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Greetings!
December was a busy month at Ansche Chesed with the focus on Hanukkah -
including the successful Hanukkah Arts Festival & Judaica Crafts Fair and
several special programs for children and families (see pictures below of
Mike Cohen's Klezmer band from the festival and children preparing for
Hanukkah).
Randi Jaffe, our new executive director, has already been having an
impact on making Ansche Chesed a friendlier, more responsive and more
efficient synagogue, and we look forward to her continuing on making a
positive impact on our community.
The musical director committee was busy during December getting the
community's input through a survey and has begun to receive interest from
potential candidates.
Coming up is the Saturday night, January 24th, Tribute Event honoring
Ellen Braitman, Sylvia Ettenberg, Ellen Tucker & Alan Rosenstein including
live performances and a festive reception. Please be sure to RSVP to the
invitation you received and to participate in the journal.
There will also be a special dinner and program on Berlin Jewry Friday,
January 30th. And for parents, Sunday, January 25th is the first of a series
of four program on talking to your family about Jewish and religious issues.
More details on these and other events, including the 1/11 blood drive and
swing dance, classes starting in January and ongoing study groups are listed
below.
In addition, The Ansche Chesed Family Spring Program Calendar is now
available in the lobby and on the Ansche Chesed website.
January Calendar
WEEK OF JANUARY 1ST
1/1 New Year's Day - Office closed
1/2 Morning Minyan 7:30AM
1/2 Candle Lighting 4:21PM, Services 5:30PM
1/3 Torah Study 9AM
1/3 Shabbat Services 10AM
1/3 Zoe Gruen-Rosenberg havdala bat mitzvah
WEEK OF JANUARY 4th
1/5 Hebrew Literacy Weekly Class 7:15PM
1/5 Uneasy Abundance Weekly Class 7:30PM
1/6 Corners of the Field Weekly Class 8PM
1/7 Lunchtime Learning w/ R. Kalmanofsky 12PM
1/7 Hevra Shas w/ R. Kalmanofsky 6:30PM
1/9 Candle Lighting 4:27PM, Services 5:30PM
1/10 Torah Study 9AM
1/10 Shabbat Services 10AM
1/10 Learner's Minyan 10AM
WEEK OF JANUARY 11th
1/11 Blood Drive 10AM - 3:15PM
1/11 Swing Dance 7PM
1/12 Hebrew Literacy Weekly Class 7:15PM
1/12 Uneasy Abundance Weekly Class 7:30PM
1/13 Corners of the Field Weekly Class 8PM
1/14 Lunchtime Learning w/ R. Kalmanofsky 12PM
1/14 Hevra Shas w/ R. Kalmanofsky 6:30PM
1/16 Candle Lighting 4:35PM, Services 5:30PM
1/17 Torah Study 9AM
1/17 Joint Shabbat Services 10AM
1/17 Learner's Minyan 10AM
1/17 Seuda Shlishit
WEEK OF JANUARY 18th
1/19 Martin Luther King Day - Office Closed
1/19 Hebrew Literacy Weekly Class 7:15PM
1/19 Uneasy Abundance Weekly Class 7:30PM
1/20 Israeli Fiction Reading Group 7:30PM
1/20 Jewish History Reading Group 7:30PM
1/20 Corners of the Field Weekly Class 8PM
1/21 Lunchtime Learning w/ R. Kalmanofsky 12PM
1/21 Hevra Shas w/ R. Kalmanofsky 6:30PM
1/21 Hevrat Sarah 8PM
1/23 Candle Lighting 4:43PM, Services 5:30PM
1/24 Torah Study 9AM
1/24 Shabbat Services 10AM
1/24 Learner's Minyan 10AM
1/24 AC Celebration & Tribute Event 7PM
WEEK OF JANUARY 25th
1/25 Talking with Your Family About God 12PM
1/26 Hebrew Literacy Weekly Class 7:15PM
1/26 Uneasy Abundance Weekly Class 7:30PM
1/27 Corners of the Field Weekly Class 8PM
1/27 Board Meeting 8PM
1/28 Lunchtime Learning w/ R. Kalmanofsky 12PM
1/28 Hevra Shas w/ R. Kalmanofsky 6:30PM
1/30 Candle Lighting 4:52PM, Services 5:30PM
1/30 Berlin Jewry Dinner & Program after Services
1/30 Family Kabbalat Shabbat 5:30PM
