Celebrate your Sweetheart – 9 Gifts for your Beloved
Looking to celebrate your sweetheart? These gifts honor the love and affection between you and your beloved. Call us at 617-731-8743 to learn more about any of these pieces. 1. Dancers – Mesh Sculpture Ordering over the phone? This product code is 169-smll-brn Grace and closeness, light and shadow all come together to create…
Eight Books for Chanukah Gift-Giving
We’re called “the People of the Book” for a reason. As Chanukah quickly approaches, our book buyer, Joanna, gives her top eight recommendations for the book-lover. Below you’ll find the perfect combination of book recommendations for all of your friends and family. Come pick up a book or two (or three or four!) to help celebrate…
Ten Ideas for Inspired Chanukah Gifts
At a loss trying to find the perfect gift? Chanukah will be here before you know it, and Kolbo is ready to help with artisan gifts for your friends and family. Check out these top ten gift ideas carefully selected by Kolbo’s seasoned art buyer. Need more inspiration? Check out the rest of our selection…
Meet the Artist! Amy Fagin Presents: Hebrew Manuscript Illumination
Join Kolbo as we host artist Amy Fagin for an engaging presentation on the history of illuminated manuscripts. This event takes place Thursday, November 17th at 7pm at our store on 437 Harvard Street in Brookline. This presentation is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Learn about the technique that…
What Stories Do Your Ritual Garments Tell?
Today, we’re featuring the words and works of Sarah Resnick, the visionary behind Advah Designs. Her talitot tell an amazing story of intentionality, justice, and beauty. We’ll let her tell you more: Whether we know them or not, everything we wear tells three stories. 1. First is the story of who made the garment, and where…
Recipe Sneak Peek: Inside Aromas of Aleppo
Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews has been a perennial favorite at Kolbo. The images are stunning, the recipes scrumptious, and the story that Poopa Dweck shares of the Syrian Jewish community is spell-binding. Dweck, a first-generation Syrian American, has captured generations of oral history in the form of these recipes and…
How To: Order Bulk Kippot
When you’re looking to order bulk kippot for b’nei mitzvot, weddings, or other occasions, Kolbo can help you out. There are a number of different options for your kippot, which can include custom printing on the inside. Once you are done browsing the options below, click here to purchase your kippot. Here is how to…
How To: Buy a Ketubah
A ketubah, a written wedding document, is a beautiful way to capture the intentions and love of your marriage. We’re here to help you find your dream ketubah and support you all the way through the ketubah process. Whoever you are, those of all nations and all kinds of love, you are welcome here. Step-by-step, here…
Sculptures by Renowned Make Way for Ducklings Artist, Nancy Schön
Nancy Schön is an internationally renowned sculptor, most well known for her celebrated Make Way for Ducklings in the Boston Public Garden. She is known for her warm, evocative representations of human and animal figures and has received many commissions both public and private in the United States and abroad. Click here to view the…
Counting the Omer
From the second night of Passover until the night before the holiday Shavuot, we add a blessing to the end of each day’s evening prayer. This blessing and the verses, psalms, and mystical words that accompany it mark the Counting of the Omer. Literally, an omer is a measure of weight used during the times…
Purim
The Four Mitzvot of Purim “They were to observe them as days of feasting and merrymaking, as as an occasion for sending gifts to open another and presents to the poor” (Megilat Esther 9:22). On the 15th day of Adar, we celebrate Purim, a day of celebration, mirth, and joy. It tells the story of…
Tu B’Shvat
“The almond tree has blossoms and the sun is shining brightly…” השקדיה פורחת ושמש גם זורחת Tu B’Shvat is the Jewish Holiday celebrating the New Year of the Trees. It is known as the Holiday of the Trees, or chag ha’ilanot/חג האילנות, and is mentioned in the Mishnah as one of the four new years that pepper our…
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