Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Lab/Shul Sabbath Queen
Join us for our monthly ritual Sabbath circle of live musical liturgy, poetic and contemplative offerings along with great conversation. Led by the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and beloved collaborators, artists, teachers, healers, and musicians, our season of 2024-25 / 5785 Sabbath Queens will take place in person in the West Village and in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn, as well as online.
As always, the Sabbath Queen ritual opens with Happy Hour and ends with a catered Community Feast. Come for the Sabbath Queen, stay for the Sabbath Glow.
Schedule:
6:00pm – 7:00pm Happy Hour with Wine/beer Open Bar 21+
7:00pm – 8:30pm Live musical liturgy, poetry, and contemplative pause
8:30pm + Community Feast
Join us for Community Feast!
After our Sabbath Queen ritual, join us for a special night of feasting, drinking, and connecting at this mouthwatering catered vegetarian Shabbat Community Feast.
+ Generous spread of appetizers, salads, main course, and dessert.
+ Gluten free options available.
We are committed to making the Sabbath Queen Community Feast accessible. To support this commitment, we have devised a sliding scale reflective of the cost of ingredients and labor.
5785 First Friday Sabbath Queen Dates:
Nov 1 – Brooklyn
Dec 6 – Manhattan
Jan 3 – Manhattan
Feb 7 – Manhattan
Mar 7 – Manhattan
April 4 – Manhattan
May 2 – Manhattan
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Zen Shabbat
Lab/Shul and the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care invite you to our seasonal Zen Shabbat gatherings, in person and online. This ritual is a shared experience of sacred space and time, harmonizing the Jewish Sabbath slowdown with traditional Zazen meditation practice.
Schedule
6:30pm – Doors Open, Welcome to the space. Sit, Exhale…
(6:45pm Zoom Opens)
7:00pm – 8:30pm of Zen Shabbat: Ritual music, meditation, and spiritual teachings led by Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Spiritual Leaders, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and Spiritual Leader Shira Kline.
Location & Capacity
We are thrilled to hold Zen Shabbat in person in NYC and on Zoom! In-person capacity is limited to fifty people.
*Location and Zoom shared upon registration.
Accessibility
The Zendo is on the 4th floor. There is an elevator. There are floor cushions and chairs available for your sitting comfort.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month with Shira Kline, Alicia Jo Rabins, and Eléonore Weill
NYC’s Third Street Music School Settlement, the nation’s longest running community music school celebrates Jewish American Heritage Month with this special one-of-kind program.
Shira Kline delivers a dynamic, interactive concert embracing a diversity of Jewish Music. Featuring the talents of multi-instrumentalists and composers Alicia Jo Rabins and Eleonore Weill.
Hava Nashira 2025
Hava Nashira, the first professional gathering dedicated to Jewish songleading when launched in 1992, was built by Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute (OSRUI) and URJ Camping, led by the visionaries Debbie Friedman (z"l) and Cantor Jeff Klepper. The Union for Reform Judaism maintains its historic commitment to Hava Nashira, and supports it through a lead sponsorship.
The conference has evolved over its 30+ years. From about 20 people in 1992 to more than 130 in 2024, and from a focus solely on camp songleading in the Reform Movement to the addition of music for children and families, deep spiritual worship and percussion, chant and new sounds in Jewish life, the program always grows to meet the current and future vision of singing in Jewish spaces.
Sing Unto God is offering a 2-day songleader intensive track for those 18 & older who will be working in Jewish camps in overnight or day camps for Summer 2025. The registration fee is $630 and includes attendance at all of the Hava Nashira Jewish Songleaders Conference, PLUS the special dedicated camp songleader track for 2-days prior to the Conference.
Participants will learn repertoire and skills, be part of a supportive cohort, and experience the joy of singing together, led by three experts in camp songleading: Jacob "Spike" Kraus, Deb Winter, and Eric Hunker. And, they'll have a chance to network with Jewish communal professionals from across North America.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
FamilyLab: Say Cheese (Brooklyn, NY)
FAMILYLAB: Say Cheese
Our springtime Jewish holiday, Shavuot, celebrates seasonal harvest, rainbow revelations, and most importantly – Cheese! Jump into the kitchen with us to make traditional blintzes (like a crepe!) filled with your own homemade farmer’s cheese.
