https://www.kolotchayeinu.org/childrens-learning-program daily 0.75 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1627945186757-JFBC7LOA4GL7KQIBU5SR/IMG_1483+%281%29.jpeg Children's Learning Program - CLP is for students from first grade through 11 years old. For students aged 6 and younger, please check out our Early Childhood. For students aged 12 and older, check out B-Mitzvah and What’s Up?! Kolot Chayeinu’s programs for our children and their families are a crucial part of our community. As a Jewish community, we believe strongly in teaching and passing on our tradition to the next generation. Children learn about Judaism, Jewish culture, and what it means to be Jewish from family, school, and community, and we are dedicated to supporting learning from all three. Knowledge is crucial to fostering critical thinking skills. Students are guided by the study of Tanakh, other texts, and rituals to make their own decisions and informed practices of traditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/c50ea6e2-e3b3-48da-be61-703b81549539/4ce60c00-ca52-4e82-4e6e-1de4c6dec873.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1627945781354-H66U6A0R51H6HSUX25LS/IMG_3724.jpeg https://www.kolotchayeinu.org/history daily 0.75 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/efb1505a-be50-41b9-9771-5f1b0f807f6f/Screen+Shot+2022-05-27+at+3.01.50+PM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1627938843616-IZ5YG3Z9SYHHP6KJMNV5/Slide004.jpeg https://www.kolotchayeinu.org/clergy daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/4e787869-4f4f-47eb-a5ea-11b800eb7ac2/RabbiSamKG_IMG_4175-PREFERRED.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/c28fb563-a18b-4170-b8c9-1830357f9165/6627210D-CE24-460E-AC2F-AA429ACF28E2_1_105_c.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/bf8cbe4f-80ec-4c7b-89a7-2d764e3f99d5/molly+in+tallit+%281%29.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/bb59881b-491f-46f9-9955-fee732a9e0f5/Hadar_Ahuvia_Baranova_2022-4.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1438ebac-c99f-44fe-90b0-c8143c2f5c9a/EL%2Btoasting%2BJFREJ.jpeg https://www.kolotchayeinu.org/shabbat daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1628008495951-B2324TP2MPLKI7LM9GG4/36508061_10155429283622854_3348441170651906048_o.jpeg Shabbat at Kolot - Shabbat at Kolot Services begin every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of membership status. Services take place at our regular worship space, Gethesmane in Park Slope, as well as on Zoom. During the month of August, services are held in the Tallis Tree Grove in Prospect Park. Torah Study takes place on Zoom and in-person before Shabbat Services at 9:00 a.m. All in-person Shabbat attendees must be fully vaccinated from COVID-19 and wear masks to keep our community safe. Join our Shabbat Zoom here. Meeting ID: 833 6384 8704 Passcode: 000265 One tap mobile +16468769923,,83363848704#,,,,*000265# US (New York) +16469313860,,83363848704#,,,,*000265# US Use our virtual prayer book here. Please read our clergy team’s Weekly segment called Ta Sh’ma “Come [and] hear!”, a phrase the Talmud uses to introduce an important opinion, challenge, difficulty, teaching, or resolution. Please see our calendar for upcoming services, or email Info@kolotchayeinu.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1628008646000-0WGT013J32E3O3IIYG08/Screen+Shot+2021-08-03+at+12.35.29+PM.png Shabbat at Kolot - Our In-Person Shabbat Morning Schedule 9:00 a.m.: Torah Study: informal, provocative wrestling with weekly parasha. Learn more here 10:30 a.m.: Service led by Rabbi Sam Kates-Goldman Cantor Lisa B. Segal, and members of Kolot, including a number of B-Mitzvah, offering insight and inspiration for all. Interested in contributing your talent, thought, or ideas into Shabbat services? Contact the Cantor! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1633369544662-ONMKBJ6KNGUKSQ96G7KA/IMG_3831_0.jpeg Shabbat at Kolot - Kabbalat Shabbat - 3rd Fridays! Enter Shabbat together, grounded in community with Kolot’s once-a-month musical Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck at the Church of Gethsemane from 6:30-9:15 p.m. Led by Cantor Lisa B. Segal and Student Rabbi Hadar Ahuvia with special guests, the focus is on psalms, ritual, music, drash/words of Torah, candles, and kiddush. Gather with others to expand your sense of community and sing and pray out loud! 