June 22 - 23, Shabbat Chukat
Candle Lighting: 8:10pm
Friday Evening Services, 6:30pm
Shabbat Morning Services, 9:15am
Shabbat ends, 9:13pm
Sunday Morning Minyan, 9:00am
236 Kane Street /
Brooklyn, NY 11231 /
718 875-1550
Our Kane Street Kids preschool has openings for the 2018-19 school year. We embrace families from all backgrounds and cultivate a connection to Jewish traditions and values. Our classroom teachers are warm and nurturing, and provide an environment where children can grow and develop cognitively, socially, emotionally and physically. For more information or to tour the school, contact Preschool Director Rebecca Caplow.
Our next book is The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Wednesday, June 27, 7:00pm, Kane Street Chapel
Our book club honors the memory, and reflects on the work, of Philip Roth in June by reading The Plot Against America. The book discussion will be facilitated by member, and retired Brooklyn College Professor of English and American Literature, Julia Hirsch.
Contact KSS Book Club for more information.
As we celebrate the holidays together and look ahead to the possibilities of the year ahead, we are pleased to report that Kane Street has taken significant steps forward in our renovation initiatives. Please take a moment to review the September 2017 New Year Omnibus Update, which outlines developments of the past several months.
Rabbi Sam Weintraub
A message from Rabbi Weintraub
Family Separation
Dear friends,
Family separation is as old as human cruelty. The children of Hebrews under Pharaoh, Native Americans during American colonization, African-Americans during slavery, European Jews during Nazi selections were ripped from their parents’ arms. This is a horrifying but powerful tool to terrify and decimate the oppressed, and to nurture feelings of vengeance and superiority among oppressors. Further, as the practice is justified under the banner of “the law”, and as the most vulnerable are demonized, it can deaden the conscience of onlookers.
But we know that this is unequivocally evil, because of our Torah, because of the human rights accords which our country, with other Western powers, especially since the Shoah, has championed, and because of the experiences of our parents and grandparents which we feel in our bones. So, we have the teachings, the memory, and the power to say “No!” These policies will not be taken in our name. Not now! Not ever!
I understand that this family separation is only part of much a broader attack on the rights of immigrants, asylum seekers and immigrants. It is not just the 2,000 children recently separated from their parents at the border. I see kids scared and crying every time I accompany detainees to hearings at the Immigration Courts at the Department of Homeland Security building downtown. But with the special terror visited on these children at the border the Trump-Miller-Sessions axis has torn whatever shreds of decency still remained in their treatment of (especially non-white) refugees.
If there is any blessing in this tragedy it is that broad revulsion for the “zero tolerance” policy will pressure Trump to stop family separation, and open the eyes of more people to the horrors which asylum seekers, detainees, refugees and their families face every day in this country Only a ZIP code or two away from our Synagogue live many families wherein parents are frightened to take their kids to doctor’s appointments, for fear of apprehension by ICE agents.
Read the rest of Rabbi Weintraub’s message…
Rabbi Weintraub’s Reflections on Social Issues
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