Spiritual Leader Shira Kline along with teaching artist Emet (Ari L. Monts), Stephanie Kane, and Steve Guedalia gather us around for the tastes, sounds, and feels of Shavuot. Whether you grew up at the 2nd Avenue Deli or it’ll be your first blintz, all families are welcome!
FamilyLab is centered around the family table: delicious dinner, sing along, stories, and animated interactive learning to celebrate holidays and delve into life-long Jewish values.
With Lab/Shul’s unique God-optional approach to tradition, text, and story, FamilyLab is open to those who identify as Jewish, Jew-ish, and everything in between.
This program will sell out. Register early!
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org
+ Fees include dinner and programming for up to 5 people.
+ If the suggested price is beyond your means – just let us know and we’ll make it work.
+ Space is limited so invite your friends today!
4:00pm Welcome
4:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Brooklyn Address provided upon RSVP
Cost:
Up to 2 people: $50 per family/ $36 for Lab/Shul Partners
Up to 4 people: $70 per family/ $60 for Lab/Shul Partners
5+ people: $85 per family/ $72 for Lab/Shul Partners
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Private Wedding Ceremony - Shira Officiant
Congratulations and Mazal tov to Nathan and Summer!
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Taos Center for the Arts Sabbath Queen Film Screening
Taos Center for the Arts Sabbath Queen screening at Taos Center for the Arts, 4pm, followed by Q&A with director Sandi DuBowski and Lab/Shul Co-Founder and Spiritual Leader Shira Kline, Jewish ritual and performance artist.
Sabbath Queen Friday Night Ritual
Sabbath Queen Friday Night Ritual: Sabbath circle of live musical liturgy, poetic and contemplative offerings with Shira Kline - Lab/Shul Co-Founder and Spiritual Leader, Jewish ritual and performance artist.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Sabbath Queen Film Screening with Q&A
New Mexico Sneak Preview of Sabbath Queen presented by Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival at the Violet Crown. Q&A to follow the screening with Sabbath Queen director Sandi DuBowski and Lab/Shul Co-Founder and Spiritual Leader Shira Kline. Week-long theatrical release launches April 18.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
FamilyLab: Lotsa Matza! (Brooklyn, NY)
FAMILYLAB: Lotsa Matza!
Whether you’re a seasoned seder story-teller, or a first-time Passover player everyone is invited to roll up your sleeves and roll out some homemade crunchy matza. Your Passover celebration will never be the same again!
FamilyLab is centered around the family table: delicious dinner, sing along, stories, and animated interactive learning to celebrate holidays and delve into life-long Jewish values.
Spiritual Leader Shira Kline along with teaching artist Emet (Ari L. Monts), Stephanie Kane, and Steve Guedalia gather us for the tastes, sounds, and feels of Passover.
With Lab/Shul’s unique God-optional approach to tradition, text, and story, FamilyLab is open to those who identify as Jewish, Jew-ish, and everything in between. + Fees include dinner and programming for up to 5 people.
This program will sell out. Register early!
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org.
Presented in partnership with The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life. The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life is a hub for Jewish community and culture in Brooklyn. We strive to embody the diversity and creativity of Jewish life, locally and from around the world. The Neighborhood produces programs that uplift underrepresented perspectives and welcome the thousands of Brooklynites that are looking for a Jewish home.
+ Fees include dinner and programming for up to 5 people.
+ If the suggested price is beyond your means – just let us know and we’ll make it work.
+ Space is limited so invite your friends today!
4:00pm Welcome
4:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Brooklyn Address provided upon RSVP
Cost:
Up to 2 people: $50 per family/ $36 for Lab/Shul Partners
Up to 4 people: $70 per family/ $60 for Lab/Shul Partners
5+ people: $85 per family/ $72 for Lab/Shul Partners
Lab/Shul Sabbath Queen
Join us for our monthly ritual Sabbath circle of live musical liturgy, poetic and contemplative offerings along with great conversation. Led by the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and beloved collaborators, artists, teachers, healers, and musicians, our season of 2024-25 / 5785 Sabbath Queens will take place in person in the West Village and in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn, as well as online.
