Sukkot at Ansche Chesed

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Sukkot Service Schedule
Communal Sukkah Use
Sukkot Programming

Sukkot 5786 / 2025 Service Schedule

Note: Please enter through the 100th Street entrance (not the West End Ave. doors) for all services.

Erev Sukkot: Monday, October 6

Evening Service – 6:30pm
In the Mayer Cavalier Chapel

Sukkot Day 1: Tuesday, October 7

Sanctuary Service: 9:45am in the Sanctuary or via Livestream
Minyan M’at Service: 10am in 5 North
TeleTefila Service: 9:40am P’sukei D’zimra, 10am Shacharit on Zoom

Family Yoga Shacharit in the Sukkah: 11am
For families with kids of all ages!

Evening Service: 6:30pm in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel

Sukkot Day 2: Wednesday, October 8

Sanctuary Service: 9:45am in the Sanctuary
Minyan M’at Service: 10am in 5 North

Evening Service: 6:30pm in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel

Shabbat Chol Hamoed: Saturday, October 11

Rabbi Jules Harlow Parshat HaShavua Class: 9am in the Rooftop Sukkah (come at 8:45 before class for coffee!)

Sanctuary Service: 9:45am in the Sanctuary or via Livestream
Minyan M’at Service: 10am in 5 North

Boker Tov Tots in the Sukkah: 10:15-10:50am

Mishpacha Family Service: 11am in 2 North

Family Shabbat Service with Aliza: 11am in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel
Followed by a Family Kiddush in the Rooftop Sukkah!

Kiddush in the Sukkah: Join us after services to eat together in our beautiful Rooftop Sukkah! We’ll provide paper goods, but please bring your own dairy or parve lunch (prepared in accordance with our kashrut policy).

Hoshanah Rabbah and Erev Shemini Atzeret: Monday, October 13

Morning Minyan: 7:30am in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel

Evening Service: 6:30pm in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel

Shemini Atzeret and Erev Simchat Torah: Tuesday, October 14

Early Shacharit Service led by Jerry Raik: 7am in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel

Sanctuary Service: 9:45am in the Sanctuary or via Livestream
Minyan M’at Service: 10am in 5 North

Family Simchat Torah Dinner and Program: 6pm at Ansche Chesed
Join us for a FREE light dairy dinner followed by our annual Torah Unroll, dancing and Hakafot with the rest of the AC Community. Stick around for popsicles after the second Hakafa!

Simchat Torah Evening Service and Celebration: 6:45pm Ma’ariv in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel, 7pm Hakafot in Hirsch Hall
Come celebrate the Torah with singing, dancing, and hakafot (circling)!

Simchat Torah: Wednesday, October 15

Morning Service (Sanctuary and Minyan M’at): 9:45am on the Roof, with each minyan holding its own Torah reading
The singing and dancing continue as we finish reading the Torah and begin reading it all over again.

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Communal Sukkah Use

All are welcome to come eat in our Sukkah – no registration required! Click here for the full Sukkah Schedule.

  • Meals in the Sukkah must conform to AC’s kashrut policy: Only dairy or parve foods prepared in a kosher kitchen or packaged kosher products are permitted. No meat is allowed in the sukkah.
  • Both the Rooftop Sukkah and the 5th Floor Sukkah are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner (between 8am to 10pm, unless otherwise noted on the schedule)
  • The Sukkah is closed for cleaning between 2-3pm during Hol HaMoed
  • AC provides paper goods, coffee and tea – no other beverages are provided
  • Please note that even on nights where there are Minyan or other dinners, the Sukkah is still open to the public

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Sukkot Programming

Sukkah Decorating Party + Chesed Opportunity

Sunday, October 5 from 10am – 12pm in the Rooftop Sukkah

Join us on the AC roof to help decorate and beautify our Sukkah! We’ll bring art supplies and snacks, you bring the Sukkot simcha – joy!

Geared at kids ages 3-10. Teens welcome to volunteer!

This year, we also have the opportunity to decorate the sukkah of our neighbors at The New Jewish Home, a nursing and hospice facility on 106th between Amsterdam and Columbus. We invite older kids and teenagers to help us do this mitzvah!

Learn More and RSVP

Lunch and Learn: “There’s a Midrash About That!” with Rabbi Yael Hammerman

Thursday, October 9 at 12:30 – 1:30pm in the Rooftop Sukkah

Working remotely? Retired? Stay-at-home parents? Taking a day off?

Please join Rabbi Yael Hammerman for a monthly lunch-and-learn gathering where we will read midrashim from across the centuries. Midrashim help us fill in the blanks in the Torah, they add color to our black and white laws, and they help us develop our own voice and approach to Jewish text. Come – it will be fun! (No Hebrew background necessary).

This session will be held with “Of A Certain Age” and lunch will be provided.

RSVP here

Boker Tov Tots in the Sukkah

Saturday, October 11 from 10:15am – 10:50am in the Rooftop Sukkah

Babies, tots, preschool kids and their families are invited to join us for breakfast in the Sukkah before the Mishpacha service on the second floor. We’ll provide the food. Kids can eat and play, and parents will have time to schmooze and get to know one another.

RSVP here, walk-ins welcome!

Intergenerational Mitzvah Knitting Group in the Sukkah

Sunday, October 12 from 10 – 11:30am in the Rooftop Sukkah

Knitters needed! Experienced and new knitters of all ages welcome: bubbies, bring your grandkids; kids – bring your parents. Stay tuned for more info about our project.

Teen Sushi Making in the Sukkah

Sunday, October 12 from 6 – 7:30pm in the 5th Floor Patio Sukkah

Calling all teens! Come join us on Sukkot to make delicious Sushi in the Sukkah, play games and hang out with your friends. Can’t wait to see you there! (Please note, this event will take place in the sukkah on the 5th floor.)

This event is free! RSVPs encouraged, walk ins welcome.

Family Simchat Torah Dinner and Celebration

Tuesday, October 14 at 6pm in Hirsch Hall

Join us for a FREE light dairy dinner followed by our annual Torah Unroll, dancing and Hakafot with the rest of the AC Community.

Stick around for ice cream and popsicles after the second Hakafa!

No RSVP necessary, walk-ins welcome.

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