1/31 Torah Study 9AM
1/31 Shabbat Services 10AM
1/31 Learner's Minyan 10AM
1/31 Bar Mitzvah of Zachary Manning in the Sanctuary
FEBRUARY
2/7 Tu Bishvat Family Seder 12:15 - 3PM
2/8 "Talking About" - Being an Interfaith Family
2/14 Shabbat Morning Family Kiddush
2/14 Havdallah followed by Date Night for Parents
2/21 Seudah Shlishit 4:45PM
2/22 Dance Sunday 7PM
2/27 Family Kabbalat Shabbat Services followed by home hospitality for
dinner, 5:30PM
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Family Programs |
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The Ansche Chesed Spring Program Calendar is now available in the
lobby and on the Ansche Chesed website. Please pick up a copy or send
one to a friend!
Children's Shabbat services
Preschool Service, llana Garber / Shai Specht
For families with children ages 4 and under
11:00 a.m. - Noon. 2 South.
Family Service, Elena Sassower
For children ages 5-7 and their parents.
10:45-12:15pm. 6th West.
Family Davening, Mindy Fischer / Tommy Treitel
For children 8+ and up and their parents. 11:00-12:15pm. 6 North.
Family Kabbalat Shabbat Services
Friday, January 30th, 5:30PM
New "Talk to Your Family About.." Series
First Session: Talk With Your Family About God, facilitated
by Rabbi Kalmanofsky
Sunday, January 25th, 10:30AM - Noon
How do we talk about G-d with our children? What do we do when our
children ask the hard questions? What happens when parents have
questions too?
Come to one or all four of these sessions designed for parents.
Childcare or children's activities will be available. Pre-registration
required. Suggested contribution $5/family. The next three are: Talking
about being an interfaith family 2/8, Talking about Shabbat 3/27 and
Talking about the Holocaust 4/15.
Young Judaea Youth Group - Grades 3- 5
3rd-5th graders are invited to join the Young Judaea youth group at
Ansche Chesed. The club meets at AC twice monthly. For more information
please contact Noah Wilker, Group Leader 212-451-6878 or nwilker@youngjudaea.org
Family Shabbat Gym and Basketball
Shabbat Gym, the best deal on indoor play space around, allows families
to meet, schmooze, and enjoy each others' company on those chilly
Shabbat afternoons from now until March.
From 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., for children ages 1-7, we offer free play.
Season fee per family: Members $40, Non-members $75.
From 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., the gym is open for children ages 8 and older
to play basketball.
Season fee per family: Members $20, non-members $40.
Application forms are available at the office, or online at
www.anschechesed.org/education/family/shabbatgym20 03.htm, or call the
AC office at ext. 412 for more information.
Check out the Family Education section of the AC website »
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Events & Classes |
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You are invited to an evening of celebration as we honor Ellen
Braitman, Sylvia Ettenberg, Ellen Tucker & Alan Rosenstein for their
long service to the comunity
Saturday January 24th, 7PM, $50
The event will include live performances, a tribute to the honorees and
a festive reception. Help make this event a success by replying to the
invitation you received, putting an ad in the journal, and participating
on the event committee.
WINTER BLOOD DRIVE
Sunday, January 11, 10:00-3:15 PM
Please take an hour to do an important mitzvah and donate much-needed
blood. Call Sylvia at ext. 408 to schedule your appointment.
