Welcome to Temple B'nai Brith in Somerville!

Our building is currently closed, but our community is here for you.

​We are an independent egalitarian congregation. Our membership reflects the wide variety of choices people make in living Jewish lives, and we are respectful of those differences. We welcome all who care about enriching Jewish life in Somerville and surrounding towns.
High Holidays 5781
High Holiday services will be on Zoom. Click here for a schedule of services.
Members will receive remote access links by email. 
​Click here to become a member or renew your membership.
Free Family Services
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 & Yom Kippur 
led by Rabbi Eliana

Rosh Hashanah Family Service
10:00 am Sunday, September 20
No registration needed 
Here is the link for family service: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83698951533
Click here for the Family Service mahzor.

Yom Kippur Family Service
10:00 am Monday, September 28
Please click here to register.

The Family Services are free and open to the public.
Click here to submit names to be read at the Yizkor service this year.

Get ready for the high holidays by listening to melodies recorded by Phil Weiss! Click here to listen to Rosh HaShanah melodies. ​Click here to listen to Kol Nidre melodies.
Join us ONLINE for...
​Kabbalat Shabbat Services: every Friday 6:30-7:15pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/402001665?pwd=dWk4NjUwa0JqTWh5NkdzS1QvUUR1UT09
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Shabbat morning services: every Saturday 9:30am-12:00pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/512688492?pwd=TEhDT3pmS2tiZTBSaG5WdGxUU09iQT09

Click here to download the siddur for these services
Use the Donate button below to make a donation to TBB online. If your gift honors or memorializes someone, or you are donating for a particular purpose, please use the drop down menu, the optional notes section, or an email to tbb@templebnaibrith.org, to let us know.
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ALL PROGRAMS ARE CURRENTLY ONLINE 
​Click here for COVID-19 updates

Community Chats (with Rabbi Eliana) via Zoom
Resume after the High Holidays
​7:00-8:00pm Thursdays
​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/838302101

Community chats will resume after the High Holidays. Each Thursday from 7-8pm, we will have a different topic of discussion and we hope you would drop in for any topic that sounds interesting to you. 
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929: Learning TaNaKh Together Online
Every other Saturday: 8:30-9:30am
​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/98641348189?pwd=WUozTTlaL09yWVBoZkFBRDBSeFlLdz09

Always wanted to read the entire Bible? Wondering what happens after the people of Israel leave Egypt and arrive in the Promised Land? Now is your chance! TBB is participating in Project 929 – Reading the Hebrew Bible Together! We will read five chapters each week, and discuss ONLINE every other week. We also have an email group and Facebook group where discussion questions keep the conversation going as we read between sessions.
​Torah (not) at Panera Online
We will meet ONLINE for the time being. 
8:00-9:00am Tuesday mornings  
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/682672459

Join Temple B'nai Birth's weekly Torah study! Rabbi Eliana Jacobowitz will lead a short, informal ​​discussion of the weekly Torah portion. No Hebrew or previous knowledge is necessary. Contact rabbieliana@gmail.com for more info.
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Reading With the Rabbi
​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/402001665?pwd=dWk4NjUwa0JqTWh5NkdzS1QvUUR1UT09
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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
by Bess Kalb
7pm Wednesday, September 16th
     Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force--irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life.
     Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There's Bobby's mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess's mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. Then there's Bess, who grew up in New York and entered the rough-and-tumble world of L.A. television. Her grandma Bobby was with her all the way--she was the light of Bess's childhood and her fiercest supporter, giving Bess unequivocal love, even if sometimes of the toughest kind.
     In Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, Bobby reminds Bess of the experiences they shared, and she delivers--in phone calls, texts, and unforgettable heart-to-hearts brought vividly to the page--her signature wisdom:
If the earth is cracking behind you, you put one foot in front of the other.
Never. Buy. Fake. Anything.
I swear on your life every word of this is true.
     With humor and poignancy, Bess Kalb gives us proof of the special bond that can skip a generation and endure beyond death. This book is a feat of extraordinary ventriloquism and imagination by a remarkably talented writer.
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​To join our Google group, where members and friends of TBB can share and discuss news and events of interest (such as Somerville happenings, other Jewish programs, arts, culture, etc.) please click here.
Click here for statement from the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis on the murder of George Floyd
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Inclusion
Our Community welcomes the participation of interfaith couples and families, and people of all abilities, backgrounds, and sexual orientations.
Accessibility
Temple B'nai Brith is proud to be wheelchair accessible. Our accessible entrance is at the rear of the building and equipped with an intercom system. The accessible restroom is located at the front of the building on the ground level. Our elevator provides access to all three levels.