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December 2025
Of A Certain Age: Chanukah Sing-Along with Latkes
Join us for our next Of A Certain Age lunch: We will have out very own Jeff Segall provide a music selection to help celebrate Chanukah with a sing-along! RSVP to help our planning
Find out more »Young Professionals: 20s & 30s Chanukah Happy Hour
AC's young professionals will join Reshet Ramah Ba'Ir (20s and 30s alumni and friends), USY Alumni, YALA, and JTS Alumni for a night of latkes, drinks, sufganiyot (jelly donuts), music, and fun as we get excited for Chanukah! Co-sponsored by Ansche Chesed. Learn more and register
Find out more »Glow in the Dark Family Chanukah Party
Let’s light up the night with a Glow in the Dark Chanukah Party! Experience the GLOW during a communal Chanukah candle lighting. Eat, sing and ‘glow in the dark’ activities! For families with kids of all ages. Latkes will be served. In partnership with Camp Ramah. Register Registration preferred, walk-ins welcome. $10 per kid, free for parents.
Find out more »Lights and Love at AC: Chanukah Celebration!
Join your AC friends of all ages in celebrating Chanukah with light, song, and joy on the last night of Chanukah! We will light candles together, sing, nosh, play games, and enjoy. There will be tables to play dreidel, poker, bridge and any other game you may want to bring and share. If you'd like, bring your menorah to light! Register
Find out more »January 2026
Rabbi Jules Harlow Parshat HaShavuah Class
Join us for our weekly Parashat HaShavua class before the start of Shabbat morning services in the Chapel. Come at 8:45am for hot coffee and a chance to schmooze before the 9am class. This weekly class is dedicated to Rabbi Jules Harlow, a great teacher of Torah and Jewish liturgy. Click here for the Source Sheet (updated Friday afternoons). Also available by Zoom.
Find out more »Learner’s Minyan
The more comfortable you feel in synagogue, the more comforted you can feel in synagogue. Our rabbis and JTS interns -- Rabbi Hammerman, Rabbi Kalmanofsky, Toby Banks and Abigail Goldberg-Zelizer -- will rotate as leaders. You will become more familiar with the literary, spiritual, and musical highlights of the Saturday morning service. After the 45-minute sessions, we will rejoin the wider community in the Sanctuary. 9 Shabbat morning sessions, January 10 - March 7. RSVP here, walk-ins welcome!
Find out more »Shabbatones at AC
We are delighted to welcome the Shabbatones to AC for Shabbat! The Shabbatones will perform in Hirsch Hall during Kiddush, and will also add their voices to Sanctuary services and children’s tefillah. For more than 20 years, the Shabbatones, the University of Pennsylvania’s premier Jewish a cappella group, have brought joyful, high-energy Jewish music to communities across the country. Founded in 2001, they blend contemporary American pop, Israeli hits, and beloved Jewish choral pieces into dynamic, engaging performances for audiences of…
Find out more »Farewell Kiddush Celebrating Tony Vicioso
Join us to honor and say farewell to our longtime Maintenance Supervisor, Tony Vicioso. Tony has been part of the AC community for more than thirty years (!), doing crucial work -- often behind-the-scenes -- that has kept our many programs and services running smoothly. Let us take some time to thank him for his years of dedicated service and say a heartfelt goodbye before he retires later in the month. Please alo consider making a donation to the Kiddush…
Find out more »Shabbat Dinner & Discussion: Shared Streets, Shared Words: Jews, Blacks, and the Ghetto
The word ghetto began with Jewish history, yet by the late 20th century it was more commonly associated with Black urban life in America. That shift echoed a familiar urban pattern: neighborhoods once densely Jewish became overwhelmingly Black, and the term ghetto moved with them. What happens when a word so marked by one group’s past is taken up by another? How do shared words shape solidarity—or strain it? And what anxieties surface when communities feel their histories are being eclipsed, appropriated, or misunderstood?…
Find out more »Potluck Kiddush Conversation with Scholar-In-Residence Daniel Schwartz
Join us for a Kiddush and talk from Scholar-In-Residence Professor Daniel Schwartz: World of Their Children (and Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren): The Making of the Jewish Upper West Side When Irving Howe published World of Our Fathers in 1976, he offered both an elegy for the immigrant Yiddishkeit of the Lower East Side and a critique of what followed: the “world of their children,” whose Jewishness seemed thinner, flatter, and more conventional by comparison. Yet the Upper West Side unsettled that judgment and…
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