Outings Group's "Swing the Night Away" co- sponsored with Bnai
Jeshurun
Sunday, January 11th, 7-10PM Free refreshments. Cost is $20 ($15
AC/BJ/MOMC members)
Volunteers are needed (in return for free admission). Call Michael
(212/678-7881 before 9:00pm) to volunteer.
Expert instruction with Reba Perez. Come out, come out and jump, jive
and wail with Reba Perez of Empire Dance and a crowd of fun people ready
to cut the rug! Basic Swing lesson at 7:00pm. No partner, experience or
reservations necessary, and the lesson will have you dancing in no time.
At 9:00pm a fabulous dance show featuring "A Touch of Class" with Savoy
Lindy Hopper Sonny Allen and Apollo Theater star Michael Park (and maybe
some surprise guests) will knock your socks off. Don't miss this
one-time-only now legendary swing event
Lunchtime Learning with Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky
Wednesdays, Noon-1:00 PM, No fee.
Many of the Bible's greatest stories in terms of literary artistry,
spiritual depth and national significance are not found in the Torah at
all, but in the less often studied books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings.
Join Rabbi Kalmanofsky to study these masterpieces in English (while
also consulting Hebrew). Bring lunch if you'd like, and join us every
week you can.
Hevra Shas with Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky
Wednesdays, 6:30 PM, No fee.
We continue our "weekly page" study of Babylonian Talmud, tractate Avoda
Zara (Idolatry), examining important questions of how Jews interact with
the non-Jewish world outside their own community. Most members of this
class use the ArtScroll English-Hebrew Talmud (volume one of this
tractate), enabling them both to read the traditional text and fully
understand the content.
New classes in January
"Corners of the Field: The Mitzvot of Feeding Others" with Rabbi
David Rosenn
4 Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30 PM
January 6, 13, 20, 27
AC members $50, non-members $65
We will look at the ways Jewish teachings apply to the task of combating
hunger in New York City, in Israel, and around the world and develop
ideas for individual and communal action.
"Uneasy Abundance: Food and American Jewish Culture" with Eve
Jochnowitz
4 Mondays, 7:30-9:00 PM
January 8, 15, 22, 29
AC members $50, non-members $65
This course offers an introduction to historic, religious, and
ethnographic approaches to the study of food in American Jewish life. We
will examine the culinary strategies of Jews in the reshaping of the
American gastronomic landscape; in Jewish media; in creating Jewish
cookbooks; and in the gender roles of the Old World and New.
Improve Your Hebrew Reading Skills with Marcia Talmage
4 Mondays, January 5, 12, 19, 26. Cost: $60
This class will provide an opportunity for those who know the Hebrew
alphabet to improve their reading skills. A minimum number of
participants is required to hold this class, so registration before the
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Study Groups |
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Hevrat Sarah
January 21st at 8PM
Israel Reading Group
January 20th at 7:30 PM
We invite you to join a group of people who want to read Israeli fiction
together at Ansche Chesed. We want to see more clearly the cultural
issues alive now in Israel by reading its fiction. We will meet one
Tuesday evening a month. I've proposed that we begin with a collection
of novellas, edited by Gershon Shaked, called Six Israeli Novellas. It
covers fiction of the 1960s, '70s and '80s. The book is available from
Amazon.com. It will prepare us for fiction of the '90s and beyond. We
would like this to be a participant-led group. Let's read the first
story in the collection for the first meeting: Ruth Almog's "Shrinking."
If you would like to join us, please email me atjburstei@drew.edu or
call at 212 316 1386. -- Janet Burstein.
Yiddish for the 21st Century with Charles Nydorf and Elinor
Robinson
Every Wednesday (all year round), at 7:30 PM. No fee.
Through reading a wide range of Yiddish literature, we develop the
ability to think, feel, and speak in Yiddish and make the Yiddish
tradition our own.
