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February 2018
Lunch and Schmooze
Rethinking Lunch and Learns at Ansche Chesed. Join Ansche Chesed’s Darone Ruskay and DOROT’s Yael Kornfeld for an open conversation about the kinds of daytime programming (Lunch and Learns, outings, films, and class topics) that YOU want in our community. Bring your lunch and ideas. Learn about the work DOROT does, and the ways that you can support it, and it can support you; and spend a few hours with your community noshing and schmoozing.
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Shabbat Dinner with Zemirot
Join Cantor Natasha J. Hirschhorn for a spirited and joyous evening of welcoming Shabbat. Stay for dinner with friends and fellow lovers of singing and raise the roof with soulful and rousing sounds of Zemirot and Nigunim! Gym will be open for supervised play!
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In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire with author Peter Hellman
After bursting onto the scene in 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething from Indonesia, quickly became the leading purveyor of rare wines to the American elite. But in April 2008, his lots of Domaine Ponsot Clos Saint-Denis red burgundy - dating as far back as 1945 - were abruptly pulled from auction. The problem? The winemaker was certain that this particular burgundy was first produced only in 1982. Journalist Peter Hellman would closely investigate, as a singular cast of characters…
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Teen Class
High School students are welcome to join the bi-weekly Tuesday class with Rabbi Kalmanofsky and Sam Hollander. Spring Semester: The Jewish People, America, Zionism, and Judaism How is Judaism like a religion, comparable to Christianity and Islam? How is it like a nation, comparable to France or Japan? For us American Jews, what is our connection to the modern state of Israel and to an ancestral homeland? Pizza will be served. Click here to register. For more info contact Sam.
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Mahloket Leshem Shamayim: Sacred Art of Disagreeing, with Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Join us for Shabbat Dinner as we welcome Rabbi Amy Eilberg (the first woman ordained as a Conservative Rabbi by The Jewish Theological Seminary) as our scholar in residence. Rabbi Eilberg will discuss Mahloket Leshem Shamayim, the Sacred Art of Disagreeing.
Find out more »Mahloket Leshem Shamayim: Sacred Art of Disagreeing, with Rabbi Amy Eilberg Potluck Lunch
Join us for a potluck Shabbat lunch after davening to welcome our Scholar In Residence Rabbi Amy Eilberg, (the first woman ordained as a Conservative Rabbi by The Jewish Theological Seminary) as our scholar in residence. Rabbi Eilberg will discuss Mahloket Leshem Shamayim, the Sacred Art of Disagreeing. This is a potluck meal, so we invite you to bring food according to the following schedule: If your last name begins with A through D, please bring a salad. If your last…
Find out more »Passover Package Delivery with DOROT
Brighten the day of a senior! Share the joy and warmth of Passover with an elder by delivering a package of traditional holiday foods and visiting for about an hour. Join others from Ansche Chesed for this important and rewarding mitzvah. We'll meet as a group for an orientation and then break up into pairs or families for our visits. A number of us participated in the previous package delivery and found it an easy and meaningful way to support…
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Konstanty Gebert: How Political Developments in Poland are Impacting the Jewish Community Today
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s Cabinet approved a bill which would criminalize the use of the phrase “Polish death camps” in reference to Nazi-run extermination camps in occupied Poland. Come here Konstanty Gebert speak about how this law, and other developments, are impacting the Jewish community in Poland. Gebert is co-founder of the (unofficial) Jewish Flying University, 1979 and, in September 1980 in Warsaw, of an independent white-collar trade union that soon merged with Solidarność. After avoiding interment in…
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