Night Shift: The Shavuot Show

Thursday, May 21, 2026

11:00 PM

Arts & Culture

Night Shift: The Shavuot Show

Crown Hill Theatre

750 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA

At Night Shift: The Shavuot Show, we’ll be staying up late with live music, immersive ritual, radical text study, sensational drag, puppets, and more!

Shavuot is the Jewish holiday of revelation, often observed through late-night Torah study. 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.

Featuring

Rav Jericho Vincent

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 are ordained in the lineage of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi through the Aleph Ordination Program. Rav Jericho has been named to the Forward 50 for their work. In 2025 they received the Young History Maker Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network. Their inclusive Kabbalistic teachings can be found on Substack and Instagram.

Rabbi Misha Shulman

Actor, educator, playwright, activist, Rabbi Misha’s roaming soul has found a comfortable abode at The New Shul and a happy home in Brooklyn with his wife, Erika and their three boys. Born and raised in Jerusalem, and now a New Yorker for over a quarter of a century, Rabbi Misha is the founding director of the School for Creative Judaism, where he leads a team of a dozen talented artist-teachers instilling a Judaism driven by kindness and questioning into the hearts and minds of Jewish children and teens. Perpetually exploring the borders and overlap between faith, art and activism, he was ordained at Theater for the New City by a committee of five rabbis and five artist-activists. His great love for, and curiosity about prayer and meditation have led to his intimate exploration of the Book of Psalms, of which he’s translated several chapters into English. In recent years his studies have focused on medieval and early modern masters of Musar, or ethical living. Rabbi Misha has been working for co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians for close to three decades, and is a member of Torat Tzedek; The Torah of Justice, and Israelis for Peace. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College and an extensive theatrical resume, and religiously follows the Talmudic maxim: “whoever doesn’t nap on Saturday afternoons will be tired all week.” His rabbinical advice is to try it out.

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.

Lily Lester

Lily Lester is a New York City-based comic and actor. You can catch Lily on FX/Hulu’s Love Story or hear her voice on Nickelodeon’s Well Versed. Lily is a regular at New York Comedy Club and was featured in the New York Comedy Festival in 2024 and 2025. Lily also hosts the International Championships of A Cappella every year at Town Hall. When she’s not doing comedy, she’s making content about bagels and Jews for @jewishfood. @thelilylester

Naomi Less

Naomi Less (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based, internationally celebrated singer, composer, musician, ritual leader and educator. Her diverse original music is sung in worship communities worldwide, including Lab/Shul. In 2000, Naomi met Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie and became a founding company member of Storahtelling, serving as Director of Education and Training, Director of Storahtelling and ultimately as a founding Lab/Shul ritual leader and Associate Director. Her signature music initiatives include: Jewish Chicks Rock band programs, creator/host of Jewish Women Rock show on Jewish Rock Radio, and co-creator/music director/performer for TRYmester, a touring performance piece that brings to light the oft hidden stories of fertility challenges through narrative, song and dance. Naomi is an activist and consultant for causes such as Bring Back Our Girls New York, a multi-faith volunteer group, and Uprooted: A Jewish Response to Fertility Journeys (vice president). Naomi received training in spiritual leadership, music, facilitation and education from: Northwestern University, Jewish Theological Seminary Davidson School, Institute for Informal Jewish Education at Brandeis University, Institute for Jewish Spirituality, ChangeCraft (formerly Center for Leadership Initiatives).

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

Tal Mashiach

Grammy-nominated guitarist and bassist Tal Mashiach is proud to present Who’s
Around?, his upcoming project and album(To be released on June 24). Who’s Around?
channels the energy of New York’s creative music scene: a network of friends,
bandstands and overlapping musical lineages. An in-demand bassist and seven-string
guitarist, Mashiach draws together players with roots in Israel, Greece, Georgia, Puerto
Rico, Venezuela and Chile, shaping those voices and traditions into a virtuosic,
rhythmically alive set that moves between jazz, Greek zeibekiko, Brazilian samba,
Spanish flamenco and classical music.

Sir Cum Sized

Sir Cum Sized is the world's best musician - according to his mother. He combines drag, clown, music, character comedy and puppetry into the ultimate class clown. Sir has performed in New York at the likes of Dixon Place, House of Yes, and The Slipper Room, and has toured internationally to the Edinburgh Fringe and London's Soho Theatre. His most recent project, THE TRIAL OF MODICUT, was a drag puppet spectacle about Yiddish puppeteers Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud, and was supported by the Franklin Furnace FUND, NYSCA and BAC.

Sir is also a PIT/SNL scholar.

@sircumsizeddrag

Paul Amitai

Paul Amitai is an artist and musician working in improvisational vocal performance and immersive experiences. He has exhibited and performed internationally, with residencies at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Banff Centre, and Harvestworks. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The A.V. Club, which described his music as melding "seemingly disparate influences into a shape that not only makes sense, but begs the question why no one has done it quite like this before."

In 1999, Amitai conceived and co-curated the New York Festival of Electronic Composers and Improvisers at the Knitting Factory, featuring early innovators Pauline Oliveros, Tony Conrad, Morton Subotnick, and Silver Apples. He subsequently spent a decade as Senior Curator at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, deepening his engagement with art and creative technology. He currently leads the sound design studio Listen in New York and mentors emerging artists at NEW INC at the New Museum.

Since 2021, he has released three albums of live vocal improvisation using his voice as the sole instrument. Trope Variations (2025-present), his current live performance platform built around Hebrew cantillation, is now being presented at venues across the US.