As always, the Sabbath Queen ritual opens with Happy Hour and ends with a catered Community Feast. Come for the Sabbath Queen, stay for the Sabbath Glow.
Schedule:
6:00pm – 7:00pm Happy Hour with Wine/beer Open Bar 21+
7:00pm – 8:30pm Live musical liturgy, poetry, and contemplative pause
8:30pm + Community Feast
Join us for Community Feast!
After our Sabbath Queen ritual, join us for a special night of feasting, drinking, and connecting at this mouthwatering catered vegetarian Shabbat Community Feast.
+ Generous spread of appetizers, salads, main course, and dessert.
+ Gluten free options available.
We are committed to making the Sabbath Queen Community Feast accessible. To support this commitment, we have devised a sliding scale reflective of the cost of ingredients and labor.
5785 First Friday Sabbath Queen Dates:
Nov 1 – Brooklyn
Dec 6 – Manhattan
Jan 3 – Manhattan
Feb 7 – Manhattan
Mar 7 – Manhattan
April 4 – Manhattan
May 2 – Manhattan
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
SAVE SAYDER 5785/2025
How to Lead+Prep the Perfect Passover Seder in 2025
DIY Workshop led by Lab/Shul’s Leaders
Seder Stressed at this time of political polarization? Lab/Shul’s got you.
Join Rabbi Amichai, Shira Kline + guest teachers and our ritual team leaders for a Seder-Leading workshop, guiding you through our 2025 update of SAYDER- our everybody-friendly Seder kit, fit for all ages. SAYDER is about reading less and saying more, focusing on four new questions that respond to this complex moment, hear each other’s truths, engage in honest conversations, raise our cups to life, peace, and collective liberation, together. Whether you are a veteran Seder leader or it will be your first time attending this Passover ritual, join us to get ready for what is a night different from all other nights of the year. SAYDER, esp. at times of tension, helps us to reclaim our Seder tables as sacred spaces for safely sharing stories, songs and questions, honoring all voices, starting to heal tensions and traumas, invoking visions for repair.
Join us for the live online workshop or watch it later, to learn how to use the SAYDER kit and liven up your Seder.
Please note, both sessions will be the SAME! Register for the date that is best for you.
*Link will be provided upon registration
Montreal SLBC Day of Leadership
Jewish Star and the Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA are bringing internationally renowned leadership training to Montreal! Montreal Jewish Stars will receive skills-training, mentorship, and job placement opportunities designed to take their leadership abilities to the next level and have a profound impact on Montreal’s Jewish community and institutions today and into the future.
The SLBC Day of Leadership features dynamic courses that explore a holistic approach to powerful and effective leadership in the Jewish world. The SLBC experience is soaked in inspirational Jewish music and communal singing. Participants do not need to sing or play an instrument to fully experience ALL that SLBC has to offer. Music is just one of many vehicles for connection and inspiration that is explored at SLBC conferences.
Engage in intensive, super-charged learning with nationally respected Jewish educators, thought-leaders and music artists
Become a more effective and engaging presenter and public speaker
Create meaningful connections from the bima, in synagogue hallways, at camp, and in all aspects of synagogue life
Collaborate with a community of like-minded Jewish professionals
Utilize music as a powerful, educational and inspirational vehicle. You don’t need to be a musician!
Learn dynamic and relevant ways to reach specific age demographics
Acquire new and exciting repertoire
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
SAVE SAYDER 5785/2025
How to Lead+Prep the Perfect Passover Seder in 2025
DIY Workshop led by Lab/Shul’s Leaders
Seder Stressed at this time of political polarization? Lab/Shul’s got you.
Join Rabbi Amichai, Shira Kline + guest teachers and our ritual team leaders for a Seder-Leading workshop, guiding you through our 2025 update of SAYDER- our everybody-friendly Seder kit, fit for all ages. SAYDER is about reading less and saying more, focusing on four new questions that respond to this complex moment, hear each other’s truths, engage in honest conversations, raise our cups to life, peace, and collective liberation, together. Whether you are a veteran Seder leader or it will be your first time attending this Passover ritual, join us to get ready for what is a night different from all other nights of the year. SAYDER, esp. at times of tension, helps us to reclaim our Seder tables as sacred spaces for safely sharing stories, songs and questions, honoring all voices, starting to heal tensions and traumas, invoking visions for repair.
