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December 2016
Change a Story and You Can Change the World
Join the Ansche Chesed community for a Shabbat dinner and learn from Dr. Dovid Roskies about how, bu learning the power of twice-told tales, three restless rebellious Jews—Reb Nahman of Braslav, I. L. Peretz and I.B. Singer— were reborn as Yiddish storytellers. **Families Welcome! Open Gym available from 6:30-9pm** Register using link below.
Find out more »Torah Study with Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses
Rabbi Kalmanofsky leads a discussion on the weekly Torah portion, looking at it through the eyes of favorite commentators, ancient, medieval, modern, midrashic, mystical and academic. This week Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses will teach Toldot in place of Rabbi Kalmanofsky.
Find out more »Family Shabbat Services and Dinners
Join Rabbi Yael and Deena Cowans for family-friendly Shabbat services, followed by Shabbat dinner, dynamic learning, and open gym. A great time to meet new friends and reconnect with old friends.
Find out more »Record Your Story
During our year-long Humans of Ansche Chesed programming, we hope to compile a database of the stories that compose who we are as a community. In just a few minutes of audio (we don't need more than 3 or 5 minutes!), we would love to hear a story about YOU. No matter how silly or serious, how unique or mundane, we want to hear YOUR story. It can be about an experience at Ansche Chesed, or it can have nothing…
Find out more »Lecture and Text Study in Memory of Dr. Yochanan Muffs, זצ״ל
Desperately Seeking Israel: Divine Struggles with Intimacy in the Torah with Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses The Torah's famous phrase: Panim El Panim-- meeting God face to face, has become a well-used maxim. We know that meeting God face to face is mortally dangerous for human beings. And, indeed, for the Israelites, meeting God in visual or auditory form is not an easy encounter; it is fraught with fear and trembling. In this lecture/text study, we will consider the nature of the divine/human encounter…
Find out more »A Nittel Nacht (Shabbat Dinner)
For many hundreds of years, the Jewish people have struggled with their otherness in the world. Sometimes we respond with learning, humor, and game-playing. Join us on Erev Christmas eve and Chanukkah to learn more about the custom of Nittel Nacht as we dine for Shabbat dinner on traditional Chinese food, and laugh, learn, and play together. Register Here
Find out more »January 2017
Breakfast And Learn: Monthly Middot
Join Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky for some bagels and coffee at our morning learning session reflecting each month on the virtues -- e.g. courage, honesty, generosity, humility -- that make for excellent Jewish character. What makes these character virtues admirable and desirable? How do we apply them in modern life? How does a person acquire these traits?
Find out more »Poland Trip Info Session and Film Viewing
The History and Revival of Jewish Life and Culture in Warsaw and Kraków Film Viewing and Informational Session From June 25-July 2 2017, join Ansche Chesed on a journey of learning, culture, and commemoration. For 1,000 years, Poland was the heartland of European Jewish life and culture. Rabbinic Judaism, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, secular Jewish political parties, and other forms of a vital, diverse Jewish culture flourished in Poland until the Holocaust. Now, 28 years after the fall of Communism,…
Find out more »Looking South: Jews, Blacks, and the Civil Rights Struggle (Shabbat Dinner)
For much of the twentieth century individual Jews and eventually national Jewish organizations articulated common cause with the civil rights struggle. They used their personal and institutional clout to press for greater rights for African Americans in the South during the long age of Jim Crow. That effort which looked South, however, put southern Jews in an uncomfortable position as it complicated their adherence to the status quo. This talk with look at this triangulated dynamic of northern Jews, the…
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