Jewish History Reading Group
January 20th, at 7:30PM
Athens and Jerusalem. In the centuries after Alexander the Great's
conquest of the Near East, the Jews confronted Greek culture for the
first time. In our readings we will consider the various ways in which
Judaism responded to the cultural messages of the Greek world. The group
will be moderated by Professor Tamara Green. Contact her at 212-866-3736
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Shabbat Learning & Events |
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Seudah Shlishit: The Third Sabbath Meal
Saturday, January 17th at 4PM
As the sun sinks and the shadows grow, we can stave off the weekday
spirit with Seudah Shlishit, a final occasion for song and study, food
and drink. The commandment of eating a third meal on Shabbat was
elevated by mystics to a spiritual highpoint, a time for discussing the
inner meaning of the weekly reading. If you would like to sponsor this
month's seudah, please call ext 415 in the AC office.
Special Kabbalat Shabbat Program: Jewish Life on the Rise in
Germany - What American Jews Don't Know or Don't Want to Know with
Professor Mark Cohen, Professor Atina Grossmann, and Danielle Posen
Friday, January 30. Shabbat dinner and program following services. AC
members $25, non-members $30, program only $10
All of the speakers spent an extended period of time in Berlin in the
past two years, for an inside look at Jewish life in Germany. The
evening will honor Herta Shriner and Ruth Awner, who were refugees from
Nazi Germany. To register call ext. 415 in the AC office or email Sposen@anschechesed.org
Weekly Torah Study with Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky and other AC
members
Shabbat mornings, 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Join us to discuss the weekly Torah portion. Participants are welcome on
either an occasional or regular basis.
Learners Minyan
Shabbat mornings 10-11 AM, 3rd floor
A perfect place to learn the Shabbat morning service in a welcoming,
relaxed, intimate group. If you want to understand more about the
prayers and the prayer book, the Learners Minyan is for you. You do not
need to read Hebrew characters to participate in our prayers and
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Services |
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Weekday Services
Mondays and Thursdays 7:20 AM
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 7:30 AM
Sundays and secular holidays 8:30 AM
Kabbalat Shabbat Services 5:30 PM
Shabbat Morning Torah Study 9 AM - 10 AM
Led by Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky and other Ansche Chesed members
Each Shabbat we read and discuss the parashat hashavua (weekly Torah
portion). Everyone is welcome to participate, whether on an occasional
or regular basis.
Shabbat Morning Services 10 AM
Joint Sanctuary, Ma'at, West Side and Rimonim service January 17th
in the Sanctuary
Other Weeks:
Sanctuary Minyan in the sanctuary
Minyan Ma'at on the 5th floor
Beginners service on the 3rd floor (will meet 1/17)
Minyan Rimonim 1/3 in the Chapel
West Side Minyan 1/10 and 1/24 in the Chapel
Children's Shabbat services
Preschool Service, llana Garber / Shai Specht
For families with children ages 4 and under
11:00 a.m. - Noon. 2 South.
Family Service, Elena Sassower
For children ages 5-7 and their parents.
10:45-12:15pm. 6th West.
Family Davening, Mindy Fischer/Tommy Treitel
For children ages 8 and up and their parents.
11:00-12:15pm. 6 North.
