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August 2023
Meditative Kabbalat Shabbat
Please join us for a contemplative service of welcoming Shabbat as we mark Rosh Chodesh Elul and begin the season of introspection and preparation for the Days of Awe - with master meditation teachers Sheila and Sheldon Lewis.
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Confession, Repentance, and the High Holidays
To American Jewish ears, confession can sound so .... Catholic. And yet, in Jewish law and spirituality, the practice of confessing your sins, or vidui, is indispensable to the process of personal change. Join Rabbi Kalmanofsky to explore the Yom Kippur confession liturgy and the themes it reflects. What experiences might confession awaken in us? How can it help us make teshuva, and turn towards becoming our best selves?
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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 »Minyan M’at Welcome Back Shabbat Lunch
Join Minyan M'at for a special Welcome Back Shabbat and lunch! The main dish will be supplied; remainder is pot luck. Please register by Wednesday, September 6.
Find out more »Selichot Program: A City of Migrants: Today and After WWII
Following the Shoah, New York City absorbed more than 140,000 survivors, including some who would become our own family and friends. In the last year, some 90,000 Latin American migrants have poured into New York, with some 50,000 still in temporary shelters. Like the refugees 75 years ago, today's asylum seekers are lodged in hotels and empty offices, verifying Mark Twain's famous observation: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." Journalist Andrew Silverstein wrote a compelling story this month in The Forward…
Find out more »Selichot Service
Please join Rabbi Kalmanofsky and Hazzan Hirschhorn, along with our long-time friends, AC member Mike Cohen on woodwinds and percussionist Ronen Itzik, as we implore God to לשמוע אל הרינה ואל התפילה , “hear our prayer and praise,” and help us ready ourselves for this season of teshuva. Come before the service for our Selichot Program: A City of Migrants - Today and After WWII
Find out more »Reverse Tashlich
Each year during Tashlich, we cast our "sins" into the Hudson River. Join us this year for the "6th Annual Reverse Tashlich," where we will do the opposite and remove debris from the Hudson River Greenway, along Riverside Park -- our own local shore line. Organized by Tikkun HaYam / Repair The Sea, Reverse Tashlich is an international initiative to raise awareness in the Jewish Community about threats facing the ocean and the aquatic environment, and our responsibility as Jews to be…
Find out more »Movie Night with AC: “Golda” at Look Cinemas
One thing members have requested from us is that we have more social programming, just for fun and connection. And thanks to one of our teenage members -- Ziv Gedzelman -- that opportunity is here. Please join AC for a special screening of the new film Golda, starring Helen Mirren, portraying Israel's leader during the Yom Kippur War at Look Cinemas (where Ziv has an internship), this coming Sunday. Look is located on 57th Street where it meets the West…
Find out more »Highlights from the Musical Machzor
Join Hazzan Hirschhorn for an evening of singing some of the greatest melodies from the upcoming High Holiday season and exploring the deeper meaning behind the ancient texts that inspired the music.
Find out more »Minyan M’at First Day Rosh HaShanah Service
Join Minyan M’at for their Rosh HaShanah Services. Note: attendance at this service requires tickets, arranged with the office in advance. Learn more about Minyan M'at
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