• Kolot's Response to the Crisis in Israel/Palestine

    Read on here

  • Looking for warm community, joyous Jewishness, intentional engagement, and critical questioning?

    Become a Member

  • Kolot Chayeinu has a long legacy of justice-seeking and honoring members’ many identities in both Jewish ritual and community.

    How We Seek Justice

  • Kolot has programming for babies through teens, through our Early Childhood (ages 0-6), Children’s Learning Program (ages 6-11) and B’nai Mitvah and What’s Up?! Programs (Ages 12-14).

    Youth Programming

  • Our clergy, staff, and member educators are regularly adding new opportunities to study in community!

    Adult Learning

Kolot is a Jewish congregation in Brooklyn, where doubt can be an act of faith and all hands are needed to build our community.

We are creative, serious seekers who pray joyfully, wrestle with tradition, pursue justice, and refuse to be satisfied with the world as it is. We share a commitment to ending structural racism and becoming an antiracist congregation. And, as individuals of varying sexual orientations, gender identities, races, family arrangements, and Jewish identities and backgrounds, we search for meaningful and just expressions of our Judaism in today's uncertain world.

Kolot’s Rabbinic Transition


Rabbi Miriam Grossman ended her time as Kolot Chayeinu’s settled Rabbi on October 14, 2023. Over the next two years Kolot will be embarking on a lay-led search for a new settled Rabbi, with the guidance and support of our Interim Rabbi, Sami Barth, and our longtime Cantor, Lisa B. Segal. Learn more about Rabbi Miriam’s departure and our ongoing journey to find a new leader for our sacred community:

Our Calendar

Join us for Morning Blessings and Shabbat!

  • We meet daily for Morning Blessings Monday through Friday at 9:00 am (please note new time). Join our morning minyan to pray and share gratitude. Join via Zoom. For more information, please contact Sandra Abramson at sandra.abramson49@gmail.com.

  • Join us for monthly Friday night in-person and Zoom Kabbalat Shabbat, as well as other offerings (on pause for summer). Learn more here!

Join us on Saturdays:

  • 9:00 am: Torah Study: informal, provocative wrestling with weekly parasha, in-person and via Zoom. Learn more here!

  • 10:30 am: Hybrid in-person and live-streamed service led by Rabbi Miriam Grossman, Cantor Lisa B. Segal, and members of Kolot. Everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of membership status. Learn more here!

  • 12:45 pm: Twice-a-month post-service nosh

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