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SUMMARY:Pass/Age Weekend Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Pass/Age Weekend Retreat\nApril 4-6\, 2025\nNYC\nWhat does it look like to embody Jewish identity on your own terms? How might you marshal the tools of Jewish text\, ritual\, and practice to make authentic meaning in your life now? Join us for an immersive weekend retreat in NYC in community with other Seekers in their 20s and 30s. \nPricing:\nAngel assisted ($250) — for artists\, educators\, and those that really needed\nStandard ($350) — covers the true cost of the program\nI’m an Angel ($450) — helps to subsidize someone else’s participation \nPass/Age is Lab/Shul’s re-imagined rite of passage program for Jewish adults seeking to make more meaning in their lives — perhaps those looking to reinvestigate and reinvigorate an existing Jewish practice or those looking to make sense of a milestone or shift currently underway in their lives by calling on Jewish wisdom. Over the course of an immersive experiential weekend in a cohort of other adults\, using the form and content of the Passover Seder as a frame for our learning\, participants will engage deeply with our inherited legacy of texts and traditions\, explore personal paths of meaning-making\, and co-create a communal ritual utilizing Lab/Shul’s signature Storahtelling methodology. \nRegister for the Retreat here >\nSchedule\nFriday\, April 4th – Lower Manhattan \nFrom 3pm – Check-in\n5-6:30pm – Special Pass/Age Happy Hour\n7-8:30pm – Sabbath Queen Ritual\n8:30-10pm – Community Dinner \nSaturday\, April 5th – Brooklyn \n9-10am – Coffee and breakfast hour\n10am-noon – Morning learning session\n12-1:30pm – Lunch\n1:30-3pm – Afternoon session\n3-3:30pm – Break\n3:30-5pm – Afternoon session\n5-6:30pm – Dinner + Havdallah\nTBD – Optional Evening Activity (e.g.\, show\, exhibit\, other cultural event) \nSunday\, April 6th – Brooklyn \n9-10am – Coffee and breakfast hour\n10am-noon – Morning learning/work session\n12-2:30pm – Lunch + closing ritual\n2:30-3pm – Final circle \nRegister for the Retreat here >\nFacilitators\nThe weekend will be co-facilitated by Ben Freeman & Rhona Silverbush. We invite you to explore their backgrounds here: \n\nBEN FREEMAN\nBen Freeman is a multi-disciplinary artist\, educator\, and spiritual care provider. He is excited to be back in New York City and deeply honored to join the ritual team at Lab/Shul. His prior work includes designing and facilitating an intergenerational storytelling program with LGBTQ+ elders and “youngers\,” facilitating sections for a course on critical media literacy at Lucasfilm\, and working in the spiritual care departments of Hebrew SeniorLife and Boston Children’s Hospital. He’s currently developing a chaplaincy practice for theater\, film\, and TV\, the vision of which is to meet growing demands for mental health support and safe\, caring\, and culturally responsive working conditions through design and facilitation of creative process with deep attention to the spiritual needs and wellbeing of artists\, audiences\, and technicians. Ben is a graduate of Brown University\, Harvard Divinity School\, and the Spiritual Direction Practicum at Still Harbor\, as well as a founding member of the Glitter Goddess Collective. You can find his music on Spotify\, Apple Music and Soundcloud.\n\n\nRHONA SILVERBUSH\nPutting her eclectic background to good use\, Rhona Silverbush wears many hats throughout the course of any given day. She studied psychology and theater at Brandeis University and holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. After practicing immigration law\, primarily representing asylum seekers\, she returned to her first loves\, writing and theater. Rhona is the co-author of Speak the Speech! Shakespeare’s Monologues Illuminated (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2002) and has taught theater to all age groups from tots to adults\, currently coaching professional actors in Shakespeare. She is the co-author of the Terrific Toddlers series of nine picture books for toddlers\, published by the American Psychological Association’s Magination Press. She wrote ‘wichcraft: craft a sandwich into a meal–and a meal into a sandwich with chefs Tom Colicchio and Sisha Ortuzar (Clarkson Potter\, 2009). And she has taught at Columbia University Teachers College. Throughout it all\, from college onward\, she has also tutored and prepped young people and adults for their Bar/Bat/B Mitzvahs\, working with students with learning challenges and special needs as well as with typical learners\, and helping ensure that each rite of passage is imbued with meaning for the person undergoing it. She has devised curricula for Lab/Shul’s Raising the Bar program and\, with Ben Freeman\, co-created and co-led the first Pass/Age program. Rhona is a freelance writer and editor\, a consultant for families of children and teens with learning differences and special needs\, and a smitten parent\, step-parent and dog-parent.\n\n\nRegister for the Retreat here >
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/pass-age-weekend-retreat/
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SUMMARY:Lab/Shul's Sabbath Queen 5785 Monthly Ritual
DESCRIPTION:Lab/Shul’s Sabbath Queen\nMonthly Ritual\nFriday\, April 4 2025\nHappy Hour @ 6pm EST+ Ritual @ 7pm EST + Community Feast @ 8:30pm EST\nManhattan*\nJoin us for our monthly ritual Sabbath circle of live musical liturgy\, poetic and contemplative offerings along with great conversation. Each month\, our Spiritual and Ritual Leadership Team will be joined by beloved collaborators\, teachers\, healers\, and musicians in NYC and online. \nAs always\, the Sabbath Queen ritual opens with Happy Hour and ends with a catered Community Feast. Come for the Sabbath Queen\, stay for the Sabbath glow. \nApril’s program will be led by Shira Kline\, Naomi Less\, Ben Freeman\, Martin Shamoonpour \nRegister here >\n*Location provided upon Registration. \nApril’s Schedule: \n\n6:00pm – 7:00pm Happy Hour with Wine/beer Open Bar 21+\n7:00pm – 8:30pm Live musical liturgy\, poetry\, and contemplative pause\n8:30pm + Community Feast\n\nJoin us for Community Feast!\nAfter our Sabbath Queen ritual\, join us for a special night of feasting\, drinking\, and connecting at this mouthwatering catered vegetarian Shabbat Community Feast. Includes: Generous spread of appetizers\, salads\, main course\, and dessert PLUS gluten free options available. \nWe are committed to making the Sabbath Queen Community Feast accessible. To support this commitment\, we have devised a sliding scale reflective of the cost of ingredients and labor. \n\n$35 – Angel assisted pricing for artists\, educators\, seniors and those who really need it\n$45 – Covers the cost of one Shabbat dinner\n$55 – Helps to subsidize a Shabbat dinner for someone else\n\n5785 Dates: \nNov 1 – Brooklyn\nDec 6 – Manhattan\nJan 3 – Manhattan\nFeb 7 – Manhattan\nMar 7 – Manhattan\nApril 4 – Manhattan\nMay 2 – Manhattan\nJune 6 – Manhattan
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