within CBE, Brooklyn Jews pushes the Brooklyn Jews is a laboratory for limits of Jewish communal life and affirms the values Tikkun olam, healing the world, is at the heart of of progressive, egalitarian Judaism alongside secular the future of the American Jewish CBE’s identity. culture, fostering Jewish involvement that reflects a community. By taking Jewish culture Brooklyn lifestyle. From our Dismantling Racism Team and Refugee Task seriously, and by engaging with Force to our Family Social Justice Committee and the In 2018-2019, Brooklyn Jews launched the New traditional ritual and learning in CBE Respite Bed Shelter, we came together this year to Jewish Culture Fellowship (NJCF) to expand the Jewish be a force for justice, freedom, and peace. We let our conversation by way of culture, ritual, learning, new ways, this initiative both builds voices be heard; we acted; and we made a difference. and activism. In its inaugural year, NJCF awarded community for young Jewish adults fellowships to nine local artists under the direction of As part of a group of ’s largest faith-based and spins off new programmatic CBE IN CBE Assistant Rabbi Matt Green to study Jewish texts organizations, the CBE Dismantling Racism Team together and to produce new cultural content for the ideas that benefit the whole CBE worked alongside community partners to raise a moral broader Brooklyn Jewish community. In a time when voice on the urgent need for meaningful bail reform ACTION family.” Social Justice it feels like only a few voices direct American Jewish and pre-trial justice in New York State. In April 2019, discourse, the need for expansive, creative, and critical the New York State Governor, Assembly, and Senate enacted historic criminal justice reform in New York. Top, Left: Every year, our community honors MLK Day through dialogue is more necessary than ever. service projects such as preparing food for those in need. Top, Left: Under the direction of CBE’s Assistant Rabbi Matt Green, The 2018/19 New Jewish Culture Fellowship was Brooklyn Jews is a vibrant community of young Jewish adults in In coalition with 40 Reform congregations across New Above, and inset: Members of our community stood on the generously funded by the UJA-Federation of New York. their 20’s and 30’s. York through RAC-NY, the CBE Refugee Task Force Sanctuary steps in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against now Top, Right: In Sonic Mud: Ugav Nights, New Jewish Culture Fellow supported The Green Light New York Campaign to give Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. Julia Elsas reimagined the mysterious biblical instrument, the Ugav, through a series of ceramic sculptures. drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants in the state, which Governor Cuomo signed into law in June 2019. 10 11

Sandra Fox Jill & Tomer Inbar Steven Fradkin Rita Iosefson גדולה צדקה שמיום שנברא העולם Sharon Greenberger & Jonathan Fried Robert I. Israel Victoria Rosenblatt & Dave Friedman Samantha & Michael Joseloff עד עכשיו העולם עומד על הצדקה YOUR DOLLARS Leslie & Jack Frishberg Deborah Niederhoffer & Roy Justice Great is tzedakah because since the world was created Judy Nathan & Andrew Fusco Mimi & Jason Kahan until today, the world stands on tzedakah. (Tanna d’bei Sandra & Michael Garrett Jennifer White Karp & Howard Karp Jane & Richard Gartner Yael & David Kasakove Eliyahu 1) AT WORK Rachel & Benjamin Geballe Neil Katz Lisa Baker & Steven Gelman Luciana Solano & Louis Katzman SOURCES OF FUNDS Thank you for your generosity. It is because of you Daniel Georges Sheila Katzman that CBE continues to grow as a vibrant community Erica Heisman & Mark Gibbons Isabel Burton & Zachary Katznelson Danielle Gilbert Karen Kedmey of learning, spirituality, and action today and for Arden & Alan Ginsberg Alana & Ron Kenigsberg generations to come. Dalia & Jacob Glazer Janet & Randy Kennedy Marcia Glick Jacqueline Klein ROB RAICH, PRESIDENT, Norma Gluck Elaine & Bennett Kleinberg CBE BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Membership Frances & Seymour Brooks 2018-2019 Annual Appeal Vanessa Bilanceri & Jeremy Goldberg Toby & Ron Kleinhandler 17% Judy Antell & Robert Brown ECC, Anonymous Lenore Tucker & Laurence Goldberg Rebecca & Eyal Kleinhandler-Dahan To me, CBE is about building community, After School, Melody & Jon Bryant Carol Zimmerman & David Abramson Elizabeth & Aaron Goldfarb Roz Kochman & Children’s David Bryfman Michael Ackerman Leona Braithwaite-Goldstein & Arielle & Raphael Kohan Programs Yachad, Rachel Cahn making connections, and enriching my life Mark Adams Richard Goldstein Jessica & Ari Korner 61% Spiritual, & Elaine Bogal-Calix & Luis Calix Lynn Harris & David Adelson Marie Katigbak & Peter Goldwasser Andrea Kovalsky Community Baila & Arthur Celedonia with family, friends, spirituality, and chesed Jackie & David Akselrad Ariella & Tal Golomb Elissa & Dan Krebs Programs Reid Cherlin Rachel Cohen & Rhonna and Ezra Goodman Miriam & Nancy Krent 13% Daniel Chertoff (lovingkindness). CBE needs our spiritual Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff