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Meeting, Meditation and Music
Sundays September 8, 15, 22, 10:30am – 12:00pm with Rabbi Sam Weintraub and Cantor Sarah Myerson.
The High Holy Days give us some of the most beautiful and stirring melodies of our culture and tradition, but they only come once a year. Join together with refreshments at 10:00am and will then gather together in the chapel to reflect, learn and sing from 10:30am until Noon. Please join us in preparation for this most sacred time. Contact Rabbi Weintraub and Cantor Sarah with any questions or comments.
Learners’ Service: From Siddur to Mahzor, Inside the Order and Structure of the High Holiday Prayerbook
Shabbat mornings (twice monthly), 10:00-11:00am in the Chapel
September 7, September 21, October 5 with Rabbi Jason Gitlin
During the month of Elul, our Learners’ Service will focus on the similarities and differences between the liturgy and structure of the prayer services found in our regular prayerbook and the special Holiday Holidays Mahzor.
Visiting Graves Before the High Holidays with Kane Street Walkers
Sunday, September 15, 1:30pm, Washington Cemetery
Join us for a walk through Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery. We’ll visit the graves of former Kane Street members, and other notable burials, as Rabbi Jason helps us reflect on the meaning of this seasonal tradition. We will meet at the cemetery entrance at 5400 Bay Parkway (right outside the Avenue I stop on the F Train). Contact Rabbi Jason Gitlin for more information.
The Shofar Calls: Sunday Morning Minyan
Sunday mornings, 9:00am, Chapel
The month of Elul is a wonderful time to join our weekly Sunday Minyan. Throughout the month, we blow the Shofar to announce the coming of the Days of Awe and calling us personally to take stock of our lives.
Information and introductions for prospective families!
Thursday, September 26, 6:30pm wine & cheese, 7:00 – 8:00pm presentation with Q & A to follow.
RSVP here. For more information please contact Preschool Director Rivka Seeman
Submit an application for 2020-2021 here.
Download the flyer here.
The One Facing Us by Ronit Matalon
Discussion: Wednesday, November 13, 7:00pm, Kane Street Chapel
Facilitated by Retired Brooklyn College Professor of English and American Literature, Julia Hirsch
In The One Facing Us Esther, seventeen years old, wild and rebellious, is sent from Israel to Cameroon to stay with her hardheaded uncle Sicourelle, who is charged with straightening her out. But Esther resists her uncle’s plans for her future–which include marriage to a cousin–and in the privileged indolence of postcolonial Africa, she looks to the past instead.
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T’shuva and its Processes: As the Jew Turns
Self-assessment, the review of our behavior, outlook and relationships, is something we do all the time. We have family meetings, professional reviews, psychotherapy sessions, etc. Part of normal, regular life is taking stock. Every evening, before I pray the bedtime Sh’ma, I meditate on my past day. What is so special about the t’shuva, the self-reckoning, which is the unique feature of the period around Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
To begin with, it involves a more fundamental analysis. The very fact that the review we undertake day to day is normal and routine makes it susceptible to distortion. We neatly divide our behavior and qualities—positive, negative, constructive, debilitating—but the fact that the review is squeezed into the hurly burly of daily life makes a deeper look difficult. Often, we assess our conduct as we go over our financial accounts. We check to make sure that the bottom line is secure, that things are going on as they were before, but with no consideration of the values, anxieties and aspirations motivating the whole. So, the review may reinforce fundamental errors.
The t’shuva of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur encourages us not just to note misdemeanors, but to probe for deep, underlying corruptions. Maimonides in particular wrote that in t’shuva we should examine our destructive behavior not just by its external consequences but by the inner sin, the basic personality defect, which first motivated it.
Rabbi Weintraub’s Reflections on Social Issues
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
