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July 2026
Blood Drive
Join us to save lives by giving blood. Appointments are preferred. Walk-ins will be welcomed if space permits. Please remember to eat, drink, and bring your donor ID card or ID with name and photo. Click here to make an appointment
Find out more »October 2026
Intergenerational Mitzvah Knitting Group
Knitters needed! Please join our intergenerational AC Mitzvah Knitting Group. Bubbies, bring your grandkids; kids - bring your parents. Please RSVP by emailing Emily.
Find out more »Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Please join AC and Minyan M’at member, Mark R. Cohen, Professor Emeritus from Princeton, for a fascinating journey to Medieval Egypt. Jews were deeply embedded in commerce, but Halakha had not yet developed forms well-suited to the realities of the contemporary marketplace. Exploring Maimonides’ writings, Islamic law, and texts from the famed Cairo Geniza, we will see how Rambam developed legal tools that enabled Jewish courts to lead their communities. Learn more and register Course fee $100 (finances should never…
Find out more »Of A Certain Age: Fall Luncheon
Join us for our upcoming fall luncheon with Of A Certain Age (65+)! Please RSVP here to help our planning. Hope to see you all back this season.
Find out more »Ansche Chesed Book Group
Join our in-person book group for literary conversation rooted in Jewish themes and storytelling. We meet in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel at Ansche Chesed (251 W. 100th St.). We’ll rotate facilitators (voluntary), and our discussions will be warm, thoughtful, and welcoming. All are welcome—members and non-members alike. Learn more and RSVP We will meet on the following Wednesdays. NOTE UPDATED BOOK SELECTIONS: 📅 October 21 📖 Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussman 📅 December 2 📖 An Odyssey: A Father, a…
Find out more »Wednesday Night Talmud with Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky
Our Talmud class will celebrate our 25th anniversary this year, our Silver Jubilee! Please join us -- in person or via Zoom -- to study the 4th chapter of Berakhot, about prayer. This year, we will also bring material from the "other" Talmud, from the Land of Israel, and hope to enjoy seeing where the two works are converge or diverge. Learn more and RSVP
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Shirei Chesed Community Chorus
Shirei Chesed Community Chorus continues to build community through learning a rich and diverse repertoire of Jewish music, and bring harmony into the world that needs it more than ever. Our 4-part chorus brings together lovers of choral singing from both Ansche Chesed and the wider Jewish community. Our recent performances include classical programs with The Bachanalia String Orchestra, a jazz concert with The Afro-Semitic Experience ensemble, Oratorio Souls on Fire based on the book by Elie Wiesel, a celebration…
Find out more »Rabbi Jules Harlow Parshat HaShavuah Class
Join us for our weekly Parashat HaShavua class before the start of Shabbat morning services in the Chapel. Come at 8:45am for hot coffee and a chance to schmooze before the 9am class. This weekly class is dedicated to Rabbi Jules Harlow, a great teacher of Torah and Jewish liturgy. Click here for the Source Sheet (updated Friday afternoons). Also available by Zoom.
Find out more »Alan Mintz Memorial Study Session
Join Minyan M'at for the annual Zoom teaching session in memory of our dear friend Alan Mintz, z”l. Alan was the Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature at JTS and a longtime member of Ansche Chesed and Minyan M’at. This session commemorates Alan’s 9th yahrzeit. The venerable Jewish community of Buczacz in Galicia became Alan Mintz’s adoptive home, and one of his proudest achievements was commissioning this multidimensional map for his book Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon…
Find out more »Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews
Julie Benko, star of Harmony and Funny Girl on Broadway, and the GRAMMY-nominated Western Wind Vocal Ensemble are joined by Cantor Natasha Hirschhorn, guest instrumentalists and The Shirei Chesed Community Choir. The narration by Jane Mushabac is dedicated to her grandmother, Djoya Mushabac (1877-1958), from the Dardanelles in Turkey. Djoya, portrayed by Julie Benko, introduces 25 exquisite Ladino songs that colorfully depict the Sephardic life that flourished in Turkey after the expulsion from Spain in 1492. Learn more and buy…
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