New Members Sukkot Program

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Are you a new member of BZBI? Please join old and new members alike for a New Members Sukkot Program in the BZBI Sukkah! A light brunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Liat or Tanya Hess, the Membership Committee Chair.

Pink Shabbat

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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

My Grown Up and Me

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Thursday mornings, starting October 27, from 9:15 - 10:00 AM Join the BZBI Early Childhood Program in the chapel for music and movement for infants and toddlers (and their grown ups!). RSVP's are appreciated but not required and each class costs $10. 

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Israeli Dancing

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Do you want to learn how to Israeli dance? Do you want to expand on what you already know in Israeli dancing? BZBI is offering Israeli Dance classes Thursday, October 27 through Thursday, November 17. (10/27,11/3,11/10,11/17). The cost is $10.00 per class, and will be led by Don Schillinger. Please reach out to Liat to register for classes. We can't wait... Read More

Tikkun HaYam and BZBI invite you to participate in Reverse Tashlich

Join Jewish communities around the world as we reverse the Tashlich tradition, and pull our "sins" (debris) from local environments. The event meet up location is Schuylkill Banks at Lloyd Hall Recreation Center. Please contact Eileen Dwell or Liat Kovnator with any additional questions. Reservations are not required but greatly appreciated. To sign up for this... Read More

“The Jews of Ukraine and the Slave Markets of Istanbul: Disaster and Rescue in the Seventeenth Century” by Professor Adam Teller

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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

First Friday at BZBI

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As much fun as it is to enjoy potlucks in the park, it's even more fun when someone else does the cooking for you. Join us as we celebrate First Fridays @ BZBI with a spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service at 6:00 PM. Families with young children are invited to an early dinner at 5:00 PM, and the entire community is... Read More

Opening Night at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival with BZBI

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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

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BZBI-wide Book Club: The Survivors

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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!

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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).