The Torah of Civil Discourse (In Person)
- Adult Learning
Join us as we explore lessons the weekly Torah portion teaches us about engaging in civil discourse.
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TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
The Torah of Civil Discourse (In Person)
- Adult Learning
Join us as we explore lessons the weekly Torah portion teaches us about engaging in civil discourse.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Red Cross Blood Drive | December 2024 (In Person)
- Community Engagement
The American Red Cross has a constant and ongoing need for blood donations. Please schedule your next donation appointment now to help prevent another blood shortage.
RJI Presents | Exclusionary by Design: Zip Code is Destiny (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Amy Dain will lead this conversation on Massachusetts’ housing crisis. A panel of respondents will describe the costs of radicalized zoning practices and what actions we can take in our communities to address these challenges.
The Torah of Civil Discourse (In Person)
- Adult Learning
Join us as we explore lessons the weekly Torah portion teaches us about engaging in civil discourse.
The Torah of Civil Discourse (In Person)
- Adult Learning
Join us as we explore lessons the weekly Torah portion teaches us about engaging in civil discourse.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Prime Timers’ Night at TBE Table (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Come do a mitzvah and pack meals for TBE Table!
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Annual Trotter School Holiday Gift Drive 2024
- Community Engagement
The annual Holiday Gift Collection for the 390 students at Grove Hall’s William Monroe Trotter K-6 School is underway!
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Welcome the Stranger in the TBE Sukkah (Outdoors)
- Community Engagement
We will welcome TBE families and new immigrants, many now US citizens, to our sukkah.
Read “James” with Us: A RJI Community Read Event (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join RJI's community read of Percival Everett's "James"—a bold retelling of Huck Finn from Jim's perspective. Moderated by Susan Jane.
Reverse Tashlich: Trash Clean Up (Outdoors)
- Community Engagement
The Jewish community has shown we can cast sins in, now let’s take them out. Join Jewish communities around the world for a reverse tashlich.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Red Cross Blood Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
The American Red Cross has a constant and ongoing need for blood donations. Please schedule your next donation appointment now to help prevent another blood shortage.
Becoming an Ally & DEI Champion | A Conversation with Colette Phillips (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Learn from Colette Philips and explore the intersections of antisemitism and antiracism work.
Preconceived—The Unexpected World of Crisis Pregnancy Centers | Documentary & Conversation with Director (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Discover the truth behind crisis pregnancy centers in the documentary 'Preconceived'. Join director Sabrine Keane for a revealing post-film discussion!
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Holiday Toy Drive for Ukrainian Children
- Community Engagement
Donate new small toys and stuffed animals as holiday presents for the children of Ukraine.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Annual Build-a-Backpack (In Person Outdoors)
- Community Engagement
Join JFS of Metrowest and TBE in this annual opportunity to support low-income children as well as migrant and refugee families.
Red Cross Blood Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
The American Red Cross has a constant and ongoing need for blood donations. Please schedule your next donation appointment now to help prevent another blood shortage.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
“The Barber of Little Rock” Film Screening and Interview with Executive Producer (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Hear from TBE congregant Ian Cohen, who will share his experience in the creation and celebration of his Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Barber of Little Rock."
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Hunger Doesn’t Take a Summer Vacation Food Collection (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
The Racial Justice Initiative and TBE Table are partnering with the Trotter Elementary School to provide packages of non-perishable food for students this summer.
Civil Rights Journey Information Session (Online)
- Community Engagement
Join us for this informational session about the Racial Justice Initiative’s exploration of the Civil Rights Movement, and particularly the Jewish community’s responses (then and now).
Meet TBE Table’s Community Partners (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join Rabbi Sisenwine and the TBE Table leadership team to hear from representatives of our community partner meal recipients.
TBE Table Volunteer Appreciation Reception (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Gather with Rabbi Sisenwine and the TBE Table Leadership team for a joyful and informative reception where we will celebrate You, TBE Table, and raise up the work of our remarkable community partners.
Tour of Old Jewish Boston and Why We Left (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join Lew Finfer, long-time community organizer and co-chair of the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative 50th Anniversary Committee, for a tour that will include historical highlights of the 60s and 70s Civil Rights Movement in Boston.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Green Team Meeting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join our Green Team in planning to ensure our building and community are environmentally sound and sustainable.
Food & Friendship Heal | A CASA Event (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join us as CASA active volunteers at Community Servings to pack meals. RSVP by May 2!
Plant with Eretz and Make Your Own Herb Garden (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Plant the Eretz herb garden in front of TBE. Kids can plant seeds in their own egg-carton pots to bring home!
Red Cross Blood Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
The American Red Cross has a constant and ongoing need for blood donations. Please schedule your next donation appointment now to help prevent another blood shortage.
