Va'ads at CBH

Here at CBH we have multiple va'ads (committees) and teams through which you can further your involvement with CBH. Please read below to learn more:

Carrying on in the spirit of years-long traditions of Jewish and Gay Softball competition, the BEN GAYS gather each Spring/Summer for fellowship and friendly competition on the field.  We participate with the Atlanta Sport and Social Club’s Sunday Morning Co-Ed Recreational Division league at the beautiful Piedmont Park Active Oval.  Spring Training kicks off in April-May (practices are ad hoc, usually at Bessie Branham Park in Kirkwood).  We typically play in a league that lasts 6-8 Sundays starting in either June or July (depending on weather and when the leagues are offered).  We’ve been at it for more years than I can count and it’s always a blast!

Everyone 18+ (regardless of gender, skill or experience) is welcome to join our Co-Ed team (we’ve even snuck an occasional under-ager, shhh).  If interested please contact Alan Klein at alanmarkklein@yahoo.com to get on the e-mailing list or to ask questions.

Why suffer* when you can swap yarns and stories, eat snacks, and have fun with your knitting chevra?

*It is to love the Eternal with a great and exceeding love, so strong that one's soul shall be knit up with the love of God, and one should be continually enraptured by it, like a love-sick individual (we certainly hope so!)  -The Mishneh Torah, Repentance 10:3 

We suggest not trying to knit while you are in the recesses of the earth, but Psalms disagrees:

לֹֽא־נִכְחַ֥ד עׇצְמִ֗י מִ֫מֶּ֥ךָּ אֲשֶׁר־עֻשֵּׂ֥יתִי בַסֵּ֑תֶר רֻ֝קַּ֗מְתִּי בְּֽתַחְתִּיּ֥וֹת אָֽרֶץ 

My frame was not concealed from You

when I was shaped in a hidden place,

knit together in the recesses of the earth.

-Psalm 139

Contact Shana Cohen for more info: shana.cohen11@gmail.com.

We are a committee of gender diverse people and allies working to make CBH and our greater community a safe, welcoming place for those who are not cisgender or who love someone who isn’t cisgender. For more information, please contact Aran Myracle, aaronmyracle@gmail.com.

The Kef (Fun!) Committee, oddly enough, plans fun community events, both out- and indoors. We aim to please with a wide variety of activities to appeal to (or appall) everybody. 2022 events include: Comet Bowling with CBH friends and family, a taco truck/picnic at a park, adults-only "Tipsy Painting", and a mega-swap/sale of our personal stuff overflow, a la Marie Kondo. In the future, get ready to shake your booty, Israeli dancing style, Glamp with a hike/camp expedition, and participate in Game Night. We want your fun ideas too! Interested in joining us? Contact Amy Lighthill (nightowl100@gmail.com) and be prepared to sing "Some Nights" by the band Fun as your hazing ordeal.

We are a group of CBH congregants who have been supporting Afghani refugees since the tragic fall of Kabul.  We have collected and donated coats, shoes, and socks for the Afghani American Alliance of Georgia (AAAG). We have helped AAAG collect furniture and household items and set up a new facility where families can come and shop.  Since early Summer 2022 we have been participating in New American Pathways Family friend program and are supporting a wonderful family of 9 with English, setting up a household, settling into Atlanta and friendship.  We visit the family for ESL and other support 3 times a week and hope to start taking them out  into the wider community more. To learn more, please contact Kim Goldsmith, kimgoldsmith@comcast.net.