Join us at BZBI as Co-Author Devra Ferst and Rabbi Abi Weber discuss The Jewish Holiday Table. This event is free and open to the public, please click here to... Read More
Join congregant Nancy Leaderman to explore and discuss the wide-ranging perspectives of Jewish American poets. Bring your lunch (dairy or parve) and dive into some amazing poems. No prior knowledge... Read More
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... Read More
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.
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
Click here to order a copy of the book. Sheryl and Seth Gross are leading the discussion and the author will join us in person too! A Zoom link will be... Read More
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