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Donations |
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GENERAL DONATIONS
Martha Ackelsberg in honor of Dina Rosenfeld & Howard Berkowitz, beloved
friends, and pillars of the community
Ruth & Oscar Awner
Richard Ballinger in memory of his uncle, Edwin Felder
Howard Berkowitz & Dina Rosenfeld in memory of her mother, Rosa
Rosenfeld
Beatrice Blanco in memory of her mother, Sophie Greenberg
Corinne Boren in memory of her father, Joseph Boren and Ruth Sharfman's
father, Carl Sharfman
Ellen Braitman & David Shapiro in memory of Susan Dickman's mother,
Paula Dickman; in honor of the births of Netanya Crespy Kaufman,
Benjamin Cowan Jacob, Dani Bregman, Mira Dubler-Furman, Isadora Polish,
Orli Kessler-Godin and Raphaela Ruth Gold; the B'nai Mitzvah of Avital
Mintz-Morgenthau and Gabriel Paley
Theodore & Erica Braude in memory of his mother, Ada Braude
Michael Brochstein in honor of the birth of Joe & Hillary Kessler-Godin's
daughter, Orli Kessler-Godin and Laura Gold's daughter, Raphaela Ruth
Gold
Deborah Brodie in memory of Ann Wimpfheimer's mother, Vicki Wimpfheimer,
Melissa Crespy's brother, Jonathan Crespy and Larry Cohler-Esses'
father, Jerome Cohler; in honor of Fred Bogin's help and expertise
Vicki Brower & Michael Gottsegen in memory of Amy Stone's mother, Betty
Stone, Susan Dickman's mother, Paula Dickman and Ann Wimpfheimer's
mother, Vicki Wimpfheimer; in honor of the births of Mira Dubler-Furman,
Isadora Polish, Orli Kessler-Godin and Raphaela Ruth Gold; the B'not
Mitzvah of Sasha Bogursky, Miriam Dreiblatt, Talia Kula, the engagement
of Marcia Talmage to Fred Schneider and in honor of Claudia Setzer, Ira
& Lee Silverstein and Sandra Bergman
Stephan Brumberg in memory of his father, Harry Brumberg
Sylvia Cohen in memory of her husband, Abraham Cohen
Zelda Damashek in memory of her father, Max Guttman
Ilana Dreyer in honor of Nechana Sora bat Chaya
Judith & Bernard Endelman in memory of her mother, Cora Goodfriend Kohn
Yakov Epstein & Helane Rosenberg in memory of her uncle, Melvin Caplan
and her step-father, Dave Shapiro
Ida Fried in memory of her sister, Elsa Foldes
Jack & Anne Fried in memory of his father, Nathan Fried
Harold & Adelaide Gabel in memory of his father, Morris Gabel
Ann Glassman in memory of her father, Samuel Bieler
Walter & Rona Green in memory of her father, Ephraim Goldman
Martin & Tamara Green in memory of his father, George Green
Richard & Ronnie Grosbard in memory of his mother, Helene Grosbard
Esther & Walter Hautzig in memory of Samuel Cunzer, Sonitchka Rudomin
Epstein, Anna Rudomin, Sioma Rudomin, Frume Reisl Rudomin, Benjamin
Hillson, her parents, Raya & Samuel Rudomin and his grandfather, Mose
Zwirn
Anne & Leon Hoffman in honor of the B'not Mitzvah of Miriam Dreiblatt
and Sasha Bogursky; in memory of Melissa Crespy's brother, Jonathan
Crespy
Lawrence Kaufman & Melissa Crespy in honor of the birth of Isadora
Polish and the adoption of Isabella Freilich; the B'nei Mitzvah of Eitan
Sosner, Gabriel Paley, Avital Mintz-Morgenthau, Talia Kula, Miriam
Dreiblatt and Sasha Bogursky
Fred Mansbach & Toni Landau in memory of his mother, Mary Mansbach and
her mother, Ruth London
Jocelyn Maskow in honor of the births of Sally Marcus Eisenberg, Mira
Dubler-Furman, Orli Kessler-Godin, Joshua Aiden Geffner, Sarah Anna
Elster Horvath, Odelya Kalmanofsky, Netanya Crespy Kaufman, Raphaela
Ruth Gold, Toby Dinkin Schrag, Isadora Polish, Dina Maller Ocken, Dani
