Thursday, October 9, 2025, from 7:30 PM- 10:00 PM
The sukkah is a home that knows it won’t last. In a world that clings to permanence, Sukkot invites us to celebrate the beauty of what is fleeting, fragile, and fully alive. Join us for an immersive evening of music, movement, and ritual inside the sukkah, where we’ll honor the joy of being here now, even in all our uncertainty. Come ready to shake the lulav, sing under the stars, and root yourself in what remains when everything else shifts.

Rosh Hashana: Experiential Services and Happy New Year Brunch:
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of the world, and we’re throwing an epic birthday party. But like most birthdays, it’s not just about balloons and beginnings. This is a time to start fresh with our whole selves, grief, hope, mess, and all. Join us on the second day of Rosh Hashanah for experiential, songful prayer, followed by a New Year’s brunch to open up a season of dreaming, healing, and possibility. Come ready to begin again.

Kintsugi High Holiday Experience:
Tuesday, September 30 at 6:00 PM in the 14th Street Y.
Facilitated by Esther Mun + Sarah Tintle. Through the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold, we’ll explore the theme “We Were Made for This Repair.” Cracks and chips become places of beauty, light, and power, just like the work of the High Holidays. Please bring cracked, chipped, or broken ceramics (or wood) from home.

The 10 Days of Repair:
Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we invite you to join us for 10 days of gentle reflection, grounded in Jewish wisdom, recovery values, and the art of kintsugi, the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery with gold. Each day includes a short reflection, a guiding question (your gold line), and a simple practice to bring the theme to life.

Yom Kippur: What we hold, what we let go:
Thursday, October 2, 2025, from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Yom Kippur is one of our favorite days of the year, not because it’s easy, but because it’s full of potential! (If you can break something, we think you can fix it.) There’s something sacred about stopping to notice what’s shifted and what might still be possible. Together, we’ll gather for soulful singing, elements of traditional liturgy, and playful conversation about release, repair, and the kind of belonging that begins with showing up as we are.

Wednesdays, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
Real transformation starts when we fully accept ourselves and our current situation - just as is.

In this weekly drop-in group, we’ll explore how mindfulness can help us approach ourselves and our present experiences with greater acceptance and compassion. We’ll also explore how mindfulness might deepen our connections with others.

Wednesday, December 16, 2024
Online
Chanukah comes at the darkest coldest time of the year. As the sun sets earlier and we begin to wear more layers outside, we can face increased burnout, fatigue, and general feels of “Blah.” Perhaps, we even feel a heightened sense of isolation.

In a year that has been especially challenging, Chanukah and its lights remind us for our ability to create light where it’s needed most, when we need it most. In this gathering, we’ll: celebrate Chanukah through the lens of recovery principles, explore how Jewish tradition can offer us light in challenging moments, and connect with fellow travelers on the journey.

HOSTED BY SELAH AND JCFS OF CHICAGO.

Rosh Hashana: Experiential Services and Happy New Year Brunch:
Friday, October 4, 2024, from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
During this epic day, we get to tap into the feeling of all that is new, the feeling of possibility, hope, and opportunity ahead. Join us on the second day of Rosh Hashana for experiential, songful prayer followed by a Happy New Year brunch to open up the new year of possibilities. Come ready to dream big and abundantly.

The 10 Days of Teshuva: Soul Journaling The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time to hold our dreams to the fire. We can use this time to deeply contemplate the gap between where we are now and where we wish to be, and practice ways to close this gap. Sign up to receive Selah’s Soul Journaling resource and spend these 10 days beginning the work of realizing your dreams.

Yom Kippur: Experiential Services:
Saturday, October 12, 2024, from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Once we’ve done the internal work of naming our dreams and beginning to move them into action, we’ll gather on Yom Kippur to say “we did our best” and hand it over to G-d. Join us for soulful singing, elements of  traditional Yom Kippur liturgy, and conversations around reinvention and renewal.

Friday, June 14, 2024, at 7:30 PM
Brooklyn, 11238
Sometimes life can feel a bit like wandering in the wilderness (sort of like our ancestors, if you will). In these moments, we like to remember that our tradition gives us a powerful spiritual technology - taking a pause from the chaos of life, and doing so in community.

Join us for a radically welcoming, completely delicious, and soulful Shabbat dinner. We'll share some moments of 'wandering' - times when we've navigated that experience and how we got through. Plus, we'll make sure that we help you meet new friends if you're willing or save a seat if you'd like to bring a plus one.

