Empowering people to lead meaningful Jewish lives.

Worship

Shabbat, holidays and life’s milestones

We gather for Shabbat every week. Services are held in person in our historic sanctuary and are streamed live for anyone who cannot be in the room, whether you are across town or across the country.

Friday night services follow the Reform prayer book Mishkan T’filah. Saturday morning services use Siddur Lev Shalem. We keep audio recordings of the prayers online so that anyone can learn them at their own pace.

There are many ways to grow spiritually, and we try to honor the different paths people take. Some come for the liturgy, some for the stories, some for the quiet. All of those are good reasons to walk in.

check the service calendar.

Learning

From kindergarten through adulthood

Learning to be and do Jewish takes a lifetime, so we teach at every age.

• Jewish Community School is our weekly religious school for kindergarten through 12th grade. Students study Torah, Hebrew, Jewish values and prayer through music, service projects and plenty of fun. The school includes a full b’nai mitzvah program.
• CABIT, our teen group, brings together students in grades 8 through 12.
• Lifelong Learning offers adult classes throughout the year. Recent subjects include Talmud, Movies and Midrash, a book club, great Jewish thinkers of the 20th century and combating antisemitism. Some sessions meet both in person and on Zoom.
• Introduction to Judaism. If you are considering conversion, or you are Jewish or partnered with someone Jewish and want to know more, we offer classes and a place to ask questions.
• The CABI Library has an online catalog, pickup hours and delivery for people who are housebound.
• PJ Library mails free books that celebrate Jewish values and culture to families with children from birth through age 12.

About the Jewish Community School  |  Adult classes  |  Sign up for PJ Library

Community

Finding your people

A congregation is a set of relationships before it is anything else. We work at making those relationships easy to start.

CABI Corners are small groups that members create around a shared interest. A Corner might form around Shabbat dinners, hiking, games, books or parenting, and a new one can start whenever a few people want the same thing.

After services, members take turns hosting the oneg, the food and conversation that follows prayer. Volunteer committees help run the congregation and organize our social action work. A community bulletin board keeps everyone informed about what is coming up.

Browse CABI Corners or find a committee to join.

Social justice

Tikkun olam, repairing the world

Judaism asks us to help heal what is broken in the world. For us, that begins with three teachings from the Torah: every human being is created in the divine image, all of creation is sacred, and because we were once strangers ourselves, we must never oppress the stranger.

Those teachings shape how we treat one another and how we act in Boise. We work for justice and equal dignity for people of every gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, income and ability. As part of the Reform movement, we stand with its commitments to inclusion and to the welcome of immigrants and refugees.

We do not always agree on how best to do this work. We do agree that it is ours to do.

Read more about social action at CABI