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March 2021
Community Shabbat Dinner in YOUR Home
Of the many things that we miss since the onset of the pandemic has been Ansche Chesed Shabbat Dinners. They have always been an opportunity to pray together, to celebrate Shabbat together, to eat together, to learn together… to be together. While we still can not come together in person, we can still enjoy Shabbat as a community. We invite you to join us for an instrumental Kabbalat Shabbat beginning at 6:15pm, and Maariv beginning at 6:40pm, have a shared catered…
Find out more »Family Memoir Workshop: The Holiday Meal
Nothing says family like food. But how do you tell your family’s story when there are so many meals to choose from? The Family Memoir Workshop invites you and your family—wherever they are—to join us for a virtual class as we discover new ways to put our stories on the page. Within family clusters, you’ll decide on a shared holiday meal—Passover, Hanukkah, the break-fast following Yom Kippur—and then each of you will write it from your own individual perspective. Sharing…
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The Four Children: The Superhero, The Supervillain, The Mentor and the Sidekick
Get ready for Passover with Batman editor and Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel creator Gorf's zoom presentation: "The Four Sons: The Superhero, the Supervillain, the Mentor and the Sidekick" — a SUPER 1-hour interactive session using "Marvel-ous” clips and art, and popular culture icons, for revealing multiple layers of the classic parable. It's fun, insightful, unique and engaging. Watch the teaser trailer video here! Registration requested, Zoom-in's welcome! JOIN VIA ZOOM Meeting ID: 821 7548 6081
Find out more »A Sweet and Kosher Pesach for 2021 With Rabbi Kalmanofsky
At least we can say: This year is better than the last! Are you ready for Covid Pesach, Round 2? Join us to reflect on Passover's musts and maybes, to ask Halakhic and aesthetic questions about shopping, cleaning, cooking and planning seders under another year of sub-optimal conditions. Among other topics, we consider the traditions of "telling the tale of the Exodus." What are the basics and the extras? If you'd like, send questions in advance to rjk@AnscheChesed.org. JOIN US VIA…
Find out more »Zoom Siyyum with Rabbi Kalmanofsky
On Thursday, March 25, please join Rabbi Kalmanofsky after morning minyan to conclude Tractate Makkot and participate in a virtual Siyyum for the Fast of the First Born. JOIN VIA ZOOM
Find out more »Second Night Seder
The most overused word of 2020 was “unprecedented.” For 2021, those words may be “once again.” As in, “once again,” in a time of isolation from friends and families, Jews need to share Pesach, the annual celebration reaffirming our covenantal bonds to each other. As in, “once again” we wish we could hold a public 2d night Seder in person, but “once again” we will join electronically, in a Zoom-based gathering. With AC’s members and clergy, we tell the story…
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Supporting Women’s Leadership: An Ansche Chesed Salon with Ambassador Meryl Frank
In honor of Women’s History Month, please join us in hearing from Ansche Chesed member Ambassador Meryl Frank (ret), as she shares the important work that she is doing throughout the Middle East and third world countries, to support women’s leadership and political participation. Meryl Frank was appointed as the United States Representative, and subsequently, as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Frank is currently…
Find out more »April 2021
Non-Orthodox Conversion in Israel
Join Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky for a roundtable discussion on the Recent Israeli Supreme Court Decision on non-Orthodox conversion, and the legal status of non-Orthodox streams in Israel. The conversation will include the legal perspective, the religious perspective as well as the personal perspective. Joining Rabbi Kalmanofsky for this program will be: Rabbi Peretz Rodman serves as head of the rabbinical court (av bet din) of the Masorti (Conservative) rabbinate in Israel. A graduate of Brandeis University and Boston’s Hebrew College, he was…
Find out more »Yom Hazikaron/Yom Ha’atzmaut Sing Along
Tonight the State of Israel ushers in Yom HaZikaron, remembering its fallen heroes. Join Cantor Hirschhorn and Shirei Chesed singers for a zoom Sing Along to mark it with some of the most poignant and beloved Israeli songs. We will also include old and new favorites to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, as we add our voices in contemplation of the miracle of Israel's existence and love for our Jewish homeland. JOIN VIA ZOOM Meeting ID: 9830 7068 203 Passcode:…
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The Marshall Project: Educating On Criminal Justice with Susan Chira
Join us as we invite Ansche Chesed member Susan Chira to speak about her work leading The Marshall Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. The Marshall Project, is a journalism organization and does not advocate positions or policy prescriptions, but rather seeks to expose the systemic discrimination that distorts the criminal justice system. It does so by writing with care, fairness, and humanity…
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