Join us for the live online workshop or watch it later, to learn how to use the SAYDER kit and liven up your Seder.
Please note, both sessions will be the SAME! Register for the date that is best for you.
*Link will be provided upon registration
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Lab/Shul Sabbath Queen
Join us for our monthly ritual Sabbath circle of live musical liturgy, poetic and contemplative offerings along with great conversation. Led by the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and beloved collaborators, artists, teachers, healers, and musicians, our season of 2024-25 / 5785 Sabbath Queens will take place in person in the West Village and in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn, as well as online.
As always, the Sabbath Queen ritual opens with Happy Hour and ends with a catered Community Feast. Come for the Sabbath Queen, stay for the Sabbath Glow.
Schedule:
6:00pm – 7:00pm Happy Hour with Wine/beer Open Bar 21+
7:00pm – 8:30pm Live musical liturgy, poetry, and contemplative pause
8:30pm + Community Feast
Join us for Community Feast!
After our Sabbath Queen ritual, join us for a special night of feasting, drinking, and connecting at this mouthwatering catered vegetarian Shabbat Community Feast.
+ Generous spread of appetizers, salads, main course, and dessert.
+ Gluten free options available.
We are committed to making the Sabbath Queen Community Feast accessible. To support this commitment, we have devised a sliding scale reflective of the cost of ingredients and labor.
5785 First Friday Sabbath Queen Dates:
Nov 1 – Brooklyn
Dec 6 – Manhattan
Jan 3 – Manhattan
Feb 7 – Manhattan
Mar 7 – Manhattan
April 4 – Manhattan
May 2 – Manhattan
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
FamilyLab: Make Some Noise (Brooklyn, NY)
This month we gather to light up the night in prep for our wintery Chanukah festival. Fill your home with new family traditions so that song, story, and a home-cooked dinner celebrate the tastes, smells, and feels of Chanukah.
With Lab/Shul’s unique God-optional approach to tradition, text, and story, FamilyLab is open to those who identify as Jewish, Jew-ish, and everything in between. Whether it’s your first time lighting up a menorah or you are a dreidel gold coin champion, all are welcome!
Welcome to FamilyLab: An everybody-friendly grassroots gathering for families with young children, ages 2-7 (siblings welcome). FamilyLab is centered around the family table: delicious dinner, sing along, stories, and animated interactive learning to celebrate holidays and delve into life-long Jewish values.
Spiritual Leader Shira Kline, along with teaching artist Emet (Ari L. Monts) and Stephanie Kane, gathers us around for the tastes, sounds and feels of Hanukkah.
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org. Brooklyn address provided upon registration.
Zen Shabbat
Lab/Shul and the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care invite you to our seasonal Zen Shabbat gatherings, in person and online. This ritual is a shared experience of sacred space and time, harmonizing the Jewish Sabbath slowdown with traditional Zazen meditation practice.
Schedule
6:30pm – Doors Open, Welcome to the space. Sit, Exhale…
(6:45pm Zoom Opens)
7:00pm – 8:30pm of Zen Shabbat: Ritual music, meditation, and spiritual teachings led by Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison and Spiritual Leaders, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and Spiritual Leader Shira Kline.
Location & Capacity
We are thrilled to hold Zen Shabbat in person in NYC and on Zoom! In-person capacity is limited to fifty people.
*Location and Zoom shared upon registration.
Accessibility
The Zendo is on the 4th floor. There is an elevator. There are floor cushions and chairs available for your sitting comfort.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
SLBC St. Louis
The SLBC National Conference is one of the top immersive Jewish leadership training opportunities in the country led by nationally renowned Jewish leaders, educators and music artists. SLBC teaches participants about the many vehicles they have to create powerful, interactive connections, expand leadership abilities, and learn specific skills and techniques to inspire change in their communities.
*The SLBC National Conference includes the SLBC SongTeach Video Archive featuring hundreds of original songs taught by our core educators and presenters!
Engage in intensive, super-charged learning with nationally respected Jewish educators, thought-leaders and music artists
Become a more effective and engaging presenter and public speaker
Create meaningful connections from the bima, in synagogue hallways, at camp, and in all aspects of synagogue life
Collaborate with a community of like-minded Jewish professionals
Utilize music as a powerful, educational and inspirational vehicle. You don’t need to be a musician!
