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February 2019
Havdalah 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.
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DOROT’s Winter Package Delivery
DOROT: 171 West 85th Street (East of Amsterdam Avenue) Bring warmth and companionship to an older neighbor with a Sunday morning visit. There will be an orientation for new volunteers is upon arrival, followed by package pick-up, and a home visit assignment. Please contact Lauren Skolnick with any questions. Click here to register.
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Love, Sex, and Relationships Shabbaton: Dinner and Conversation
Our community has no shortage of psychotherapists! Please join us for a conversation with Drs. Esther Altman, Laura Gold, Daniel Oppenheim, and Hadar Schwartz, who will share reflections, based on years of clinical practice, on what people need and want.
Kabbalat Shabbat will begin at 5:30, followed by Shabbat Dinner at 6:30. The program will begin at approximately 7:15.
If enough families register, we will be able to have supervised play in the gym.
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Love, Sex, and Relationships: Shabbat Morning Torah Study
Is the Torah Patriarchal? If so, then What?
The Bible comes from a non-egalitarian society and is filled with accounts – some beautiful, some disturbing – about sex and gender. Please join Rabbi Amy Kalmanofsky, Bible professor from JTS, to study what Jews today do with the canon we’ve inherited.
Love, Sex, and Relationships: Shabbat Potluck Lunch
Jewish Values in Contemporary America
After services, we will break into small group discussions over lunch. Each table will address different issues regarding intimate relationships, including sources drawn from Jewish tradition and the news. High school students will have their own table for their own conversation.
Love, Sex, and Relationships: Havdalah
A Conversation For Young Professionals (20’s & 30’s) at Moishe House UWS about Love, Sex, Relationships and Judaism Havdalah marks the separation between Shabbat and weekdays, between holy and profane. After a spirited Havdalah, we will explore how the idea of havdalah - separation, relates to Jewish thought and practice regarding love, sex and relationships. What is kodesh (holy) and what is chol (mundane) in our intimate relationships?
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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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