Temple Hillel B'nai Torah

06/24/2026

What is anyway? IYKYK
If you haven’t experienced yet, this is the perfect month to find out.

Come for one thing. Stay for what happens next.

Shakin’ Shabbat for little ones and their grownups → Community Potluck → Shabbat Rina with the HBT Band → Oneg

Music. Dinner. Shabbat. Community.
This Friday, June 26.

Please RSVP for security and planning.

Friday, June 26, 2026, beginning at 5:45 PM. Join Temple Hillel B’nai Torah for our volunteer-led featuring Shakin’ Shabbat, a community potluck dinner, Shabbat Rina, and Oneg. All ages are welcome for an evening of music, connection, and community. RSVP to help us plan for food, s...

06/12/2026

Good Shabbos!
Beat the heat and join us in our cool sanctuary for a volunteer-led Shabbat service followed by Kiddush and conversation. June 13, 10:00 AM–12:30 PM.
All are welcome.

05/27/2026

This Shabbat,May 30
A Special Creative Service led by Anat Halevy Hochberg

Service 10:00am - 12:30pm

luncheon 12:30 - 1:30pm
In person and on Zoom

RSVP - Please RSVP. Your response is very important and helps us plan appropriately for our guests, food, seating, and security.

If you loved the music and spirit of One Night. One Stage. on May 4, you won’t want to miss Shabbat services on Saturday, May 30 with Anat Halevy Hochberg.

A Special Creative Service led by Anat Halevy Hochberg Service 10:00am - 12:30pm luncheon 12:30 - 1:30pm In person and on Zoom RSVP - Please RSVP. Your response is very important and helps us plan appropriately for our guests, food, seating, and security. If you loved the music and spiri

05/18/2026

This has its own rhythm

Families gather for Shakin’ Shabbat. Community forms around a shared meal. Music carries us into Kabbalat Shabbat with warmth, spirit, and communal singing.

One community. Many ways to enter Shabbat.

5:45pm — Shakin’ Shabbat with Rabbi Aliza
6:15pm — Potluck Dinner
7:15pm — Shabbat Rina (musical Kabbalat Shabbat service)
8:30pm — Oneg

All are welcome. RSVP is appreciated for security and planning purposes.

Come together with your HBT family for a soulful and uplifting Friday. Celebrate the beauty of community, connection,and tradition, with programming that welcomes everyone from ages 0 to 120. Let's honor this sacred time together and feel the spirit of Shabbat.

05/13/2026

What’s your favorite Adon Olam tune?

On Saturday, May 30, we’re excited to welcome back Anat Hochberg, who will once again, be leading Shabbat services together with Rabbi Aliza

This short clip is from Anat’s visit to HBT in April, when our congregation joined together in singing her beautiful version of Adon Olam at the close of services.

There are so many melodies for Adon Olam. Which one stays with you?

https://www.templehbt.org/hbtfeaturedevents/2026/5/shabat-services-anat-hochberg

05/08/2026

This Sunday, May 10, Temple Hillel B’nai Torah walks as part of the Interfaith contingent in Dorchester. Rodef shalom — pursuing peace — is not a metaphor. It means showing up.

Why?
In 1996, Chaplain Clementina Chéry lost her son Louis to gun violence. Mother’s Day was supposed to be a celebration — but she was grieving. So she walked, in the neighborhood where he was killed, as an act of remembrance and a refusal to be silent. Other mothers who had lost children came. Then their families. Then the whole community.

Thirty years later, the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace is one of the largest organized walks in New England.

Walk with us, learn more, or donate to the HBT team.

Temple Hillel B'nai Torah joins the 30th Annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace on Sunday, May 10, 2026 in Dorchester, MA. Walk or donate to support the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. Join the HBT team at tinyurl.com/HBT-Walk-2026.

05/07/2026

Haimish/Homey Boston Synagogue Seeks Religious School Teachers
Dates: 9 months per year (September - May)
Hours: weekly Sunday mornings, some grades meet Wednesday afternoons as well
Compensation: $40-$60 per hour, based on experience and education

Temple Hillel B'nai Torah (HBT), a down-to-earth, social-justice-oriented, diverse Reconstructionist congregation in the city of Boston, MA (West Roxbury), led by Rabbi Aliza Schwartz, seeks a few teachers to join our religious school (Chaverim / Friends) for the 2026-2027 school year.

Our curriculum is tied to the four pillars of our synagogue: Torah / Learning, Chavurah / Community, Avodah / Worship & Spirituality, and Tikkun Olam / Repairing the World. For more about HBT and the Chaverim School, go to templehbt.org. All grades meet Sunday mornings 9:45am-12:15pm; 3rd-6th graders also meet Wednesday afternoons 4:30-6pm.

Expectations include regular meetings for teachers (1 - 2 per month), lesson planning, and weekly communication with parents, as well as progress reports once per semester. Prior teaching/camp counselor experience is preferred. College students are welcome to apply. We are particularly interested in hiring Jews of Color as teachers in our school.

Please direct inquiries to Education Director Hillary Pinsker Engler at [email protected]. Please include a copy of your resume.

05/07/2026

One night. One stage. One unforgettable room.
Thank you to everyone who was with us Monday — and to Batya Levine, Aly Halpert, Richie Barshay, Adah Hetko, Lysander Jaffe, and Lexi Ugelow of Levyosn for filling our sanctuary with music that will stay with us for a long time.
🎶 .hbt

04/29/2026

Tomorrow, April 30, Jews across the country are taking to the streets to demand: ICE Out.

Temple Hillel B'nai Torah is a proud co-sponsor of this national day of action, organized by T'ruah and Bend the Arc. Two actions are happening right here in the Boston area — one at noon in Coolidge Corner, one at 5:30 PM in Jamaica Plain.

If you can join, we'd love to see you there. Details and RSVP links are on our Staying Human page:

👉 https://www.templehbt.org/staying-human -action

A program series exploring how we witness suffering, deepen understanding, and respond with Jewish values in a difficult time.

04/29/2026

We’ve been busy making One Night. One Stage. happen — and now it’s almost here.

A full evening of music with
🎶 Batya Levine
🎶 Aly Halpert
🥁 Richie Barshay
🎶 Levyosn

🔥 Lag B’Omer — Monday, May 4

Be in the room.

🎟️ Tickets: https://www.templehbt.org/concert