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Independent Jewish Shul in Brookline, MA

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Archive: April 2025

Kabbalat Shabbat with TBZ (in person and online)

Posted on April 25, 2025

April 25, 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 now have a hybrid option of attending Kabbalat Shabbat at TBZ or joining on Zoom. Please call the office for the Zoom link: 617-566-8171. Click here to download the Kabbalat […]

Torah Study (in person)

Posted on April 26, 2025

April 26, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am – Taught by Rav Claudia, Rav Leah and other rabbis and teachers from our TBZ community. Join us to study and discuss before Shabbat services.  Click here to see who is leading Torah Study.

Shabbat Morning Service/Noam Krakower Bar Mitzvah (in person and online)

Posted on April 26, 2025

April 26, 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. Click here to download the Shabbat Morning Siddur. Find out who is leading Shabbat morning services!

Hebrew Reading and Understanding with Rabbi Sam Seicol (online)

Posted on April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Sundays, 10:15-12:00 Deepen your knowledge of the Hebrew of the Tana”kh (Jewish Bible) and our prayers and blessings. These sessions use Hebrew text with English translation provided. Knowledge of the aleph-bet and a basic ability to read Hebrew is suggested but not required. Sessions explore vocabulary, grammar, and evidence for variant worldviews and social structures […]

12 Jewish Steps to Recovery: Book Study and Conversation (online)

Posted on April 27, 2025

April 27, 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 to learn more and email Jewish12Steps@tbzbrookline.org to join our mailing list! In partnership with Our Jewish Recovery. Each week we meet to explore the Steps common to all 12-Step Recovery Programs, […]

Women’s Chronic Illness Meet-up for TBZ Members

Posted on April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Women’s Chronic Illness Meet-up, Sunday, April 27th, 10:30am Are you living with chronic illness? Might it feel meaningful to meet some other folks in the TBZ community who share kinship with this experience? We’re proposing a get-together to connect with one another and collectively feel seen and heard. Do join us. RSVP here. Rosalind Joffe […]

Interfaith Book Discussion: The Lemon Tree (in person and online)

Posted on April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Co-sp0nsored by TBZ and with opening remarks by Rav Tiferet!   The Christ Lutheran Church, Natick Invite you to a Community Interfaith Book Discussion: The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan Opening remarks: Rabbi Raysh Weiss, PhD, Temple Israel of Natick and Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum, TBZ Brookline Palestinians and Israelis will share personal stories through the […]

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

Posted on April 27, 2025

April 27, 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.

Boker Tov TBZ (online)

Posted on April 28, 2025

April 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 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 […]

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

Posted on April 28, 2025

April 28, 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 […]