Jennifer & Lawrence Goodman Harlene Katzman & Steven Kreps Meryl & Timothy Allison Carol Shuchman & Shoshannah Goodman Contributions Kendall Christiansen Jay Kriegel Barbara & Howard Altschuler Kenneth Gottlieb and financial investment, and it has always 5% Charles Chromow Serena & Daniel Krombach Ariel & Blake Altshuler Denise Grab Other Janice Cimberg Enid Maran & Douglas Kunreuther 4% Eileen Alvo Mercedes Sanchez-Casado & Emily & Ron Kustal returned this investment in deep and Rachel Cohen Bruno Grandsard Christine Hess & Scott Ashen Didi Lacher & Charlie Donaldson Jodi Conti Abigail Everett & David P. Greenberg Maria & Mitchel Ashley Ssisi & Richard Land meaningful ways.” Sherrie Glass & Yuri Contreras-Vejar Amy Loewenberg & Elliot Greene Rachel & David Axinn Laura Dicht & Fred LaPolla Alice Cooper Rose & Alex Greenbaum Masha Katz Baer & Matthew Baer Maggie & Andrew Laucius Margery Cooper & Neil Corwin Laura & Jonathan Gross USES OF FUNDS Jocelyn & Mitchell Baker Amanda Leath Cindy Caplan & Mitchell Costom Lawrence Gross Robin & Will Baker Margaret Sikowitz & Rick Lee Ilana Miller & Joshua Dale Barbara Grossman & Michael Gross YOUR IMPACT: Thanks to your generosity, participation Jacob Balter Cathleen Game-Leff & Sanford Leff Karen & Anshel David Debra Downing & Peter Grosz Administrative Betty Banks Emily Kiechel & Kevin Leibowitz in the CBE 2018-2019 Annual Appeal increased by 52% Susanna Zwerling & Jed Davis Dan Grubert 19% Freda & Yochai Baram Linda & Michael Leit Katherine Kennedy & Matthew Diller Barbara Gsovski and dollars raised by 35%. This strong show of support Rita Baron-Faust Carolyn Weiss & Ely Levin Andrea & Fred Dobro Dina Gusovsky Yachad, Eve & Frank Barron Bev Silver & Richard Levitt provided much-needed funding for our spiritual, Spiritual, & Talia Milgrom-Elcott & Aaron Dorfman Emily Berger & Jose Gutierrez Facilities & Anne & Philip Becker Jill & Josh Levy Community Security Joanna Pressman & Daniel Dorogusker Elizabeth & David Hammer educational, and community programming, while also Diana Lopez & Robert Begleiter Michael Levy Programs 18% Sylvia Kahan & Robert Drapkin Susan Notkin & Eric Haralson Stacie & Jeff Berman Tina & Norman Levy 24% Julie & Leonid Dubov Katherine & George Harris supporting enhanced security and facility improvements Inna & Stephen Berman Susan Levy Muriel Frischer & Michael Edelman Louise Harris Ilene Fiszel Bieler & Warren Bieler Leslie & Nick Lewin to our historic Sanctuary and Temple House buildings. Herbert Eilberg Elana Sigall & Michael Hartman Other Jennifer & Hal Bienstock Jodi Kantor & Ron Lieber Sandra Hartog & Howard Epstein Eleanor Miele & Leonard Herczeg 2% Ezra Billinkoff Lisa Lieberman Yachad, CBE’s K-12 Jewish Youth Education Program, ECC, After School, & Rebecca & Barak Epstein Miriam & Alan Herman Victor Ney & Karen Binder Jesse & Kimiye Liebman Children’s Programs Karen Ezra Lara Abelsohn & Neil Heymann continued to expand under the leadership of our new Maud Grice Blachman & Sara Anne & Michael Liebman 37% Glenn Blachman Alvin Feder Lyn S. Hill Lori Fradkin & Benjamin Lilien Associate Rabbi Educator Rebecca Epstein, seeing an Elizabeth Helbraun & Joshua Blackman Maria & Mark Federman Jimena Martinez & Michael Hirschhorn Deborah Litchman Betty Leigh Hutcheson & Rory & Charles Feinstein Julianne & Jules Hirsh Rosalee & Bruce Lovett 11% increase in enrollment with 492 students during the Edward Bleiberg Andrew Feuerstein Gail Hochman Bobbie Finkelstein & Fred Lubow Andrea Wrubel Bloomfield & Lenore Fineberg Harriet & Leonard Holtz 2018-2019 school year. Alan Bloomfield Sharon Alpert & Kevin MacEwen Tamara Draut-Fink & Stuart Fink Teri & John Horowitz Carla Blumenkranz Janet & Herbert Mann Jenna & Ori Foger Jennifer Senior & Mark Horowitz Our vibrant CBE community welcomed a 2.3% growth in Heather & Matt Borstein Marjorie & Jacob Marciano Katherine Doran & Edward Fondiller Elizabeth Howort Maria Strojniak & Jonathan Braus Esta Bigler & Charles McCorkell membership to 915 households when many Jennifer & Daniel Ford Eliza Butler & Jacob Hudson Donna & Josh Breitzer Ariela Rozman & Christopher McGee Jonathan Fox Kay & Paul Hymowitz experienced a decline in new members. Dana Brodsky Sophie Robbins & Eduardo Mestre Joan & Robert Imowitz 12 13

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Board of Trustees Rob Raich, President Jennifer Ford, Executive Vice President Lisa Lieberman, Vice President John Horowitz, Vice President Louis Mintz, Vice President Jack Frishberg, Treasurer Tomer Inbar, Secretary David Axinn* Esta Bigler** Cindy Caplan Neil Corwin** Rachel Geballe Barbara Grossman Randi Jaffe Gale Kaufman Rosalee Lovett* Danielle Mindlin Joanna Pressman Jonathan Rosen Jeremy Schwartz** Carol Shuchman* Molly Silberberg Jonathan Spear** Marc Sternberg * Term ended: 2018-2019 ** Term began: 2019-2020 Life Trustees Jonathan Fried George Harris Lyn S. Hill Jules Hirsh David Kasakove Norman Levy Charles Nathan Clergy Rachel Timoner, Senior Rabbi Joshua Breitzer, Cantor Rebecca Epstein, Associate Rabbi Educator Matthew Green, Assistant Rabbi Gerald I. Weider, Rabbi Emeritus