Kane Street Kids, our creative, progressive, and hands-on preschool, is now accepting applications for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school year.
Click here to apply
or contact Preschool Director Rivka Seeman, for more information.
Preschool Openings for the Current Academic Year: Kane Street Kids also has spaces available for the 2020-2021 academic year, for children ages 2-5. Apply for the current school year here or contact contact us to learn more.
We intend to hold all classes in person in the fall, and as always, our classes will be engaging, fun, substantive, and full of warmth and community feel.
Enroll before June 10 to get the early bird pricing at
kanestreet.org/hebrew-school-registration
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165th Anniversary Commemorative Journal
This year’s 165th Anniversary Commemorative Journal is in honor of Rabbi Samuel H. Weintraub, who is retiring in July after 25 years of devoted service to our synagogue.
While we are still uncertain as to when we will be able to honor Rabbi Sam in person with a much-deserved gala dinner and celebration, what we CAN do right now is to participate in the Anniversary Journal to honor him.
Please go to kanestreet.org/journal to place your ad!
Our next course starts on April 27, with Dr. Aaron Koller on:
The Akedah / Binding of Isaac, in Jewish Life and Thought
Register Now!
A Prayer for our Country
“Until when will they judge lawlessly,
and favor the presence of the wicked?”
— Psalm 82:2 Continue reading…
Mi Shebeirach Mondays
5 Minutes for Healing & Strength
Mondays at 10:00am
Join us online for this brief weekly prayer of healing and strength with special thoughts for those who are sick with COVID-19, or otherwise ill, and the healthcare workers and family members taking care of them, with Rabbi Jason Gitlin.
Mishneh Torah Community Study
with Rabbi Jason Gitlin
Join our community study of the Mishneh Torah’s Book of Knowledge, focusing on its chapters on personal development, Torah study, and Teshuvah.
March 12, 2021
Why the Plagues?
Dahm! Tz’far’dei’ah!
Blood! Frogs! Insects! Wild animals! Pestilence! Boils! Hail! Locusts! Darkness! Death of the First Borns!
This year, as I prepare for Passover, and as in no prior year, my imagination turns to the plagues. The Coronavirus pandemic has given me a taste of what it must have been like to be an Egyptian just before the Israelite Exodus. Stuck in your home, isolated, praying for your family’s safety, all as the natural ecology is upended, toxins are unleashed in the air that you breathe, and finally, so many homes touched by death.
What was the point of the plagues?
Click here to continue reading.
Rabbi Weintraub’s Reflections on Social Issues
Transgender Day of Remembrance Teaching
A Spiritual Perspective on the [2020] Election
Juneteenth and How Jews Can Fight Racism
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
