Message from the Chair – September 2021

Ever since I became a student of Mussar in 2009, the High Holidays have had a different resonance for me.  In my pre-Mussar days, I appreciated the month of Elul, and particularly the Selichot service, as an opportunity to reflect, seek forgiveness from others and...

CCM Welcomes New Administrator Michelle Bross

We feel so fortunate to have found Michelle Bross as our new Administrator.  Michelle comes to CCM with years of experience as an office administrator and business owner. She is a dedicated, organized, creative and technically skilled professional who served six years...

Administrative Transition at CCM

      CCM bids farewell to Isha Strasser as our Managing Director for the past 18 months.  We owe such a debt of gratitudcce to Isha for steering CCM through the challenging times of our early stages of growth, and amidst a pandemic to boot.  Isha began in March 2020,...

The Teshuvah We Need Now

The Teshuvah We Need Now By Rabbi Ira Stone At this season of Teshuvah, I‘m thinking about the destruction of millions of Africans stolen from their homelands, forced into chattel slavery for close to 250 years and kept in a state of semi-slavery, excluded by Jim Crow...