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Archive: December 2025

Mahjong lesson #2 (in person)

Posted on December 14, 2025

December 14, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – TBZ is starting a mahjong club! In order to help beginners learn to play, we are offering a series of classes on Sunday mornings in December. Participants will learn how to play, as well as learn about the history of the game, including its Chinese roots and Jewish-American history. In addition, students will go home […]

Hebrew Through Torah: An in-depth Look at the Book of Exodus with Rabbi Sam Seicol (online)

Posted on December 14, 2025

December 14, 2025 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Sundays, 10:30am-12:00pm (online) – Resumes October 19!  Hebrew Through Torah: An in-depth Look at the Book of Exodus This on-going online weekly exploration of the Torah continues on Sunday mornings.  Areas covered include: Hebrew reading practice, understanding Torah Hebrew vocabulary, grammar, and issues of translation, the possible diverse Biblical authors, and discussions on relevance of the […]

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

Posted on December 14, 2025

December 14, 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, […]

Chronic Illness Group (in person – TBZ Sanctuary)

Posted on December 14, 2025

December 14, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Are you living with an illness, syndrome, injury, or disability that may be invisible, unpredictable, or come and go? Does fatigue, pain, impaired mobility, or brain fog keep you isolated? Come meet other folks in the TBZ community who share kinship with your experience. Whatever your age, gender or health issue is, please join us. […]

Hanukkah Party (in person)

Posted on December 14, 2025

December 14, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Join us to celebrate together Hanukkah in Community!  There will be games and activities for all ages including adult learning, as well as our community-wide Hanukkiah lighting, singing, latkes and sufganyiyot. 4:00pm, in the Sanctuary: Join Rabbi Ebn Leader for a learning session to deepen your Hanukkah experience 4:00pm, in the Community Room Construct a Lego Hanukkiah: […]

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

Posted on December 14, 2025

December 14, 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 December 15, 2025

December 15, 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 December 15, 2025

December 15, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm – 1st and 3rd Mondays (check Happenings for dates) at Noon 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 […]

ABM: Preparing to Chant with Torah Trope with Rabbi Ebn Leader (in person)

Posted on December 15, 2025

December 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – In this class, you will learn how to chant from the Torah and will work on learning to chant three verses (or more, if you like) to read during the February BMitzvah ceremony.

Boker Tov TBZ (online)

Posted on December 16, 2025

December 16, 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 […]