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SUMMARY:Torah Academy at BZBI
DESCRIPTION:Weekly – beginning on Shabbat at 1:00 PM in person  \n\nAre you about to celebrate a milestone birthday or anniversary?\nIs there an upcoming simcha in your family?\nWould you like to join the cadre of BZBI members who help sustain our weekly Torah reading?\nAre you interested in an adult Bat/Bar Mitzvah?\n\nIf you answered yes to any of these questions\, or are simply curious about how to learn to chant Torah\, the Torah Academy is for you. Participants in the Torah Academy should be able to read Hebrew with 95% accuracy. \nClick here to register.  \nBZBI has been awarded a grant for the Torah Academy from the Hadar Institute! That means that there will be no fees for this class. 
URL:https://bzbi.org/event/29790/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Classes
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SUMMARY:Israel Goes to the Polls: A Conversation at BZBI with Dr. Shira Hebel Sela and Honorable Ramy Djerassi 
DESCRIPTION:This month\, for the first time in four years\, Israelis will go to the polls. Come to BZBI on Monday\, October 19\, to learn about that upcoming election: Israel’s parliamentary electoral system\, the leaders and platforms of the principal parties\, the most recent polling results\, the prospects for forming a leadership coalition\, and the historical context in which Israelis will be exercising their right to select their leaders. \nClick here to register. \nOur speakers are two members of BZBI: \nDr. Shira Hebel Sela is a social psychologist and Kalaniyot Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on political beliefs\, conflict\, polarization\, and the psychology of how people understand and respond to political information. She completed her Ph.D. at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, where she studied political and intergroup attitudes in Israel and other conflict settings. She now continues this work at Penn\, examining how political beliefs are formed and changed. Originally from Israel\, Shira recently moved to Philadelphia with her family\, and her daughter\, Alma\, is in the Blue Room at the BZBI preschool. \nThe Honorable Ramy Djerassi joined BZBI in 1988 and was president from 1997-2001. A graduate of Yale College\, Tulane Law School and Penn’s Fels Center of Government\, he is a judge on Philadelphia’s Orphans’ Court.  Ramy’s parents emigrated to Israel in 1948 from Bulgaria and then moved to the U.S where he was born in Boston in 1957. From 1964 through 1974\, Ramy and family visited cousins and grandparents who lived in Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Ramy remembers pre-1967 Israel fondly and he tries to visit Israel at least once a year. He is a student of Israeli history and politics and he is co-chairing the Current Events and History subcommittee of BZBI’s Israel Engagement Committee.
URL:https://bzbi.org/event/israel-goes-to-the-polls-a-conversation-at-bzbi-with-dr-shira-hebel-sela-and-honorable-ramy-djerassi/
LOCATION:Kahaner Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Discussions,Everyone
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261020T190000
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SUMMARY:BZBI Book Club: London Falling by Patrick Redden Keefe
DESCRIPTION:Join the BZBI book club for their next meeting on Zoom! The review will be led by Rabbi Valerie Joseph. \nTo order the title\, click here. \nTo join on Zoom\, click here – the passcode is BZBIBOOK.
URL:https://bzbi.org/event/bzbi-book-club-london-falling-by-patrick-steele/
CATEGORIES:Discussions,Everyone
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261101T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261101T170000
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SUMMARY:BZBI Goes to the Theater: Join the Congregational Learning Committee for two Different Shows! 
DESCRIPTION:The Melting Pot is a reinterpretation of a 1908 play by Israel Zangwill\, who coined and questions the idea that America can accommodate people of different cultures and ideologies. A block of 20 discounted tickets at Theater Ariel are available. The show is taking place on Sunday\, November 1 at 3:00 PM – (Arch Street Meeting House\, 320 Arch Street). \nClick here to purchase tickets – the deadline to order is Thursday\, October 22. \nThis Much We Know by Jonathan Spector weaves together the stories of Stalin’s daughter defecting to America\, the son of a white supremacist growing to doubt his beliefs\, and a psychologist searching for his wife. It explores how we make decisions\, change our minds\, and cope with things we do not control. A block of 20 discounted tickets for the InterAct Theater are available. The show is taking place on Sunday\, November 15 at 2:00 PM – (Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 South Hicks Street). \nClick here to purchase tickets – the deadline to order is Thursday\, November 5.
URL:https://bzbi.org/event/bzbi-goes-to-the-theater-join-the-congregational-learning-committee-for-two-different-shows/
CATEGORIES:Everyone,Social
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T181500
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SUMMARY:BZBI Sisterhood Planning Meeting 
DESCRIPTION:The Sisterhood meets monthly on the following dates: \n\nMonday\, October 5\, 6:15pm\, BZBI/Zoom\nMonday\, November 2\, 6:15pm\, BZBI/Zoom\nMonday\, December 7\, 6:15pm\, Zoom Only\nMonday\, January 11 (tentative)\, 6:15pm\, Zoom Only\nMonday\, February 1\, 6:15pm\, Zoom Only\nMonday\, March 1\, 6:15pm\, BZBI/Zoom\nMonday\, April 5\, 7pm\, BZBI only\nMonday\, May 3\, 6:15pm BZBI/Zoom\nMonday\, June 7\, 6:15pm\, BZBI only (Potluck in Kahaner)\n\n\nClick here to attend by Zoom – the passcode is BZBISISTER.
URL:https://bzbi.org/event/bzbi-sisterhood-planning-meeting/2026-11-02/
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261106T180000
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SUMMARY:First Fridays: Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Services and Dinner 
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite the entire BZBI family to the 2026-2027 First Friday Dinner season. \nALL dinners will be catered by our preferred partner\, Panache by Foodarama. This year – BZBI will be providing wine and grape juice free of charge for each dinner. \nClick here to subscribe or become a sponsor to the dinner series. 
URL:https://bzbi.org/event/first-fridays-musical-kabbalat-shabbat-services-and-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Everyone,Shabbat
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SUMMARY:Shabbat B'yachad Home Hosted Shabbat Dinner
DESCRIPTION:On November 13\, BZBI Community Members will open their homes to host fellow congregants for Shabbat Dinner. It is a great way to meet other BZBI members\, welcome new community members and start your own tradition of having Shabbat Dinner with BZBI friends and families. There will be guidelines for host families to help them facilitate such a meal and participants will also receive guidelines as an attendee. \n\nClick here if you would like to host Shabbat dinner on November 13.\n\n\nClick here if you would like to be a guest of a hosted dinner.\n\nThe deadline for both forms is Friday\, October 30. Our matching committee will reach out to all that have signed up with guest and host information ahead of the dinner on November 13.
URL:https://bzbi.org/event/shabbat-byachad-home-hosted-shabbat-dinner/
CATEGORIES:Everyone,Shabbat
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