We welcome all members, their guests, and the wider community to join us at High Holiday services, as well as our many activities throughout the season. If you will be joining us on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, please complete the High Holiday ticket request, which is for members as well as the wider community.
| Sunday, September 16, from 10:30am-12:00pm Prospect Park Picnic House to the Nature Explorers Area Get into the holiday spirit by joining Kane Streeters, both young and young at heart, in Prospect Park for a short New Year nature walk with Rabbi Jason. We will begin with apple tasting next to the Prospect Park Picnic House at 10:30am and end our walk at the The Donald And Barbara Zucker Natural Exploration Area. Please RSVP if you plan to join and and contact Rabbi Jason Gitlin with any questions. |
Sunday, September 23
Sukkah Decorating Party
Community Room 10:30am-12:00pm
For ages 1-5
Everyone can fulfill the mitzvah of building and decorating the sukkah. Join us for crafts, and an incredible interactive drumming program with Musical IQ. $20 per family. Sign up.
Sukkot Family Celebration & Dinner
Community Room 4:30-6:15pm
Ages 4-12
Celebrate Sukkot with songs, stories, interactive games, prayers, and a chance to wave the lulav and etrog. A casual kid-friendly dinner will be served. Please sign up.
Thursday, September 27
10th Annual Women’s Night in the Sukkah
Kane Street Synagogue Sukkah 7:00-8:30pm
Eating, drinking, and shmoozing, sponsored by the Kane Street Shvesterhood. Please bring an uplifting attitude and a dairy or pareve dish to share, or a bottle of wine. We can’t use the kitchen to heat/prepare food. Contact Shvesterhood co-chair Judith Gottfried with questions.
Friday, September 28
Singing in the Sukkah/Potluck Dinner
Kane Street Synagogue Sukkah after services
Celebrate Sukkot with music and food. Please bring a dairy or pareve dish, which must be prepared in advance. Food will not be allowed in the synagogue kitchen.
Saturday, September 29, 2:00-4:00pm
Sukkah Hop
A terrific chance to get to know fellow congregants by either hosting them in your sukkah or visiting other members’ sukkot by taking a lovely stroll through our surrounding neighborhoods. Locations TBA by email.
Complete Registration here.
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Rabbi Sam Weintraub
A message from Rabbi Weintraub
“Hello. This is G-d.” Listening around Rosh Hashanah
We’ve all blurted it out at times. We have stood at the bedside as a dear one passed away, or witnessed the birth of our child, or seen a breath taking vista while hiking, or experienced the peak of sexual ecstasy, and cried “Oh G-d! Oh G-d!”.
Then, almost as soon as it’s out, what the Rabbis called kateigor, our internal, prosecuting attorney chimes in: “What, that old man in the sky with a beard that you stopped believing in years ago! C’mon,with all the suffering in the world, you still believe in that! The G-d who commands this and forbids that! You take that seriously!”
All the objections, all the theological discussion and intellectual reflection about G-d has its place. But fundamentally the challenge is not one of the intellect. We have, more immediately, our experience, moments of rage or wonder or bliss that bring us close to the Center of the Universe and cannot be denied.
Unless you have a regular spiritual practice, it’s likely that after these experiences you go back to default, the world of meetings and deadlines and payments and promotions and dinners and parties and hobbies and exercise. G-d is Alive and Present in all of this, but we don’t have the tools to access Her. So our wonder or rage or yearning, what my teacher Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, of blessed memory, called “the pull toward the All”, go on. But when we feel it, we first try to ignore it. If it remains persistent, we reach for a pill or go to the fridge or plan our next weekend “get away”.
We come together on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because that stubborn G-d voice inside us, what our tradition calls our neshama, our soul, won’t let us settle. The soul inside us is a spark of G-d, and as G-d endlessly renews life, so we have an inner urge for inventiveness, for meaning.
Read Rabbi Weintraub’s full 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
Torah text, the Tribe of Dan, Ferguson and Baltimore
