Erev Shabbat Service
2025-04-18 18:15 - 19:45, 2025-04-25 18:15 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
If you are a TBS member who would like to join us virtually, please check your Shabbat Shalom email for the link.

Passover Morning Service + Yizkor
2025-04-19 08:00 - 09:00 (US/Eastern) | Beit Midrash

Torah Study
2025-04-19 09:15 - 10:15 (America/New_York)
No previous experience with Torah study is required…just an open mind and a desire to learn more!

Finding Our Jewish Values in the Torah
2025-04-19 09:15 - 10:15 (America/New_York)
Each week we will focus on a single Jewish moral or ethical value found in that week’s parshah (Torah portion). These will include, but not be limited to: Justice, Compassion, Environmental Ethics, and Business Ethics. A variety of rabbinic sources will enrich our exploration as we seek to apply each week’s value to our lives today.
Join us in person at TBS or drop in online at t-b-s.me/findingvalues.

No K-12 Learning Programs - April Break
2025-04-20, 2025-04-21, 2025-04-22, 2025-04-23, 2025-04-24, 2025-04-25, 2025-04-27

Children's Center No School - Patriots Day
2025-04-21

Temple Office Closed - Patriots Day
2025-04-21

Lay-Led Morning Minyan
2025-04-21 07:00 - 07:30, 2025-04-24 07:00 - 07:30, 2025-04-28 07:00 - 07:30 (America/New_York)
Members of our community gather virtually for a warm and inclusive lay-led service. These services take place even if there are fewer than ten participants, last about 20-30 minutes, and are a meaningful way to start your day.
Please join us in person; we are no longer meeting virtually.

Children's Center No School for School Year Students (Regular Day for Year Round Students) - April Break
2025-04-22, 2025-04-23, 2025-04-24, 2025-04-25

Lay-Led Evening Minyan (online)
2025-04-22 18:45 - 19:15, 2025-04-23 18:45 - 19:15 (America/New_York)
Members of our community gather virtually for a warm and inclusive lay-led service. These services take place even if there are fewer than ten participants, last about 20-30 minutes, and are a meaningful way to end your day. Join us on Zoom here.

Needham Yom HaShoah Observance
2025-04-24 19:30 - 21:00 (US/Eastern) | Outside of Temple
Hosted at Temple Aliyah.
Guest speaker Rosalie Gerut from One-by-One will share her experiences growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors.
She will also discuss her efforts in establishing dialogue groups that unite the children of survivors with those of collaborators, aiming to disrupt the cycle of generational trauma.
Our program will conclude with candle lighting and memorial prayers.

Pre-Shabbat Yoga
2025-04-25 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Step into fall with strength, balance and alignment through the practice of yoga. Join experienced yoga teacher Stephanie Javaheri for a weekly mindful yoga ‘work in’ to cultivate awareness physically and mentally. Feel better in your body and your mind. Slow physical movement, breathwork and meditation blend together in this 1-hour class.
Drop in at TBS for the in-person class, or click here to join in via Zoom; no registration is necessary.

Scholar-in-Residence Introduction
2025-04-25 18:15 - 19:15 (US/Eastern) | Community Court
Professor Jonathan Kaufman, Director of Northeastern University School of Journalism
Why Write about Jews?
The tumultuous relations between Blacks and Jews in America…The re-emergence of Jews in Eastern Europe decades after we assumed the Holocaust had wiped them out…The remarkable odyssey of two Jewish families who stood astride Chinese business, economics and politics for 175 years. Pulitzer Prize winner and author Jonathan Kaufman takes us behind the scenes to talk about how he finds these stories, why he writes about them, and what they tell us.

Lay-Led Shabbat Morning Service
2025-04-26 08:30 - 09:00 (America/New_York)
Join in virtually, or join us in person in the Beit Midrash! Please refer to your Shabbat Shalom email for the Zoom information.

Scholar-in-Residence Lecture: Diaspora in Exile
2025-04-26 09:00 - 10:30 (US/Eastern) | Carmen Hall
Professor Jonathan Kaufman, Director of Northeastern University School of Journalism
Diaspora in Exile
We Jews, in the Diaspora, have reshaped and enriched Judaism and Jewish history. Today much of the creativity in modern Judaism comes from America–women in the rabbinate, the embrace of LGBTQ, the fight for social justice. So too we face challenges like the rise of antisemitism and debates over Israel. What are the stories the media should be telling? What should be the proper role of colleges and universities?
Register: t-b-s.me/SiR2025

Scholar-in-Residence Chinese Dinner and Lecture: The Rival Jewish Dynasties that Shaped China
2025-04-26 18:30 - 21:30 (US/Eastern) | Carmen Hall
Dinner and Lecture 6:30 PM Dinner, 7:30 PM Lecture Chinese Food Dinner: $25 per member, $35 per nonmember
The Rival Jewish Dynasties that Shaped China
The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. In his widely praised book, The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world but remained blind to the country’s deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. It’s a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival. The Boston Globe raves: “In vivid detail… examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties”
Register: t-b-s.me/SiR2025

Scholar-in-Residence Lecture: Building Coalitions
2025-04-27 09:30 - 11:30 (US/Eastern) | Carmen Hall
In the early 1960s, Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King marched together in Selma for Civil Rights. That was more than a symbolic gesture. Two thirds of the whites who went south to integrate busses and register Black voters were Jewish. Three quarters of the money King and other Black Civil Rights leaders raised came from Jewish donors. Since that time there have been fissures and strains in the relationship between the Black and Jewish communities. What important steps can be taken to foster the healthiest relationships between our communities? Drawing on decades of research, interviews and studies of figures from Jesse Jackson to Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr to Barack Obama, Jonathan Kaufman looks at the roots of the Black-Jewish alliance, how it has changed, and the steps forward.
Register: t-b-s.me/SiR2025
