Hesed
Supporting Our Community
Click HERE if you are in need support or if you would like to be involved in the Hesed committee through Acts of Loving-Kindness.
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Inclusion at TBZ -
Mental Health Resources
Download a PDF of TBZ's Mental Health resources from the Inclusion Committee.
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Join TBZ’s Google Groups:
Besides TBZ’s weekly Happenings and other formal communications from the TBZ office, we have many interest-based, action-based, Google Groups that are open to our community. For more information about groups and how to subscribe, unsubscribe or choose how to get your emails check THIS LINK.
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Friday Morning
8:00am
Community-Led
Boker Tov TBZ
(Morning T'filah in community)
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Meeting ID: 862 7843 7944,
Password: 771298
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9:30am
Nishmat Hayyim
Friday AM Meditation
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Meeting ID: 895 0580 6272
Passcode: 881780
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Read the latest post from "What We're Talking About: Conversations about Racial Justice and Anti-Racism" - the TBZ racial justice blog. Leah Cohen has added her take to the debate about Critical Race Theory in a post titled, "Suppose talking about the Holocaust was forbidden."
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Please help us to meet our year-end goals and make tax-deductible donation to TBZ's Annual Appeal. |
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Parshat Vayechi
Week of December 10 - 17
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Covid Protocols
- All adults and teenagers who are eligible for vaccination must be fully vaccinated (minimum of two doses) against COVID-19. We encourage you to seek a booster shot as soon as possible.
- Children under 12, who are not yet fully vaccinated (two doses), are welcome. Your child must be able to wear a mask and follow social distancing at all times regardless of vaccination status. We encourage you to vaccinate all members of your family who are eligible and can be vaccinated. We will be requiring full vaccination for children aged 5 and older in the coming months.
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Everyone must wear a mask preferably a KF-94 or KN-95 over their nose and mouth while inside the building. If you arrive in a cloth mask we will ask you to switch to a surgical mask or wear a surgical mask together with your cloth mask. We will have surgical masks available if you need one.
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SHABBAT AT TBZ
Hybrid: In Person at TBZ and Live Streamed
6:00pm
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By Phone: 1 929 436 2866, Meeting ID: 864 8563 9530, Password: 863733
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For Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv we will be using this siddur.
You may want to have your candles, kiddush cup
and challah (or any bread) available to join in
saying the blessings.
Check the Schedule of Shabbat leaders HERE.
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Shabbat Morning
9:00am
Check the Schedule of Torah Study leaders HERE. |
10:00am
Hybrid: In-person and Live Streamed
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By Phone: 1 929 436 2866, Meeting ID: 864 8563 9530, Password: 863733
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Download the Program
for Sophia's Bat Mitzvah HERE. We will be using Siddur Lev Shalem for Shabbat and festivals. You can download it HERE. The Torah reading for Vayechi from
Etz Hayyim can be found HERE. Check the Schedule of Shabbat leaders HERE. |
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Beit Rabban Havdalah an Beit Kolnoa (Movie):
Joseph the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Saturday 12/18 6pm-7:30pm
Join Beit Rabban families for a Motza'ai Shabbat Movie with Havdalah and delicious pizza! Adults are welcome, but not required. Sign up here.
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Celebrate Raphael Klauber's Bar Mitzvah!
Join us to celebrate Raphael Klauber’s Bar Mitzvah at TBZ next Thursday, December 23 at 9:00am. Raphael was planning to have his Bar Mitzvah in Masada, Israel and unfortunately they won’t be able to make it at this time; but we look forward to celebrating in community at our own holy site, our TBZ sanctuary. Let Rebecca know if you are planning to join by clicking on the button below. (Ezra is making doughnuts for those who are coming, so we need to know quantities!) We can't wait to celebrate with the Klauber-Weintraub family next week!
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Condolences
We extend our condolences to Jay Zagorsky, Kim Meyers, Joshua Zagorsky & Christine Tan, Benjamin Zagorsky & Natalie Feldman & Rebecca Zagorsky and their entire family on the death of Jay’s father Norman Zagorsky.
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PROGRAMMING FOR THE WEEK:
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19
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10:45am-12:00pm
with Rabbi Sam Seicol
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Boker Tov TBZ (Morning T'filah in community)
If you would like to be added to the Boker Tov email list, please email Susan.
