At Kane Street, we bring the wisdom and compassion of Jewish traditions to all, regardless of one’s background. Within our community are very traditional Jews and secularists, families and singles, straight and gay. Our members include many Jews-by-choice (converts) as well as interfaith families and Jews who are returning to their roots. We are rightly regarded as a community where any sincere person can find a place.
We’d love to meet you. If you have questions, feel free to contact Rabbi Sam Weintraub, Engagement Director Rabbi Jason Gitlin, Executive Director Mickey Dobbs, or Rabbi Valerie Lieber, our Director of Education and Family Programming.
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Kane Street Kids, our creative, progressive and hands-on preschool, is now accepting applications for the 2020-21 school year. Please contact Rivka Seeman, Director of Kane Street Kids, for more information.
Our stimulating and inspiring Hebrew School is in session from September to June each year. Enrollment is available online for the 2020-21 school year. For more information contact Rabbi Valerie Lieber.
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Kane Street Joins 400+ Jewish Organizations to say Black Lives Matter
Kane Street joined together with over 400 Jewish organizations to say with one voice, in a letter published on Medium, that the #BlackLivesMatter movement is the current day Civil Rights movement in this country, and it is our best chance at equity and justice. Read more about our recent responses to racial injustice, including our Me and White Supremacy Book Circles, educational resources, and message from clergy, on our Social Justice page.
Preschool Openings for Academic Year and July Summer Program
Kane Street Kids has spaces available for the 2020-2021 academic year, for children ages 2-5. Email Director Rivka Seeman at [email protected] to learn more, and ask about our (virtual) July summer program.
Pirkei Avot Study Groups with Rabbi Jason Gitlin
Wednesdays at 8:00pm on Zoom (open to all)
Tuesdays at 11:00am on Zoom (open to all)
Read more about our Community-wide Pirkei Avot Study.
Kane Street Raises Nearly $8,000 for Health Center’s Frontline Workers
Funds raised from our two-day appeal are purchasing meals to feed Cobble Hill Health Center’s staff, frontline medical and healthcare workers, at this difficult time. We have also been making calls to residents who Center staff have let us know would appreciate receiving phone calls and prayers at this moment.
Mi Shebeirach Mondays: 5 Minutes for Healing and Strength with Rabbi Jason Gitlin Mondays, 10:00am on Zoom.
Sinai Calls: A Statue with Many Faces
Find your path to live the covenant through learning, spiritual exploration, and social justice opportunities in our community, including ways that are specifically reflective of how the Coronavirus pandemic has altered and challenged our lives. Read more in Rabbi Jason Gitlin’s Shavuot message.
Kane Street Synagogue Building is closed.
This includes:
• Kane Street Kids Preschool
• Kane Street’s Hebrew School
• All regular weekly services
Please click here to read more information about these and other measures that we are putting in place in view of the current situation with COVID-19.
Juneteenth and How Jews Can Fight Racism
[Sermon given on Shabbat Sh’lach L’cha 5780, June 20th, 2020, in celebration of Juneteenth]
This Shabbat, along with many African Americans and their allies, we are celebrating Juneteenth, the Holiday marking the end of slavery in our country and the continued contributions of African-Americans. A question which arises immediately is “Mah nishtana? What’s the difference?” Why suddenly this year?
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Rabbi Weintraub’s Reflections on Social Issues
Yizkor, Shavu’ot and Our Burning Cities
Leviticus, COVID-19, and Indirect Responsibility
The Use of Computers on Shabbat and Holidays in the new COVID-19 Reality
T’shuva and its Processes: As the Jew Turns
After El Paso and Dayton: A service of Remembrance, Reflection and Re-commitment
Confronting American Anti-Semitism
Jacob’s Ladder and the Decline of Conservative Judaism
Solidarity Shabbat sermon following the Pittsburgh Synagogue attack
Response to the Attack on the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue
Listening around Rosh Hashanah
Restoring a Moral Agenda to America: The Poor People’s Campaign
Me’avdut L’cherut – From Slavery to Freedom
“To Work and to Preserve” Judaism and the Environment
Spirituality and Politics, Social Change, and my Trip to Israel
Michael Brown and Eric Garner – A Jewish Perspective
Torah text, the Tribe of Dan, Ferguson and Baltimore
