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January 2019
Ansche Chesed Winter Dance
Swing Out of the Cold and Onto the Dance Floor: Ansche Chesed Winter Dance 7-8pm Square Dance Calling - beginners welcome! 8-11pm Dance to the music you love - swing, disco, R&B, Motown, salsa, and more! Board games and schmoozing all night. Light refreshments will be served. Beer and wine will be available for purchase. Couples & singles welcome. Advance Tickets: $15/members; $18/nonmembers. $20 cash at the door.
Find out more »Red Cross Babysitting Course
American Red Cross babysitting and child care courses can help your tween or teenager provide quality care to children of all ages.
Developed by experts in the industry, our course is available to
children and teens ages 11-16,
and includes topics such as choosing age-appropriate activities, basic child care, bottle feeding, child behavior, leadership, professionalism, safety, starting a babysitting business, and more.
“Yes You Can” Workshops for Jewish Living
Yes You Can! Participate in Shabbat Morning Services
We are offering two parallel workshops to enhance participation in Shabbat morning services, aimed at different levels of comfort with the service. We will begin all together with nosh at 4pm, and then split into two groups:
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Levana: A Rosh Chodesh Group for Women
What do women want? Space for conversation. Time to learn about and from each other. Friends to celebrate our blessings and support us through our challenges. Join us as we create a new group for women at Ansche Chesed, called "Levana" - which is a Hebrew word meaning "moon." Meetings will be member-led and supported by our female clergy. We will focus on issues of interest to the group, 4 - 6 times this year. At the first meeting we will…
Find out more »Tween Book Club: “The War Within”
Tweens in Grades 4 through 7 are invited to our “AC Tween Book Club” to discuss the book “The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War," by Carol Matas, facilitated by Sheila Lewis and Youth Director, Deena Cowans.
What if you and a close relative, even a sister, held strong but different political opinions that threatened to tear you apart? …It’s not taking place in 2019, but in 1862, when two sisters, Hannah and Joanna Green of Mississippi, disagree on the issue of slavery. As Southern Jews, the family is misplaced because of their religion. How do their arguments connect to Jewish values? How is this question relevant to Jews today?
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Lost & Found Exhibit at the Center for Jewish History
Join an Ansche Chesed group, led by member David Roskies, whose family photos were found in creating this exhibit.
The Lost & Found exhibit at the Center for Jewish History will tell the remarkable story of a family photo album that was owned and assembled in the years leading up to World War II by Anna Warshawska, who was deported in 1943 from the Kovno Ghetto together with most of her family. Prior to her deportation, Anna, more intimately known as Annushka, smuggled the album out of the city’s wartime Jewish ghetto, entrusting it to a non-Jewish Lithuanian family for safekeeping. The album was rediscovered in 2013 and, after some sleuthing and fortuitous discoveries, reunited with the descendants of Warshawska’s family.
Meet at the Center: 15 West 16th St. New York by 11am.
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Blood Drive
There is no substitute for human blood. Your donation can go towards impacting the lives of up to 3 patients! From natural disasters to unforeseen catastrophes, emergency hospital procedures to life-long battles with chronic diseases such as sickle cell, the demand for blood is constant. The supply is not.
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Tu B’Shvat Pie Baking Demo and Book Signing
Celia Reiss has been a kitchen designer for the part 20 years, she was a textile designer for the previous 20 years, but she has always been a baker. Pie Day is a cookbook memoir about her mother, who taught Celia so much in her short life.
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MLK Day of Service
Ansche Chesed will join thousands of New Yorkers to participate in the annual MLK Day of Service. Get to know other AC members while working together to make a difference in the greater NYC community. Ansche Chesed will be participating in two service projects: Assemble Food Packages for Local Food Pantry From 10-11:30am Ages 8 and up. Our group will join other volunteers at JCC Harlem's food packaging project. We will create shelf-stable food packets in environmentally friendly packaging and…
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