Cradles to Crayons Donation Drive
- Toddler to Teen
Join Temple Beth Elohim’s efforts to make a difference to the children served by Cradles to Crayons!
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Welcome Home Blanket Drive (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Welcome Home provides families experiencing hardship with the high quality, basic household items they need to live with dignity. Please join us by donating: FULL, QUEEN, OR KING BLANKETS & SHEETS (no rips or stains).
Jewish Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality (Online)
- Community Engagement
This course will explore the riches of the Jewish discussion of gender and sexuality through texts, rabbinic discourse, documents, and modern midrash.
Friday Evening Service with Caron Tabb (Hybrid)
- Spiritual Practice
Welcome Shabbat in song and prayer.
Commemorate MLK Day with Author Joseph Rosenbloom, Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Hours (Online)
- Community Engagement
Join us in conversation with Joseph Rosenbloom to commemerate MLK day.
Engaging in Civil Discourse Guided By Jewish Wisdom (Online)
- Adult Learning
Join with members of our community to explore how we can apply Jewish wisdom to help us engage in respectful, meaningful conversations.
Rescuing Hope: An Intergenerational Exploration of Antisemitism & Israel (In Person)
- Toddler to Teen
This intergenerational seminar will identify lessons that can help us build our community and future together.
Partakers Mentor Programs Info Meeting & Re-Entry Mentor Training (Online)
- Community Engagement
Come learn how to mentor our Partakers community!
Green Team Meeting (Online)
- Community Engagement
Looking to reduce your carbon footprint? Join the Green Team meeting!
CASA Goes to Greater Boston Food Bank Mobile Market (In Person)
- Community Engagement
CASA volunteers will join with the Greater Boston Food Bank to help set up and staff a Mobile Market in Lawrence.
Guest Speaker Marybeth Martello, Wellesley Sustainability Director (Online)
- Community Engagement
Join Marybeth Martello, the Sustainability Director of the town of Wellesley, as she discusses Wellesley's climate action plan, as well as how it affects Nonprofits located in town.
CASA Goes to the Prison Book Program (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join CASA to sends books to prisoners to support their educational, vocational, and personal development and to help them avoid returning to prison after release.
CASA at Community Servings (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join members of Community of Adult Social Action (CASA) at Community Servings, an acclaimed organization that makes and delivers scratch-made, medically tailored meals for clients and their families with chronic illnesses.
Chavilat Tipol: Post-Abortion Care Package Project
- Community Engagement
Join TBE’s Reproductive Justice Initiative as they collect items for donation to HealthQ. All donations will be given to women in need of reproductive care.
Friday Evening Service, HIAS Annual Refugee Shabbat, Dinner & Musical Program (Hybrid)
- Spiritual Practice
Welcome Shabbat in song and prayer.
Matzah Collection for Family Table (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Support Family Tables Passover collection by donating boxes of Matzah!
Yad Chessed Purim Collection (Online)
- Community Engagement
Donate to Yad Chessed to complete one of the Mitzvot for Purim!
Green Team Meeting (Online)
- Community Engagement
Looking to reduce your carbon footprint? Join the Green Team meeting!
CASA Goes to Women’s Lunch Place (In Person)
- Community Engagement
CASA invites four TBE volunteers to assist in lunch prepping and serving.
Winter Walk (In Person)
- Community Engagement
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.
Toy Drive for Ukraine (In Person)
- Community Engagement
In partnership with Chabad of Wellesley-Weston we will be collecting stuffed animals, games, and toys without batteries to send to a community with children in Ukraine. Please place your items in the appropriate bin in the atrium!
Housing Justice Campaign Teach-In (Online)
- Community Engagement
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.
Engaging in Civil Discourse Guided By Jewish Wisdom (Online)
- Adult Learning
Join with members of our community to explore how we can apply Jewish wisdom to help us engage in respectful, meaningful conversations.
2023 Israel Ride Information Session (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Have you ever considered touring Israel... from the seat of a bicycle? Come join the Israel Ride!
Interfaith Housing Justice Campaign (Online)
- Repair the World
Join TBE with our Interfaith Wellesley congregations for the second GBIO Housing Teach-In given by the Racial Justice Initiative.
Friday Evening Service, Dinner & Reproductive Justice Panel Presentation (Hybrid)
- Spiritual Practice
Welcome Shabbat in song and prayer followed by dinner and Reproductive Justice panel presentation.
CASA goes to Rosie’s Place (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Please join CASA as we help prepare and serve a delicious lunch at Rosie’s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women in Boston’s South End.
Green Team Meeting (Online)
- Community Engagement
Looking to reduce your carbon footprint? Join the Green Team meeting!
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.
Let All Who are Hungry Come and Eat (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join Rabbi Saphire and congregant and CEO of Lovin’ Spoonfuls, Ashley Stanley for a Passover learning session.
