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BZBI Book Club

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The BZBI book club will be reviewing ​The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren. Click here to order your book ahead of the next meeting.

Hand in Hand: Creating a Shared Society in Israel

Kahaner Auditorium

Stay after kiddush on Saturday, March 8 to hear from guest speaker Lee Gordon, co-founder of the network of Hand in Hand schools. These integrated, bilingual schools for Jewish and Arab Israeli children represent a model for a peaceful shared society in the Holy Land. Lee will share with us some of the unique challenges and successes facing the... Read More

Trans Allyship Shabbat: A Training and Discussion with Galia Godel 

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As attacks on the LGBT community have grown in the last several months, BZBI has invited Galia Godel, Program Manager of the LGBTQ Initiative at Philadelphia's Jewish Family and Children's Services, to speak to our congregation after kiddush. Galia will explain concepts related to gender and sexuality, take questions from the community, and speak about... Read More

Avi Wisnia: How Saba Kept Singing – Presentation with Live Music and Discussion 

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BZBI hosts renowned performer and educator Avi Wisnia as he presents his award-winning documentary film “How Saba Kept Singing.” We will bear witness to The Shoah, experience the documentation of this historical atrocity, and then participate in a guided discussion with the film’s director. Mr. Wisnia will also perform live music from the period as... Read More

Bridging Divides in Israel: An Israeli Rabbi’s Perspective 

Kahaner Auditorium

At a time when the country’s unity is more important than ever, Rabbi Arie Hasit (Associate Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem) has a track record of bridging divides between different communities in Israel. What will it take to unite the Jewish state in the face of its immense challenges, and what important... Read More

Book Talk with Author & BZBI Member Sharon Musher

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Join us for a fascinating book talk with author and BZBI member Sharon Musher. Her new book, Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine draws on the records of her grandmother, the second daughter of Mordecai Kaplan – founder of Reconstructionism and initiator of the first bat mitzvah with... 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

BZBI’s Annual Meeting 

Kahaner Auditorium

The Board of Trustees will review last year and update you on plans for the coming season! This meeting will be IN PERSON but congregants will have the option to tune in via Zoom. To access the link, please contact our Programming & Outreach Coordinator Julia Pollock in the Temple Office.