Bregman, Tristin Adriana DeJesus, Aliza Clark Sirota and Eliana Clark
Sirota; in memory of Ruth Sharfman's father, Carl Sharfman, Susan
Dickman's mother, Paula Dickman, Melissa Crespy's brother, Jonathan
Crespy and Dina Rosenthal's brother, Leon Rosenthal
Jerome Mendlowitz in memory of his grandparents, Leopold & Bertha
Weisberger, and his father, Harry Mendlowitz
William Meyers & Nahma Sandrow in memory of her grandmother, Ella Slavin
and her father, Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow
Ronald & Elaine Morris in memory of his mother, Blanche K. Morris
Sharry & David Pollock in memory of Larry Cohler-Esses' father, Jerome
Cohler
Marc & Randy Rosen in memory of Elie Schwartz
Ira & Ruth Salzman in honor of Melinda Gros and Roberta Kupietz Shapiro
Leah Schaefer in memory of her brother, Nissen Cahan
Talia Schenkel in memory of her father, Nathan Schenkel
Roberta & Paul Shapiro in memory of her parents, Julius & Blanche
Kupietz
Ruth Sharfman in honor of Barrie Raik
Herta Shriner in memory of her beloved father, Max Lewin and the Fellner-Schreiner
Families
David & Linda Shriner-Cahn in memory of Ann Wimpfheimer's mother, Vicki
Wimpfheimer, Melissa Crespy's brother, Jonathan Crespy and the Fellner-Schreiner
Families
Marion & William Shulevitz in honor of the birth of Laura Gold's
daughter, Raphaela Ruth Gold; in memory of Melissa Crespy's brother,
Jonathan Crespy
Barry Winiker & Eillene Leistner in memory of his mother, Anne Winiker
Ian Yudelman in memory of his father, Joe Yudelman
Amy Zarrow & Alan Divack in memory of Ruth Sharfman's father, Carl
Sharfman
Sitta Zorn in memory of Steven Gross
KOL NIDRE APPEAL
Arnie Angerman & Shira Nichaman
Marilyn Bell & Zachary Edelstein
Stephan Brumberg in loving memory of his wife, Pamela Brumberg
Jonathan & Robin Finegold
Jack & Anne Fried
Nancy R. Greenberg
Elinor Hoffmann & Julian Sosner in honor of Miriam Dreiblatt's Bat
Mitzvah
Rabbi Carol Levithan
Jerome Mendlowitz
Deborah & Solomon Mowshowitz
Daniel Noy & Karen Sawitz
Toby & Itzhak Perlman
RABBI'S DISCRETIONARY FUND
Katy & Geoffrey Claussen
Ralph Davidson
Susan Dickman
Richard & Ronnie Grosbard
Victor & Cheryl Houser in honor of their son, Avery Houser's Bar Mitzvah
Jeremy & Amy Kalmanofsky
Celina & William Stulbach
David Szonyi & Aviva Orenstein in honor of the birth of Raphaela Ruth
Gold
PRAYERBOOK FUND
Michael Brochstein in memory of his parents, Barbara & Sol Brochstein
KIDDUSH FUND
Lori Cohen & Christopher Rothko
Jill Laurie Goodman & Melvin Bukiet in honor of Naomi Gorfinkle's Bat
Mitzvah
Martin & Tamara Green
Jacqueline Gutwirth & Misha Avramoff in honor of Carmi Avramoff's Bar
Mitzvah
Esther & Walter Hautzig in honor of B'nei Mitzvah of Avery Houser, Carmi
Avramoff, Naomi Gorfinkle and Sasha Bogursky
Irving Katz
Michael & Rebecca Kaufman in honor of their granddaughter, Zipporah
Kaufman's naming
Bonita Leeds
Billy Moore
SHELTER FUND
Lori Cohen & Christopher Rothko
Avidan & Lora Cover in honor of their daughter, Ruby Levy Cover
Frederick Jelinek
Susan & Edward Martin
Jocelyn Maskow in honor of the B'nei Mitzvah of Carmi Avramoff, Eitan
Sosner, Gabriel Paley, Avital Mintz-Morgenthau, Sasha Bogursky and Talia
Kula
Bonnie Messing
Arona Schreiber in memory of Ruth Sharfman's father, Carl Sharfman
PAUL COWAN FUND
Joshua Daniel & Emily Pease in memory of Beverly Daniel
Sean Daniel & Ruth Hunter in memory of Beverly Daniel |
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