Dance For Peace (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join us for a fundraising event presented by the TBE Immigration Justice Group and dance students at Bates College
RJI Quarterly Meeting: After Incarceration, What’s Next? (Online)
- Community Engagement
Join the Racial Justice Initiative (RJI) for their quarterly meeting!
Interfaith Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (In Person)
- Spiritual Practice
Join Rabbi Saphire at St. Andrew's for a fireside potluck dinner and interfaith teaching
CASA goes to Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join CASA volunteers to help with unloading food deliveries, organizing and packing up produce for distribution, setting up food stations for patrons to select from, and organizing the storage room.
Engaging in Civil Discourse Guided By Jewish Wisdom (Online)
- Adult Learning
Join with members of our community to explore how we can apply Jewish wisdom to help us engage in respectful, meaningful conversations.
Eretz: Family Climate Change Initiative (In Person)
- Repair the World
Please join us with your families to kick start our intersection of Jewish and Environmental learning and programming together!
Collection for Ukraine: Heaters, Power Generators, Flashlights
- Community Engagement
The Immigration Justice Committee joins other Boston synagogues in collecting supplies to help Ukrainians in Kiev left without power. Help bring light and heat to a community that needs it the most!
CASA goes to Greater Boston Food Bank Warehouse (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join CASA leader Ilene Pincus at the GBFB warehouse as we work on the conveyor belt, sorting and bagging donated grocery items for individuals and families in need.
Toiletry Drive for Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House
- Community Engagement
Support Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House by bringing items to donate!
Engaging in Civil Discourse Guided By Jewish Wisdom (Online)
- Adult Learning
Join with members of our community to explore how we can apply Jewish wisdom to help us engage in respectful, meaningful conversations.
Green Team Meeting (Online)
- Community Engagement
Looking to reduce your carbon footprint? Join the Green Team meeting!
CASA goes to Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join CASA volunteers to help with unloading food deliveries, organizing and packing up produce for distribution, setting up food stations for patrons to select from, and organizing the storage room.
Green Team Earth Day Project (Outdoors)
- Community Engagement
Come celebrate Earth Day by joining The Green Team and Wellesley Natural Resource Commission at Hunnewell Park.
Eretz: A Family Climate Initiative (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Come join us to talk about Climate Action!
An Evening with Ebenezer Baptist Church (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
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.
Ceramics Workshop (In Person)
- Community Engagement
In this experiential workshop, participants will learn about and create pottery inspired by the work of Dave The Slave Potter, born in 1801.
A Special MFA Tour with Curator Ethan Lasser (In Person)
- Community Engagement
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.
Let’s Talk About Race & Identity: Family Storytime & Learning Program (In Person)
- Toddler to Teen
Join Cantor Josh and Brave Light Library in a family-friendly experience about race, identity, and justice!
Partakers Re-Entry Mentor Info Session & Training (Online)
- Community Engagement
Join us and discover if this remarkable volunteer opportunity is right for you!
CANCELED Reducing Their Carbon Footprint: Panel Presentation (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Looking to reduce your carbon footprint? Meet with TBE’s Green Team Panelists, a group of TBE Members that have taken the initiative to help the environment.
Family Tikkun Olam Night (In Person)
- Toddler to Teen
Join us Shabbat singing and dancing, followed by a family-friendly dinner, and a Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) activity where we will create pencil cases full of pencils for students in Uganda who are in need!
Mother’s Day Walk for Peace (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Join/support the TBE team by donating, fundraising and/or walking, whether on your own or with others.
Engaging in Civil Discourse Guided By Jewish Wisdom (Online)
- Adult Learning
Join with members of our community to explore how we can apply Jewish wisdom to help us engage in respectful, meaningful conversations.
Information Session: Civil Rights Journey to Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham & Selma
- Community Engagement
Join us to learn more about upcoming Civil Rights Journey trips!
An RJI Evening of Celebration & Appreciation (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join us to celebrate the contributions and dedication of our honorees as well as recognize the commitment and engagement of our broader TBE community.
Green Team Meeting (Online)
- Community Engagement
Looking to reduce your carbon footprint? Join the Green Team meeting!
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.
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.
Green Team Meeting (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Come join the Green Team Meeting for exciting planning opportunities!
CASA Welcomes Your Paperback Donations
- Community Engagement
CASA is collecting paperback books for their visit to the Prison Book Program on November 4th.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
Green Team Meeting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join our Green Team in planning to ensure our building and community are environmentally sound and sustainable.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eretz Kickoff Meeting (In Person)
- Community Engagement
Please join us for the planning meeting for Eretz, TBE’s family climate change initiative.
Green Team Meeting (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
Join our Green Team in planning to ensure our building and community are environmentally sound and sustainable.
Canceled: MLK Commemoration Shabbat Dinner (In Person)
- Community Engagement
This program has been canceled.
Canceled: Reflections on our Civil Rights Journey and the Legacy of MLK (Hybrid)
- Community Engagement
This program has been canceled.
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.
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!
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.
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.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
TBE Table
- Community Engagement
Volunteer to help provide meals to individuals experiencing food insecurity in our community.