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January 2020
Hearing Women’s Voices From the Shoah
Beginning with a performance of an excerpt of the play, Etty, adapted from the diaries of Dutch writer, Etty Hillesum and a look together at excerpts from Hillesum's and other testimonies, we can begin to uncover what women experienced under German occupation. Join us to think about how gender, age and family context shaped women's lives in flight, ghettos, concentration and death camps and in hiding. Our conversation will include talking about the process of performing Etty before so many…
Find out more »“Leil” Shira: An Afternoon Of Israeli Song
Join Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz and Eric Fishman, family, and friends for a warm and joyous musical get together to sing through as many beloved Israeli songs as we can! With Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn and the members of Shirei Chesed Community Chorus (funded by the generous support of the Rabbi Gershon Schwartz Memorial Fund). Light refreshments will be served.
Find out more »“Leil” Shira: An Afternoon Of Israeli Song
Join Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz and Eric Fishman, family, and friends for a warm and joyous musical get together to sing through as many beloved Israeli songs as we can! With Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn and the members of Shirei Chesed Community Chorus (funded by the generous support of the Rabbi Gershon Schwartz Memorial Fund). Light refreshments will be served.
Find out more »February 2020
Havdalah Service and Sandwich-Making
Adults and children will gather to celebrate the conclusion of Shabbat and then continue our time together making sandwiches and packing up snacks for a local soup kitchen. This program takes place at Ansche Chesed, 5th floor.
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Shabbat in Love and Harmony – Annual Dinner with Zemirot
This Friday night, coinciding with the secular holiday celebrating romantic love, we will sing many of the love songs our tradition associates with the welcoming of Shabbat. Join Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn in spirited congregational singing of the beloved Friday night service melodies enhanced by the rich harmonies provided by the Shirei Chesed Community Chorus at Ansche Chesed. Stay for dinner with friends and raise the roof with soulful and rousing sounds of Zemirot and Niggunim, celebrating love and Shabbat! With sufficient registration of…
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Shabbat in Love and Harmony – Annual Dinner with Zemirot
This Friday night, coinciding with the secular holiday celebrating romantic love, we will sing many of the love songs our tradition associates with the welcoming of Shabbat. Join Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn in spirited congregational singing of the beloved Friday night service melodies enhanced by the rich harmonies provided by the Shirei Chesed Community Chorus at Ansche Chesed. Stay for dinner with friends and raise the roof with soulful and rousing sounds of Zemirot and Niggunim, celebrating love and Shabbat! With…
Find out more »Season of Mussar with Rabbi Judith Edelstein
This February - April, Ansche Chesed member Rabbi Judith Edelstein will lead a 13 week (seven session) Mussar course, following up on A Taste of Mussar. The class will meet every other week; individual meetings occur on off weeks. Mussar is a thousand-year-old body of teachings and practices that provide Jewish answers to the questions we all ask about life and struggle with. Mussar guides you in identifying your unique, personal path of spiritual growth and offers practices to assist you develop…
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The Accidental Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
As part of our weekend focusing on the American Jewish Theater experience, join us for Shabbat Dinner and to hear from Ansche Chesed member, and Senior Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Alyssa Quint for a talk entitled "The Accidental Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater". As the history books tell us, the modern Yiddish theater was founded in Iasi Romania in 1876 by Avrom Goldfaden who drew on an energetic tradition of shtetl-bound folk performance. Indeed, this narrative…
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The Ancient Law: A Cine-Concert, with Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin
As part of our weekend focusing on the American Jewish Theater experience, please join us for The Ancient Law: A Cine-Concert, with Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin With an original live score composed and performed by renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and silent film music legend, pianist Donald Sosin. Director E.A. DuPont’s 1923 silent film, The Ancient Law (Das Alte Gesetz) is about a rabbi’s son who runs away to become an actor and is disowned by his father. Digitally restored in 2017, it paints…
Find out more »March 2020
Anchors of Identity: A Sculptor’s Search for Jewish Russian and Artistic Tradition
Join figurative sculptor James Sondow as he explores his current exhibition, which employs biblical narrative to allegorize his journey from the upper West Side to his ancestral roots in Russia. As the first American sculptor to graduate from Russia’s oldest art Institute, he describes finding refuge in Jewish community through the rigors of culture shock and his decade of academic training. With slides of his work portraying transformative moments of biblical matriarchs and patriarchs reconnecting to their essential ancestral lineage,…
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