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BZBI Urban Shabbaton 5785: A Weekend to Sing, Learn, Connect and Belong

Highlights include:  Meals ALL weekend including a fully catered Friday night dinner featuring a chicken course (vegetarian options will be available), Seudah Shlisheet (Saturday dinner) featuring Mama's Falafel and a Sunday brunch Prayer, music, and learning all Shabbat with guest rabbis Yosef Goldman and Annie Lewis "The United States: The First Mussar Republic," a Friday night discussion between Jeffrey Rosen (CEO of... Read More

Shabbat B’yachad Home Hosted Dinner

On February 21, BZBI Community Members will open their homes to host fellow congregants for Shabbat Dinner. It is a great way to meet other BZBI members, welcome new community members and start your own tradition of having Shabbat Dinner with BZBI friends and families. There will be guidelines for host families to help them facilitate such a meal and participants will also... Read More

Purim Block Party

Fitler Square Pine Street between 23rd & 24th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Join us for our annual Purim block party in Fitler Square from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. There will be carnival games, crafts, face-painting, a photo booth, pretzels, hamentashen, Drag Queen Story Time, Dr. Dani Dance Pants, A DJ and more! For an all inclusive experience, you can buy a wristband for $20 (drinks and food not... Read More

Megillah Reading, Purim Pub & Karaoke

BZBI welcomes all to attend the Megillah reading at 7:30 PM in the Goldberg Sanctuary and participate in our costume contest during the reading. Costume contest categories include: Best Jewish/ Biblical costume, Best Group costume and Best Pun costume. Afterwards, a Purim pub will take place at 9:00 PM in the Kahaner Auditorium with Karaoke, snacks... Read More

Pesah Wine & Cheese Tasting 

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Join us for our Passover Wine and Cheese Tasting with Rosenberg Blue Star Wines. Buy all of your Passover wine and Barton's chocolate candy for your Seders and support BZBI and our Youth & Family and Early Childhood Education Programs!

Sisterhood Torah Fund Shabbat

Join the BZBI Sisterhood to celebrate the 2024-2025 Torah Fund campaign, Am Yisrael Chai. Marc Hersch, BZBI's Torah Reading Coordinator and 4th year rabbinical student at JTS, will speak during services. A festive Kiddush will follow to mark the occasion. Through Torah Fund contributions, our Sisterhood, and  conservative sisterhoods throughout the world, financially support scholarships and programming at The Jewish Theological Seminary in... Read More

Rittenhouse Community Shabbat

Philadelphia Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA

The Rittenhouse Square neighborhood is home to one of the city’s most vibrant Jewish communities. We are lucky to have many synagogues and minyanim in the area, including Spruce Street Minyan, Mekor Habracha/Center City Synagogue, and Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel (BZBI). Join us as we bring together these three communities for a very special Rittenhouse Community Shabbat on Friday, May 9,... Read More

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Lag BaOmer with Marni Loffman: Final Concert of the BZBI Jewish Music Series

BZBI Sanctuary

Join the BZBI community as we celebrate the mystical holiday of Lag BaOmer with the final concert of the BZBI Jewish Music Series. Marni Loffman is an up-and-coming musician whose debut album, the long short path, combines elements of Ashkenazi nusach with contemporary American genres including folk, pop, jazz, and neo-soul. Marni writes, "This album is an invitation to connect from... Read More

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Tot Shabbat

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Weekly on Shabbat at 11:15 AM in the Klinghoffer Chapel  The Tot Shabbat service engages the youngest members of our community in interactive Shabbat songs and stories. It is geared towards children 0-4 and their families, with older siblings always welcome! The atmosphere is casual – you and your little ones can relax, sing, and... Read More

Tikkun Leil Shavuot with Center City Kehillah

BZBI 300 South 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Tikkun Leil Shavuot: The Jewish Night of Learning  Sunday, June 1 at BZBI from 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM  Center City Philadelphia's annual all-night community learning session for Shavuot is BACK -- right here at BZBI! Join us for a full night of learning, eating, and praying together, culminating in a sunrise Shacharit service. Register here. Maariv - 8:00 PM BZBI Dinner - 8:30... Read More