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Archive: December 2025

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

Posted on December 14, 2025
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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, […]

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

Posted on December 14, 2025
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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 […]

Chronic Illness Group (in person – TBZ Sanctuary)

Posted on December 14, 2025
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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
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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
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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.

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

Posted on December 15, 2025
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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 […]

Eat, Pray & Learn (in person)

Posted on December 17, 2025
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December 17, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am – Eat, Pray, & Learn  Wednesdays davening and learning together  8:00am (Shacharit prayers),  8:45am (breakfast and learning), over by 9:45 or 10:00. (in person) Join Rav Claudia and members of our community for a spirited beginning to your day! We begin the day with joyful and intentional davening (praying), followed by breakfast and text learning. We […]

TBZ Therapists’ Connection (online)

Posted on December 17, 2025
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December 17, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm – Therapy is typically a place where the focus is on the client’s concerns and the therapist usually does not share her or his personal stories or information. Now the therapist and the client are both managing an ever changing landscape filled with varying levels of fear, loneliness, frustration, boredom and, most of all, uncertainty. Do […]

Aging In Community: Informal Coffee Meet-Ups

Posted on December 17, 2025
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December 17, 2025 @ 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 […]

Beit Rabban (in person)

Posted on December 17, 2025
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December 17, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Wednesday afternoons, 4-6pm (in person) In the Talmud, beit rabban, which literally means “house of our rabbis,” is where students would go to learn the wisdom of our tradition and prepare to engage Jewishly with the world. Beit Rabban, TBZ’s after-school Jewish education program, is for members in grades K-7. We engage our children and […]