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Archive: August 2024

Summer Sundays Torah Hebrew Reading and Understanding with Rabbi Sam Seicol (online)

Posted on August 11, 2024

August 11, 2024 @ 10:45 am – 11:30 am – This series is an introduction and review of the material from the past 3 1/2 years of the Sunday Hebrew sessions. We will read selected passages from Genesis 1 – 10, comparing creation and flood stories with interpretations from traditional sources and modern form critical views.  Material will be provided in advance for reading fluency […]

POSTPONED!! Broken Temples: A Tisha B’Av Workshop (in person)

Posted on August 11, 2024

August 11, 2024 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm – “The story of what is broken is whole.” Aurora Levins Morales “I will not weep for shattered eggshells from which birdsong fills the world.” “Tisha b’Av”, from Rimonim by Aurora Levins Morales REGISTER HERE In this moment of our history, we face many kinds of breaking: our hearts, our communities, our allegiances, many of the […]

Together Beyond Words (in person)

Posted on August 11, 2024

August 11, 2024 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Together Beyond Words is an ongoing peacebuilding organization that has promoted communications between Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs for over 20 years. One of their programs is “Army of Healers,” volunteers providing telehealth support to Israelis since October 7. The founder and director, Nitsan Joy Gordon, is a peace activist, psychotherapist, and dance therapist […]

TBZ Book Club (Zoom)

Posted on August 11, 2024

August 11, 2024 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – The TBZ Book Club provides a setting in which TBZ members come together to discuss fiction and non-fiction books with Jewish themes. Monthly meetings on Sunday evenings at TBZ feature lively discussions of books by or about Jewish people, alternating fiction and non-fiction selections. You may find yourself reading books you never knew about or […]

Men’s Group Weekly Check-in

Posted on August 11, 2024

August 11, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – For more than 15 years, the TBZ Men’s Group has engaged participants in stimulating conversations about what really matters in their lives. In the process, members have built and strengthened relationships with other men in the TBZ community and beyond. For more information, contact Mark Dinaburg through the TBZ office.