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BZBI Urban Shabbaton 5785: A Weekend to Sing, Learn, Connect and Belong

Highlights include:  Meals ALL weekend including a fully catered Friday night dinner featuring a chicken course (vegetarian options will be available), Seudah Shlisheet (Saturday dinner) featuring Mama's Falafel and a Sunday brunch Prayer, music, and learning all Shabbat with guest rabbis Yosef Goldman and Annie Lewis "The United States: The First Mussar Republic," a Friday night discussion between Jeffrey Rosen (CEO of... Read More

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Voices of Jewish American Poets: Thursday Lunch and Learn

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Join congregant Nancy Leaderman to explore and discuss the wide-ranging perspectives of Jewish American poets. Bring your lunch (dairy or parve) and dive into some amazing poems. No prior knowledge or preparation required, but registration is appreciated. Click here to register.

Sisterhood Goes to the Movies (Part 2) 

The Weitzman 101 South Independence Mall, Philadelphia, PA

Join the BZBI Sisterhood to see our very own Ilana Trachtman's movie Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round. Buy your tickets here before they sell out. More details to follow.

Super Bowl Sunday with Winter Shelter: Cook & Serve

Do you have zero interest in the Super Bowl and want to find something else to do that day? Do you LOVE the Superbowl and want to watch it with a group of Philly sports fanatics? There’s room for both at the Tikkun Olam Committee’s Super Bowl Sunday at Trinity Memorial Church’s Winter Shelter. Trinity... Read More

Shabbat B’yachad Home Hosted Dinner

On February 21, 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... Read More

BZBI Book Club

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The BZBI book club will be reviewing ​The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren. Click here to order your book ahead of the next meeting.

Hand in Hand: Creating a Shared Society in Israel

Kahaner Auditorium

Stay after kiddush on Saturday, March 8 to hear from guest speaker Lee Gordon, co-founder of the network of Hand in Hand schools. These integrated, bilingual schools for Jewish and Arab Israeli children represent a model for a peaceful shared society in the Holy Land. Lee will share with us some of the unique challenges and successes facing the... Read More

Purim Block Party

Fitler Square Pine Street between 23rd & 24th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Join us for our annual Purim block party in Fitler Square from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. There will be carnival games, crafts, face-painting, a photo booth, pretzels, hamentashen, Drag Queen Story Time, Dr. Dani Dance Pants, A DJ and more! For an all inclusive experience, you can buy a wristband for $20 (drinks and food not... Read More

Megillah Reading, Purim Pub & Karaoke

BZBI welcomes all to attend the Megillah reading at 7:30 PM in the Goldberg Sanctuary and participate in our costume contest during the reading. Costume contest categories include: Best Jewish/ Biblical costume, Best Group costume and Best Pun costume. Afterwards, a Purim pub will take place at 9:00 PM in the Kahaner Auditorium with Karaoke, snacks... Read More

Passover Q&A with Rabbi Abe Friedman 

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Nothing in the Jewish year provokes as many questions as Passover: Where do I shop? How do you make little origami frogs? How long should my Seder be? What is Slivovitz, anyway? And this year, when the first Seder falls on Saturday night, there's even more to think through as we prepare for the Shabbat that is... Read More