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
In celebration of Pride Month, join us to discuss a fascinating 14th century poem by a medieval French rabbi who may or may not have been trans. Diana Myers will give some historical overview of medieval views on gender before we consider the poem together. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Stacey Lasky.
Led by our director of early childhood education, Missy Horrow, this weekly class is designed for our youngest learners to explore and discover the world around them in a Jewish-enriched environment. Through sensory activities, art, play, and music, your child will begin their journey of lifelong learning. A caregiver must stay with the child for... Read More
Word by word, line by line, page by page, we follow the Zohar, the most precious book of Jewish mystical teachings, as it leads us along its paths of primordial wisdom. By turns profound, puzzling, shocking and amusing, the Zohar helps us, through our study and our open discussions, to taste of the Tree of... Read More
Weekly on Monday's, Starting October 20 at 10:30 AM on Zoom We will be studying the first chapter of the Talmudic Tractate Pesachim in our weekly Talmud class this year. While the opening topic of the chapter reviews the laws of Bedikat Hametz, the search for the Hametz just prior to Pesach, as is the... Read More
Weekly on Monday evenings at 8:00 PM on Zoom - starting September 8, please note the course will meet twice in September (8 & 29) and then resume weekly after the High Holy Days on October 20 Word by word, line by line, page by page, we follow the Zohar, the most precious book of Jewish... Read More
Weekly on Tuesday's, Starting October 21 at 10:30 AM on Zoom This year our weekly Tanach class will study the last and possibly strangest book of the Bible, the Book of Daniel. Written in the 2nd century BCE purporting to describe events hundreds of years earlier, the book has long been a source for both... Read More
Join the ECE PA on Thursday mornings for a Body Sculpt Fitness Class led by Green Room parent, Emily Nahum. The class will be a total body sculpt class targeting each muscle group and elevating your heart rate. Leave feeling strong and ready to take on your day! Click here to register.
Thursdays, 6:00-7:15 PM at BZBI - January 22 through May 7 (Please note class will not take place on April 2 & April 9 due to Pesach) For those who know the alef-bet who want to expand their vocabulary of prayerbook and Biblical Hebrew and learn some grammar. This class is a continuation of last... Read More
Thursdays, 7:30-8:45 PM at BZBI (materials provided) - January 22 through May 7 (please note that class will not meet on April 2 & April 9 due to Pesach) For anyone who wants to learn the alef-bet and some basic prayerbook vocabulary—or those feeling rusty at reading Hebrew aloud. We will use the innovative text-booklet... Read More
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