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This year we may be physically apart, but we still have the power to bring light and joy into each others’ homes and hearts. Fry up some latkes, set your menorah by the computer and bring a musical instrument to play along, if you like. Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn, Shirei Chesed Community Chorus singers and special musical guests, JTS Cantorial students Ingrid Barnett and Josh Ehrlich, and our cantorial intern Daniella Risman, invite you for a rousing Chanukah sing-along from around the world.…

Jews celebrate Chanukah by remembering how our ancient predecessors restored the “Bayit,” literally “the house.” While that phrase refers to restoring the Jerusalem Temple, perhaps we modern Jews can hear on our holiday a call to dedicate ordinary homes as well. Please join Ansche Chesed and All Angels Episcopal Church for Habitat for Humanity-NYC's Building on Faith Holiday Webinar. We will share the holiday season with our Christian neighbors with an interfaith discussion of affordable housing in New York and…

Our Talmud class will shift gears this week, to cover the law and lore of filling the dark winter night with light. Candle Lighting included! JOIN VIA ZOOM Meeting ID: 872 9427 4347 Passcode: bavakamma

Let’s brighten up the Upper West Side as a community! We will gather together (masked and socially distanced, of course) on the steps of AC on West End Avenue between 100th and 101st for a communal Hanukkah candle lighting. The early bird gets the latke! 

The Greek general Alexander’s conquest of the Near East in the 4th century B.C.E. introduced Jews to Greeks, and Greeks to Jews. It was sometimes an uneasy and violent political confrontation (think of Judah Maccabeus and the story of Hanukah), but it just as often gave rise to a cultural interaction that forever changed the subsequent history of Jewish engagement with the intellectual traditions of the Greek world. The Jews living in Greek-ruled Palestine may have been waiting for the…