FAREWELL TO RABBI ABI

Please join us for a Shabbat of thanks to Rabbi Abi Weber for her remarkable and dedicated service to BZBI. Rabbi Abi has given us so much creativity, heart, musicality, ruach and wisdom; she has built some of our most popular recurring programs, including the Urban Shabbaton; and has shared her beautiful family. Please consider... Read More

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First Friday Dinner & Kabbalat Shabbat Services

BZBI 300 South 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA

We are pleased to invite the entire BZBI family to save the date for First Friday Dinners! This year, there are three main items to note: ALL of the dinners will be catered by BZBI’s preferred partner, Panache by Foodarama, Panache serves a variety of delicious food options and always sends more than we need, fulfilling the Jewish... Read More

BZBI Author Event: The Roots of the Guava Tree by Sonia Daccarett

Kahaner Auditorium

This debut memoir tells the story of a young girl’s struggle to understand her identity as the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Christian Palestinian father, as she was coming of age in Colombia where increasing violence and the instability of the 1980s were engulfing her country. Refreshments will be served at 6:45 PM.... Read More

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Shabbat Services

In the Sanctuary & on Zoom 0

This week, BZBI holds services in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. The Zoom link for BZBI religious services changed in September. You can sign up for the new link here. You can download Siddur Sim Shalom, used during Shabbat by going here. The weekly Torah parashah can be found on our shofar blog, here.   For more information, please click here. 

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Monday & Thursday Morning Minyan

In the Chapel & on Zoom 0

Join us for Minyan in the Chapel & on Zoom on both Monday and Thursday mornings: for more information, click here.  To join Monday or Thursday morning Minyan on Zoom, click here. 

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Zohar Study Group led by Rabbi David Greenstein

Zoom Only 0

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

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Tuesday & Wednesday Morning Minyan

Zoom Only 0

Join us for Tuesday and Wednesday morning Minyan on Zoom: click here for more information.  To join Tuesday and Wednesday morning Minyan on Zoom, click here.