Thursdays, 7:30-8:45 PM at BZBI (materials provided) - January 22 through May 7 (please note that class will not meet on April 2 & April 9 due to Pesach) For anyone who wants to learn the alef-bet and some basic prayerbook vocabulary—or those feeling rusty at reading Hebrew aloud. We will use the innovative text-booklet... Read More
Join us for a special Shabbat with guest teachers Rabbi Ezra Weinberg and therapist Batsheva Ganz, co-founders of Areivut. How can we, as a Jewish community, best support our members going through divorce? What rituals can help families in this process? What should we say (or not say) to someone who is getting a divorce? The day will include a... Read More
Donate blood in May! Click here to sign up for a donation slot. Please let Julia Pollock know if you can volunteer during the blood drive that day.
Join Rabbi Abi Weber, Bill Brookover and Davida Charney to discuss There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition by Rabbi Jill Jacobs (order your copy at this link). Please read Chapter 4, Sufficient for One's Needs: The Collection and Allocation of Tzedakah, ahead of the meeting. Don't worry if you don't get to... Read More
The menu will feature lasagna (with a gluten free, celiac friendly option). Click here to register! Reach out to Hope Wright at BZBIYoungProfessionals@gmail.com to learn more.
Ever wonder when to stand and when to sit during Shabbat services? How and when to bow? Why to repeat some lines and not others? Wish you had notes in your siddur? If so, join Leslee Schwartz for these classes where you can talk through the order of the service and personalize your own copy... Read More
A brief introduction to the work of one of the greatest Jewish philosophers whose work caused his excommunication from the Jewish community 500 years ago.. a ban that is theoretically still in force. But Spinoza’s worldview is one that may be much more compelling to contemporary Jews. In fact, it may serve as a firmer... Read More
BZBI is going all night on the first night of Shavuot! We're starting with services and dinner for the BZBI community: Maariv - 7:45 PM Dinner - 8:15 PM Register for dinner by Friday, May 15 to ensure we have enough food. Then, Center City Philadelphia's annual all-night community learning event for Shavuot is BACK --... Read More
Weekly on Monday's, Starting October 20 at 10:00 AM on Zoom We will be studying the first chapter of the Talmudic Tractate Pesachim in our weekly Talmud class this year. While the opening topic of the chapter reviews the laws of Bedikat Hametz, the search for the Hametz just prior to Pesach, as is the... Read More
Weekly on Tuesday's, Starting October 21 at 10:30 AM on Zoom This year our weekly Tanach class will study the last and possibly strangest book of the Bible, the Book of Daniel. Written in the 2nd century BCE purporting to describe events hundreds of years earlier, the book has long been a source for both... Read More
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