Join Us

Congregation B'nai Jacob is located five miles from Yale University, in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Our synagogue members come from all over the Greater New Haven community: Woodbridge, Bethany, Orange, West Haven, East Haven, Branford, Shelton, Derby, Ansonia and New Haven. We would like to welcome you!

If you have any questions about joining our warm and welcoming synagogue, or you just want to hear more about B'nai Jacob, please call us at (203) 389-2111. We are located at 75 Rimmon Road, Woodbridge, Connecticut, 06525.

We are a warm and energetic community:

  Twice-daily minyanim at 7:45 am and 6:00 pm 
  Participatory Shabbat services at 7:45 am and 9:45 am. 
  Family and Musical Shabbat Services 
  Religious School (2 day-a-week for grades 3-7, 1 day a week for preschool-grade 2) 
  Shabbat programs for children
  Family Programming and Education 
  Adult Education - classes, lectures, guest speakers
  BJ Players Musical Theater 
  Men's Club 
  Outreach to intermarried families & couples 
  Classes for conversion 
  Social Action projects

Some of the Benefits of Membership at B'nai Jacob:

  You can be in a BJ Players show 
  You are part of a warm and active community 
  Your children will have superb Bar/Bat Mitzvah training 
  You will get to know our warm and knowledgeable clergy 
  You support the present and future of the Jewish community 
  Your children can attend our award-winning Religious School 
  You make a difference in the life of every member of B'nai Jacob 
  You can take advantage of our excellent Adult Education programs 
  You can receive an honor or an Aliyah l'Torah on the High Holidays 
  You can serve on a synagogue Committee and/or the Board of Directors 
  You can have a funeral at the synagogue and purchase a plot in our cemetery 
  You can have weddings, baby namings & B'nai Mitzvah in our beautiful sanctuary