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February 2019
Game On!
Join us for the inaugural Ansche Chesed game night! An evening of games, snacks, and friendly (or fierce!) competition. Board games, card games, bring your own, or try something new. Challenge your old friends, make some new friends, and let the games begin! Starting at 8pm in Upper Hirsch Hall, we’ll have food and a variety of games, from Rummy to Catan and everything in between. We’ll close the night out with Bingo and surprise prizes. We’ll have plenty of…
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“Yes You Can” Workshops for Jewish Living
El Baruch Ne'imot Yiteinu: Offering Sweet Song to the Source of Blessing
Join Hazzan Natasha J. Hirschhorn for a hands-on workshop discussing effective strategies for leading the community in prayer, and practice applying them in a small nurturing environment. This session will focus on the section of Shacharit from Nishmat Kol Chai to poem El Adon.
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Levana: A Rosh Chodesh Group for Women
We hope you can join us for the next Levana, a women's Rosh Chodesh social group at Ansche Chesed. Come for conversation, a glass of wine and a bite to eat. Bring your old friends or make some new ones. Open to AC members and non-members at any age and stage.
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Celebrating Women’s Voices: Zemirot and Niggunim Service and Dinner
Help mark International Women's Day by celebrating musical contributions by Jewish women composers. From early 20th century first women cantors, to historic contributions by the late Debbie Friedman, z’l, to today's many talented and prolific cantors, rabbis, and songwriters, let their songs and stories move and inspire you!
Join us for a spirited and joyous service, and stay for dinner with friends with soulful and rousing sounds of Zemirot and Niggunim.
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Launch of the Rav Chesed Campaign
Celebrate with us when we kick off the Rav Chesed Campaign. Named for our community’s abundant kindness (חסד רב / rav chesed), the campaign will let us open up and update our historic building. We will create the spaces we need to continue our remarkable growth and build an even stronger community.
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Purim Eve: The Greatest Show in Shushan
Including children's costume parade, interactive Purim sing-along! Fun for the whole family.
Featuring: Circus performers from The Muse Brooklyn! Jugglers, acrobats, and contortionists will dramatize scenes from the Purim story!
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Seudah Shelishit with Fania Oz: Jews and Words
“In Jews and Words, my father and I wrote that ‘Ours is not a bloodline but a text line.’ My father has left us, but his texts run in my veins. In this talk I will try to speak for him, for myself, and for our proposed way of looking at Jewish continuity and its all-human legacy." - Fania Oz-Salzberger Join us for a conversation and seudah shelishit with Fania Oz-Salzberger, author, historian, Director of Paideia, and daughter of Amos Oz, as…
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