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Lab/Shul’s Sabbath Queen
Monthly Ritual
May 15, 2026
6pm -10pm EST
Manhattan*
Join 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 are joined by beloved collaborators, teachers and healers. In NYC and online.
As 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.
The full evening includes Happy Hour, Online Oneg, Sabbath Queen Ritual, and Community Feast.
May’s program will be led by:
@shirakline@naomiless1@bshatteredbfree and @shirazetteshebeatstinnin
🔗 link in bio or visit labshul.org/calendar
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FamilyLab: Say Cheese!
Sunday, May 17
4:00-6:00PM EST
Brooklyn*
Our springtime Jewish holiday, Shavuot, celebrates seasonal harvest, rainbow revelations, and most importantly – Cheese! Jump into the kitchen with us to make traditional blintzes (like a crepe!) filled with your own homemade farmer’s cheese.
Spiritual Leader Shira Kline along with teaching artist Emet (Ari L. Monts), Stephanie Kane, and Steve Guedalia gather us around for the tastes, sounds, and feels of Shavuot. Whether you grew up at the 2nd Avenue Deli or it’ll be your first blintz, all families are welcome!
FamilyLab is centered around the family table: delicious dinner, sing along, stories, and animated interactive learning to celebrate holidays and delve into life-long Jewish values.
🔗 CALENDAR LINK in bio to register or visit Labshul.org/calendar — SPOTS ARE LIMITED
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At Night Shift: The Shavuot Show, we’ll be staying up late with live music, immersive ritual, radical text study, sensational drag, and more! This year, The Neighborhood, The New Shul, Temple of the Stranger, Beit Toratah, Lab/Shul and friends invite you to come early and stay late for a mind-opening, community-building, heart-expanding experience of art, culture, and spirituality.
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We Gather Tonight for Sabbath Queen & Return Next Week for Shavuot;
Inaugural NYC Nakba Remembrance Ceremony Satellite ➡️ Sabbath Queen ➡️ Shavuot
Join us for it all: labshul.org/calendar
If Lag B’Omer was the bonfire of the soul, Shavuot is the revelation that carries us through the night and into the dawn.
After gathering around the fire in song, mysticism, storytelling, and celebration, we now prepare for a heart-expanding Shavuot experience of live music, immersive ritual, radical Torah study, drag, magic, puppetry, and collective awakening.
At Night Shift: The Shavuot Show, artists, rabbis, musicians, mystics, and seekers come together to blur the boundaries between art and spirituality, celebration and revelation. As the night deepens, music and ritual invite us beyond division and into connection, where, as the mystics teach, all is ultimately one. Let the light of revelation dance us to the dawn.
@labshul@mm_jccmanhattan@theneighborhoodbk@templeofthestranger@romemubrooklyn@thenewshulnyc@beittoratah
Inaugural NYC Nakba Remembrance Ceremony Satellite
Friday, May 15, 2026
3:30pm EST Live Broadcast
(Immediately preceding Sabbath Queen)
NYC
Prior to Sabbath Queen, we invite you to join us and Lab/Shul Partner and event co-organizer, @giligetz , to watch the ceremony together.
The Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony is a unique opportunity to commemorate the pain and tragedy of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when in 1948 more than 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes, became refugees, and had their villages and cities destroyed. In Israel, even mentioning the Nakba is completely taboo, however, @combatantsforpeace_english believes that peace and reconciliation involve a sincere and honest reckoning with this history that didn’t end in 1948 but continues until this day.
This year’s theme is “Sumud in Humanity”. Sumud—meaning resilience—is often understood as steadfastness, unbreakability, and a deep connection to land. Yet we believe Sumud is not the absence of pain; it is the conscious choice to remain human, especially when circumstances make it easier to dehumanize others. It is the courage to continue believing in justice and shared resistance when despair feels more rational. It means safeguarding our core humanity—dignity, compassion, and moral clarity—even when both history and present realities put it to the test.
Guests will also be invited to continue the conversation at Lab/Shul’s Shabbat ritual: Sabbath Queen.
Register here > Calendar/labshul.org
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Calling all of our friends in NYC!
Pride is all almost here — and we’d love for you to join us on Sunday, June 7th at @crownhilltheatre for a special hometown 2nd Anniversary Pride screening of Sabbath Queen followed by a live Q&A with our director @SandiDuBowski and Rabbi @amichailaulavie . ✨
The evening will also feature a reception with DJ Busquelo and performance by @AlvahKlempt .
Use promo code PARTNERQUEEN for 20% off tickets. Get tickets now at murmrr.com | Link in bio 🎟️
In just a week, we’ll be staying up late for NIGHT SHIFT: The Shavuot Show! ✨ Come early and stay late for a mind-opening, community-building, heart-expanding experience of art, culture, and spirituality, with our MC @thelilylester !
Don’t miss:
✨ INSPIRING IMMERSIVE RITUALS featuring Rav Jericho Vincent @thealef , Rabbi Misha Shulman @mishashulman1234 , and Shira Kline @shirakline
✨ DAZZLING DRAG by Abbi G’zunt @abbigzunt
✨ MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL PERFORMANCES from Tal Mashiach @talmasaya and Who’s Around, Naomi Less @naomiless1 , and Mitchka and Ferran Rico @ferran_rico
✨ PHENOMENAL PUPPETS by Sir Cum Sized @sircumsizeddrag
✨ FASCINATING FEMINIST TORAH STUDY from Beit Toratah, lead by Yael Kanarek @yaelkanarek and Naomi Less @naomiless1
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Tickets available for Night Shift: The Shavuot Show at the link in bio!
THIS SUNDAY Celebrate Shavuot and Say CHEESE With Us ...Last Chance to Register to join @ShiraKline and @arilmonts for a springtime seasonal harvest, the Family Lab way...
>> Labshul.org/calendar to register
Now introducing Shira Kline, one of the spiritual leaders who will be guiding us into a mind-opening evening of ritual and transformation during Night Shift: The Shavuot Show! ✨
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Tickets for Night Shift: The Shavuot Show are available now at the link in bio!
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Shira Kline is an internationally acclaimed performance and ritual artist, recognized as a revolutionary educator and named one of the new re-engineers of Jewish life today. She is a Co-Founder and serves as Spiritual Leader at God-optional Lab/Shul NYC.
Each month in our Lab/Letter, we share a Partnerhood Spotlight highlighting the people, projects, and stories that shape our community. It’s a moment to honor the many ways Lab/Shul-ers bring creativity, care, connection, and curiosity into the world.
This month, we’re honored to spotlight Liz Alpern, who reflects on her experience with Lab/Shul and the sense of community she has found through our monthly Sabbath Queen rituals.
Join us THIS FRIDAY 5/15 for Sabbath Queen >> labshul.org/calendar
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