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November 2025
After the Nightmare: American Jews and Israel Since October 7
Since the Hamas invasion and everything that came with it -- the murders, the hostages, the devastation for Gazans, the surge in anti-Zionism around the world -- many in our community struggle to understand where we go from here. Please join Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky and Rachel Jacoby Rosenfeld, Chief Executive Officer of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, as they engage with each other and with us on being American Jews today and our relationship to Am Israel and the nation state…
Find out more »December 2025
The Bridge Blueprint: Basics, Strategy and Fun — How to Play the World’s Most Popular Team Card Game
Bridge is a partnership game that can bolster your memory, inferential and deductive reasoning and social cognition. Played by hundreds of thousands at the tournament level and tens of millions at the social level, Bridge can provide a lifetime of enjoyment, challenge and healthy gray matter. AC member Dan Small will teach you the rules, objectives and basic strategies to allow you to start playing and highlight on-line, print and in-person materials and venues that can help you refine your…
Find out more »Intergenerational Mitzvah Knitting Group
Knitters needed! Please join our intergenerational AC Mitzvah Knitting Group. Bubbies, bring your grandkids; kids - bring your parents.
Find out more »AC Teen Chanukah Party
Happy Chanukah! Together, we will play dreidel with plenty of gelt, play games, make candy menorahs, and more. We hope to see you there! RSVP to Aliza Sebert at ASebert@anschechesed.org.
Find out more »Of A Certain Age: Chanukah Sing-Along with Latkes
Join us for our next Of A Certain Age lunch: We will have out very own Jeff Segall provide a music selection to help celebrate Chanukah with a sing-along! RSVP to help our planning
Find out more »Young Professionals: 20s & 30s Chanukah Happy Hour
AC's young professionals will join Reshet Ramah Ba'Ir (20s and 30s alumni and friends), USY Alumni, YALA, and JTS Alumni for a night of latkes, drinks, sufganiyot (jelly donuts), music, and fun as we get excited for Chanukah! Co-sponsored by Ansche Chesed. Learn more and register
Find out more »Glow in the Dark Family Chanukah Party
Let’s light up the night with a Glow in the Dark Chanukah Party! Experience the GLOW during a communal Chanukah candle lighting. Eat, sing and ‘glow in the dark’ activities! For families with kids of all ages. Latkes will be served. In partnership with Camp Ramah. Register Registration preferred, walk-ins welcome. $10 per kid, free for parents.
Find out more »Lights and Love at AC: Chanukah Celebration!
Join your AC friends of all ages in celebrating Chanukah with light, song, and joy on the last night of Chanukah! We will light candles together, sing, nosh, play games, and enjoy. There will be tables to play dreidel, poker, bridge and any other game you may want to bring and share. If you'd like, bring your menorah to light! Register
Find out more »January 2026
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 »Learner’s Minyan
The more comfortable you feel in synagogue, the more comforted you can feel in synagogue. Our rabbis and JTS interns -- Rabbi Hammerman, Rabbi Kalmanofsky, Toby Banks and Abigail Goldberg-Zelizer -- will rotate as leaders. You will become more familiar with the literary, spiritual, and musical highlights of the Saturday morning service. After the 45-minute sessions, we will rejoin the wider community in the Sanctuary. 9 Shabbat morning sessions, January 10 - March 7. RSVP here, walk-ins welcome!
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