Shavuot 2020 – 5780
Shavuot Schedule — 2020 – 5780
Thursday evening, May 28 – Saturday evening, May 30
BZBI is proud to partner – again this year – with the Center City Kehillah in celebrating Shavuot.
Click for more information on learning partners, cheesecake and window hangings!
Center City Kehillah Learning
Tuesday May 26 – Friday May 29.
- BZBI member Matt Whitehorn addresses Jews In Sports and Israeli Baseball & Basketball on Tuesday May 26 at 8:00 PM
- BZBI board member and Penn Professor Susan Zeelander discusses Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife on Thursday, May 28 at 12:00 Noon.
- Click here for the full schedule. Click on the topic name above to register.
BZBI Tot Shabbat
5:00 – 5:30 PM, Thursday May 28 (Erev Shevuot)
- Led by Sarah Fleischman, this service engages our youngest BZBI members, their siblings and caregivers.
- To join this service, send a note to Rabbi Max, Director of Youth and Family Education using our Contact Us form
BZBI Mincha Minyan & Yizkor Service
5:30 – 6:30 PM, Thursday May 28 (Erev Shevuot)
- A brief afternoon service followed by a holdiay Yizkor service to remember those who touched our lives.
- Click here to register. This is the meeting ID for all BZBI religious services and study sessions.
Center City Kehillah Community Gathering,
6:45 – 7:45 PM, Thursday May 28
- Feel the warmth of the Philadelphia Jewish Community celebrating the holiday together.
- For more information, click here. To register, click here.
BZBI Tikkun Lael Shavuot (abbreviated)
8:00 PM – 12:00 Midnight, Thursday, May 28
- 8:00 PM, Rabbi Ira Stone, Radical Religious Humanism: Sefer Nefesh HaHayyim
- 9:00 PM, Anne Albert, Ph.D., #prayfromhome
- 10:00 PM, Rabbi Annie Lewis, Faces, Masks and Divine Light
- 11:00 PM, Rabbi Abe Friedman, Visions of Redemption
- Click here for a full description of the sessions.