BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6676@tbzbrookline.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T220000 DTSTAMP:20250422T143732Z URL:https://www.tbzbrookline.org/events/spring-concert-and-fundraiser/ SUMMARY:Spring Celebration and Fundraiser DESCRIPTION:This spring we're celebrating ourselves\, celebrating our honor ees\, and celebrating TBZ -\nand we hope you'll join us!\nTBZ's Annual Spr ing Celebration and Fundraiser\nThursday\, May 29\, 7:00pm\nwith featured performance by:\nRabbi Jessica Kate Meyer\,\njoined by Yoni Battat and Ore n Neiman\nRegister and Donate Here\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Tom Kates\nSongs of Elevation and Revelation\nin honor of Shavuot\nwith Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer\njoined by Yoni Avi Battat and Oren Neiman\n\n\n\nHonoring Jenny Be rz &\; Fiona Epstein\, co-chairs of NBARC\n(the Newton-Brookline Asylum Resettlement Coalition)\nNewton Brookline Asylum Resettlement Coalition ( NBARC)\nTBZ proudly leads the Newton Brookline Asylum Resettlement Coaliti on (NBARC)\, an interfaith group of congregants from seven Boston-area syn agogues and churches dedicated to assisting asylum seekers and refugees fl eeing persecution. Our mission is to help resettle asylees in the Boston a rea and support them in building self-sufficient lives.\n\nCurrently\, we are assisting families from Afghanistan\, Haiti\, Guatemala\, Syria\, and Nicaragua. In collaboration with local social service agencies\, health in stitutions\, and community organizations\, our volunteers provide crucial support\, including cultural orientation\, immigration assistance\, Englis h language instruction\, school enrollment\, job training\, childcare\, he althcare access\, and guidance on government benefits.\n\nTBZ members Jenn y Berz and Fiona Epstein serve as co-chairs\, leading the coalition’s st rategy and direction. Many TBZ members actively volunteer and contribute t hrough donations and in-kind support.\n\nOur partner congregations provide volunteers\, financial and material donations\, and help share NBARC’s mission and activities within their communities.\n\n\nJenny Berz\nJenny Be rz is a licensed clinical psychologist who has always had a passion for re fugee resettlement work. She won the Helen Miringoff Community Service awa rd from Vassar College in 1992 for her work resettling Soviet Jews from Sa markand\, Uzbekistan. She worked with Russian refugees in the Boston area after college\, then became a clinical psychologist\, and has practiced ps ychotherapy with children\, adolescents and adults for the past 30 years. In 2016\, she helped found the organization that would come to be known as NBARC (the Newton Brookline Asylum Resettlement Coalition) and has served on the steering committee since that time\, and as NBARC’s co-chair sin ce 2021. She has worked extensively with asylum seeking families\, and won Catholic Charities’ John and Virginia Kaneb Justice and Compassion Awar d award in 2022 (along with then co-chair\, Bobbie Sproat) for leading NBA RC’s Afghan resettlement work in Boston. This past year\, she helped re- shape and streamline NBARC’s structure\, readying it for the three famil ies NBARC welcomed in February 2025. In addition to Jenny’s psychotherap y practice and refugee resettlement work\, she is a devoted wife and mothe r of two college students. She lives in Brookline.\n\n\nFiona Epstein\nFio na brings over three decades of experience in nonprofit management\, most recently serving as Vice President of Youth and Adult Engagement at JCC Gr eater Boston. As a member of the executive team\, she honed her expertise in planning\, program development and delivery\, fundraising\, and team bu ilding. An active listener and strategic thinker\, she offers strong leade rship and facilitation skills to the groups and projects she engages with. \n\nIn addition to her professional roles\, Fiona has served on the Jewish Community Day School Board of Trustees and Executive Committee\, the Dill er Teen International Advisory Board\, and has led the strategic planning process at Temple Beth Zion. She has also provided consultation to Second Step in Brookline\, providing insight to strengthen leadership and goevern ance.\n\nFiona is the co-chair of NBARC (Newton Brookline Asylum Resettlem ent Coalition)\, where she helps shape the organization’s strategy and d irection while actively supporting the resettlement of refugee families fa cing persecution.\n\nAs a consultant with ESC (Empower Success Corps)\, sh e recently completed a strategic planning project with the Somerville Home less Coalition.\n\nFiona lives with her husband Jon in Newton. 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