Sunday, March 15 at 2:00 PM - The Bluver Theatre @ The Drake (302 S. Hicks Street) Marsha Blovotnick is angry. At the world. At her ex-wives. At her nephew. And especially at her sister—who has just invited herself over for Shabbat dinner. Marsha doesn’t know how she’ll get through the evening... and then a mysterious... Read More
Donate unopened and unexpired packages of canned goods, pasta, rice, chickpeas and legumes for our annual Pesah Food Drive! A bin will be available in the 18th Street Lobby to drop off donations. Donated items will be taken to Temple University's Cherry pantry for students in need.
Registration is now LIVE: Third Annual BZBI Urban Shabbaton! Friday, March 20 - Sunday, March 22 Join your BZBI community for three days of learning, singing, eating, davening, and shmoozing! This year's Urban Shabbaton will feature a full slate of guest lecturers, classes taught by community members, and a performance by the Penn Shabbatones. Register here -- you won't... Read More
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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