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SUMMARY:Gather with the Jewish End-of-Life Field w Shomer Collective
DESCRIPTION:Gather with the Jewish End-of-Life Field with the Shomer Collective\nWednesday\, November 5\, 2025\n9am – 12pm (PT) | 12pm – 3pm (ET)\nOnline\nJoin for additional networking opportunities before and after the Convening.\nWe invite you to join our own Naomi Less and The Shomer Collective Convening for the a once-yearly virtual gathering of the Jewish end-of-life field. We convene from across the country\, across dozens of disciplines. It takes many hands to do the sacred work being done at the intersection of Jewish life and end of life. \nRegister here >
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/gather-with-the-jewish-end-of-life-field-with-the-shomer-collective/
CATEGORIES:Kaddish Club
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SUMMARY:Virtual Mourner's Kaddish Call
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday @ 12:00pm EST\nOur weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons\, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. \nWant to receive updates\, special resources\, and reminders? Please email naomi@labshul.org to join the Lab/Shul Kaddish Club Google Group. \nHow It Works:\nLed by members of the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and community leaders of the Kaddish Club\, we gather on a free conference call to share our names and reason for reciting kaddish\, read a poem and learn a brief sacred teaching together\, and then recite the Kaddish together. 20-30 minutes or so\, depending on how many of us are on the call. \nOnline PDF of the Mourner’s Kaddish with transliteration and translation.\nHow To Call:\n \nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nOne tap mobile\n+16465588656\,\,87428222970# US (New York)\n+16469313860\,\,87428222970# US \nOR\nClick the Zoom Meeting link\, and keep your video on or off. \n\nIf none of the above numbers work\, you can use the following location-specific numbers to call in.\nDial by your location\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 646 931 3860 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 669 444 9171 US\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbBHLWacV1
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/virtual-mourners-kaddish-call/2025-11-06/
CATEGORIES:Kaddish Club
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SUMMARY:Virtual Mourner's Kaddish Call
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday @ 12:00pm EST\nOur weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons\, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. \nWant to receive updates\, special resources\, and reminders? Please email naomi@labshul.org to join the Lab/Shul Kaddish Club Google Group. \nHow It Works:\nLed by members of the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and community leaders of the Kaddish Club\, we gather on a free conference call to share our names and reason for reciting kaddish\, read a poem and learn a brief sacred teaching together\, and then recite the Kaddish together. 20-30 minutes or so\, depending on how many of us are on the call. \nOnline PDF of the Mourner’s Kaddish with transliteration and translation.\nHow To Call:\n \nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nOne tap mobile\n+16465588656\,\,87428222970# US (New York)\n+16469313860\,\,87428222970# US \nOR\nClick the Zoom Meeting link\, and keep your video on or off. \n\nIf none of the above numbers work\, you can use the following location-specific numbers to call in.\nDial by your location\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 646 931 3860 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 669 444 9171 US\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbBHLWacV1
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/virtual-mourners-kaddish-call/2025-11-13/
CATEGORIES:Kaddish Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T143000
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SUMMARY:Raising the Bar Hudson Valley: Storahtelling
DESCRIPTION:Raising the Bar Hudson Valley: Storahtelling\nSaturday\, November 15\, 2025\nPrivate Event*\nOur 5786 “Raising the Bar” Hudson Valley cohort will be meeting for a Storahtelling \n*This is a private event. For more information\, check out: Raising the Bar or email Stephanie@labshul.org. 
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/raising-the-bar-hudson-valley-storahtelling/
LOCATION:Hudson Valley
CATEGORIES:Raising the Bar
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SUMMARY:Below the Bible Belt Series Debrief with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie
DESCRIPTION:Below the Bible Belt Series Debrief\nwith Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie\nSunday\, November 16th\n2:30pm ET\nOnline\nJoin Co-Founder and Senior Spiritual Leader Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie online to debrief and reflect upon Below the Bible Belt. \nAfter 3½ years of daily study through the entire Hebrew Bible\, we’ve reached a moment of reflection. Join R. Amichai as we revisit one story that lies at the heart of it all—the tale of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Together\, we’ll uncover what this ancient divide reveals about our own struggles with unity\, belief\, and belonging today. Let’s read\, question\, and imagine what repair might look like—then and now. \nThis Zoom session\, with gratitude for support\, is for all subscribers of Below the Bible Belt. A recording of the session will be shared with all subscribers during the following week. \nSubscribers will receive the registration link automatically and in a reminder before the event. \nTo subscribe\, click here >\nWant to learn more about Below the Bible Belt? Check out Rabbi Amichai’s posts on substack.
