Independent Jewish Shul in Brookline, MA

Contact Us: 617-566-8171 | info@tbzbrookline.org

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28 Sep
September 28, 2025    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Every Sunday Zoom link. (Meeting ID: 810 8638 3432; Passcode: 071019, Phone Dial in: 309 205 3325) Contact Peter Golbus pgolbus@gmail.com if you’re interested and [...]
28 Sep
September 28, 2025    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Residents of Cambridge, Somerville, and nearby neighborhoods—do you want to meet your TBZ neighbors? Join TBZ members from "across the river" for a casual get-together on [...]
28 Sep
September 28, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
For more than 15 years, the TBZ Men’s Group has engaged participants in stimulating conversations about what really matters in their lives. In the process, [...]
29 Sep
September 29, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
30 Sep
September 30, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
01 Oct
October 1, 2025    
All Day
01 Oct
October 1, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups
Weekly on Wednesdays from 2:30-3:30pm Location: Courtyard by Marriott Boston Brookline, 40 Webster St, Brookline If you are looking for some informal camaraderie within the [...]
Kol Nidre at TBZ
October 1, 2025    
5:45 pm - 10:15 pm
Click here for more information about the High Holy Days at TBZ.
02 Oct
October 2, 2025    
All Day
Yom Kippur at TBZ
October 2, 2025    
8:00 am - 7:30 pm
Click here for more information about the High Holy Days at TBZ.
03 Oct
October 3, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
03 Oct
October 3, 2025    
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Join our Zoom Friday AM Meditation Session. For those who are joining us for the first time, the schedule for Friday AM is: chant, meditation [...]
03 Oct
October 3, 2025    
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Come bring each week to a close and start Shabbat together in community! Join us for spirited services with song, kavanah (intention) and celebration. We [...]
04 Oct
October 4, 2025    
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Taught by Rav Claudia, Rav Leah and other rabbis and scholars from our TBZ community. Join us to study and discuss before Shabbat services.  Click [...]
04 Oct
October 4, 2025    
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Spend Shabbat morning in community. Our morning service is offered both in-person and on Zoom. Please call the office at 617-566-8171 for the Zoom link. [...]
Apples & Honey: Apple Picking & More at Shelburne Farm Orchards in Stow, MA (in person)
October 5, 2025    
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sunday, October 5, 10:00am-1:00pm  Apples & Honey: Apple Picking & More at Shelburne Farm Orchards in Stow, MA Sunday October 5 10-2pm Join TBZ for [...]
05 Oct
Israel Palestine Affinity Group (IPAG) An exploration of Teshuvah practices in the context of all going on in Israel-Palestine, led by co-organizer Deborah Kalin and [...]
05 Oct
October 5, 2025    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Every Sunday Zoom link. (Meeting ID: 810 8638 3432; Passcode: 071019, Phone Dial in: 309 205 3325) Contact Peter Golbus pgolbus@gmail.com if you’re interested and [...]
05 Oct
October 5, 2025    
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Living with Chronic Illness Gathering Are you living with an illness, syndrome, injury, or disability that may be invisible, unpredictable, or come and go? Does [...]
05 Oct
October 5, 2025    
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Sundays: September 7, October 5, November 9, December 7 6:00pm   The Knitzvah Group is a subgroup of the Hesed Committee at TBZ.  Our mission [...]
05 Oct
October 5, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
For more than 15 years, the TBZ Men’s Group has engaged participants in stimulating conversations about what really matters in their lives. In the process, [...]
06 Oct
October 6, 2025    
All Day
06 Oct
October 6, 2025 - October 13, 2025    
All Day
06 Oct
October 6, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
06 Oct
October 6, 2025    
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1st and 3rd Mondays (check Happenings for dates) at Noon Bring your own dairy/pareve lunch so we can learn and eat together! In addition, our [...]
07 Oct
October 7, 2025 - October 8, 2025    
All Day
First Day Sukkot Morning Service (in person and online)
October 7, 2025    
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Sukkot morning service (in person and online) Includes blessing the lulav - bring your own lulav and etrog set or use TBZ's.
