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October 2023
Family Simchat Torah Celebration
Join us for a FREE light dairy dinner followed by our annual Torah Unroll, dancing and Hakafot with the rest of the AC Community. Stick around for ice cream and popsicles after the second Hakafa! No RSVP necessary, walk-ins welcome.
Find out more »Erev Simchat Torah Services
Come celebrate the Torah with singing, dancing, and hakafot (circling)! Join us beforehand for ma'ariv at 6:45pm in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel.
Find out more »Simchat Torah Morning Services
The singing and dancing continue as we finish reading the Torah and begin reading it all over again. Join us on the Roof for Sanctuary and Minyan M'at joint services, with each minyan holding its own Torah reading.
Find out more »Standing in Solidarity With Israel
Ansche Chesed joins the Upper West Side Jewish Community, gathering together in prayer and solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Israel. Please join local rabbis and community members for an evening of prayer and song at 7 tonight, October 9 at Ansche Chesed, at the corner of West End Avenue and 100th Street. Doors open at 6 p.m. Please do not bring any bags, to facilitate easy and safe entry. If you cannot make this gathering in person, you can…
Find out more »Wednesday Night Talmud with Rabbi Kalmanofsky
Join us to study tractate Sanhedrin, chapter 4. For those who wish to use the Artscroll Talmud, this is Sanhendrin vol. 1, (or #47 in the whole set). This class is best in person -- so please come! Also available via Zoom (Meeting ID: 837 8598 8052 | Passcode: chesed)
Find out more »Adult Beginning Hebrew Conversation Course
Would you like to learn how to have simple conversations in Hebrew, build your vocabulary of everyday phrases, and learn more about Israeli culture? Please join Nadav Wiesel, an experienced and skilled teacher, for a 10-session course that will enrich your participation in the language of the Jewish people. This class is appropriate for adults who know the alef-bet and have basic reading ability, but have little or no vocabulary. Nadav's study packets will include examples from Israeli media, like TV…
Find out more »Shabbat Shir Chadash
Back by popular demand! Join us to welcome Shabbat with ruach and musical flair as we bring klei zemer into our Friday evening services. “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” - Leonard Bernstein
Find out more »2024 Bnai Mitzvah Families: Project Aliyah Orientation
Join us as we launch this year's B'nai Mitzvah cohort! Spend some time connecting as a family, getting to know other AC B'nai Mitzvah families and hearing more about the B'nai Mitzvah journey at AC. Parents will have the opportunity to meet with Rabbis Jeremy Kalmanofsky and Yael Hammerman and Executive Director Amy Shapiro-Kessler for an overview of the AC B'nai Mitzvah process. B'nai Mitzvah students will also do activities with Education Director Aliza Sebert. Register online!
Find out more »Let’s Have Lunch In Israel
Many of us are focused obsessively on the news and the social media out of Israel. Those channels are great, but mostly they connect us to loud voices. They rarely connect us to our brothers and sisters and their experiences. Please join us for a lunchtime Zoom with Ayala Dekel and Julia Tobias, extraordinary educators at BINA, the Tel Aviv-based Jewish Movement for Social Change, where several Ansche Chesed young people have studied. They are thinkers, teachers and organizers, as…
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Shabbat Dinner and a Show With Rabbi’s Wife and Comedian, Liz Glazer
Need a good laugh? Join us for "Shabbat Dinner and a Show"! Bring your friends, a bottle of wine (or Kedem if you prefer) and leave your political correctness at the door, as we welcome Shabbat and comedian Liz Glazer to AC. Register online by Wednesday, October 25 at noon. Liz Glazer is a Jewish, lesbian comedian, actor, and writer who used to be a tenured law professor, a job she was very funny at. Liz is a recent first…
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