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Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/4e09794a-b63e-43ed-87f2-2eb7ccbc5170/AmandaHeadshot_0.jpeg B'nai Mitzvah Tutors - Amanda Miller is a Jewish educator, writer, actor, yoga instructor, and licensed massage therapist who has been teaching in New York City’s Jewish community since 2011. She seeks to uncover what matters most to her students and connect that to the content they explore together. Since 2010 Amanda has served as an educator at Kolot Chayeinu in multiple capacities. In addition to her work as a B’nai Mitzvah tutor, she tutors students in Hebrew and teaches What’s Up and multiple classes in the B’nai Mitzvah program including A History of Israel/Palestine, Yoga and Judaism, Living Torah, God Talk and Hebrew. Amanda also co-leads Kolot’s early childhood family programs K’tanim and Torah Tots, develops and facilitates High Holiday youth and family programs, and for many years taught Kitah Bet. She has also co-created and performed Kolot’s annual Purim Spiel for a number of years. Outside of Kolot, Amanda trains B’nai Mitzvah students for Lab-Shul, performs original family-friendly Torah-themed scripts for Temple Emmanu-El, and leads early childhood family programming at Union Temple. She has taught Jewish values through drama and yoga at Sprout Brooklyn Day Camp and JCC Manhattan. Amanda is also the creator of the interactive solo play The Jew in the Ashram (www.thejewintheashram.com), about traveling to an ashram in India to study yoga and ending up reconnecting to her own cultural roots. She has performed the show in a variety of spaces around the country including Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings, The Kings Bay Y in Brooklyn, Brandeis Collegiate Institute in Simi Valley, CA, Whitefire Theatre’s Solofest in Sherman Oaks, CA, and Minnesota Fringe in Minneapolis. Amanda has performed her original theater and comedy in venues and festivals across NYC, nationally and internationally. She has writing forthcoming in JewishFiction.net and in 2013 published her memoir One Breath, Then Another on Lucid River Press. Amanda’s writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Freerange Nonfiction, Quaranzine, Cratelit, Runaway Parade and more. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and a BFA in Acting from NYU. She lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Contact: amandaerin25@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/208a611c-5de4-4252-953b-e41388bf0076/Ilana+Levinson.png B'nai Mitzvah Tutors - Ilana Levinson I am an educator, radio producer, and foster dog mom. I have taught the second grade class as Kolot's Community Learning Program for the past two years and I've been tutoring B'Nai Mitzvah students since I moved to Brooklyn in 2015. I see the year-long B'Nai Mitzvah preparation as a journey of self expression and spiritual exploration rather than an obligatory performance. The first thing I tell each of my students is that a B'Nai Mitzvah is something every Jewish adult becomes, as opposed to an event that can be done "right" or "wrong." My goal is to help facilitate a meaningful journey for my students as they decide how they want to mark this moment. I like to keep a warm and approachable atmosphere in my sessions, with much room for questions and adjustments, while staying attuned to my students' specific needs and strengths. When I'm not tutoring, I can be found making Unsettled, my podcast about Israel-Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora, playing with my foster pups in the park, and biking around brooklyn in search of a flavor of Ben and Jerry's I haven't yet fully absorbed. I look forward to working with you and your family. Contact: ilana@levinson.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61085e8f108741494b893034/1a6733ff-4feb-480f-910c-79080edf6bf0/Shalva+Wise+profile+image.JPG B'nai Mitzvah Tutors - Shalva Wise Originally from Cincinnati, I have been tutoring at Kolot for 14 of the past 15 years that Brooklyn’s been my home. I’ve worked with students across a wide range of ages, gender identities, home settings and cultural backgrounds, drawing upon my Masters in Social Work, my own Jewish upbringing, and over 2 decades of experience with youth development and social justice organizing to cultivate warm, respectful, dynamic learning environments with my students and their families. In addition to working with Kolot’s community, I also regularly work with families who are unaffiliated with congregations— guiding a bespoke learning process that begins with learning to read Hebrew and culminates in a service which I plan and produce collaboratively with the student. Balancing responsibility, flexibility, creativity and structure, my work with B’nei Mitzvah students strives to engage them in questions of Torah through a lens of self-exploration, seeking meaningful connections between our ancient stories and our contemporary lives—including/especially the justice struggles of our city, country and world. 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