Learn dynamic and relevant ways to reach specific age demographics
Acquire new and exciting repertoire
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
The Visionary Salon
On the midwinter full moon of the lunar month, Sh’vat, four worlds are revealed and reflected as mystical tools to embody the journey from seed to fruit, from heart of winter to heart of spring. Traditionally celebrated as the New Year of the Trees, Tu B’Shvat invites us to look to trees—rooted, resilient, and standing strong especially in these times of uncertainty, and to find the divine in earth’s bountiful harvest. Fruit Feast is a four part ritual journey to awaken the senses and feast on tree fruits, poetry and song.
This salon will be INVITE ONLY.
FamilyLab: Fruit Feast (Brooklyn, NY)
This month we gather to light up the night in prep for our wintery Chanukah festival. Fill your home with new family traditions so that song, story, and a home-cooked dinner celebrate the tastes, smells, and feels of Chanukah.
With Lab/Shul’s unique God-optional approach to tradition, text, and story, FamilyLab is open to those who identify as Jewish, Jew-ish, and everything in between. Whether it’s your first time lighting up a menorah or you are a dreidel gold coin champion, all are welcome!
Welcome to FamilyLab: An everybody-friendly grassroots gathering for families with young children, ages 2-7 (siblings welcome). FamilyLab is centered around the family table: delicious dinner, sing along, stories, and animated interactive learning to celebrate holidays and delve into life-long Jewish values.
Spiritual Leader Shira Kline, along with teaching artist Emet (Ari L. Monts) and Stephanie Kane, gathers us around for the tastes, sounds and feels of Hanukkah.
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org. Brooklyn address provided upon registration.
Lab/Shul Sabbath Queen
Join us for our monthly ritual Sabbath circle of live musical liturgy, poetic and contemplative offerings along with great conversation. Led by the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and beloved collaborators, artists, teachers, healers, and musicians, our season of 2024-25 / 5785 Sabbath Queens will take place in person in the West Village and in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn, as well as online.
As always, the Sabbath Queen ritual opens with Happy Hour and ends with a catered Community Feast. Come for the Sabbath Queen, stay for the Sabbath Glow.
Schedule:
6:00pm – 7:00pm Happy Hour with Wine/beer Open Bar 21+
7:00pm – 8:30pm Live musical liturgy, poetry, and contemplative pause
8:30pm + Community Feast
Join us for Community Feast!
After our Sabbath Queen ritual, join us for a special night of feasting, drinking, and connecting at this mouthwatering catered vegetarian Shabbat Community Feast.
+ Generous spread of appetizers, salads, main course, and dessert.
+ Gluten free options available.
We are committed to making the Sabbath Queen Community Feast accessible. To support this commitment, we have devised a sliding scale reflective of the cost of ingredients and labor.
5785 First Friday Sabbath Queen Dates:
Nov 1 – Brooklyn
Dec 6 – Manhattan
Jan 3 – Manhattan
Feb 7 – Manhattan
Mar 7 – Manhattan
April 4 – Manhattan
May 2 – Manhattan
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.
The Future of Jewish Leadership: Creating New Precedents. A Conversation Series Hosted by SVARA.
CREATING NEW PRECEDENTS
February 2nd
Featuring Alexandra Corwin, Shira Kline, and Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
7pm – 8:15pm EST / 4pm – 5:15pm PST
What’s the power and expectations of Jewish communal leaders?
How are the different models of Jewish leadership modifying/exemplifying/shifting/subverting these paradigms?
Building upon the vision of SVARA’s new strategic plan, Manifesting the Jewish Future, and our focus on Expanding the Jewish Canon, we’re excited to host our second annual Conversation Series, bringing together Jewish thinkers, teachers, and learners to discuss the evolution of Jewish leadership.
Read SVARA's new strategic plan: https://www.flipsnack.com/svarayeshiva/manifesting-the-jewish-future-svara-s-strategic-plan/full-view.html
Find more information on the sessions and speakers at this link: https://svara.org/conversations/
Virtual Mourner’s Kaddish
Our weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. Please join the Lab/Shul’s Kaddish Club Google Group to receive updates, special resources, and reminders.