Founded by Rav Claudia’s and Reb Moshe’s teacher, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014), ALEPH, the Alliance for Jewish Renewal, combines egalitarianism, joy, spirit, and the wisdom of centuries of Jewish tradition.
Rav Claudia is amongst many leading Community Endorsers at Boston Partners for Peace, which encourages Israelis and Palestinians to work together on grassroots projects for mutual recognition, dignity, and peace.
Rav Claudia, Reb Moshe, and Rav Tiferet are active members of the Brookline Clergy Association, an interfaith gathering of members of the clergy from all religious backgrounds serving our community.
TBZ works in partnership with The Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (CJP) to inspire and mobilize the diverse Boston Jewish community, strengthen Jewish life, and improve the world.
TBZ is a member of Community Hevra Kadisha, whose volunteers are on call to prepare a deceased person for burial according to time-honored Jewish traditions. Many TBZ members volunteer for the CHK.
Gann Academy, a pluralistic day school with participants from most Jewish denominations and non-denominational backgrounds, regularly includes TBZ members amongst its students and teachers.
Gann Farm, led by TBZ musical prayer leader Noah Weinberg, heeds the call of our tradition to “renew our lives as in days of old” by growing a connected, thriving, and earth-based Jewish community.
TBZ is one of the founding members of GBIO. TBZ members are active in the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) and its programs to coalesce, train, and organize people across religious, racial, ethnic, class, and neighborhood lines.
The Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy, sponsored by JCRC, matches TBZ members who serve as literacy tutors and mentors for public school students in the Greater Boston area.
Rav Claudia and Rav Tiferet are Rabbinical Council members at Hazon, the largest faith-based environmental organization in the U.S. Hazon works to strengthen Jewish life and contribute to a more environmentally sustainable world. In addition, we have a kvutzah (group) of teens who participate in the Jewish Youth Climate Movement (JYCM)
Many Hebrew College faculty and students are TBZ members. Gratefully, each year TBZ welcomes a Hebrew College rabbinical student as a TBZ Rabbinic Intern. Rav Tiferet is a proud graduate.
Built on the Jewish tradition of honoring and respecting our elders, TBZ neighbor and frequent collaborator Hebrew SeniorLife is a top provider of senior care and a leader in redefining the experience of aging.
TBZ and its members regularly collaborate with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, which seeks to revitalize Jewish life by teaching spiritual practices that cultivate individual and communal mindfulness. Our Beit Rabban teachers participate in their training for educators.
TBZ draws inspiration from the Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project (IOWA), which was founded to promote the Jewish wisdom traditions of Mussar (applied Jewish ethics) and Chassidut (applied Jewish mysticism).
In partnership with TBZ and other Jewish organizations in the Greater Boston Area, the Jewish Arts Collaborative (JArts) brings people together to explore and celebrate the diverse world of Jewish art, culture, and creative expression.
TBZ member-families frequently look to the Jewish Community Day School to cultivate knowledgeable, passionate, Jewish learners with the capacity and confidence to question, listen, understand, and change the world.
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is a coalition of organizations, including TBZ, that advances the values, interests, and priorities of the organized Jewish community in greater Boston.
For more than 150 years, Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JF&CS) has been helping individuals and families build a strong foundation for resilience and well-being across the lifespan. TBZ actively participates in JF&CS Family Table.
Rav Claudia is a member of J Street’s Rabbinic Cabinet, and many TBZ members are active in J Street, which organizes pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans to promote US policies that embody our deeply held Jewish and democratic values and that help secure the State of Israel as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.
Kavod, a multi-ethnic, multi-racial community led by young Jews in Greater Boston, co-hosts Shabbat Nariya, the monthly Friday night sing-out at TBZ, where we raise our voices, move our bodies, catch our breath, and gather strength.
In partnership with TBZ, its rabbis and its many LGBTQ+ members and allies, Keshet envisions a world in which all LGBTQ+ Jews and our families can live with full equality, justice, and dignity.
Following rabbinical school, Rav Claudia became the first rabbi of the youth movement of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism, which supports the work of Israelis in building a Judaism that preserves observance and tradition while recognizing how modern life in Israel is lived.
Mayyim Hayyim is a 21st Century creation, a mikveh (ritual bath) rooted in ancient tradition, reinvented to serve the Greater Boston Jewish community of today. TBZ b’mitzvah students learn about this ritual through a field trip and many choose to take part in this practice prior to their ceremony. People becoming Jewish by choice will visit the mikveh as a final step in their process of conversion.
The New Israel Fund (NIF) helps Israel live up to its founders’ vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants — a mission consistent with TBZ’s highest hopes for people, for the Children of Israel, and for the entire world — v’al kol yoshvei tevel.
Organic Torah integrates ancient Jewish wisdom with new directions in modern thought such as ecological and systems thinking which emphasize networks of relationship, context and patterns of connection. TBZ member Rabbi Natan Margalit is the founder.
The Rabbinical Assembly, the membership organization for Conservative rabbis, has approximately 1,700 members, including Rav Claudia, who proudly serve the institutions of the movement and independent congregations like TBZ.
TBZ members frequently send eager youngsters to the Rashi school on account of its mission: to provide a dynamic, child-centered program of academic excellence that integrates rich secular and Jewish studies curricula and nurtures in its students’ critical minds and compassionate hearts.
The Ruderman Synagogue Inclusion Project (RSIP) is a partnership between CJP and the Ruderman Family Foundation that supports synagogues like TBZ in creating communities where people of all abilities are valued equally and participate fully. TBZ is a partner congregation that has benefitted from RSIP grants to create an accessible space.
The Solomon Schechter Day School nurtures self-discovery through an innovative and engaging curriculum for children 15 months through eighth grade, including many young TBZ students.
T’ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights brings a rabbinic voice (including the voices of TBZ’s rabbis) and the power of the Jewish community to protecting and advancing human rights in North America, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. Rav Claudia serves on the Board of T’ruah.
Only 20 minutes from Newton, MetroWest Jewish Day School is a Pre-K to Grade 8 community Jewish day school that celebrates individualized education, pluralism, and diversity. TBZ families that choose MWJDS enjoy small class sizes as well as the surrounding woods as a classroom.
The Tent: A Jewish Learning Community for Greater Boston Teens, is a pluralistic learning community comprised of many Boston area congregations including TBZ. Under the “Tent,” our teens make new friends, experience new synagogue cultures, and learn from incredible clergy and faculty from the Brookline area.