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 Marijke and Keara
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 with Lab/Shul
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.
ECE-RJ Conference 2026 B'Simcha: Do It With Joy
We invite you to Philadelphia, PA, from January 21–24, 2026, to immerse yourself in B’Simcha: Do It With Joy – Nurturing Passion and Purpose in Jewish Early Childhood Education, the annual ECE-RJ Conference.
This transformative gathering offers Jewish early childhood educators dedicated time to learn, reflect, innovate, and be inspired alongside leading voices in the field.
Conference Highlights
This year’s conference features Intensive Tracks designed to explore key areas of professional growth:
B’Simcha: In the Classroom – Bringing joy and purpose to your early childhood practice.
B’Simcha: Supervising and Supporting Educators – Fostering leadership and mentorship in your programs.
B’Simcha: Through Communication – Strengthening connections with children, families, and colleagues in your community.
B’Simcha: Adaptive Leadership – Navigating change with resilience and creativity in your management style.
Additional Opportunities
Beyond the intensive experience, participants will:
Weave Jewish values into early childhood education in meaningful ways.
Attend interactive workshops with practical, hands-on takeaways.
Engage in networking and affinity group meet-ups to build community.
Experience Friday night worship in the heart of Philadelphia.
Celebrate ECE-RJ through communal gatherings and rituals.
Explore the latest resources, connect with partners, sponsors, and vendors, and participate in expert-led sessions.
We can’t wait to welcome you to Philadelphia for this joyful and enriching experience!
Big Jewish Gathering
Dates
January 24:
9:30am - 9:30pm
January 25:
10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn (address shared upon registration)
Welcome to the Big Jewish Gathering – a two-day spiritual convening in Brooklyn weaving immersive ritual, embodied learning, and creative renewal.
On January 24–25, we’ll gather with spiritual leaders, teachers, and artists from across Jewish time and tradition — converging through mystical and ancestral pathways of awakening.
This year's theme, Rerooted Judaism, invites us to journey between our collective past and ever-expanding future. What Jewish practices, ancient and emerging, can help us meet this moment?
Zen Shabbat with Lab/Shul and New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
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.
FamilyLab
FamilyLab: Fruit Feast
Sunday, February 1
4:00-6:00PM EST
Brooklyn*
What kind of fruit are you? This month we gather to celebrate the birthday of the Trees! For farmers, fruit lovers and tree huggers alike, the holiday of “Tu B’Shvat” brings us closer to nature. We’ll set a tasty Seder Table (including dinner!) with special guest Mother Earth, whose gifts keep on giving, while we make this garden grow.
With Lab/Shul’s unique God-optional approach to tradition, text, and story, family programming is open to those who identify as Jewish, Jew-ish, and everything in between. Whether you’re an expert on the seven species or it’ll be your first time to spot two trees hugging, all are welcome!
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 Tu B’Shvat.
+ 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 friend today!
4:00pm Welcome
4:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Brooklyn Address provided upon RSVP.
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org.
JECP Conference
JECP Preschool Conference
Jewish Early Childhood Professionals Conference
Keynote with Shira Kline
Location: Cooper City, FL 33330
The JECP Preschool Conference is a cherished annual gathering that brings together 300–400 early childhood professionals from Jewish schools across Broward County. Educators of all backgrounds—new teachers, veteran teachers, and everyone in between—come to learn, connect, and grow. While not all participants are Jewish, most teach in play-based or Reggio-inspired early childhood programs.
Shira Kline is honored to serve as this year’s Keynote Speaker, opening the day with an hour of joyful, creative, and igniting learning for the entire community.
The conference continues with two rounds of workshops, offering participants the chance to choose from a wide range of sessions led by 10–14 presenters. Creating a warm and nourishing environment for a morning of professional development and inspiration.
This event is presented by JECP (Jewish Early Childhood Professionals) with support from the Orloff Department of Jewish Education & Engagement of the Jewish Federation of Broward County.
