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  • <span class="slider_title"> Welcome to B'nai Israel Southbury, CT </span> <span class="slider_description">Our doors are open to all who seek to worship, learn and serve the community. Our goal is to broaden the understanding of Judaism, and through better understanding establish each individual’s relationship with G-d. Join us to experience our interactive service. Come learn with us.</span>
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  • <span class="slider_title"> Open to All </span> <span class="slider_description">Setting B’nai Israel apart is its spiritual leadership, commitment to advocacy, and inclusiveness with a welcoming of traditional, single parent, interfaith and other modern families among the greater B’nai Israel family that is a home for all generations.</span>
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  • <span class="slider_title"> William and Audrey Walzer Enrichment Center </span> <span class="slider_description">This center includes a spacious social hall that can accommodate more than 300 guests — ideal for celebrations and community events. The campus also features a secure educational wing with a private drive-up entrance and multiple classrooms, available for meetings, workshops, and educational and enrichment programs. See The Jewish Center, LLC menu above for more information.</span>
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A Message Concerning the Current Situation in Minnesota and Elsewhere Regarding ICE -

The Greater New Haven Board of Rabbis and Cantors, representing area Jewish clergy, write to express our moral outrage over the behavior of federal authorities in Minnesota and elsewhere in this country. The violence ICE has systematically visited upon protesters, and falsehoods spread regarding the victims, stand in direct opposition to the teachings of our faith.

A bedrock Jewish teaching is the prohibition on murder. (Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17). The killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good must be fairly and honestly investigated, lest illegality reign in place of justice. The culture of violence in ICE that helped foment these killings must also be investigated.

We are likewise mindful of the Bible’s admonitions not to wrong or oppress the stranger (Exodus 22:20-23). Deuteronomy 10:18-19 tells us of God: “God defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners.” We are warned about this in the Bible no less than 36 times.

Other important writings beseech us to protect immigrants in our land, not to hound and persecute them. Our nation’s first President, George Washington, similarly counseled that ours must be a government “which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

We pray that the reaffirmation of these moral standards might help to bring reconciliation and accountability to our country, which so badly needs it. 

Signed,

The Greater New Haven Board of Rabbis and Cantors

A Message from our friends and long-term congregants Lorraine Luger and Dennis Guillaume in Minneapolis –

Lorraine & Dennis’ Minneapolis synagogue Shir Tikvah started the Yesod Mutual Aid Fund to directly support individuals and families navigating instability and harm, particularly those most impacted by ICE and the occupation of the Twin Cities. To learn more and to donate, please visit https://www.yesodfund.org/

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A Symphony in Glass

In the quiet hush of sacred space, sunlight pours through colored glass.  A mosaic of stories, bold and tender, woven in light.
Each pane, distinct in hue and form, holds its truth, its purpose, its place. But it is together, only together, that they sing.
Just as our stained glass finds beauty not in sameness but in union, so too does our community shine when every soul is seen, every voice heard.
We stand for a world like this,  where differences are not divided, but gathered in peace, and where light, refracted through many,
becomes something holy.

 

Our campus is a gun-free zone

Office Hours

Monday - Closed
Tuesday - 8:30am-1:30pm
Wednesday - 8:30am-1:30pm
Thursday - 8:30am-1:30pm
Friday - 2:00pm-6:00pm
* Sunday - 8:30am-12:30pm
* (when religious school is in session)

We invite you to visit us during office hours to tour the campus, meet staff, and learn about membership opportunities. Please call us at 203.267.3394 to make an appointment.

We look forward to seeing you.
Shalom. A Day of Peace.

Fri, February 13 2026 26 Shevat 5786