Pesah Wine & Cheese Tasting 

Join us for our Passover Wine and Cheese Tasting with Rosenberg Blue Star Wines. Buy all of your Passover wine and candy for your Seders and support BZBI and our Youth & Family and Early Childhood Education Programs!

Tikkun Olam Lunch & Learn: There Shall Be No Needy 

Join Rabbi Abi Weber, Davida Charney, and Bill Brookover for our next Tikkun Olam Lunch & Learn! Each month, we will meet to discuss There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition by Rabbi Jill Jacobs. Please read Chapter 2 ahead of the meeting. Don't worry if you don't get to it in time... Read More

Second Seder at BZBI

Kahaner Auditorium

BZBI is proud to announce that we will be hosting a second night Seder for the BZBI community thanks to a very generous and Anonymous Donor who helped to lower the cost to our community. We welcome all to join your BZBI family for a warm, inviting and celebratory occasion - catered by Deluxe Catering... Read More

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Pesah Hol HaMoed Lunches

Kahaner Auditorium

Pesah Hol HaMoed Lunches Are Back  On Monday and Tuesday (April 6 and April 7 at 12:00 PM in the Kahaner Auditorium), BZBI will host catered, kosher for Pesah lunch for members, and the entire Center City Jewish community. BZBI members receive a discount, so sign up today and send the link on to those... Read More

Yom HaShoah at BZBI: The World that Was

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Join us on the eve of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) for a moving ceremony and presentation by Nancy Scholem (sister of Rabbi Ken Stern). Nancy will speak about her mother's experience -- Rabbi Ken says that she "channels our mother" -- surviving Auschwitz and the death marches, ultimately to be liberated from Bergen-Belsen. From... Read More

Community Gathering for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut

Special guests from Jerusalem Nava Tehila will lead us in a powerful ceremony transitioning from Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day for fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror) to Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day). Keren Keshet, the leader of Philadelphia's Israel Scouts unit ("Pa'amon Tzofim"), will present about her experience as a child born during the Yom... Read More

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Winter Shelter Volunteering

Trinity Memorial Church 2212 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA

Trinity Memorial Church is home to a shelter of 20 beds for homeless men run by the Bethesda Project. Our own BZBI member Terry Hirshorn coordinates dinner there every evening from November through April. Join the Tikkun Olam Committee by volunteering to prepare a dish (for 8-10 people) AND/OR to serve the meal and get... Read More

Rebuilding the Future: Resilience, Recovery, and Hope in Israel

Please join us for a meaningful discussion with Gilles Darmon, Founder and President of Latet, Israel’s largest NGO fighting poverty and food insecurity, for a rare and intimate conversation about the effects that the prolonged war had on poverty, resilience, and hope in Israel, and the role of Israeli civil society in rebuilding the country. We hope you’ll... 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.