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/below-the-bible-belt-series-debrief-with-rabbi-amichai-lau-lavie-3/
CATEGORIES:Homepage
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SUMMARY:Limmud New York's LearningFest 2025: After Glow Song Circle
DESCRIPTION:Limmud New York: LearningFest 2025’s\nAfter Glow Song Circle\nSunday November 16th\n4:30-5:45PM EST\nManhattan\nJoin Ritual Leader & Co-Founder of Lab/Shul – Naomi Less – along with Eliana Light for the After Glow Song Circle (exact timing TBD) where you are invited to join with voices in the community\, to connect through song and end our day with joy and presence – or as Rav Kook would say: to soften the heart to live our Torah out (loud) in the world. We’ve been doing a lot of thinking at Limmud today – and now we have a space to sing and feel\,  metabolize our juicy learnings\, and Bring Sing Them Home!. \n\nIt’s LearningFest’s 20th anniversary\, and Limmud is planning to celebrate the best way we know how — with our wonderful Limmud New York community.\n\n\nFull List of Speakers Here\nFull Schedule Here\n\n\nREGISTER FOR LEARNINGFEST 2025 > \n\nNaomi Less is a Brooklyn-based\, internationally celebrated singer/songwriter\, ritualist and educator. Beloved for her warm smile and inviting presence\, communities celebrate her imagination and innovation\, tenderness and pizzazz! Her original music is sung in worship communities worldwide. Naomi is the artistic producer of Songs of Toratah: ZimraTah\, the first album of verses from the regendered Hebrew Bible. She has been featured on musical recordings and commissions across the Jewish community. Known most widely for her role as Co-Founder\, Ritual Leader and Associate Director of Lab/Shul\, she blends education\, ritual and music in all of her programming. Naomi is a role model for emerging Jewish musical artists\, as a Core Educator at Songleader Boot Camp and host of the show “Jewish Women Rock” on Jewish Rock Radio. Naomi tapped into her own struggle towards motherhood\, co-creating TRYmester\, a performance art piece for Uprooted: A Jewish Response to Fertility Challenges. She is an alum of the  Rising Song Institute Fellowship\, Institute for Jewish Spirituality Educators Cohort\, ROI\, JTS and Northwestern University. She’s thrilled to be part of Limmud NY’s reignition. \nEliana Light is cultivating a more connected world by making the urgent spiritual wisdom of Jewish liturgy and prayer practice (t’fillah) accessible and meaningful through her prayer leadership\, consulting\, teaching\, and The Light Lab\, a center for t’fillah education. Eliana has shared her unique “t’fillahsophy” as faculty at national Jewish education and songleading conferences\, as a guest teacher at Hebrew Union College\, the Jewish Theological Seminary\, the Academy for Jewish Religion\, and Limmud\, and at synagogues\, day schools\, camps\, and communities across North America. ORAH HI\, her fourth album of playful\, thoughtful original Jewish music\, was released in fall 2023\, and her fifth album\, Eliana Rhymes (About Jewish Times)\, will be out this fall. In 2023\, she was awarded the Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize and is the 2025 Covenant Foundation Family Education Fellow. Eliana earned her Master’s in Jewish Experiential Education from JTS in 2016 and is based in Durham\, NC.
