Lab/Shul

06/02/2026

Join Lab/Shul’s ritual team for a community B.Y.O. Shabbat afternoon Picnic in the Park! It’s our FINAL SHABBAT RITUAL of the 5786 season…

As Pride Month begins, we’ll celebrate the Queen within each of us with the Sabbath Queen himself – Rabbi Amichai is back to NYC!

☀️ Bring Your Own: picnic blanket, dinner, musical instruments and Shabbat accouterments. We got the Challah!

Come as you are. Bring a friend. Bring your full, fabulous self. ✨👑🌈

*Exact picnic location provided upon registrations

🔔 You MUST REGISTER to recieve any
weather-related updates as this is an OUTDOOR only program 🔔

📲 Register here >>> Labshul.org/calendar

       

05/30/2026

We’ve heard a few murmurs of, “Hmm... what should I wear to Lab/Shul’s B Mitzvah?”

Our answer: raid the back of your closet. Borrow from a friend. Shop vintage. Wear the thing you’ve been saving. Mix eras, colors, textures, sparkle, elegance, weirdness, and joy. ✨ 👠 🎩

This celebration is about showing up as your fullest self so consider this your permission slip to get creative. ✅

See you on June 18 for a night of memory, meaning, music, and a little bit of fashion magic. ✨

Haven’t registered yet?!
🔗 www.labshul.org/gala-2026

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05/28/2026

🔔 PROGRAM ALERT 🔔
SHABasics in the Park with Rabbi Amichai

Saturday, June 6, 2026
5-7pm EST
Outdoors | Tribeca*

Join Lab/Shul’s ritual team for a community B.Y.O. Shabbat afternoon Picnic in the Park! It’s our FINAL SHABBAT RITUAL of the 5786 season…

We invite you to celebrate so much with us, including welcoming Rabbi back to NYC, PRIDE month, and the close of our 5786 Sabbath Season

Come for an early summer’s eve musical jam, freshly baked challah, urban serenity and sweet Sabbath afternoon light.

A chance to let the week go, together. All ages welcome.

☀️ Bring Your Own: picnic blanket, dinner, musical instruments and Shabbat accouterments. We got the Challah!

*Exact picnic location provided upon registrations

Register here > Labshul.org/calendar

05/28/2026

WE’VE COME OF AGE. ✨

On June 18, Lab/Shul turns 13 ➡️ our B MITZVAH…

What began as a bold experiment has grown into a vibrant, artist-driven, everybody-friendly, God-optional community rooted in belonging, creativity, and courage.

In a time that asks so much of us, we’re choosing joy as resilience. Ritual, storytelling, celebration, feasting, dancing, and the people who make this community what it is.

This is a milestone. A turning point. A becoming.

Join us. Tickets + sponsorships are live now and space is limited. We’d love to celebrate this moment with you.
📲 www.labshul.org/gala-2026

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05/27/2026

Last Friday we reveled in revelation: gathering with love & ritual with friends from & beyond for a Shavuot experience of art, music, spirit, and late-night learning where borders blurred and community expanded.

This Friday, we take a much needed deep been when - again -we gather with love & ritual with our friends from the shared Zen Shabbat: slowing down through song, silence, meditation, and sacred presence.

🫶 Different vibe. Same connectedness in gathering.🫶

Thank you to our community members and fellow artists who shared photos and videos — , …more to come.


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05/26/2026

🔔THIS FRIDAY🔔

Zen Shabbat
6:30PM-8:00PM ET
NYC + Online

Lab/Shul and the invite you to our seasonal Zen Shabbat gatherings, in person and online.

This Friday’s Ritual music, meditation, and spiritual teachings will be led by Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell, Spiritual Leader Shira Kline, and we are thrilled to welcome Rabbi back to in person rituals for the end of our 5786 season.

This ritual is a shared experience of sacred space and time, harmonizing the Jewish Sabbath slowdown with traditional Zazen meditation practice.

Register: CALENDAR LINK 🔗 in bio or [email protected]/calendar


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05/22/2026

As we approach this week’s Shavuot Shabbat, we reflect back on last week’s Sabbath Queen ritual where we gathered in candlelight and blessing to honor new life, mark sacred moments of becoming, and hold the in between spaces of our shared journey. Led by Ritual Leader , with teaching from , reflections from , and celebration of our GENerate and Pass/Age cohort led by , MDiv, we closed in gratitude for community, courage, and growth.

🗓️ We invite you to join us for our upcoming gatherings:
— Zen Shabbat on 5/29
— Sabbath Queen Pride Screening on 6/7
— Our B Mitzvah Gala on 6/18

📸 Huge thank yout to for capturing these moments so beautifully.


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05/21/2026

Revelation comes in many forms. For the Lab/Shul team, it looked like a one-room town in Brooklyn called , a lot of unhinged laughter, and some deeply thoughtful work. 🤪👇
We spent an afternoon together marrying ourselves, voting for what we care about, and tapping into some serious creative genius at Razor Studios.

The real harvest though, was the pure, unfiltered joy of playing together. With Shavuot beginning tonight, the timing hit perfectly because Shavuot is all about the summer grain harvest and receiving the Torah at Sinai; celebrating community, commitment, and showing up exactly as you are.

Our takeaway? Joy is a holy text, too. 🌾✨

We’re gathering up all this energy, inspiration, and small-town warmth, and bringing it straight back to the Lab/Shul community for the 5787 year.

Shoutout to the for hosting our hearts & souls 🫶

05/21/2026