Holidays and Festivals

HIGH HOLY DAYS 2024 / 5785 ~ SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

The  information packet containing details for 5785 High Holidays observance has been published:

Click here for more details

If you feel like you might be able to assist us with the ‘Hagbah‘ function (lifting the Torah) at any of the portions of the service where that takes place, we will appreciate your help! 

Please let Janet know of your willingness to assist! And THANK YOU!

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5785 High Holidays – Memory Book

As we begin to ready ourselves for the approaching High Holidays, we want to remember our loved ones who are no longer with us. One way to do that, is to memorialize their names in our 5785 Memory Book.

The Memory Book requires a substantial amount of lead time to produce so the sign-up form is coming out ahead of the general High Holy Day information packet. Please fill out the attached Memory Book Entry Form with the names of your loved ones you wish to memorialize in this way. This form must be received in the CBI office by no later than Friday, September 6th to be included in the CBI Memory Book 5785, which will be used on Yom Kippur and during all Yizkor services throughout the upcoming year. 

Please click here to access our Memory Book Entry Form

You can complete the form online and either:

• Print the completed form and mail to CBI, 6 Dundee Park, Andover, MA 01803

or

• Save the completed form on your computer and attach it to an email and send to office@bethisraelmv.org

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Yom Hashoah Program 2023 with Holocaust survivor, Judy Altmann

 

Judy Altmann was born in Jasina Czechoslovakia, which was invaded by the Nazis in 1939. In 1944 she was arrested and transported to Auschwitz concentration camp with her niece where they were selected for work. From there she was sent to Essen and Gelsenkirchen Labour camps where she remained until March 1945. She survived the “death march” that ended in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Sick with typhus, Judy was barely alive when she was liberated by the British Army in 1945.

Ms. Altmann was given the opportunity to go to Sweden. She lived in Sweden until 1948 at which time she immigrated to the United States.

Judy, who has extensive experience speaking in schools, is a member of the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Speakers Bureau and is Vice President of the Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut.

 

Purim Celebrations through the years

 

Purim 2020  (during the lockdown)