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June 2022
Weekday Morning Minyan
Anyone who has ever visited Ansche Chesed’s morning minyan will tell you that it is something very special. Meeting in the chapel on the ground floor (currently on Zoom and in the Sanctuary on Sundays and National Holidays due to COVID), the minyan brings together all segments of Ansche Chesed’s diverse community. They gather to say Kaddish for loved ones, to comfort others in mourning, to celebrate simchahs (joyous occasions) and to ground themselves before starting their day. The service is…
Find out more »Alan Mintz Memorial Study Session with Minyan M’at
Join Minyan M'at for the fifth annual Alan Mintz Memorial study session. We are delighted that our teacher for this session will be Alan’s former colleague in the Jewish Literature department of JTS, Professor Emeritus Ray Scheindlin, one of the world’s great scholars in the field of Medieval Hebrew Literature. You may know his translations of those Hebrew poems in two books, The Gazelle; and Wine, Women, and Death. JOIN US VIA ZOOM
Find out more »Weekday Morning Minyan
Anyone who has ever visited Ansche Chesed’s morning minyan will tell you that it is something very special. Meeting in the chapel on the ground floor (currently on Zoom and in the Sanctuary on Sundays and National Holidays due to COVID), the minyan brings together all segments of Ansche Chesed’s diverse community. They gather to say Kaddish for loved ones, to comfort others in mourning, to celebrate simchahs (joyous occasions) and to ground themselves before starting their day. The service is…
Find out more »Pride Shabbat
Join us for a special Kabbalat Shabbat service, in celebration of Pride Month. We will highlight the music of LGBTQ Jewish composers throughout the service, and we will also welcome a representative from the Trinity Place Shelter, a nearby shelter based at Trinity Lutheran Church, on 100th Street. The mission of Trinity Place Shelter is to help homeless LGBTQ* youth and young adults to safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive, and productive adults. We will learn about the shelter,…
Find out more »Rabbi Jules Harlow Parshat HaShavua Class
Join us on Zoom at 8:45am to study the weekly reading, enriched by Jewish interpretations through the ages. With the recent uptick in Covid cases, the class will be held entirely virtually. As usual, the weekly source sheet will be available here. Click here for the Source Sheet for this week's class (updated on Friday afternoon) JOIN US VIA ZOOM Meeting ID: 875 1782 0145 Passcode: Shabbat
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Sanctuary Service
The Sanctuary Service follows the traditional Conservative liturgy. We read the Torah on the annual cycle, completing the entire Torah each year.
Find out more »Minyan M’at
Minyan M’at is an independent, traditional, egalitarian community within Ansche Chesed. Now more than 30 years old, our group of over 150 households comes together to daven (pray), to learn, to celebrate and to sustain each other.
Find out more »Mivtza Ukraine
The ongoing war in Ukraine concerns us all. We are in close contact with our Masorti/Conservative communities in Kyiv, Chernivtsi, Odessa, Kharkov and Dnipro – who are spending unimaginable nights in bomb shelters and are trying to find refuge in the west of Ukraine and in other countries. We stand with our sisters and brothers and all those in Ukraine under attack during this distressing time and pray for their safety. But with the crisis worsening with each passing day,…
Find out more »Rooftop Picnic for Minyan Rimonim and TeleTefila
Potluck dairy, following AC kashrut rules. Current forecast predicts no rain on Sunday; in the event of rain, this will be rescheduled.
Find out more »Annual Membership Meeting 2022
Please join us at the Annual Membership Meeting of Congregation Ansche Chesed on Sunday, June 26th at 5:30pm. Because of continuing public health risks and construction in the building, the annual meeting will be conducted electronically again this year. (Legislation signed by Governor Hochul allows religious institutions to hold meetings virtually.) All members in good standing of the congregation are encouraged to join this meeting. The Nominating Committee will be proposing the election of officers and trustees identified in the…
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