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/limmud-new-yorks-learningfest-2025/
LOCATION:Manhattan & Online
CATEGORIES:Homepage
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SUMMARY:Virtual Mourner's Kaddish Call
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday @ 12:00pm EST\nOur weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons\, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. \nWant to receive updates\, special resources\, and reminders? Please email naomi@labshul.org to join the Lab/Shul Kaddish Club Google Group. \nHow It Works:\nLed by members of the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and community leaders of the Kaddish Club\, we gather on a free conference call to share our names and reason for reciting kaddish\, read a poem and learn a brief sacred teaching together\, and then recite the Kaddish together. 20-30 minutes or so\, depending on how many of us are on the call. \nOnline PDF of the Mourner’s Kaddish with transliteration and translation.\nHow To Call:\n \nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nOne tap mobile\n+16465588656\,\,87428222970# US (New York)\n+16469313860\,\,87428222970# US \nOR\nClick the Zoom Meeting link\, and keep your video on or off. \n\nIf none of the above numbers work\, you can use the following location-specific numbers to call in.\nDial by your location\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 646 931 3860 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 669 444 9171 US\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbBHLWacV1
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/virtual-mourners-kaddish-call/2025-11-20/
CATEGORIES:Kaddish Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251121T220000
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SUMMARY:Lab/Shul's Sabbath Queen 5786 Monthly Ritual
DESCRIPTION:Lab/Shul’s Sabbath Queen\nMonthly Ritual\nHappy Hour @ 6pm EST\nRitual @ 7pm EST\nCommunity Feast @ 8:30pm EST\nManhattan*\nOur November 21 Sabbath Queen will kick off our season of monthly sacred circles of live musical liturgy\, immersive ritual + happy hour + community feast. Each month\, our Spiritual and Ritual Leadership Team are joined by beloved collaborators\, teachers and healers. In NYC and online. \nNovember’s program will be led by R. Amichai Lau-Lavie\, Shira Kline\, Ben Freeman\, Shirazette Tinnin.  \nAs always\, the Sabbath Queen ritual opens with Happy Hour and ends with a catered vegetarian Community Feast. Come for the Sabbath Queen\, stay for the Sabbath glow. \nRegister here >\n*Location provided upon Registration. \nSchedule:\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 \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.\n+ Generous spread of appetizers\, salads\, main course\, and dessert.\n+ Gluten free options available. \nWe are committed to making the Sabbath Queen Community Feast available to people across class and economic access. To support this commitment\, we have devised a sliding scale reflective of the cost of ingredients and labor.  \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 \nClick here if you’re curious to learn about why we offer a sliding scale! Not sure where you fall on the sliding scale? Here’s a handy guide. \n5786 Sabbath Queen Dates:\nNovember 21\, 2025\nDecember 19\, 2025\nJanuary 16\, 2026\nFebruary 20\, 2026\nMarch 13\, 2026\nApril 17\, 2026\nMay 15\, 2026\nJune 12\, 2026
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/sabbath-queen-5786-nov/
LOCATION:Manhattan + Online
CATEGORIES:Homepage,Shabbat
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SUMMARY:Virtual Mourner's Kaddish Call
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday @ 12:00pm EST\nOur weekly Mourner’s Kaddish phone call to honor loved ones with a community of like minded souls. In our modern reality where friends and family are spread out around the world and where regular synagogue/minyan attendance is challenging for many reasons\, this is an experiment in virtual ritual reality and global communal care. \nWant to receive updates\, special resources\, and reminders? Please email naomi@labshul.org to join the Lab/Shul Kaddish Club Google Group. \nHow It Works:\nLed by members of the Lab/Shul Ritual Team and community leaders of the Kaddish Club\, we gather on a free conference call to share our names and reason for reciting kaddish\, read a poem and learn a brief sacred teaching together\, and then recite the Kaddish together. 20-30 minutes or so\, depending on how many of us are on the call. \nOnline PDF of the Mourner’s Kaddish with transliteration and translation.\nHow To Call:\n \nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nOne tap mobile\n+16465588656\,\,87428222970# US (New York)\n+16469313860\,\,87428222970# US \nOR\nClick the Zoom Meeting link\, and keep your video on or off. \n\nIf none of the above numbers work\, you can use the following location-specific numbers to call in.\nDial by your location\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 646 931 3860 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 669 444 9171 US\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\nMeeting ID: 874 2822 2970\nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbBHLWacV1
URL:https://www.labshul.org/event/virtual-mourners-kaddish-call/2025-11-27/
CATEGORIES:Kaddish Club
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