The brief service is led by Rabbi Michelle Dardashti and Landon Braverman.
The dinner is free and is sponsored by a few families each time who cover the cost of the event.
Dates 2022-2023
August 12, October 14, December 9, February 10, March 31, May 12.
If you would like to sponsor a dinner, please email or speak to Rabbi Val Lieber.
The dinner is free and is sponsored by a few families each time, which covers the cost of the event.
Dates in 2023
January 6, March 31
If you would like to sponsor a dinner, please email or speak to Rabbi Val Lieber.
Songs, dancing, giving thanks through prayers, a mini Torah parade, a story, and kiddush blessings with challah and juice.
A warm, fun service, full of energy, with prayers, a story, and learning.
Led by Rabbi Val, Melissa Zimmerman, and Teen Apprentices.
Prayers, singing and learning. Features either a play based on the week’s Torah portion for kids to spontaneously act out or a Torah reading and discussion.
There are two consecutive Havdalah celebrations led by Rabbi Dardashti, Rabbi Val and Landon Braverman: Havdalah Mishpaha for families with children age 1-7, which included a spicebox project, and pajamas are encouraged! It's followed by Havdalah Noar for families with children age 8-12, with activities like making your own chai (tea) with fragrant spices, or making a beeswax candle.
Services are by age cohort. Service leaders cater the tone and level to each age group as follows:
We welcome the new year with blasts of the shofar, stories, Torah and song. On the first day of Rosh Hashanah we hold services. On the second day we have games, singing, a play and a story to highlight the meanings and purposes of Rosh Hashanah. Children get apple and honey candy.
2022:
Monday, September 26 - first day of Rosh Hashanah
Tuesday, Sepetember 27 - second day of Rosh Hashanah
We observe the Day of Atonement through prayer, stories and finding ways to express how we are sorry for failures in the past year and our hopes for the coming year.
2022:
Wednesday, October 5
For the past several years we have held a festive block party on Kane Street in front of the synagogue to create decorations, play Sukkot related games, participate in a service project for the needy with Repair The World Brooklyn and to nosh and schmooze.
We welcome Sukkot with a family service with joyous singing and games plus lots of shaking of the lulav and etrog.
We often hold dinners in the Sukkah during the holiday for families.
On Simẖat Torah we finish reading the end of the Torah scroll and start again at the beginning. We
Our annual H̱anukkah party for families with kids age 1-6 is always a blast. Led by preschool and Hebrew School teachers, we offer offer crafts, cooking, games , refreshments and singing for families.
2022:
Sunday, December 18, 10:30am-12:00pm
Register here.
Grades K-2 - Tuesday, December 20, 4:45-5:45pm
Grades 3-6 - Wednesday, December 21, 5:00-6:00pm
For those not enrolled in Hebrew School, please email Rabbi Val if your child will join us.
Our annual Purim party for families with kids age 1-6 is always a blast. Led by preschool and Hebrew School teachers, we offer offer hamantashen baking, face-painting games crafts and refreshments.
2022
Sunday, March 5, 10:30am-12:00pm
We invite all children to join us for our Hebrew School Purim parties as follows:
Grades K-2 - Tuesday, March 7, 4:45-5:45pm
Grades 3-6 - Monday, March 6, 4:15-5:15pm followed by kids' Megillah reading 5:15-6:00pm
For those not enrolled in Hebrew School, please email Rabbi Val if your child will join us.
Some years we hold workshops on the best haggadah to use at a family seder with young kids.
Other years we hold model seders for families to demo some great ways to tell the story and keep kids engaged.
Some years we have had a big festival with other synagogues; other years we offer a special "shuk" or food market. Some years we have had live music or a dramatic performance. Other years we offer games and crafts.
Our members and friends have widely divergent connections to and views about Israel and our Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration is cultural and apolitical.
In the Build-Your-Own Jewish Musical program children in grades 3-6 create and perform an original musical based on a Jewish story. Led by Musical Theater composer Landon Braverman, BYOJM meets weekly on Mondays 6:00-7:00pm.
Build Your Own Jewish Musical is an immersive and engaging theatrical program that gives participants the exciting opportunity to be the creators and stars of their own new original musical. Throughout the program, participants learn the basics of how to adapt a Jewish text, write music and lyrics, and stage their show. The program culminates with a fully staged production of their show. The program instills collaboration, leadership, crreativity and a sense of one's place in Jewish history.
To see past musicals from 2020, 2021 and 2022, please go to kanestreet.org/BYOJM.
Trivia Night is what we call our annual party to raise funds to support all of the youth and family program at Kane Street Synagogue.
There are also Experiences for sale which are incredible social events, gastronomic occasions and cultural activities.
The funds raised allow us to continue to offer high quality, substantive Jewish programs for the families in our community.
NEW DATE!
February 5, 2023, 5:00-7:30pm
Many children in the Kane Street Synagogue community attend Jewish summer camps, and the synagogue promotes Jewish camping - both day camping for young children and sleep-away camp for older kids. The synagogue has a scholarship program to support member families sending their children to Jewish overnight camp and teen travel programs.
For more information about the value of camping and about specific camps please click here.
To apply for overnight camp scholarships, please click here.
Pursuing social justice is important for many families in our community. We provide many opportunities to gather and do the mitzvah of tikkun olam together - thereby instilling a desire in our children to continue to fulfill this sacred calling.
Over the years with even the youngest kids we have volunteered at the Gowanus Canal Conservancy; collected and sorted baby clothes for new mothers lacking the resources to purchase them; created bike-a-thons to send bicycles to girls in East Aftrica; did bakesales for new refugees; walked to support research for Juvenile Diabetes and Juvenile Myocitis; filled and mailed backpacks full of daily necessities for children in Texas who had just crossed the border; and many more.
We often work together with Repair The World Brooklyn whose family service program is terrific.
B'nei Mitzvah is a personal milestone for 13 year-olds and also a significant time of transition for the entire family. At Kane Street, B'nei Mitzvah is an opportunity for an adolescent and their family to celebrate on the way toward living a full adult Jewish life.
Rabbi Dardashti and Cantor Sarah have shaped the B'nei Mitzvah program to be full of meaning, powerfully transformative and joyous.
Come attend a B'nei Mitzvah service on Shabbat. See the synagogue calendar for all the dates.
For more information about the preparation, please see this document.
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For further information about our family Programming, please contact: RabbiVal@kanestreet.org or at 718-875-1550.
236 Kane Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231