Night Shift: The Shavuot Show
“Though things appear divided and broken, Kabbalists, sufis and mystics of all kinds see a perfect unity. As the dark settles in and the music transports us to the realms beyond time, all borders between ethnicities, religions, ages, skin colors, styles, bodies and species fall into oblivion. Let the light of revelation dance us to the dawn.”
At Night Shift: The Shavuot Show, we’ll be staying up late with live music, immersive ritual, radical text study, sensational drag, and more! Shavuot is the Jewish holiday of revelation, often observed through late-night Torah study. This year, The New Shul, The Neighborhood, Temple of the Stranger, Beit Toratah, and friends invite you to come early and stay late for a mind-opening, community-building, heart-expanding experience of art, culture, and spirituality.
Presented by The New Shul • The Neighborhood • Lab/Shul • Temple of the Stranger• Beit Toratah
Presented by The New Shul • The Neighborhood • Lab/Shul • Temple of the Stranger• Beit Toratah
Featured Performers
Tal Mashiach Who's Around
Tal Mashiach is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and Grammy-nominated artist whose music moves freely between cultures, traditions, and sounds. Raised in the mountain village of Harashim in northern Israel, he began studying classical guitar at age ten before gravitating toward jazz and the double bass. That musical curiosity eventually brought him to New York in 2015 on a full scholarship to The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
Since settling in New York, Mashiach has become an active presence in the city’s creative music scene, collaborating and recording with artists including Anat Cohen, Mulatu Astatke, Avishai Cohen, Paquito D’Rivera, Omer Avital, Ravi Coltrane, and Shai Maestro. Along the way he has appeared at venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Blue Note Jazz Club, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, and SFJAZZ Center. In 2020 he received a Grammy nomination as a member of the Anat Cohen Tentet.
As a bandleader, Mashiach leads TM Street Band, a project that reflects his playful, curious side and his love of crossing stylistic borders, and co-leads the GTO Trio with longtime collaborators Gadi Lehavi and Ofri Nehemya - a trio rooted in friendship and a shared musical language.
His recordings reveal another side of his artistry. Mashiach released Tiyul (2022), a solo guitar album on Anzic Records. His upcoming album Who’s Around?, recorded in New York with a circle of close collaborators, reflects the vibrant, interconnected spirit of the city’s creative music scene and will be released in June 2026.
Grammy-nominated guitarist and bassist
Rav Jericho Vincent is the founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger, a flourishing Ivri community in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in an ultra-Orthodox rabbinical family, they earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard University and ordination in the lineage of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi from the Aleph Ordination Program. Rav Jericho is a Wexner Fellow, a member of the Schusterman ROI Community, and a recent fellow at Atra: The Center for Rabbinic Innovation. They serve as an advisor to Beit Kohenet and The Shalom Center. Rav Jericho has been named to the Forward 50, and in 2025 they received the Young History Maker Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network. Their inclusive Kabbalistic teachings can be found on Instagram, @thealef.
Rav Jericho Vincent
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. Known on the kiddie-rock stage as ShirLaLa and in the sanctuary as a spiritual adventurist, she practices in the field of sacred play where she weaves radical imagination, expansive heart and collective soul. With her unique combination of spiritual leadership, immersive artistry and education, she has toured extensively for almost three decades. In 2024, she received the Covenant Foundation Award for her profound impact on the field of Jewish Education. Her award winning music has been featured on NPR, XM Radio, JKids Radio, Disney and Hulu. She is a frequent guest of numerous international leadership conferences and seminaries with a series of vibrant professional development and musical invitations to connect, for a new and realized conscious world. Visit her in her primary playground, artist driven, experimental and God-optional Lab/Shul NYC, where she is a Co-Founder and serves as Spiritual Leader.
Shira Kline
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. Known on the kiddie-rock stage as ShirLaLa and in the sanctuary as a spiritual adventurist, she practices in the field of sacred play where she weaves radical imagination, expansive heart and collective soul. With her unique combination of spiritual leadership, immersive artistry and education, she has toured extensively for almost three decades. In 2024, she received the Covenant Foundation Award for her profound impact on the field of Jewish Education. Her award winning music has been featured on NPR, XM Radio, JKids Radio, Disney and Hulu. She is a frequent guest of numerous international leadership conferences and seminaries with a series of vibrant professional development and musical invitations to connect, for a new and realized conscious world. Visit her in her primary playground, artist driven, experimental and God-optional Lab/Shul NYC, where she is a Co-Founder and serves as Spiritual Leader.
Abbi G'zunt
Yael Kanarek
Yael Kanarek is an Israeli-American artist and the founder of BeitToratah.org, an initiative that regenders the Hebrew Bible by centering women in the narrative and locating men within the domestic sphere. Through this work, she expands Biblical Hebrew from within the language itself, using its feminine forms to reopen meaning in the foundational stories.
Her ongoing creation of the Toratah library includes regendered translations of Biblical books, public learning, and collaborations with educators, artists, and spiritual leaders. Last year, she introduced ZimraTah, a collaborative album of songs drawn from Toratah’s language. Together, these works challenge long-standing interpretive assumptions and propose a Torah that speaks to a broader humanity.
Kanarek’s artistic practice informs her textual work. Trained as a visual artist and fluent in Hebrew, she bridges sacred language and contemporary art, treating the act of regendering as both creative methodology and cultural intervention. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial, SFMOMA, The Jewish Museum in New York, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. Her work has been covered in The New York Times and in other major publications. She teaches, writes, and presents widely in progressive Jewish contexts. Alongside Toratah, Kanarek maintains an active studio practice and designs fine jewelry.
Her work can be viewed here: beittoratah.org yaelkanarek.com Kanareknyc.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Kanarek
And Many More to Come…
Address:
Crown Hill Theatre
750 Nostrand Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Hours:
Doors: 6:30PM | Show: 7:00PM | Ends: 1:00AM