Come join members of BZBI for a High Holy Day Journaling Program at the synagogue! We will reflect inward on the past year, and set goals for the new year ahead. Notebooks and writing utensils will be provided. If you have any questions and/or would like to RSVP ahead of time, please contact Liat.
Join BZBI for our Pink Shabbat, a morning service in honor of breast cancer awareness. We will welcome Alona Shaked, an executive and lifestyle coach who shows women how to turn their major life challenges into purposeful, fulfilling careers and lives. Alona is also a breast cancer survivor, writer, & women’s health activist. In her former... Read More
The Brown Club of Greater Philadelphia and BZBI invite you to a free presentation by Adam Teller, Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Brown University. Click here to RSVP for this special event. Adam Teller is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the department of history at Brown University. He was co-editor of Borders and Boundaries... Read More
Opening Night at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival with BZBI Saturday, November 12, 7:00 PM @ Weitzman National Museum BZBI's Israel Engagement Committee invites you to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History for a screening of Karaoke, a new award-winning Israeli comedy about a married middle-class suburban couple in their 60s who are drawn to their new neighbor,... Read More
The fall book club selection is The Survivors by Adam Frankel. A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family’s painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own... Read More
Sisterhood goes the the PJFF! Join us on Tuesday, November 15, 7 PM @ The Arden Theatre Join the Sisterhood to watch Jewish Shorts. Tickets for the event can be bought from the Jewish Shorts page here. You may use the discount code BZBIShorts at checkout (for $5 off GENERAL ADMISSION, in person only).
Exploring the Talmud as Philosophy Starting at the beginning of the Talmud, the first chapter of Tractate Berachot, we will try to determine what philosophic questions the authors/editors of the Talmud were exploring and how and why the text came into being in such an idiosyncratic form. Tuition for BZBI members is $180, and the... 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 Life. Our studies touch on... Read More
Two Philosophic Books of the Bible We will explore two later books of the Bible that consider deep philosophic issues. First the Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) and then the Book of Job. We will engage in close reading of the texts and also situate each book, as much as possible, in the context of the... Read More
Judaism is a world unto itself, encompassing rituals, ideas, and thousands of years of history. If you’ve been curious about Jewish learning but didn’t know where to start, this is the place for you! The American Jewish University’s On One Foot curriculum covers all of the essentials in an interactive format that encourages personal engagement. You... Read More
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