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Archive: April 2025

18th Annual Cape Verdean-Jewish Passover Seder

Posted on April 6, 2025
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April 6, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – 18th Annual Cape Verdean-Jewish Passover Seder: Sunday, April 6, 2:00pm (Thelma D. Burns Building, 575 Warren Street, Roxbury) Since 2006, the Cape Verdean-Jewish Passover Seder has brought together Cabo Verdeans and Jews to share and celebrate their cultures and explore what they have in common, including their shared history (due to two waves of Jewish immigration […]

Knitzvah (in person)

Posted on April 6, 2025
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April 6, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Sundays: February 16, March 16, April 6, May 4, June 8 6:30pm   The Knitzvah Group is a subgroup of the Hesed Committee at TBZ.  Our mission is to contribute to the sense of warmth, of being cared about and known within the TBZ Community by knitting together! We meet about once a month, from […]

TBZ Men’s Group Weekly Check-in (online)

Posted on April 6, 2025
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April 6, 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, members have built and strengthened relationships with other men in the TBZ community and beyond. For more information, contact Mark Dinaburg through the TBZ office.

Poetry “Potluck” with Rabbi Suzanne Offit (in person)

Posted on April 7, 2025
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April 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Bring your own dairy/pareve lunch so we can learn and eat together!  In addition, our souls also need nourishment, so bring your favorite poem to share for a “poetry pot-luck.” Please bring poems that are meaningful to you. Come prepared to share a little about the poet. You will need 15 copies (this is the […]

Abortion Rights Stand Out 2025 (support Planned Parenthood)

Posted on April 8, 2025
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April 8, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – As many of us stress and worry over the frightening turns this administration is taking, it may be hard to find somewhere to productively channel our rage and concern. Below is an easy avenue of resistance readily available for us to respond as a community and champion our Jewish values. As we did last year […]

Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups

Posted on April 9, 2025
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April 9, 2025 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm – 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 Aging in Community at TBZ, please join us Wednesday afternoons at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Coolidge Corner for coffee (you need to bring your own beverage) and a […]

Deadline to sell Hametz

Posted on April 10, 2025
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April 10, 2025 @ All Day – Thursday, April 10 Hametz is leavened food and is forbidden on Pesach. Our tradition teaches that Jews may not own, eat, or benefit from hametz during Passover. Where disposing of hametz will result in considerable financial loss, it is permissible to temporarily sell one’s hametz to someone who is not Jewish, who owns the hametz during Pesach and relinquishes it after the holiday ends. This “selling” does […]

Marking the Fast of the First Born (in person)

Posted on April 10, 2025
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April 10, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 9:30 am – Join us to mark the Fast of the Firstborn. This year because of Shabbat the fast is on Thursday rather than on the eve of the Holiday. We make concrete our sense of solidarity with the firstborn of Mitzrayim by entering the holiday with our own vulnerability in mind. And as it is traditional, we […]

Office Closes at 1:00pm

Posted on April 11, 2025
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April 11, 2025 @ All Day –

Nishmat Hayyim Friday AM Sit (online)

Posted on April 11, 2025
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April 11, 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 sit, walking meditation/break, teaching, Q&A, and a closing minute of silence. Please see our weekly Nishmat Hayyim email or call the office (617) 566-8171 for the Zoom link. Find out […]