Grief Retreat with Lab/Shul and Temple of the Stranger
Tisha B’Av: Grief Retreat
Sunday August 3rd, 2025
4-8pm EST
(Doors open at 3:40pm EST)
BROOKLYN, NY
Join Temple of the Stranger and Lab/Shul for a half-day grief retreat in Brooklyn on Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the Jewish ancestral calendar. We’ll partake in traditional practices and rituals of Jewish grief, explore ancestral wisdom on how to work with grief, and bring presence to traumas past and present, individual and collective.
Featuring teachings and sacred song from R’ Amichai Lau-Lavie, R’ Jericho Vincent, Sacred Musician Shira Kline and others. Some folks have a tradition to fast on this day, so we’ll conclude with a ceremonial break fast for all.
After the retreat, our community weaver will host an informal hang out to chat, digest the experience, and continue to connect.
Open to people of all backgrounds. No prior knowledge required.
This event is made possible due to the generosity of the UJA Federation of New York and supporters like 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Register coming soon!
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.
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 and Torah repair skills, 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 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.
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.
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.
FamilyLab
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.
Register coming soon!
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.
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!
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
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.
Register 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.
FamilyLab
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.
Register 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.
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
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.
Register 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
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.
Register 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.
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 Webinar - Hearing the Call: Creating Dynamic Family High Holy Day Services with The Jewish Education Project.
This interactive virtual webinar with Shira Kline, Jewish ritual and performance artist, will explore dynamic ways to enliven your High Holy Day family services. Join us for awesome inspiration!
Shira will teach on her universal elements of worship programming for families. This includes hands on learning and discussion with colleagues. She will guide us in six anchors of the High Holy Day liturgy; each a relevant invitation into the meaning making landscape of awe and personal growth for children and parents alike.
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.
Private Baby Welcome Ceremony - Shira Officiant
Congratulations, Mazal Tov to the Schor Family
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.
Camp Kingswood
Shira is excited to visit Camp Kingswood during their Staff Training week to join their song leaders with High Vibe Summer Camp Joy!
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 Spring Gala 2025
Lab/Shul Spring Gala
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn NY
6:30PM: Cocktails + Buffet Dinner
8:00PM: Celebration Rituals
9:30PM: After Party with DJ Party Girl + Bowling Tournament
Join us on June 18, 2025 for Lab/Shul’s Annual Spring Gala – a night of celebration, transformation, and communal connection.
We’re gathering to honor Marnie Berk & Jon Silvan, and Karen Hershey & Larry Green – extraordinary leaders who have shaped our spiritual home and walk the talk of Jewish values, civic responsibility and human hope. We will also present Aiki (Karen) Kelley and Jesi Kelley with the Jodi Cohen & L Michael Graver Legacy Award, recognizing their multigenerational legacy of renewing Jewish life for their family and community.
This year’s theme, “BE.”, invites us all to show up as our fullest selves and inspires us to become the change we wish to see. In this spirit, we will unveil bold plans for Lab/Shul’s next chapter – because we’re BEcoming, too.
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 Nathaniel 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.
SVARA: A Shaping Tradition
Join Shira with one of her favorite homes of study, SVARA: A traditionally radical Yeshiva.
Wednesday, June 4th at 7:30pm EST / 4:30pm PST, SVARA will host Shaping Tradition, our third-annual community fundraiser and celebration.
Whether you’ve been learning with us for years or this is your first SVARA gathering, we hope you’ll join us for an opportunity to clap up our beautiful community and honor amazing folks supporting our work towards a just and liberatory future.nbaum and the Teshuva-Writing Collective!
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
Raising the Bar: B Mitzvah
Shira officiates Raising the Bar: B Mitzvah
Today our Raising the Bar families and ritual leaders gather to celebrate and honor a special one of our students who has embarked on their individual, re-imagined ancient journey. Mazal Tov!
This is a private event. For more information, check out: Raising the Bar or 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.
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.
A Concert of Feminist Diasporic Jewish Heritage 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.
Courageous Conversations
Join Shira for Courageous Conversations Talking About Israel/Palestine
May 17, 2025
6:00pm-9:00pm EDT
*Exact location provided upon registration
Courageous Conversations fosters meaningful dialogue amongst community members, led by professional facilitators from within the Lab/Shul community and the Lab/Shul ritual team. Utilizing both large talking circle and small group formats, this program nurtures understanding, empathy, and essential communication skills while embracing the diverse perspectives, beliefs, and experiences that shape our collective fabric. Each session offers a supportive space for thoughtful discussion, equipping participants with tools to navigate conversations across disagreement with openness and respect.
This program will begin with a meaningful Havdalah ritual – led by Shira Kline – to set the stage for learning and conversation.
Light pescatarian nosh and beverages will be served.
This program is offered with a suggested donation of $25. We invite you to contribute in a way that aligns with your financial capacity—whether that means giving more to support others or less if needed. Your participation is what matters most.
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.
Raising the Bar: B Mitzvah
Shira co-officiates this B Mitzvah day! Today our Raising the Bar families and ritual leaders gather to celebrate and honor a special one of our students who has embarked on their individual, re-imagined ancient journey. Mazal Tov!
This is a private event. For more information, check out: Raising the Bar or email Stephanie@labshul.org.
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.
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.
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.