Enjoy a warm and welcoming summer potluck with Greater Boston Interfaith Organization partners—an opportunity to build community, deepen connections, and get inspired for the justice work ahead.
Celebrate 9 years addressing racism’s impact on ourselves and society and honor TBE’s commitment and exceptional volunteers receiving Tzedek Champion Awards! Dinner registration closes Sunday, June 1 at 11:59 pm.
The Racial Justice Initiative is sponsoring a docent-led tour of the MFA exhibit "Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson." Born in Roxbury, Wilson's work spanned 60 years, and continues to resonate with the persistent realities of disenfranchisement, racial prejudice, and social injustice.
Help the Racial Justice Initiative provide summer meals for students from the William Monroe Trotter School.
Join the TBE-Partakers College Behind Bars Mentor Program to support incarcerated students earning degrees. Transform lives through mentorship—starting September 2025!
Dr. Lauren Fiechtner will explore hunger's impact on health and Greater Boston Food Bank's pioneering "Food is Medicine" approach to combat food insecurity.
Join TBE's Racial Justice Initiative at GBIO's Delegates Assembly, uniting over 50 faith institutions to advocate for social justice and systemic change.
Join the 2025 Winter Walk to raise awareness and funds to end homelessness. Walk 2 miles through Boston and hear powerful stories from the homeless community.
This program has been canceled.
Join the TBE community in a service day for adults and families with children of all ages.
Join us for a moving morning of music with Lapidus & Myles, a collaboration between two faith-based musicians in Atlanta.
After our Friday Shabbat service and before our concert with Lapidus & Myles, you are invited to join us for dinner. You do not have to come to dinner to attend the concert.
Help us collect hygiene essentials for Dignity Bags to support women experiencing homelessness this MLK Community Service Day.
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 annual Holiday Gift Collection for the 390 students at Grove Hall’s William Monroe Trotter K-6 School is underway!
Join RJI's community read of Percival Everett's "James"—a bold retelling of Huck Finn from Jim's perspective. Moderated by Susan Jane.
Learn from Colette Philips and explore the intersections of antisemitism and antiracism work.
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."
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).
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.
A fundraiser to purchase books for students and families in Tulsa, OK, which has enacted restrictions on access to books and learning.
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.
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.
Join us for a community viewing of the PBS documentary film, The Busing Battleground, which details the decades-long struggles for educational equity.
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!
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.
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 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!
This program has been canceled.
This program has been canceled.
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.
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.
Join us in the south for a meaningful and educational trip!
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.
The annual Holiday Gift Collection for the 320 students at Grove Hall’s William Monroe Trotter K-6 School is underway!
Join Yoni Kadden as he presents his highly popular class focusing on how we speak about Jews in the Civil Rights Movement.
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).
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.
Join Yoni Kadden as he presents his highly popular class focusing on how we speak about Jews in the Civil Rights Movement.
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.
Join Yoni Kadden as he presents his highly popular class focusing on how we speak about Jews in the Civil Rights Movement.
Join us to discuss What's Happening in America Now and Its Impact on the Black and Jewish Communities
Join us to celebrate the contributions and dedication of our honorees as well as recognize the commitment and engagement of our broader TBE community.
Join us to learn more about upcoming Civil Rights Journey trips!
Join/support the TBE team by donating, fundraising and/or walking, whether on your own or with others.
Join us and discover if this remarkable volunteer opportunity is right for you!
Join Cantor Josh and Brave Light Library in a family-friendly experience about race, identity, and justice!
Join us for an exclusive tour of the exhibit, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Edgefield South Carolina, with the curator, and TBE congregant, Ethan Lasser.
In this experiential workshop, participants will learn about and create pottery inspired by the work of Dave The Slave Potter, born in 1801.
Rev. Vaughn’s presentation titled, “We are the ones we have been waiting for” will describe Ebenezer Baptist’s role in demonstrating faith leadership’s importance in the public square, the long-standing partnership with The Temple in Atlanta, and how to reinvigorate the alliance between the Black and Jewish communities.
Join the Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) for their quarterly meeting!
Join the Racial Justice Initiative to hear the exciting details of this effort that is focused on public housing, affordable rental and homeownership opportunities, and housing access.
The Winter Walk is an initiative that believes ending homelessness is within our reach. The 7th annual Winter Walk in Boston will be held on February 12, 2023.
Come learn how to mentor our Partakers community!
Join us in conversation with Joseph Rosenbloom to commemerate MLK day.
Join the Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) for their quarterly meeting!
Join RJI on a journey to Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma.
Donate gifts for students at the Trotter School!
The Prison Book Program sends books to prisoners to support their development and to help them avoid returning to prison after release.
Join Yoni Kadden as he revisits his Jews in the Civil Rights Movement program with TBE.
Join Yoni Kadden as he revisits his Jews in the Civil Rights Movement program with TBE.
Join the Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) for their quarterly meeting!
Join Yoni Kadden as he revisits his Jews in the Civil Rights Movement program with TBE.
Join us to learn more about the trip’s itinerary, activities, and logistics!
Join the RJI for a presentation on Returning Citizens: Barriers and Opportunities.
Come see a great art exhibit at Wellesley College.
Join Rabbi Philip, Cantor Josh, and Brave Light Library (BLL) in a family-friendly experience about race, identity, and justice.
The Racial Justice Initiative invites you to a four-part series about the history you were never taught.
Make a difference this Mother’s Day, oin/support the TBE team at the 26th annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace.
The Racial Justice Initiative invites you to a four-part series about the history you were never taught.
The Racial Justice Initiative invites you to a four-part series about the history you were never taught.
The Racial Justice Initiative invites you to a four-part series about the history you were never taught.
Learn more about volunteering at the Trotter After-School Program at this info session!
Join the RJI for their Quarterly Meeting! Program descriptions will be forthcoming
Become a mentor to a College Behind Bars participant!
Join us for dinner and a discussion with leaders from Fresh Food Generation and Commonwealth Kitchen in honor of Black History Month.
Engage in life-changing volunteer mentoring with incarcerated individuals and recently released returning citizens.
Join RJI for a commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.
Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with an at-home dining experience before our online program, Portraits of Freedom with ""Pops"" Peterson and Ethan Lasser.
The Racial Justice Initiative is very honored to be welcoming Dr. Althea Smith, Chair of the Board of Directors, and Ms. Deborah Collins-Gousby, Chief Operating Officer of Brookview House in Dorchester, and Ari Barbanell, Executive Director of The Winter Walk for a discussion of homelessness in Boston and Massachusetts and what we can do about... Read More
