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September 2018
New Year / New You
"Create for me a pure heart, renew a steady breath within me." - Psalm 51 Join Rabbi Yael & NuYu Revolution Teachers for an Ansche Chesed New Year/New You Wellness Experience! As we begin the new year 5779, breathe, move, and connect with your body. BEGINNER YOGA * INTERMEDIATE YOGA * POSTURE CYCLE® Advance registration is required EMAIL: SUSAN@NUYUREVOLUTION.COM CALL: (212) 663-1114 COST: $20 (+ TAX) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE: RABBIYAEL@ANSCHECHESED.ORG
Find out more »CSA: Learn (or Re-learn) the Ancient Art of Pickling in Brine
Nowadays, probiotic foods like salt brine pickles are recognized as wonderful for the health, but long before that they were a means of food preservation and culinary enjoyment. Come and learn how to pickle virtually anything at home, using only salt brine. You can't buy these at the grocery store! Free pickling demo RSVP to Juliadharrington@gmail.com.
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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…
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