Hanukkah 5785/2024
Light Up Peace: 8 Nights of Virtual Light with Lab/Shul.
This Hanukkah, we invite you to join us as we add light, spread love, extend rays of healing and prayers for peace – from each heart and home out into the world.
Gather with us online on each of the eight nights to light the candles – Lab/Shul style. Each night will feature songs and blessings, with unique voices and special guests from our community, co-creating a global glow.
Get your menorah, Gather around your Zoom screens with us, let’s Spark Hope Now and Light Up Peace.
All ages. God-Optional. Everybody Friendly.
Join us every night to Spark Hope Now: Light Up Peace
December 25 – January 1 @7pm EST
Now/Next
FAMILYLAB: This Little Light
Sunday, December 15th @4pm ET // Brooklyn
Recollect Seasonal Kaddish Gathering
Tuesday, December 17th @6:30pm ET // NYC
Hanukkah Virtual Candle Lighting
Nightly from December 25th - January 1st @7pm ET // Online
Candle Lighting Schedule
Wednesday, December 25th – DEDICATE
Led by Spiritual Leader Shira Kline & the Lab/Shul Ritual Team
Join Lab/Shul’s Ritual Team for the first night of Hanukkah to co-create a global glow and illuminate a season of Hope. In this shared eve of winter festivals Christmas day and Hanukkah sweetly overlap to dedicate love and care in this age.
Thursday, December 26th – RESIST
Led by Rabbi Amichai along with Palestinian & Israeli peacemakers
Live from the Woodstock Peace Festival in Israel – join Rabbi Amichai along with Palestinian and Israeli peacemakers to illuminate hope, resist despair, commit to repair, hand in hand for healing and the miracle of peace in our lifetime.
Friday, December 27th – CELEBRATE
Led by Spiritual Leader Shira Kline & the Lab/Shul Ritual Team
Welcome Shabbat & the Angels of Peace celebrating the gifts of light and sacred time for your entire family. Shabbat Shalom and Happy 3rd Night of Hanukkah with Lab/Shul’s Ritual Team.
Saturday, December 28th – RELEASE
Led by GENerate leaders Ben Freeman & Sam Hipschman, along with GENerate cohorts past & present
Join members of current and past members of GENerate, a year-long rite of passage exploring different ways to age wisely, generative, and soulfully together. As we light candles together, looking at life with a long view, how can we release what’s no longer needed and embrace what matters?
Sunday, December 29th – TRUST
Led by Naomi Less, Co-Founder, Associate Director & Ritual Leader
It’s the 5th night – we’re over the Hanukkah half-way mark. We trust in light returning. In times of change and impermanence, we’ll ground in where we find trust through music and meditation led by Naomi Less.
Led by Stephanie Kane & families from Raising the Bar cohort
Hanukkah asks us to imagine MIRACLES – a radical act in today’s world! Join Stephanie Kane and teens and families from the Raising the Bar B Mitzvah Cohort as we imagine together how a world of more light and community can be made manifest.
Tuesday, December 31st – RISE
Led by Lab/Shul’s Racial Equity & Action Delegation (READ) team
Hanukkah on New Year’s Eve? What better night to rise up and light up with mindful transformation for the collective holding and healing of humanity. Join Lab/Shul’s Racial Equity and Action Delegation (READ) team for the 7th night together.
Led by Sarah Sokolic, Lab/Shul Co-Founder & Executive Director
Bask in the beauty of a fully lit menorah with Lab/Shul Co-Founder & Executive Director, Sarah Sokolic, and her entire family on the final night of Hanukkah. This luminous evening will be filled with warmth, connection, and the collective glow of our gathered lights, symbolizing hope and resilience.
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We came. We lit. We Hanukkah-ed.
Grateful beyond words for our extraordinary community who showed up to laugh, spin, cry, pray, and kindle light together throughout this Festival of Lights.
As we close out the 8th day, we look ahead to all that’s unfolding in 2026—rooted in ritual, connection, hope, re:love and possibility.
Wishing you a sweet and luminous final day of Hanukkah. ✨
#LabShul #Hanukkah5786
Scenes from last night’s Hanukkah Party & Community Candlelighting with @nefeshmountain at @brooklynbowl…
If you want in on tonight’s lighting experience with @labshul , join our Sabbath Queen ritual with our signature SPIN after party.
Register to join us 🔗: https://www.labshul.org/event/sabbath-queen-5786-dec/
#labshul #hanukkah #hanukkah5786 #nefeshmountain #sabbathqueen
Rabbi @amichailaulavie invites us to a meditative gaze into the candles of the Hanukkiah’s candles. We invite you - on tonight’s Sabbath Hanukkah - to set your sacred intention.
🕎 If you want to light in community with us, join SABBATH QUEEN tonight - in NYC or online - for a mix of spiritual and festive Hanukkah ritual, complete with the SPIN after party. 🕎
📲: www.labshul.org/event/sabbath-queen-5786-dec/
#labshul #hanukkah5786
This Hanukkah, we are dedic8ing each night to hope, repair, and curiosity, drawing on our ancestral tools of spiritual resilience and resistance. Even in a broken world, we choose to illuminate.
We ask ourselves: How can I tell the real, imperfect stories in my histories and hold the discomfort?
Spark hope, repair & curiosity with us tonight:
👑 Sabbath Queen + Hanukkah Celebration🕎
▪️Happy Hour @ 6pm EST
▪️Ritual @ 7pm EST
▪️Community Feast @ 8:30pm EST
➕SPIN: A Hanukkah Celebration, Lab/Shul Style
(Stay tuned for more party details)
Join us for our monthly Sabbath ritual of live musical liturgy with poetic and contemplative offerings. And on this night 🕎 the sixth night of Hanukkah 🕎 and join us during Sabbath Queen!
Live in NYC and Live online with our global community, join us for Ritual Winter Magic!
December’s program will be led by R. @amichailaulavie @shirakline @naomiless1 @bshatteredbfree and special guests @marzeus_prime & Martin Shamoonpour.
🔗 register through CALENDAR link in our bio or visit www.labshul.org/event/sabbath-queen-5786-dec
#labshul #hanukkah #hanukkah5786 #nyc #jewishcommunity
When you work at @labshul , there is no other option than to shine and spread light! Here’s a little glimpse into our in-office Hanukkah illumination 🕎
Being together is the how we best lift up our ancestral tools of spiritual resilience, resistance and celebration ✨ Thank you Lab/Shul team for being … you! 🙏
Join us tomorrow for our community Hanukkah Sabbath Queen! All guests must register & bring ID.
📲 www.labshul.org/hanukkah-5786-2025/
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