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Note: Many services are canceled or moved online due to the coronavirus. Check with your local house of worship for updates.
BJEP (Boston-area Jewish Education Program)
BJEP has a welcoming and inclusive approach to Jewish learning for kindergarten through seventh-grade students. Get in touch with the program’s director at director@bjep.com or 781-386-7278.
Congregation Mishkan Tefila
Shabbat Services: Fridays at 6 p.m.; Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.
Congregation Mishkan Tefila is a community embracing Jewish tradition and identity while welcoming change and innovation. Mishkan is a contemporary Conservative community based on Mussar values and inspired by spiritual music. Mussar is a genre of Jewish literature which promotes spiritual self-growth. Mishkan welcomes Jews and their partners from all lifestyles, backgrounds and spiritual perspectives.
It was mid-August. The playgrounds of Brookline, Massachusetts, had finally reopened, and so the news spread fast. Sharon Abramowitz had resigned from the school committee. If a lab wanted to manufacture a school committee member to help the 7,800-student Brookline School District through the COVID crisis, it probably would’ve ended up with Abramowitz. The sociologist-anthropologist-epidemiologist had studied Ebola, written interagency guidelines about what community engagement should look like during a crisis, and, after the district shut down in March, spent 40 hours a week in volunteer meetings on Zoom trying to make a safe reopening feasible. But now she was moving full time to her second home in Vermont.