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Mazel Tov, Benjamin!

Benjamin lives in Center City and is a 7th grader at Germantown Friends School (GFS) as well as an Etgar חניך (camper) at Ramah Day Camp. Benjamin has grown up… Read More

Posted: November 13, 2019 by Temple Office

Mazel Tov, Jacob!

Jacob is a 7th grader at AIM Academy and a long-time camper at Ramah Day Camp. Jacob has been part of the BZBI community since he was 2 years old… Read More

Posted: November 6, 2019 by Temple Office

Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel’s Sisterhood Visits RBG Exhibition

Members of the Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel Sisterhood recently visited the “Notorious RBG” exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History. BZBI members and NMAJH docents Shelly Hirsh and… Read More

Posted: November 6, 2019 by Temple Office

Human Nature, for Better and for Worse

Bereshit 5780 / 26 October 2019

One of the great debates of the Enlightenment centered on basic human nature: left to our own devices, outside the bounds of society, who would we be? The two extremes… Read More

Posted: October 30, 2019 by Rabbi Abe Friedman

To Gather and Be Gathered

Yizkor * Shemini Atzeret 5780

“Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is closed within us. And when we die,… Read More

Posted: October 24, 2019 by Rabbi Annie Lewis