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Independent Jewish Shul in Brookline, MA

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

Archive: May 2025

Nishmat Hayyim Friday AM Sit (online)

Posted on May 9, 2025

May 9, 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 […]

Shabbat Zimrah Kabbalat Shabbat with TBZ (in person and online)

Posted on May 9, 2025

May 9, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Shabbat Zimrah: 6:00-7:30pm 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 will utilize traditional and original melodies to chant excerpts from Shir Hashirim and the psalms of Kabbalat Shabbat, followed by Ma’ariv (Reading Song of Songs is a Mizrahi Friday […]

Torah Study (in person)

Posted on May 10, 2025

May 10, 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 (in person and online)

Posted on May 10, 2025

May 10, 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!

29th Annual Louis D. Brown Mother’s Day Walk for Peace (in person)

Posted on May 11, 2025

May 11, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm – Join Team TBZ for The Mother’s Day Walk for Peace (MDW4P),  a beloved 28-year-long Boston tradition and celebration of our potential to create more peaceful communities. The 4.3-mile walk will raise visibility on the issue and generate much-needed support for the important work of the Peace Institute in their goal to empower survivors and communities […]

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

Posted on May 11, 2025

May 11, 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, […]

TBZ Book Club (online)

Posted on May 11, 2025

May 11, 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 themes. Monthly meetings on Sunday evenings at TBZ feature lively discussions of books by or about Jewish people, alternating fiction and non-fiction selections. You may find yourself reading books you […]

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

Posted on May 11, 2025

May 11, 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 12, 2025

May 12, 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 […]

Getting to Know the Siddur (prayer book) with Rabbi Sam Seicol (in person and online)

Posted on May 12, 2025

May 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Getting to Know the Siddur (prayer book) with Rabbi Sam Seicol 3 Mondays: April 28, May 5th, May 12th This 3 session program will explore the structure and major rubrics (parts) of the traditional Jewish communal worship service and the differences and overlap of the morning, evening, weekday and Shabbat services.  Through references to and examination […]