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July 2022
Kabbalat Shabbat
Join us as we begin Shabbat with our traditional Kabbalat Shabbat and maariv service. Please join the Ansche Chesed clergy to reconnect with our community as well as find nourishment and inspiration in the music and words of our tradition. Kabbalat Shabbat services will be held in-person in the Chapel.
Find out more »Scribblers on the Roof: “What Jonah Knew” and “Atomic Anna”
What Jonah Knew Atomic Anna Barbara Graham Rachel Barenbaum After two years on Zoom, Scribblers is back in-person on AC's Roof! Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase. This week we welcome Barbara Graham, author of What Jonah Knew, and Rachel Barenbaum, author of Atomic Anna. Click here to view the other Scribblers…
Find out more »Kabbalat Shabbat Live!
Praise God with string instruments, praise God with your breath! On Friday, July 22nd you can do just that if you join Cantor Hirschhorn on the AC Roof, along with AC's musicians, to welcome Shabbat with our traditional Kabbalat Shabbat and maariv service.
Find out more »Scribblers on the Roof: “Maybe It’s Me” and “Fear and Other Stories”
Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman Fear and Other Stories Eileen Pollack Anita Norich tr. After two years on Zoom, Scribblers is back in-person on AC's Roof! Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase. This week we welcome Eileen Pollack, author of Maybe It's Me, and Anita Norich, translator…
Find out more »August 2022
Scribblers on the Roof: “Aunt Bird” and “The Lost Expert”
Aunt Bird The Lost Expert Yerra Sugarman Hal Niedzviecki After two years on Zoom, Scribblers is back in-person on AC's Roof! Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase. This week we welcome Yerra Sugarman, author of Aunt Bird, and Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Lost Expert. Click here to view the other Scribblers…
Find out more »Tisha B’Av at TeleTefila
Evening service with chanting of Eicha (Book of Lamentations) and Kinot (dirges). Click here to join.
Find out more »Tisha B’Av: Learning Session
Ritual Innocence and Moral Guilt: Join Rabbi Kalmanofsky to discuss rabbinic sources attributing the destruction of the Temple to failures of interpersonal ethics -- and pointing the way forward through commandments of kindness.
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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 »Women of the Wall at AC
For more than 30 years, Women of the Wall (Neshot HaKotel) have met for monthly morning prayers and Torah reading at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, usually on Rosh Hodesh morning. (I myself attended the very first one, in 1989 - a particularly moving experience.) Despite their legal right to do so - as affirmed by the Israeli courts - the Women of the Wall and their supporters are usually set upon by scores of Orthodox opponents, often with verbal…
Find out more »Rooftop Picnic Hosted by Minyan Rimonim and TeleTefila
Potluck dairy, following AC kashrut rules. In the event of inclement weather, the picnic will be held on Zoom.
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