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September 2018
Annual Sukkah Dinner & Sing Along
If you love music, but are not ready for a weekly commitment, bring more melodies and harmonies to your holiday celebration by joining Hazzan Hirschhorn and Shirei Chesed for Sing Along event during Sukkot. Partake in a festive meal on our rooftop Sukkah, bring your family, a friend or two, and a dairy or pareve dish to share. We will pick the most beautiful and fun Jewish folk songs from Israel and beyond to sing the night away!
Find out more »October 2018
CSA Demo with Food Writer Leah Koenig
Free, live cooking demonstration by food writer Leah Koenig (author of 4 cookbooks including Modern Jewish Cooking and the Little Book of Jewish Feasts). Leah will prepare autumn inspired borscht crostini, and will be available to sell and sign copies of her cookbooks. RSVP to juliadharrington@gmail.com
Find out more »Riverside Park Clean-Up
Come out and see friends and make new ones as we take care of this valuable part of our park. Everyone welcome. Children under age 10 must be closely supervised. We will be working in an area near the synagogue. A wonderful opportunity to come out and enjoy a beautiful autumn day with other members of the AC community and help us take care of our larger community! Meeting at 105 Dog Run, circa 105th inside Riverside Park This event will be…
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Refugee Shabbat: Shabbat Dinner
We join synagogues across America to focus our attention on the current refugee crisis through the commemoration of Refugee Shabbat. Our plans for this Shabbat will be multi-generational, including programming for those of Hebrew School age, adults, and families. Our programming includes Iraqi Refugee Ahmed Badr at Shabbat dinner, reading groups, arts, community service projects, and multi-faith programming. Please plan to join us for these Shabbat activities to give appropriate focus to this important issue.
Find out more »Tween Book Club: “Refugee”
Kids in Grades 5 through 8 are invited to our “AC Tween Book Club” to discuss the award-winning book “Refugee” by Alan Gratz, facilitated by Rabbi Yael and Sheila Lewis. What does a Jewish boy fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939, a Cuban girl on a raft bound for America in 1994, and a Syrian boy traveling to Germany in recent time, have in common? Join us to find out what became of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud in their intertwining stories, and to discuss what YOU…
Find out more »National Refugee Shabbat Interfaith Havdallah
Several Churches in our neighborhood provide sanctuary to people facing immediate deportation. As part of Refugee Shabbat, Upper West Side members of the Synagogue Coalition for the Refugee and Immigration Crisisare joining to host an Interfaith Havdalah to support these efforts. As we celebrate the beginning of a new week and focus on the work needed in our community, we'll join with our neighbors to assist a woman and her daughter for whom St Paul & St Andrew provide sanctuary. We'll hear from Mark Hetfield, the President…
Find out more »First Friends: Into Action!
First Friends of New Jersey and New York provides visitors and other support within immigration detention centers, helps detainees who have been released, and advocates for a more just immigration system. In this program you will learn about the operation of the largely for-profit detention system and what you can do to assist immigrants in detention. Several AC members visit detained immigrants with First Friends and have found this a deeply meaningful way to “welcome the stranger.” Learn about the…
Find out more »Free Housewares Share ‘N “Shop”
9am to 1pm: Donate clean, used housewares in good condition Housewares only (cooking equipment, serving items, tableware, linens and towels, vases, bric-a-brac, artwork, toys, etc) NO BOOKS AND NO CLOTHING Ansche Chesed reserves the right to refuse any item. Any items left at 2 pm will be recycled or thrown away at the discretion of Ansche Chesed. 1oam to 2pm: Take any housewares you want for FREE Anyone can take something. You do NOT need to bring something to take…
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