08 Oct
October 8, 2025    
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Therapy is typically a place where the focus is on the client’s concerns and the therapist usually does not share her or his personal stories [...]
Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups
Weekly on Wednesdays from 2:30-3:30pm Location: Courtyard by Marriott Boston Brookline, 40 Webster St, Brookline If you are looking for some informal camaraderie within the [...]
09 Oct
October 9, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
10 Oct
October 10, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
10 Oct
October 10, 2025    
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Join our Zoom Friday AM Meditation Session. For those who are joining us for the first time, the schedule for Friday AM is: chant, meditation [...]
10 Oct
October 10, 2025    
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Come bring each week to a close and start Shabbat together in community! Join us for spirited services with song, kavanah (intention) and celebration. We [...]
11 Oct
October 11, 2025    
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
including the reading of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) Spend Shabbat morning in community. Our morning service is offered both in-person and on Zoom. Please call the office [...]
WonderMinyan (in person)
October 11, 2025    
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
At WonderMinyan, young Jews begin to learn Shabbat morning and holiday prayers, the weekly parasha (Torah portion) through stories and plays, as well as build [...]
11 Oct
October 11, 2025    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Tikkun Olam Tables September 20, October 11, November 8, December 6, January 3  Each month, members of the Tikkun Olam Steering Committee (TOSC) host a [...]
11 Oct
October 11, 2025    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
October 11, November 8, December 20, January 24,  After kiddush on the 3rd floor (in person) Looking for a space to reconnect with your Jewish [...]
12 Oct
October 12, 2025    
9:00 am - 11:00 am
TBZ partners with Family Table, through Jewish Family & Children Services (JF & CS) volunteering to pack and deliver groceries each month. The volunteer location [...]
12 Oct
October 12, 2025    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Every Sunday Zoom link. (Meeting ID: 810 8638 3432; Passcode: 071019, Phone Dial in: 309 205 3325) Contact Peter Golbus pgolbus@gmail.com if you’re interested and [...]
Pumpkins & Squash and their Importance in Sephardi Cooking: A Sukkot Cooking Experience (in person)
October 12, 2025    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Known by Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews as kalavasa, d’la’at, kadoo, and q’ar’a, pumpkin has been an integral part of Jewish cooking in these regions for [...]
12 Oct
October 12, 2025    
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
JOC Joy in the Sukkah, hosted by Rav Tiferet, 3:00-4:30pm Sukkot is Zeman Simchateinu - the Time for Our Joy! Come focus on our JOC [...]
12 Oct
October 12, 2025    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
For TBZ members only. The TBZ Book Club provides a setting in which TBZ members come together to discuss fiction and non-fiction books with Jewish [...]
12 Oct
October 12, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
For more than 15 years, the TBZ Men’s Group has engaged participants in stimulating conversations about what really matters in their lives. In the process, [...]
13 Oct
October 13, 2025    
All Day
13 Oct
October 13, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
14 Oct
October 14, 2025    
All Day
14 Oct
October 14, 2025 - October 15, 2025    
All Day
Shemini Atzeret Service (in person and online)
October 14, 2025    
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Shemini Atzeret service, including yizkor
Simchat Torah Service and Celebration (in person and online)
October 14, 2025    
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
6:30pm: Simchat Torah service and celebration (in person and online) Come celebrate Torah as we dance joyfully as a community! We will hear the end [...]
15 Oct
October 15, 2025    
All Day
Simchat Torah Morning Service (in person)
October 15, 2025    
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Simchat Torah day service with Rabbi Ebn Leader (in person) 9:00am: Shacharit and Hallel 10:30am: Hakafot, chanting and walking (this should take approximately 1.5 hours) [...]
Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups
Weekly on Wednesdays from 2:30-3:30pm Location: Courtyard by Marriott Boston Brookline, 40 Webster St, Brookline If you are looking for some informal camaraderie within the [...]
16 Oct
October 16, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
17 Oct
October 17, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
17 Oct
October 17, 2025    
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Join our Zoom Friday AM Meditation Session. For those who are joining us for the first time, the schedule for Friday AM is: chant, meditation [...]
