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Independent Jewish Shul in Brookline, MA

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Archive: May 2025

Kiddush Talk: Partakers & Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI)(in person)

Posted on May 3, 2025

May 3, 2025 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm – Please join us for a Kiddush talk with Mneesha Gellman and Charles Rosario of the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI). We’ll learn about programs that EPI offers, including college-in-prison programs and reentry support services for returning citizens which can interrupt the cycle of incarceration. In addition, TBZ members who participate in the Partakers program, which partners […]

B’Mitzvah Family Group (in person)

Posted on May 3, 2025

May 3, 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 B’Mitzvah family. Using the Moving Traditions B’Mitzvah Family Education Program, this approach inspires connection to Jewish community by centering on human development and the parent-child relationship. These sessions help navigate […]

Men’s Group Meeting (in person)

Posted on May 3, 2025

May 3, 2025 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm –

AAAG Pack and Learn (in person)

Posted on May 4, 2025

May 4, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Come make TLC Kits for Women’s Health Services! Nosh, Learn and pack donated items. Sunday, May 4, 10:ooam-Noon at TBZPlease join the Abortion Access Action Group on Sunday, May 4 @ 10am to support the Brookline women’s health provider, Women’s Health Services. We will assemble the donated items into attractive “TLC kits” for patients and include […]

Hebrew Reading and Understanding with Rabbi Sam Seicol (online)

Posted on May 4, 2025

May 4, 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 May 4, 2025

May 4, 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, […]

Knitzvah (in person)

Posted on May 4, 2025

May 4, 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 […]

A Besere Velt – Yiddish Chorus Evening Concert (in person)

Posted on May 4, 2025

May 4, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – A Besere Velt – A Better World – is a vibrant 80-member intergenerational community chorus that weaves the heartache and irrepressible idealism of Yiddish music into a vision of justice and humanity for the 21st Century. From haunting melodies to workers’ anthems, the songs come alive with multi-layered harmonies and allow us to express Jewishness and social […]

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

Posted on May 4, 2025

May 4, 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 May 5, 2025

May 5, 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 […]