Everyone is invited to spend the High Holidays
with the West Side Minyan
 Come join the West Side Minyan for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We are small and friendly, and new-comers are always welcome. The service is havurah-style -- egalitarian, participatory, and lay-led. We use the Conservative High Holy Days prayerbook. Each day, one of our members gives a d'var torah and leads a discussion. Everyone joins in with singing nigun'im -- wordless melodies that are simple and easily learned, spiritually moving and uplifting. You don't have to be a minyan member to attend or participate. Tickets are free.

TICKET INFORMATION

There is no charge for tickets to the WSM High Holiday services.

People without tickets will not be turned away but may encounter delays at the door. Please bring photo ID if you don't have a ticket. Please expect that all bags will be searched regardless of whether you have tickets.

If you already have your High Holiday tickets, that's great! Any Ansche Chesed High Holiday ticket can be used to attend the WSM High Holiday services. Just join us on the fifth floor.

To get your tickets, please print out the ticket request form and fax it to the Ansche Chesed office at (212) 865-1700. The tickets can be picked up from the office (call 212-865-0600 for hours). If you are unable to get to AC before the holiday, tickets will be held for you when arriving for services on Rosh Hashanah.

Congregation Ansche Chesed
251 West 100th Street
(between Broadway and West End Avenue)
Phone: 212-865-0600
Fax: 212-865-1700

If you have questions about High Holiday services at the West Side Minyan, you can call Deborah Mowshowitz (212-854-4497) or Carol Goldstein (212-663-6899) .

PLEASE NOTE

  • Requesting tickets through Ansche Chesed also gets you on the Ansche Chesed High Holiday mailing list. That way, you'll get future High Holiday mailings, which is a Good Thing.
  • Please send in your West Side Minyan dues or contribution.
  • Most WSM members have also chosen to join Ansche Chesed, the synagogue community that we are proud to be part of. Membership information is here.
  • The best way to stay abreast of the West Side Minyan is to be on our email list. Just drop a note to

 

HIGH HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

The West Side Minyan meets at Ansche Chesed, 251 West 100th Street (corner of West End Avenue).
Our High Holiday services are held on the 5th floor. Click here for complete High Holiday information.

ROSH HASHANAH

1st evening       

Wednesday, Sept. 12

Ma’ariv

7:00 PM

 

1st day

Thursday, Sept. 13

Shacharit          

9:30 AM         

 

 

Thursday, Sept. 13

Tashlikh
Meet at the corner of
100th Street and  West End Avenue

5:00 PM

 

2nd evening      

Thursday, Sept. 13

Mincha-Ma’ariv
No WSM services – Ansche Chesed services will be held in the sancturary

6:30 PM

 

2nd day

Friday, Sept. 14

Shacharit          

9:30 AM

   

        

YOM KIPPUR

evening 

Friday, Sept. 21

Kol Nidrei

6:20 PM sharp

 

morning

Saturday, Sept. 22

Shacharit          

9:30 AM

 

afternoon-evening           

Saturday, Sept. 22

Mincha/Ne’ila

4:45 PM

 

PLEASE SUPPORT ANSCHE CHESED

Dear Friend,
 
The Yamim Noraim are approaching. It is a time when we examine ourselves and our place in the community. It is also the time to think about our responsibilities to our community – to the West Side Minyan and Ansche Chesed.

The West Side Minyan is an integral part of the Ansche Chesed community – our home for thirty years. The Minyan and Ansche Chesed have a mutually beneficial relationship. Our members have served as officers of Ansche Chesed, as well as being members of its Board of Trustees and various committees; teachers and facilitators at Ansche Chesed programs, and volunteer in all areas of synagogue life.

Ansche Chesed provides the Minyan with more than just space to daven. It supports the Minyan with everything from space, paper goods, wine and grape juice for Kiddush and our pot-luck lunches, Sifrei Torah, siddurim and chumashin for our services, to heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. When the Minyan does not hold its own Festival services, we join with the Sanctuary service, including for Yizkor. The West Side Minyan and Ansche Chesed are each stronger because of our mutual support.

Individually, we also benefit from Ansche Chesed. Morning minyan provides a place to recite kaddish every day of the week. Ansche Chesed offers diverse adult educational programs, including Hebrew, ancient texts, modern literature, ritual practice, and history. Family and children’s programs occur throughout the year – holiday celebrations, craft activities, family Shabbat dinners and lunches, havdalah programs, and children’s Shabbat morning services for various age groups.

To maintain all of its services and programs, Ansche Chesed relies on your financial support. Please participate in Ansche Chesed’s Kol Nidre appeal with a donation. You don’t have to be a member of the West Side Minyan or of Ansche Chesed to share our responsibility to this synagogue.

Cards to mark your pledge will be provided at Kol Nidrei, together with envelopes. Please take the pledge card, turn down the tab for the amount of your gift to Ansche Chesed, and another tab for how you want to participate, and place it in the envelope. The envelope will be collected that night, or you can take it home and mail it after Yom Kippur. Ansche Chesed will send you a statement for the amount of your pledge, which you can pay in installments before the end of 2007, and will contact you regarding the activities in which you have expressed an interest.

I hope that each of you will support Ansche Chesed with a generous gift to the Kol Nidre appeal. Your donation will help maintain all that Ansche Chesed gives to us.

Shana Tova,

Iris Korman
Kol Nidre appeal coordinator for the West Side Minyan

 

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