Join the TBZ Team! The 25th annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace, the beloved Boston tradition that celebrates the potential to create more peaceful communities, is on May 9.

The virtual walk celebrates and remembers the lives of victims of homicide and gun violence and supports their loved ones living with grief and trauma. You can join us on our next TBZ Community Walk on Saturday, April 17 @2:00pm at Jamaica Pond.

In the spirit of TIkkun Olum, the TBZ/GBIO Core Team is launching a Listening Campaign. This is an opportunity to ask each other: what injustices weigh heavily on YOUR heart? Starting the week of April 24, we will be offering small-group, facilitated meetings (on zoom) where we can share our own stories. We will listen deeply to one another so we can turn our shared concerns into collective action. These Listening Meetings are the heart of a newly ReFounded, GBIO Listening Campaign to shape GBIO’s Legislative Agenda and TBZ's Social Justice Agenda. Most importantly, we will strengthen our bond to the TBZ community.

We look forward to continuing to have conversations about death as a community.

We heard it from bereaved Palestinian mother, Laila El-Shaikh; we heard it from bereaved, Israeli brother, Gili Meisler and we heard it from actor, Richard Gere: Bereavement and conflict are not an act of fate. There is another way. 

We look forward to working together with you next year.  If you want to share the Ceremony or watch it again, you can find the recording here. 

Join Judith in an exploration of the story, "Beautiful Souls" by Joan Leegant, winner of the 2011 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. In this workshop we will discuss how the story works, that is, how Joan Leegant gives us information and creates the story's impact through language and craft. It is imperative to have an accessible copy of the story. You can print and download your copy by clicking here.

Here's the link for the Cutler Parking Lot,

Register Online.

Sunday, April 18th - 5:00-6:30 pm - Register Here / Facebook Event

Tuesday, April 20th - 7:30-9:00 pm - Register Here / Facebook Event

Contact Rob Kaim for more information.

If you would like to be added to the Boker Tov email list, please email Beth.

This is a call to action. A call to change our behaviors, to think more equitably, to live more sustainably, to act more compassionately. This year, Hazon is partnering with EarthX to make this event a global, multi-faith call to action. Hear from individuals across the globe why they are sounding the call and raising their voices on climate change. Learn more about Sound the Call here.

If you are interested in participating, contact Jenny Berz.

showing the Film: Run Boy Run

A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a young Polish boy’s struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and maintain his Jewish faith through his intrepid will and the kindness of others. Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, nine-year old Srulik (movingly portrayed by twins Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz) flees to the woods. There, he learns to hide from SS patrols and scour for food, until loneliness and the harsh onset of winter drive him back to civilization. An unforgettable cinematic experience featuring exceptional performances, arresting cinematography and a transcendent musical score, Run Boy Run is directed by Oscar-winner Pepe Danquart and based on the bestselling novel by Israeli author Uri Orlev. Click here to watch a trailer.

In this 10-part series with My Jewish Learning, delve into ten of the most important prayers in Judaism. Rav Tiferet will be teaching two weeks, along with stellar teachers from across the Jewish spectrum. ***Register here with your name and email for Zoom link and reminders.*** You can attend all of the sessions, or pick the prayers that intrigue you the most.

Join the TBZ Team! The 25th annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace, the beloved Boston tradition that celebrates the potential to create more peaceful communities, is on May 9. The virtual walk celebrates and remembers the lives of victims of homicide and gun violence and supports their loved ones living with grief and trauma.

Dawnland, filmscreening

GBIO, the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, cordially invites you to a free screening of Dawnland, an Emmy-award winning film about centuries of discrimination against indigeneous Americans and the first government-sanctioned reconciliation process in the United States. The film will be followed by a discussion with the film maker, Adam Mazo, member of Temple Israel, Upstander Project Educator, Mishy Lesser of TBZ, and one of the lead figures in the film.

Join Naomi Tsur, founder and chair of the Jerusalem Green Fund, to discuss a variety of issues affecting "Earthly Jerusalem", from Green Pilgrimage to Combating Climate Change and food rescue.

Click here for the video from

New group for Jewish high schoolers and their parents for teens living with Crohn's and/or Ulcerative Colitis. Please click HERE for full flyer. If you are interesting in joining please email: CrohnsAndColitisConnect@gmail.com.

TBZ Members can email submissions to "Voices of TBZ" by Thursday at 10am to be included in Happenings.

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Rav Claudia, Senior Rabbi - ext. 11, ravclaudia@tbzbrookline.org

Reb Moshe, Founding Rabbi - ext. 12, rebmoshe@tbzbrookline.org

Rav Tiferet, Rabbi of Congregational Learning & Programming - ext. 14, ravtiferet@tbzbrookline.org

Sara Smolover, President - president@tbzbrookline.org

Susan Diller, Executive Director - ext. 10, sdiller@tbzbrookline.org

Beth Ehrenreich, Assistant Director - ext. 17, behrenreich@tbzbrookline.org