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 2021-22 and 2022-23 school year.
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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.
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.
Sign up deadline: Friday, February 5.
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A Prayer for our Country
“Until when will they judge lawlessly,
and favor the presence of the wicked?”
— Psalm 82:2 Continue reading…
Tu BiShvat with Kane Street
Celebrate the New Year of the Trees with a Singing Seder, a Tree Walk in Green-Wood Cemetery and Arboretum, online lectures, and more. Read more
Readers’: Painting Resilience: The Life and Art of Fred Terna
Discussion, Wednesday, February 3 at 7:00pm with author Julia Mayer and Fred Terna
Julia Mayer’s book celebrates the life and work of this beloved KSS member, teacher, and Holocaust survivor. Julia and Fred will join our Readers Book Club discussion, facilitated by Julia Hirsch. Kane Street members and friends can use the discount code KANESTREET to save 10% on book purchase.
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.
Kane Street Synagogue Buildings are partially as part of our response to the pandemic.
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.
January 5, 2021
2020 and 2021
As we marked the New Year, we also saw a large number of harsh messages bidding the past year farewell. News headlines, TV pundits, and hashtags all joined in the chorus: “Good Riddance, 2020!”; “2020: Over and Out!”; “20?20: Great for vision; terrible year!”
I understand how frustrated we all are. But from Jewish theology I also know that events just don’t happen. In Hebrew the root KRA means both “to befall’ and “to call”. Nothing is haphazard and everything is connected. So, when we experience setbacks, we should try to find a message, a meaning therein…
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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