Temple Shaari Emeth Rock Shabbat 2026
Friday Night Rock Shabbat Service
February 13, 2026
400 Craig Rd, Manalapan Township, NJ 07726
Shira joins Cantor Wally and his community of amazing in-house musicians for their Friday Night Rock Shabbat.
Live nearby?
The SLBC International Conference (Songleader Boot Camp)
The SLBC International Conference (Songleader Boot Camp), provides powerful Jewish leadership training for clergy, Jewish educators, religious and day school teachers, family engagement and early childhood specialists, teen leaders, Jewish camping staff, veteran and new songleaders, and volunteer/lay leaders. Led by nationally renowned Jewish thought leaders, educators, and music artists, SLBC teaches participants specific skills and strategies to inspire transformative change in their Jewish communities. At SLBC, education and inspiration are grounded in strategic planning.
SLBC programs include the SLBC International Conference and SLBC Day of Leadership regional conferences, individual coaching, and leadership training seminars for synagogues, synagogue board of directors, and Jewish conferences.
The SLBC International Conference, held every February over President’s Day weekend, features a wide range of dynamic courses that explore a holistic approach to powerful and effective leadership in the Jewish world. The conference 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
Sabbath Queen with Lab/Shul
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.
FamilyLab
FamilyLab: Make Some Noise
Sunday, March 1
4:00-6:00PM EST
TBA*
Purim is a raucous costume party with a role for everyone. So come big and come bold, dress-up to impress, and bring something important to say!
To celebrate this truly inside out, upside down story of integrity, courage, and the wild hearted mission to change the world, we’ve got to make some noise.
Whether you have a gold-plated grogger collection or you’re just an expert trashcan-banging ruckus raiser, everyone is welcome.
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 will be a colorful afternoon of costumery, storytelling, hamantaschen cookie making. Dinner Included!
Spiritual Leader Shira Kline along with teaching artist Emet (Ari L. Monts), Stephanie Kane and Steve Guedalia gather us around in a private family Brooklyn home for the tastes, sounds and feels of Purim.
This program will sell out. Register early!
+ 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 friend today!
4:00pm Welcome
4:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Location will be emailed prior to event.
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org.
Registration coming soon!
Jewish Star Webinar with Shira Kline
Difficult Conversations in Jewish Spaces
The Jewish world has always contained a multitude of perspectives, backgrounds, and opinions—and these differences feel even more amplified in our ever-evolving, post-October 7 reality. This webinar will explore how to make space for that diversity; how to honor our own convictions while genuinely listening to other voices. Through a mix of personal reflection and examining how our tradition embraces debate and disagreement, we'll learn how to engage in meaningful dialogue, build bridges across difference, and help shape a Jewish community where many voices truly belong.
Sabbath Queen with Lab/Shul
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.
Artist in Residence - Temple Sinai
3 Day Artist in Residency
Temple Sinai
Brookline, MA
Shira joins the community of Temple Sinai for an inspiring Artist in Residence weekend:
Friday, March 20
6:00–7:30 PM – Co-create and co-lead Friday night congregational Shabbat services, with choir prep and performance during the service.Saturday, March 21
Morning and evening programs (details to come).Sunday, March 22
Interactive, Pre-Passover Torah programs with the Religious School:
• Grades 2–4
• Grades 5–7
✨ Leave nearby Brookline, MA?
Zen Shabbat with Lab/Shul and New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
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.
FamilyLab
FamilyLab: Lotza Matza
Sunday, March 29
4:00-6:00PM EST
TBA*
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), and Stephanie Kane 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.
+ If the suggested price is beyond your means – just let us know and we’ll make it work.
+ Space is limited so invite your friend today!
4:00pm Welcome
4:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Location will be emailed prior to event.
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org.
Registration coming soon!
Sabbath Queen with Lab/Shul
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.
