We are excited to partner with GERTIE for an extra special Passover Seder at 4:30 PM on the second night of Passover, April 13.

Rabbi Matt Green will lead the Seder using Jonathan Safran Foer's New American Haggadah, and GERTIE will serve up a delicious four-course menu for the festive meal, including Matzo Ball Soup, Sweet & Sour Brisket, and more. Dinner and all-you-can-drink wine are included in the ticket price.

Due to the popularity of last year’s seder, this year, Gertie will be offering this private early seating only for Brooklyn Jews.

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*Dinner is NOT strictly Kosher, but will be free of chametz and will retain the spirit of the holiday. Dietary Restrictions can be accommodated with advanced notice.

Join Brooklyn Jews for another beautiful evening featuring happy hour, Kabbalat Shabbat services, and a catered dinner.

6:00 Happy hour
6:30 Kabbalat Shabbat
8:00 Dinner

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Brooklyn Jews is thrilled to welcome writer and scholar David Stromberg in celebration of the new edition of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Simple Gimpl. Stromberg will be in conversation with Val Vinokur, Associate Professor of Literary Studies and Director of Jewish Culture at the New School's Creative Writing program. Copies of Simple Gimpl will be available for purchase from Community Bookstore. 

One of the most influential stories of the 20th century, Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's Simple Gimpl is the story about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke. Yet, unlike every other major work of Singer’s published in his lifetime, the author had no involvement in the English translation. In this new, gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Singer’s classic, literary scholar David Stromberg has completed Singer’s previously unpublished partial translation, allowing readers to see another dimension of the original. Beautifully illustrated by New Yorker contributor and Instagram sensation Liana Finck, this unique take on Singer's classic is a treat for literature lovers.

Join us for an evening Purim service and megillah reading in the CBE sanctuary, followed by a Purim party in the CBE ballroom with drinks, food, music, and, best of all, your friends throughout the BK Jewish community! Service and megillah reading are free and open to all. Party is 21+ and tickets are $36.

SCHEDULE
7:45PM Erev Purim Service
8:15PM Full Megillah Reading
9:15 PM Party (ages 21+)

PARTICIPATING COMMUNITIES:
Altshul
Atara Minyan
Brooklyn Jews
Romemu Brooklyn
Shir HaMaalot

Come together with Brooklyn Jews for another Shabbat! We'll kick things off with Jewish Happy Hour at 6:00 PM in the lobby, followed by services featuring the CBE Jazz Quintet at 6:30 PM in the chapel. After services and kiddush, we'll gather for dinner and drinks in the social hall.

Dinner is $36 per person and for adults age 21+. Click here to register.

As part of our Jewish Queer & Trans Writers class, we are excited to welcome poet Samuel Ace and musicians Ira Khonen Temple and AANI for an evening of poetry and music.

Come schmooze with Jews of all ages! Make new friends, find a new lawyer, anything can happen. Bring yourselves and a can-schmooze attitude. This event is in partnership with Old Jewish Men of New York.

Come celebrate Pride with the CBE clergy team in Prospect Park for a “campy” Kabbalat Shabbat service. All of the music will be by LGBTQ composers with some favorite summer camp songs in the mix.

In Ya Ghorbati, singer Laura Elkeslassy musically excavates her family’s history in Morocco, France, and Israel, coming face-to-face with forgotten ancestors and reclaiming a lost family name. Developed in collaboration with music director Ira Khonen Temple, this project weaves together the stories of Judeo-Arab divas from the last century with new performances of folk and sacred music. Ya Ghorbati looks across time and space to tell a tale of political upheaval, exile, and displacement—ultimately questioning the supposed binary of Arab and Jew. Read the full story of Ya Ghorbati on Ayin Press!

Long tones in the days of omer takes place during the 49 days of the Omer, a symbolic accounting between the spring and the summer harvests. A concert of original music inspired by embodied vocal research and Ashkenazi Jewish modes and melodies, reverberating in harmony and dissonance.

Join us for a cocktail party with a light nosh as we celebrate and say l'hitraot (until we see each other again) to Eliza Scheffler, who has served our CBE and Brooklyn Jews community as our Rabbinic Intern for the last three years.

Join Brooklyn Jews for a night at the theatre. We reserved tickets to comedian Alex Edelman’s much acclaimed show Just For Us. We will attend the show together at the SoHo Playhouse and then grab drinks to discuss the provocative, relevant, and hilarious themes. Rabbi Green will facilitate the discussion following the show.

On the second night of Passover, we’ll gather for a potluck seder led by Rabbi Matt Green and Rabbinic Intern Eliza Scheffler. We are super excited to be hosted for the seder by fellow Brooklyn Jews, Gene, Jonah, and Marty, in their house in Crown Heights. There are 24 spots available for Brooklyn Jews—to confirm your spot, please register here.

On the second night of Passover, we’ll gather for a potluck seder led by Rabbi Matt Green and Rabbinic Intern Eliza Scheffler. We are super excited to be hosted for the seder by fellow Brooklyn Jews, Gene, Jonah, and Marty, in their house in Crown Heights.

Come together with Brooklyn Jews for another Shabbat! We'll kick things off with services featuring the CBE Jazz Quintet at 6:30 PM, then we'll gather for dinner together.