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Archive: April 2024

Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups (in person)

Posted on April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024 @ 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 […]

Israel/Palestine Peace & Justice Affinity Group (in person)

Posted on April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – For people committed to bringing an immediate end to the current violence in Gaza and to ending the ongoing structural violence Palestinians have suffered for decades. This lay-led group is for TBZ members who believe that neither Jews nor Palestinians will be free of the curse of political violence until all who live between the […]

Jewish Life and Thought in Medieval Spain (Al Andalus) with TBZ Member Rabbi Lenny Gordon

Posted on April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm –  10 Wednesdays, Winter/Spring 2024: 2/7, 2/14, 2/28, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10 & 4/17, 7:00-9:00 pm, Online. Cost: $450 (financial aid is available through Hebrew College) Offered in conjunction with Me’ah: During the Middle Ages in Spain — Jews, Christians, and Muslims shared a common home and interacted in the realms of medicine, government, […]

Hazmanah L’Zimrah (Invitation to Song) (in person only)

Posted on April 17, 2024

April 17, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Join us to get ready for Shabbat with: Hazmanah L’Zimrah: April 17, 7:30-9:00pm Join Yoni in person for Hazmanah L’Zimrah (Invitation to Song), where Yoni will teach these melodies and about the musical traditions that they come from. (Click here to listen to there recordings from Shabbat Zimrah.)   Then bring your voices to services: […]

Boker Tov TBZ (online)

Posted on April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024 @ 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 a desire for daily connection during the pandemic and has persisted and grown into a supportive community for members saying kaddish, as well as an opportunity to learn and grow […]

TBZ Therapists’ Connection (online)

Posted on April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – TBZ Therapists’ Connection Alternate Thursdays, 1pm (online) TBZ members who are mental health professionals are welcome to join this every-other-Thursday online support group to come into community to discuss current societal and mental health topics and how these may affect our work. This group began in March 2020 and has been ongoing and well-attended. Our […]

Let’s Speak Hebrew (in person)

Posted on April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Join Leah Carnow for our new group to practice speaking Hebrew language. No expertise necessary, just a desire to practice speaking and listening to spoken Hebrew. Even if your Hebrew is not that great, listening and trying to follow along will help your skills grow! Meets every other week.

Until Love Pleases: Piyutim of Shir HaShirim and Pesah (in person at Hebrew College) Co-sponsored by TBZ

Posted on April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Until Love Pleases: Piyutim of Shir HaShirim and Pesah Featuring Yoni Battat, Anat Halevy Hochberg, and Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer “I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem! If you meet my beloved, tell him this: That I am sick with love.” Join Anat, Yoni, Jessica for a night of piyyutim (liturgical poetry) inspired by the […]

Affordable Housing at TBZ?

Posted on April 18, 2024

April 18, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Come to a Special Community Meeting on April 18 at 7:30-9:00 pm   We invite all members to join us for a Community Meeting to learn more about an exciting initiative of our Housing Justice Team:  a proposal to build mixed-income, affordable housing on the “rear yard” parcel behind TBZ which fronts on Lancaster Terrace.  […]

Boker Tov TBZ (online)

Posted on April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024 @ 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 a desire for daily connection during the pandemic and has persisted and grown into a supportive community for members saying kaddish, as well as an opportunity to learn and grow […]