Brooklyn, NY 11238
When the world feels particularly overwhelming, Jewish tradition offers us opportunities to come together - through song, storytelling, and joy.

Join us for our Selah-bration, where we’ll gather to celebrate all sober anniversaries and significant dates in our lives that take place each month. Plus, our in-house musicians will support our singing in between our breaks for blessings and hope together.

If you’ve been looking for your 11th step practice, love soulful spaces, or feel interested in a new kind of spiritual practice, join us. Celebration is an important act (yes, even and especially now), and we want to celebrate with you.

Feburary 5, 2024- Feburary 26, 2024
Imagine it: you’re sitting in a room with other people who ‘get’ your story, who once even asked, “but we’re a nice Jewish family! How could this happen to us?”

Perhaps right now, you’re feeling all out of sorts, maybe even powerless, as your kid uses substances in a way you don’t feel good about. Maybe, you’re somewhere on the journey and would benefit from some fellow travelers - people who ‘get’ it.

Many of us feel like we have to walk this path alone - but, there are so many other people going through your experience.

In this series, we’ll gather as parents facing the challenges of their child's substance use. This means, talking about the good, the bad, and the in-between - and working through some techniques, skills, and support for you.

Facilitated by Julie Merberg, a parent who is in the process with you!

Join us for our inaugural Purim celebration featuring a royal catered brunch, a creative trip through the holiday’s four mitzvot (spiritual opportunities): service, storytelling, sharing a meal, and surprises for friends, plus ritual glitter and face painting.

Purim is a holiday in which we celebrate the possibility for change, transformation, and unexpected wins. Here at Selah, with our team at 14Y and the Center for Recovery and Wellness, we’ll be doing something new and totally joyful for this most subversive, playful, and awesome of holidays.

This Purim experience and brunch seudah (feast) will be substance-free.

December 7, 2024- December 14, 2024
Across NYC
There is a unique spiritual opportunity during Chanukah called pirsumei nisa -“publicizing the miracle.” We are obligated during this holiday to quite literally spread awareness of the possibility of miracles.

In NYC today, deaths from opioid overdose, both opioid analgesics and heroin, are a public health crisis. But rather miraculously, each one of us has the ability to prevent overdose death. NARCAN is an opioid antagonist that can safely reverse an opioid overdose. And, in New York State, it’s legal, safe, and easy for anyone to carry and use Naloxone.

This Chanukah season, we are collaborating with 8 hosts across NYC for Candle lighting and free NARCAN training (all in an hour!). We will be in your neighborhood.

Thank you to our partners at: the Prospect Heights Shul, Based in Harlem, NYU Hillel, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Park Avenue Synagogue, and Astoria Center of Israel.

October 4, 2023, at 7:00 PM
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Sukkot is described as “the time of our joy.”

Here in Brooklyn, we’ll celebrate the holiday’s custom of embodied celebrations through an ecstatic dance by Lawrence Dreyfuss of The Sabbath Dance, delicious treats, and vibrant music. Come dressed to move!

This event is in partnership with The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life, as part of Sukkot in The Neighborhood, a 10-day festival held in a sukkah at Luria Academy of Brooklyn, designed by textile artist Hilla Shapira.

Questions? Email Arielle.

Schedule:
7:00 PM -9:00 PM Ecstatic Dance Experience

September 9, 2023
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Reinventing one’s self is a process deeply embedded in American culture. Be it Marilyn Monroe or Jay Z, we see individuals who changed their names, look and persona to transform. We celebrate those who leave their home town for New York or LA, those who emerge from underneath the burden of trauma, those with the courage to claim their true voice. Yet, for all this awareness of one process of reinvention in our culture, the process of what we often call ‘teshuva’ can feel awkward and heavy - without any of the shine of self creation we know from other quarters. This year, we will look at teshuva anew, against the background of recreating oneself. Rabbi-In-Training Arielle Krule and Rabbi Avram Mlotek will guide our experience.

Schedule (join us for some or all!):
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Experiential Services and Reflective Conversation

September 17, 2023
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Rosh Hashana represents the birthday of the world - the day where everything begins anew and we have the opportunity to start a new count. Join us on the second day of Rosh Hashana for experiential songful prayer and a brunch full of simanim (symbolic tasting of auspicious foods to open up the new year of possibilities). If you’re looking for all-comers, spiritually alive, perfection-averse, be-here-as-you-are, irreverently traditional community that celebrates all life journeys - recovery experiences included.

Schedule (join us for some or all!):
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Experiential Services
12:30 PM -1:30 PM Happy New Year Brunch