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January 2019
Levana: A Rosh Chodesh Group for Women
What do women want? Space for conversation. Time to learn about and from each other. Friends to celebrate our blessings and support us through our challenges. Join us as we create a new group for women at Ansche Chesed, called "Levana" - which is a Hebrew word meaning "moon." Meetings will be member-led and supported by our female clergy. We will focus on issues of interest to the group, 4 - 6 times this year. At the first meeting we will…
Find out more »Tween Book Club: “The War Within”
Tweens in Grades 4 through 7 are invited to our “AC Tween Book Club” to discuss the book “The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War," by Carol Matas, facilitated by Sheila Lewis and Youth Director, Deena Cowans.
What if you and a close relative, even a sister, held strong but different political opinions that threatened to tear you apart? …It’s not taking place in 2019, but in 1862, when two sisters, Hannah and Joanna Green of Mississippi, disagree on the issue of slavery. As Southern Jews, the family is misplaced because of their religion. How do their arguments connect to Jewish values? How is this question relevant to Jews today?
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Lost & Found Exhibit at the Center for Jewish History
Join an Ansche Chesed group, led by member David Roskies, whose family photos were found in creating this exhibit.
The Lost & Found exhibit at the Center for Jewish History will tell the remarkable story of a family photo album that was owned and assembled in the years leading up to World War II by Anna Warshawska, who was deported in 1943 from the Kovno Ghetto together with most of her family. Prior to her deportation, Anna, more intimately known as Annushka, smuggled the album out of the city’s wartime Jewish ghetto, entrusting it to a non-Jewish Lithuanian family for safekeeping. The album was rediscovered in 2013 and, after some sleuthing and fortuitous discoveries, reunited with the descendants of Warshawska’s family.
Meet at the Center: 15 West 16th St. New York by 11am.
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Tu B’Shvat Pie Baking Demo and Book Signing
Celia Reiss has been a kitchen designer for the part 20 years, she was a textile designer for the previous 20 years, but she has always been a baker. Pie Day is a cookbook memoir about her mother, who taught Celia so much in her short life.
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MLK Day of Service
Ansche Chesed will join thousands of New Yorkers to participate in the annual MLK Day of Service. Get to know other AC members while working together to make a difference in the greater NYC community. Ansche Chesed will be participating in two service projects: Assemble Food Packages for Local Food Pantry From 10-11:30am Ages 8 and up. Our group will join other volunteers at JCC Harlem's food packaging project. We will create shelf-stable food packets in environmentally friendly packaging and…
Find out more »February 2019
Havdalah and Sandwich-Making
Adults and children will gather to celebrate the conclusion of Shabbat and then continue our time together making sandwiches and packing up snacks for a local soup kitchen.
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DOROT’s Winter Package Delivery
DOROT: 171 West 85th Street (East of Amsterdam Avenue) Bring warmth and companionship to an older neighbor with a Sunday morning visit. There will be an orientation for new volunteers is upon arrival, followed by package pick-up, and a home visit assignment. Please contact Lauren Skolnick with any questions. Click here to register.
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Love, Sex, and Relationships Shabbaton: Dinner and Conversation
Our community has no shortage of psychotherapists! Please join us for a conversation with Drs. Esther Altman, Laura Gold, Daniel Oppenheim, and Hadar Schwartz, who will share reflections, based on years of clinical practice, on what people need and want.
Kabbalat Shabbat will begin at 5:30, followed by Shabbat Dinner at 6:30. The program will begin at approximately 7:15.
If enough families register, we will be able to have supervised play in the gym.
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Love, Sex, and Relationships: Shabbat Morning Torah Study
Is the Torah Patriarchal? If so, then What?
The Bible comes from a non-egalitarian society and is filled with accounts – some beautiful, some disturbing – about sex and gender. Please join Rabbi Amy Kalmanofsky, Bible professor from JTS, to study what Jews today do with the canon we’ve inherited.