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Boker Tov TBZ
(Morning T’filah in community)
8:00am-8:45am:
Monday & Thursday
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Community-Led
Boker Tov TBZ
8:00am-8:45am:
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
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By Phone: 1 929 436 2866,
Meeting ID: 260 444 218, Password: 398686
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Meeting ID: 862 7843 7944, Password: 771298 |
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7:30am (in-person)
Join Rav Claudia and members of our community for a spirited beginning to your day! Let Rochelle know if you want to be added into the Eat, Pray and Learn email group.
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Community Meeting, Sunday, December 12 |
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Our new logo has been chosen!
Look out for a "refresh" of our TBZ look as we begin to incorporate the new logo into all of our communications. Thank you to everyone who participated in the voting process and to everyone involved with re-imagining and developing our new logo.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS |
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Parking Spaces to rent behind TBZ
We still have 2 parking spaces available behind TBZ on Lancaster Terrace. If you are interested (or know someone interested) in renting a spot, please email Susan. The spot would be available 24 hours/day and the fee is $200 per month.
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Dear TBZ Kehilla,
Just imagine what it would be like to move to a new country, where you did not know a single person, did not know the culture, could not communicate in the language, had no home, and had no money. Then all these people show up – at the airport with smiles, hugs, and transportation, at your new home with food, furniture, clothing, and love. And they kept coming back day after day, week after week to help you get settled. And they found people who could speak your language so you wouldn’t feel so alone.
We are so grateful to all the NBARC and TBZ volunteers who are giving their time, talent, and love to the Afghan family. Included in this effort are many TBZ members. Jenny Berz spent all of Monday with the parents and their youngest daughter at the Boston Medical Center, successfully signing up for Mass Health and the BMC Food Pantry, and making medical appointments. Jonathan Berz, a physician at BMC, assisted with outpatient medical issues at home and stopped by on Monday to support the family. While they were at the BMC, Fiona Epstein and Susan Snider played with the two older girls at home. Dan Kirschner and Sue Kahn head the Acculturation Committee, focused these days on learning how to grocery shop. Jen Wofford will take the parents to the grocery store this weekend to show them how to pick out nutritious food and use their new SNAP debit card. David Vitale-Wolff, a Brookline school teacher, answered school-related questions and helped sort out registration for Heath School in anticipation of January’s start date for the two older daughters. And more is happening in the coming weeks! It truly takes a village!
Our village is strengthened by this Afghan family that brings such kindness, generosity, trust, and ease of life. The father tells his family back in Afghanistan to not worry, that they are being well cared for.
TBZ Tikkun Olam with NBARC
Tali Walters
Jenny Berz
Rav Claudia Kreiman
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Save the dates!
Winter/Spring 2022 dates for Shabbat Nariya
January 21
February 4
March 18
April 1
May 20
June 17
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For a long time TBZ has been part of the The Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy, sponsored by JCRC. TBZ members are matched with students who serve as literacy tutors and mentors for public school students in the Greater Boston area. We are looking for new tutors:
Help a child learn to read in one hour a week - Tutor over Zoom, so no exposure to COVID and no commute time. We need help from 7:30am-9:30am as well as during the school day. We offer training in tutoring and in using Zoom to tutor. If you ever thought about wanting to help transform the lives of children by helping them read, now is the time. As we approach the High Holidays, this is a way you can do Tikkun Olam and help repair the world. Please email Kim Meyers for more information.
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Family Table collections are back!
We are now accepting donations of soups and crackers (vegetarian, kosher) for JF&CS Family Table. Let's bring back our habit of bringing one or the other or both each time we come to TBZ.
Many thanks to Elana, Stuart, Maya and Anya Uretzky for subbing for Alan as the TBZ Family Table Site Coordinators!
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Voices of TBZ
There is so much talent in our TBZ community. Many of our members are published authors of articles, books, and op-eds. We would love to hear from you and share your work.
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TBZ Members can email submissions to "Voices of TBZ" by Thursday at 10am to be included in Happenings. |
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STAY CONNECTED
Stephanie Dyer, Office & Membership Manager/
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