New Ritual at BZBI

Late this past December, I had the pleasure of teaching Shabbat zemirot[1] as a guest faculty member of Mechon Hadar’s 2015 Singing Communities Intensive. It was a treat to teach songs to… Read More

Holy Anger

Most of us have been there at some point — a nasty email from a co-worker, a fight with our partner, some exasperating thing our kid does that’s just the… Read More

Compassionate Attention

In 1946, Dr. Emmi Pikler, a Hungarian pediatrician, went to work at an orphanage in Budapest. In private practice before the Shoah, Dr. Pikler had developed distinctive ideas about raising… Read More

The Law of Fairness

The reading of a double portion of the Torah is, theoretically, an accident of the calendar. There are so many parshiyot and so many weeks in the year and we… Read More

About Us

About BZBI TEMPLE BETH ZION-BETH ISRAEL (BZBI) Where You Belong Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel is a Conservative synagogue located in Center City Philadelphia. We are affiliated with United Synagogue of… Read More

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