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November 2018
ShaBhakti: A Shabbat Yoga Experience
Join BZBI in an alternative spiritual journey into the heart of Shabbat through yogic movement, meditation and song with Dr. Deborah Glassman. Deborah is a certified yoga teacher and practices and studies an alignment based flow style yoga. Her belief is that yoga is more than postures on a sticky mat and is a way to connect with your true self as a manifestation of the divine. She tries to carry her practice of yoga off the mat into her daily life as…
Find out more »Prayer-Leading Skills Workshop: Kabbalat Shabbat
Learn to lead Kabbalat Shabbat or brush up on your skills with Rabbi Goldman. The first three Saturdays of November, 1:15 P.M. to 2:15 P.M. in the Chapel. General facility with Hebrew and the siddur required. Please register in advance to receive study resources.
Find out more »Community Havdalah & Melaveh Malkah Concert
Join us as we mark the end of Shabbat and celebrate the beginning of a new week with a special Havdalah celebration, followed by a Melaveh Malkah spiritual music celebration featuring BZBI musicians. 5:30 PM-6:00 PM: Havdalah Service 6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Melaveh Malkah: Spiritual Music Celebration Unfortunately, we do not have enough RSVPs to be able to hold the Youth & Family dinner, puppet show, and Israeli dancing celebration we had previously planned. We will be refunding any payments made by the few…
Find out more »Basic Prayerbook Hebrew
Learning to read and understand basic Hebrew opens a world of opportunities for worship. Would you like to be able to comfortably follow along in the prayer book? Are you planning to read Torah for the congregation someday? Do you simply want to be able to easily tell each letter on the dreidel apart? Join us at BZBI to learn the basics of Hebrew reading, pronunciation, and comprehension. This is a class for those with no background in the language,…
Find out more »On One Foot: An Introduction to Judaism for Everyone
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. Join Rabbi Abe Friedman, Rabbi Yosef Goldman, and other local rabbis, for a year-long adventure in Jewish learning. This course is ideal for students seeking a basic…
Find out more »Annual Center City Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
Join with our neighbors during the week of Thanksgiving to give thanks and express our hopes and aspirations for our community and our world. Sponsored by the faith congregations of Center City West.
Find out more »God, Prayer, and the Shoah
Using the Shoah as a symbol of the problem of a providential God, we will investigate how to make sense of religious language in general and prayer in particular. Taught by Rabbi Stone, this class will continue until December 12.
Find out more »Basic Prayerbook Hebrew
Learning to read and understand basic Hebrew opens a world of opportunities for worship. Would you like to be able to comfortably follow along in the prayer book? Are you planning to read Torah for the congregation someday? Do you simply want to be able to easily tell each letter on the dreidel apart? Join us at BZBI to learn the basics of Hebrew reading, pronunciation, and comprehension. This is a class for those with no background in the language,…
Find out more »On One Foot: An Introduction to Judaism for Everyone
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. Join Rabbi Abe Friedman, Rabbi Yosef Goldman, and other local rabbis, for a year-long adventure in Jewish learning. This course is ideal for students seeking a basic…
Find out more »God, Prayer, and the Shoah
Using the Shoah as a symbol of the problem of a providential God, we will investigate how to make sense of religious language in general and prayer in particular. Taught by Rabbi Stone, this class will continue until December 12.
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