May 24 - 25, Shabbat Behar
Candle lighting 7:54pm
Friday Night Service 6:30pm
Shabbat Morning Service 9:15am
Shabbat ends 8:57pm
Sunday Morning Minyan 9:00am
236 Kane Street /
Brooklyn, NY 11231 /
718 875-1550
As we head toward Shavuot and stand at Sinai once again together, we’ve gathered a number of opportunities here at Kane Street that will allow you to actively engage in Jewish learning, spiritual exploration, and social justice over the next year. Please take a few moments and aspire to engage in some of these experiences. Based on your selection(s), we’ll check in over the next year with ways for you to both realize and reflect on your and our collective aspirations.
Learn more about our Standing Together at Sinai initiative and contact Rabbi Jason Gitlin for more information or questions.
Join us on Sunday, June 2 at 6:00pm as we celebrate our congregation and honor Rabbi Valerie Lieber. Buy your tickets today! The deadline to RSVP is Friday, May 27. This year, we have special pricing levels, including a Sponsor-A-Teacher ticket and a discounted price for Hebrew School parents, as well as the option to purchase a full table.
Our Learners’ Service offers a space to learn about the service (its structure, themes, and rituals), explore your questions, and pray slowly together. Led by Rabbi Jason Gitlin and congregants. Join for one, any, or all weeks! Contact Rabbi Jason Gitlin for more information. Led by Rabbi Jason Gitlin and congregants. See schedule for year.
The long held custom of studying Pirkei Avot between Passover and Shavuot offers the perfect time to join one of multiple study groups participating in our community learning of this mishnaic collection of ethical teachings. Groups of community members are meeting on Shabbat afternoons, before work, during Hebrew School, evenings and more. Sign up to join a study group, learn with your family, or ask us to connect you with other learners. Read more about the learning and schedule. Contact Rabbi Jason Gitlin for more information.
Every Friday 10:00am to 10:45am, Kane Street Chapel, 2nd Floor
Children with a caregiver sing, dance and play instruments. Leader Ora Fruchter leads the songs accompanied by guitar and entertains children with her puppet named Ketchup. Songs are in English and Hebrew, and run the gamut from children’s standard American folk songs to Jewish holiday songs. Bialy Rock is a fun way to bond with your child or grandchild in a Jewish context and it is an excellent way to enrich your child’s musical development. Please sign up on-line at kanestreet.org/bialy-rock $25 per class for drop-ins. We have heavily discounted multi-class packs for members: 6 sessions for $70; 12 sessions for $130 for non-members: 6 sessions for $125; 12 sessions for $225
For more information, please contact Rabbi Valerie Lieber.
Dear friends,
Increasingly, the topic of domestic anti-Semitism is the subject of my conversations with you, at Kiddush, at social gatherings, at our committee and Board meetings. Especially since the Pittsburgh tragedy, we feel suddenly vulnerable in the Sanctuary, even on Shabbat. I want this Shabbat to reflect on this and try to find a positive way forward.
American Jews over the last two years have experienced an uptick in fear and anxiety.
We have witnessed anti-Semitism across the political spectrum, from neo-Nazi demonstrations to the original refusal of Women’s March organizers to recognize anti-Semitism as a real, persistent form of oppression.
Still, I want to underscore one fact shown by the investigations of the ADL and other long time observers. Targeted, physical anti-Semitism—murders, violent assaults, bomb threats, and vandalism—is overwhelmingly the result of activity by right wing, especially white nationalist groups.
In a celebrated, recent report, the ADL found that over 2016 and 2017 our country saw the largest one year jump in anti-Semitic incidents than in the entire forty years of ADL recording.
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Rabbi Weintraub’s Reflections on Social Issues
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