Zen Shabbat with Lab/Shul and New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
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.
Sabbath Queen with Lab/Shul
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.
FamilyLab
FamilyLab: Say Cheese!
Sunday, May 17
4:00-6:00PM EST
Brooklyn*
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.
+ 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 friend today!
4:00pm Welcome
4:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Brooklyn Address provided upon RSVP.
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org.
Registration coming soon!
Private Wedding Ceremony - Shira Officiant
Congratulations and Mazal tov to Beckett and Shelby
Sabbath Queen with Lab/Shul
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.
Lab/Shul: Solstice Song/Circle
Solstice Song/Circle
Sun Dec 21st
5:30pm ET
WEST VILLAGE, NYC*
Got a heart filled with song? On the last night of Hanukkah, we’ll sing to raise our collective spirit under the big winter solstice sky as we enter into the longest night of the year.
Song/Circle is an intimate space to learn new music, share your favorites and come together to practice the oldest tool for healing and being in collective. Come with a song, Come sing along! As singing is a listening practice as well, gentle instrument play is welcome and no musical experience is necessary. Led by Shira Kline with special guest leader and songster Saul Kaiserman.
This event is FREE for Lab/Shul Partners and children.
For non-Partner adults we ask for a contribution of $18/person.
Last minute welcome | Register at the door.
*Location provided upon registration
Sabbath Queen with Lab/Shul
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.
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.
Jewish Earth Alliance -Hannukah
A Hanukkah Gathering of Light & Climate Hope
with Shira Kline & the Jewish Earth Alliance
Tuesday, December 16 • 8:00 PM ET • ZoomThis Hanukkah, come gather in community with Shira Kline and the Jewish Earth Alliance for an uplifting evening of candle-lighting, song, and spirited climate action.
In a world that can feel especially turbulent, Hanukkah invites us to pause and remember the power of even the smallest flame. Shira will open our time together with a warm and soulful candle-lighting ritual — sharing music, reflection, and a spark of Jewish inspiration to help us root ourselves in hope and purpose.
The Jewish Earth Alliance, a beautiful grassroots network dedicated to protecting our planet through Jewish values and civic action, hosts this special holiday gathering. After Shira’s offering, we’ll enjoy a climate comedian who brings laughter into the work — and then, with full hearts, we’ll take meaningful action together in support of our earth and our future.
This evening is for anyone seeking light, community, and a moment of inspiration during Hanukkah. Come as you are. Let’s kindle resilience, joy, and justice — one candle, one song, one collective step at a time.
FamilyLab
FamilyLab: Love and Latkes
Sunday, December 14
4:00-6:00PM EST
Home of Shira Kline, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn*
This month we gather to light up the night for a wintery Hanukkah festival. This eve includes candle lighting, song, story, and a home-cooked dinner to celebrate the tastes, smells, and feels of Hanukkah.
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
+ 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 friend today!
4:00pm Welcome
4:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Address will be sent upon registration.
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org
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.
Family Rock Concert and Stone Lodge Preview featuring ShirLaLa
Rock Out and Make Meaningful Memories Together
Sunday, December 7, 2025
1:30–3:30 PM
The Stone Lodge
562 McIntosh Road, Sarasota
Please note: The Family Concert with ShirLaLa will begin at 2:00pm at The Ora (578 McIntosh Rd., Sarasota).
Join us as we sing, dance and rock out with world-renowned family rocker ShirLaLa and celebrate our community's newest space for connection, the Stone Lodge.
Connect with other Jewish families in a joyful, welcoming space
Introduce your children to uplifting Jewish music and values
Celebrate community and creativity in a way that feels alive and relevant
First, see the beautiful new additions to our campus, including the Stone Lodge, our imaginative, one-of-a-kind playground, courts for basketball, tennis, and pickleball, and more! Then, we will walk together to The Ora for a fun family concert with ShirLaLa!
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.
Sabbath Queen with Lab/Shul
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.