Technology Recycle Collection (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Bring any old technology that you no longer need to TBE and we'll recycle it for you.
Let My People Read Campaign (Online)
- Community Engagement
A fundraiser to purchase books for students and families in Tulsa, OK, which has enacted restrictions on access to books and learning.
Green Team Earth Day Project (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join the Green Team in the important earth day activity of clearing invasive plants with Wellesley Conservation Land Trust.
CASA at the Greater Boston Food Bank Warehouse (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join CASA as we help address food insecurity by volunteering together at the Greater Boston Food Bank main warehouse.
Collection to Help Us Garden (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Please bring in cardboard egg cartons and gardening tools for Eretz to plant their garden in front of TBE and allow students to plant their own gardens to bring home!
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Silly Tzedakah! A Mitzvah for Purim (In Person)
- Toddler to Teen
In preparation for the holiday of Purim, join us in your favorite Purim costume for some silly Purim fun: singing, a story, and snacks! We are strongly encouraging families to bring in 5-6 oz tuna cans in water and breakfast cereal boxes to donate for the event.
Prison Book Program | A Favorite of CASA (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join us for this valuable program to support the incarcerated in education, vocation, personal development, and reduction of recidivism.
RJI Quarterly: Eyewitness Testimonials of Desegregation and Busing (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join us to mark the 50th anniversary of the Desegregation of Boston Public Schools (BPS) and Judge Garrity's 1974 order to integrate the schools by busing students.
Transformation 101: College Behind Bars Mentoring (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join us for this spotlight on Emerson College’s life-changing bachelor’s degree program for individuals incarcerated in Massachusetts State Prison, and learn about opportunities to mentor incarcerated students.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
End The Silence with Hadassah (In Person)
- Community Engagement
To make this campaign a monumental success, we need your help! Come to TBE for bagels, coffee, and to make a video to join in with the Hadassah campaign.
Community Viewing of “The Busing Battleground” (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join us for a community viewing of the PBS documentary film, The Busing Battleground, which details the decades-long struggles for educational equity.
Green Team Meeting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join our Green Team in planning to ensure our building and community are environmentally sound and sustainable.
GBIO Housing Justice Action (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join us and other faith communities to come together and show our power to get housing programs over the finish line after an ambitious three year campaign—add your voice!
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Yad Chessed Purim Collection 2024 (Online)
- Community Engagement
From now until Purim Day, Yad Chessed will be collecting donations to fulfill the mitzvah of Matanot LaEvyonim.
Chavilot Tipol: Post-Abortion Care Package Collection (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Our successful Post-Abortion Care Package program returns this year to benefit HealthQ, a reproductive health center in Lawrence.
Winter Walk to End Homelessness (In Person)
- Community Engagement
The Winter Walk is an initiative that believes ending homelessness is within our reach. Participants, housed and unhoused, will walk shoulder to shoulder and then share a meal together as we hear real stories of Boston’s homeless population.
Reproductive Justice Shabbat Dinner and Program (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
To commemorate Repro Shabbat, TBE welcomes Sapna Khatri, Director of Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s new Reproductive Justice Unit. RSVP by February 4!
Black Jewish Relations: Then and Now (Online)
- Community Engagement
Please join the RJI to celebrate Black History Month with this important conversation with Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Red Cross Blood Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
The American Red Cross has a constant and ongoing need for blood and platelet donations. Please schedule your next donation appointment now to help prevent another blood shortage.
Bed and Bath Drive for Welcome Home (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Please donate clean full, queen, or king blankets, and sheets; and towels. Items should be new or like new, with no rips or stains.
Adult Learning Tu B’Shevat Shabbat Dinner (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Enjoy a Tu B'Shevat learning experience over (and about!) dinner with the Green Team and Rabbi Harper, followed by communal singing after dinner. RSVP by January 21!
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Day (In Person)
- Community Engagement
TBE honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a Day of Community Service on his 95th birthday, January 15, 2024. Spend the morning with us!
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
Canceled: Reflections on our Civil Rights Journey and the Legacy of MLK (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
This program has been canceled.
Canceled: MLK Commemoration Shabbat Dinner (In Person)
- Community Engagement
This program has been canceled.
Green Team Meeting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join our Green Team in planning to ensure our building and community are environmentally sound and sustainable.
Eretz Kickoff Meeting (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Please join us for the planning meeting for Eretz, TBE’s family climate change initiative.
RJI Quarterly: The Federal Criminal Justice System From Multiple Angles & Community Chanukah Candle Lighting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Come hear an insider’s perspective when TBE member Josh Levy shares his reflections on his career trajectory and how it influenced him to take on the work of his new position as Acting US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Supporting the Refugee: Connecting Family Storytime with Action (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join Cantor Josh, the Family Social Action Group, and Brave Light Library for a family storytime and learning session about the plight of the world's refugees.