Shabbat Nariya: The Shabbat Sing Out and Potluck (in person and online)
Co-sponsored by Kavod Boston and Base Boston and led by TBZ’s Musical Prayer Team and the mehalelim (praisers), once a month we raise our voices, [...]
18 Oct
October 18, 2025    
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Taught by Rav Claudia, Rav Leah and other rabbis and scholars from our TBZ community. Join us to study and discuss before Shabbat services.  Click [...]
18 Oct
October 18, 2025    
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Spend Shabbat morning in community. Our morning service is offered both in-person and on Zoom. Please call the office at 617-566-8171 for the Zoom link. [...]
Kiddush Talk: Bedrooms & Battlegrounds with Lori Lefkovitz
October 18, 2025    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
In this text study we will look closely at a constellation of Bible stories about seduction and sexual power reversals. Demonstrating that the bedroom is [...]
19 Oct
October 19, 2025    
9:00 am - 11:00 am
TBZ partners with Family Table, through Jewish Family & Children Services (JF & CS) volunteering to pack and deliver groceries each month. The volunteer location [...]
19 Oct
October 19, 2025    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Every Sunday Zoom link. (Meeting ID: 810 8638 3432; Passcode: 071019, Phone Dial in: 309 205 3325) Contact Peter Golbus pgolbus@gmail.com if you’re interested and [...]
19 Oct
October 19, 2025    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Sundays, 10:30am-12:00pm (online) - Resumes October 19!  Hebrew Through Torah: An in-depth Look at the Book of Exodus This on-going online weekly exploration of the [...]
19 Oct
October 19, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
For more than 15 years, the TBZ Men’s Group has engaged participants in stimulating conversations about what really matters in their lives. In the process, [...]
20 Oct
October 20, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
20 Oct
October 20, 2025    
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
1st and 3rd Mondays (check Happenings for dates) at Noon Bring your own dairy/pareve lunch so we can learn and eat together! In addition, our [...]
21 Oct
October 21, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
22 Oct
October 22, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
22 Oct
October 22, 2025    
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Eat, Pray, & Learn Wednesdays davening and learning together Resumes September 10, 8:00am (Shacharit prayers), 8:45am (breakfast and learning), over by 9:45 or 10:00. (in [...]
22 Oct
October 22, 2025    
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Therapy is typically a place where the focus is on the client’s concerns and the therapist usually does not share her or his personal stories [...]
Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups
Weekly on Wednesdays from 2:30-3:30pm Location: Courtyard by Marriott Boston Brookline, 40 Webster St, Brookline If you are looking for some informal camaraderie within the [...]
22 Oct
October 22, 2025    
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday afternoons, 4-6pm (in person) In the Talmud, beit rabban, which literally means “house of our rabbis,” is where students would go to learn the [...]
22 Oct
October 22, 2025    
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm
Parents’ Learning with Rav Claudia October 22, November 19, December 3, 17, January 7, 21 4:20-5:20pm (during Beit Rabban) (in person) While your children are [...]
22 Oct
October 22, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesdays: October 22, 29, November 5, 12 7:00-8:30pm (online) Join us for a transformative four-session online course based on Rabbi Marcia Prager’s book, The Path [...]
23 Oct
October 23, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
23 Oct
October 23, 2025    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Delving Deep: A Theatrical Adventure into the Jewish Family,  with TBZ member Judy Epstein-Fisher  Thursdays, October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20;  Performance on Sunday, [...]
24 Oct
October 24, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
24 Oct
October 24, 2025    
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Join our Zoom Friday AM Meditation Session. For those who are joining us for the first time, the schedule for Friday AM is: chant, meditation [...]
24 Oct
October 24, 2025    
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Come bring each week to a close and start Shabbat together in community! Join us for spirited services with song, kavanah (intention) and celebration. We [...]
25 Oct
October 25, 2025    
All Day
25 Oct
October 25, 2025    
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Taught by Rav Claudia, Rav Leah and other rabbis and scholars from our TBZ community. Join us to study and discuss before Shabbat services.  Click [...]