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.
Shir Chadash 2025
The deep, meaningful, spiritual experience you’ve been yearning for. This immersive retreat will include singing, repertoire and songleading skills, songwriting workshops, visual arts, storytelling, written word and bibliodrama, holy drumming, scribal arts, dance, yoga and wellness, and a transformational Shabbat filled with joy.
It is intended for everyone from clergy, songleaders, musicians and artists to anyone who appreciates Jewish music and the arts, regardless of their prior level of participation or expertise. The intention is for individuals to come together as a community to sing, learn, teach, rejuvenate, and grow, and to bring back inspiration and tangible skills that they can share with their home communities.
An incredible array of renowned and inspiring musical and visual artists and teachers will be our Guiding Lights, sharing their gifts, inspiring and renewing our passion for Jewish life and leadership.
Find out more about who you'll have an opportunity to sing, dance, and learn with here.
If you can't join us but want to be part of this amazing gathering, you can support our work here.
Hope to share this incredible experience with you!
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 with Lab/Shul and New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
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.
Shabbat-Shalom-in-the-Sukkah
Welcome to FamilyLab: An everybody-friendly gathering for families with young children ages 0-8 (siblings welcome). Centered around the family table: delicious dinner, sing along, stories, and animated interactive learning to celebrate holidays and delve into life-long Jewish values.
Shabbat +Sukkot = A feast for the senses! Break bread together outdoors under the fall harvest moon with the tastes, sounds and feels of Shabbat Shalom.
Guided by Spiritual Leader Shira Kline along with teaching artist Emet (Ari L. Monts) and Stephanie Kane,
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’ll be your first lulav shake or you grow your own etrog grove, all families are welcome here. Sabbath challah and candles under the stars await!
+ 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 friend today!
5:00pm Welcome
5:30pm FamilyLab Start Time
*Brooklyn Address provided upon RSVP
Questions? Email Stephanie@labshul.org.
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.
High Holy Days with Lab/Shul
Join us at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in NYC or online, to co-create community and activate a new year with renewed focus on what matters most.
Immerse in meaningful, musical and meditative celebrations that fuse our oldest liturgies with contemporary art, engaging learning programs, and communal conversations.
All ages, all backgrounds, god-optional, artist driven, everybody friendly.
Welcome to 5786.
High Holy Days with Lab/Shul
Join us at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in NYC or online, to co-create community and activate a new year with renewed focus on what matters most.
Immerse in meaningful, musical and meditative celebrations that fuse our oldest liturgies with contemporary art, engaging learning programs, and communal conversations.
All ages, all backgrounds, god-optional, artist driven, everybody friendly.
Welcome to 5786.
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.
High Holy Days with Lab/Shul
Join us at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in NYC or online, to co-create community and activate a new year with renewed focus on what matters most.
Immerse in meaningful, musical and meditative celebrations that fuse our oldest liturgies with contemporary art, engaging learning programs, and communal conversations.
All ages, all backgrounds, god-optional, artist driven, everybody friendly.
Welcome to 5786.
High Holy Days with Lab/Shul
Join us at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in NYC or online, to co-create community and activate a new year with renewed focus on what matters most.
Immerse in meaningful, musical and meditative celebrations that fuse our oldest liturgies with contemporary art, engaging learning programs, and communal conversations.
All ages, all backgrounds, god-optional, artist driven, everybody friendly.
Welcome to 5786.
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.
Sit + Sorry A Jewish & Zen Buddhist Night of Forgiveness
Inspired by the traditional forgiveness ritual of Selichot, join Lab/Shul’s ritual team and the leaders of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care for an intimate sacred eve of reflection and meditation, shared traditions, live music and spiritual preparation for the new year.
Schedule
7:00pm – Zen Center Opens, Welcome to the space. Sit, Exhale…
7:30pm – Sit and Sorry Selichot Ritual begins In-Person and on Zoom.
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.