Red Cross Blood Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
TBE is sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive in our building. The American Red Cross has a constant and ongoing need for blood and platelet donations. Please schedule your next donation appointment now to help prevent another blood shortage. Consider donating blood, the source of life, to those in need & help fulfill our temple’s mission of bringing light to our world.
Info Session: Partakers Mentoring Opportunities (Online)
- Community Engagement
The Partakers Mentor Programs match volunteer mentor teams with incarcerated individuals working on their college degrees while in prison and with returning citizens navigating re-entry.
Water Bottle Drive
- Community Engagement
Please bring reusable water bottles that will be cleaned and then donated to JF&CS, Brookline Food Pantry, and Wellesley Food Pantry.
Adult Civil Rights Journey to Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham & Selma: This trip is full
- Community Engagement
Join us in the south for a meaningful and educational trip!
Green Team Meeting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join our Green Team in planning to ensure our building and community are environmentally sound and sustainable.
Film Screening | Repairing the World: Stories From the Tree of Life (Hybrid)
- Adult Learning
A film screening of "Repairing the World: Stories From the Tree of Life," dinner, and discussion with Rabbi Sisenwine.
Reproductive Justice Art Exhibit and Discussion on Black Maternal Health (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join us for a Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice. This is an ambitious, multidisciplinary exhibition that looks at abortion and reproductive justice through the lens of faith, bringing Jewish feminist artists into dialogue with artists from other faith communities and backgrounds.
Annual Trotter School Holiday Gift Drive
- Community Engagement
The annual Holiday Gift Collection for the 320 students at Grove Hall’s William Monroe Trotter K-6 School is underway!
CASA Visits Prison Book Program (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Books can change an incarcerated life. Our TBE community should be actively involved in making books more easily available to encourage reading for those in prison. Join CASA!
Tea Time with Senators Creem & Rausch: Reproductive Justice Champions (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Tea time with our legislative reproductive justice champions, Senators Cynthia Creem and Becca Rausch.
Jews in the Civil Rights Movement (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join Yoni Kadden as he presents his highly popular class focusing on how we speak about Jews in the Civil Rights Movement.
Info Session: Partakers College Behind Bars Mentoring (Online)
- Community Engagement
This program is for you if you are interested in becoming a College Behind Bars mentor or if you you have questions and would like to learn more about the College Behind Bars or Re-Entry Mentor Programs (there’s no commitment required to attend the training).
A Virtual Tour of MAZON’s New Museum Of Hunger (Online)
- Community Engagement
Join us for a virtual tour of MAZON's new Hunger museum which provides the history over the last 60 years of the problem of hunger, and trying to eradicate hunger, in this country.
Jews in the Civil Rights Movement (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join Yoni Kadden as he presents his highly popular class focusing on how we speak about Jews in the Civil Rights Movement.
Canceled: Eretz: A Family Climate Initiative Kick-off Meeting (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Please join us for the planning meeting for Eretz, TBE’s family climate change initiative. TBE families will strategize, plan, and organize around Climate Action in our broader community.
The Prison-to-College Pipeline Panel (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Please join us, after Shabbat services, to welcome several formerly incarcerated people who have participated in College Behind Bars, and the related mentoring program, Partakers.
Jews in the Civil Rights Movement (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join Yoni Kadden as he presents his highly popular class focusing on how we speak about Jews in the Civil Rights Movement.
CASA Invites Your Helping Hands (In Person)
- Community Engagement
YOU can help put healthy organic food on the table for those with needed food assistance.
Racial Justice Initiative Quarterly Meeting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join us to discuss What's Happening in America Now and Its Impact on the Black and Jewish Communities
Red Cross Blood Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
TBE is sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive in our building. The American Red Cross has a constant and ongoing need for blood and platelet donations. Please schedule your next donation appointment now to help prevent another blood shortage. Consider donating blood, the source of life, to those in need & help fulfill our temple’s mission of bringing light to our world.
Immigration Justice Call to Action (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join us to learn about the new pathways for welcoming immigrants and increasing volunteers for participating and sponsoring new immigrants at risk in home countries.
CASA Welcomes Your Paperback Donations
- Community Engagement
CASA is collecting paperback books for their visit to the Prison Book Program on November 4th.
Green Team Meeting (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Come join the Green Team Meeting for exciting planning opportunities!
Cradles to Crayons Donation Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join Temple Beth Elohim’s efforts to make a difference to the children served by Cradles to Crayons. Items should be for children ages infant through 12 years old. Please leave items in the donation box located in the temple atrium.
- Community Engagement
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- May 5–7, 2023
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