25 Oct
October 25, 2025    
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Spend Shabbat morning in community. Our morning service is offered both in-person and on Zoom. Please call the office at 617-566-8171 for the Zoom link. [...]
WonderMinyan (in person)
October 25, 2025    
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
At WonderMinyan, young Jews begin to learn Shabbat morning and holiday prayers, the weekly parasha (Torah portion) through stories and plays, as well as build [...]
Kiddush Talk: By the Rivers of Babylon: Stories from the Babylonian Exile  with Céline Debourse
October 25, 2025    
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Several Biblical books detail the destruction of the Temple by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and the return to Jerusalem four years later. But what was [...]
25 Oct
October 25, 2025    
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
For families of 6th and 7th graders who are registered for the B’Mitzvah Group, join Rav Claudia and Rav Tiferet to prepare for becoming a [...]
26 Oct
October 26, 2025    
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Every Sunday Zoom link. (Meeting ID: 810 8638 3432; Passcode: 071019, Phone Dial in: 309 205 3325) Contact Peter Golbus pgolbus@gmail.com if you’re interested and [...]
26 Oct
October 26, 2025    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Sundays, 10:30am-12:00pm (online) - Resumes October 19!  Hebrew Through Torah: An in-depth Look at the Book of Exodus This on-going online weekly exploration of the [...]
26 Oct
October 26, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
For more than 15 years, the TBZ Men’s Group has engaged participants in stimulating conversations about what really matters in their lives. In the process, [...]
27 Oct
October 27, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
27 Oct
October 27, 2025    
7:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Words & Music through the Generations:  Explore the Works of Israel’s Popular Singer-Songwriters  with TBZ member Dr. Miriam Diamond Monthly, 4th Mondays: October 27, November [...]
27 Oct
October 27, 2025    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
In this class, you will learn how to chant from the Torah and will work on learning to chant three verses (or more, if you [...]
28 Oct
October 28, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
29 Oct
October 29, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
29 Oct
October 29, 2025    
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Eat, Pray, & Learn  Wednesdays davening and learning together  Resumes September 10, 8:00am (Shacharit prayers),  8:45am (breakfast and learning), over by 9:45 or 10:00. (in [...]
Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups
Weekly on Wednesdays from 2:30-3:30pm Location: Courtyard by Marriott Boston Brookline, 40 Webster St, Brookline If you are looking for some informal camaraderie within the [...]
29 Oct
October 29, 2025    
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday afternoons, 4-6pm (in person) In the Talmud, beit rabban, which literally means “house of our rabbis,” is where students would go to learn the [...]
29 Oct
October 29, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesdays: October 22, 29, November 5, 12 7:00-8:30pm (online) Join us for a transformative four-session online course based on Rabbi Marcia Prager’s book, The Path [...]
30 Oct
October 30, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
30 Oct
October 30, 2025    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Delving Deep: A Theatrical Adventure into the Jewish Family,  with TBZ member Judy Epstein-Fisher  Thursdays, October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20;  Performance on Sunday, [...]
Conversation with Janette Hillis-Jaffe, J Street’s Senior Director for New England (in person)
October 30, 2025    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
With the return of the hostages and the ceasefire, we are breathing a little easier. And yet, these remain heartbreaking times—whether in Israel, Gaza, or [...]
31 Oct
October 31, 2025    
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Boker Tov (Good Morning) TBZ is a daily morning prayer group, led by TBZ rabbis, rabbinic interns, and the Boker Tov community. It started from [...]
31 Oct
October 31, 2025    
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Join our Zoom Friday AM Meditation Session. For those who are joining us for the first time, the schedule for Friday AM is: chant, meditation [...]
Shabbat Zimrah/Kabbalat Shabbat with TBZ (in person and online)
Shabbat Zimrah brings the mystical sounds of Arab Jewry to the TBZ sanctuary. Co-led by artist-in-residence Yoni Battat on the oud, this service utilizes traditional [...]
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