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May 2025
Of a Certain Age: Lunch & Board Games
Join us for our May "Of a Certain Age" lunch... and to play some board games! Scrabble, Rummikub, Mah Jongg, cards, even a jigsaw puzzle -- bring your favorite game, and we'll have a chance to play them and talk. Don't worry if you're not a game player, there'll be food and lots of conversations as well. Please RSVP here to help our planning. Walk-ins also welcome.
Find out more »Young Professionals: Volunteer at West Side Campaign Against Hunger
AC young professionals, please join us for a meaningful evening of volunteering at WSCAH, an organization that has been providing New Yorkers with access to healthy food for 45 years. In the last year alone, WSCAH delivered meals to over 110,000 people across all five boroughs. Activities at the event will include packing healthy food, writing heartfelt cards to WSCAH customers, and getting to know other AC young professionals! Register here Contact Abigail Goldberg-Zelizer if you have any questions.
Find out more »Strength and Hope in Times of Crisis, with Ayala Dekel of BINA
BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change (or as they call themselves in Hebrew "The Home of Israeli Judaism") is an extraordinary educational institute in Tel Aviv, with branches around the country and along the Asian routes popular with Israeli trekkers. Many AC kids have studied there on gap years and we have cooperated on programs for years. We are excited to host Ayala Dekel, Head of BINA's Secular Yeshiva, explore our Jewish tradition of transforming broken pieces into something bold…
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The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden): A Cine-Concert with Live Original Music
Watch the concert livestream: You can view the concert program at https://anschechesed.org/ConcertProgram If you would like to make a donation to support this concert and future musical programming, please do so at https://anschechesed.org/ConcertDonation An unscrupulous politician uses the rising price of eggs (!) to force the National Assembly in the city of Utopia to pass an antisemitic law, forcing all Jews to leave the country. Thus begins The City Without Jews, H.K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent masterpiece, produced, tragically, shortly before…
Find out more »June 2025
Sanctuary Shavuot Services
Join the Ansche Chesed community in the Sanctuary to celebrate Shavuot. The first day will feature our "First Fruits" group aliyah celebrating recent births in the community. Families of newborns are invited to join us. You can come for the whole service, or just slip in for a short visit around 10:30am for the aliyah. Email Rabbi Yael Hammerman with any questions at rabbiyael@anschechesed.org. Yizkor service will be held on the second day.
Find out more »Minyan M’at Shavuot Services
Minyan M’at is a lay-led, participatory, independent, traditional, egalitarian community within Ansche Chesed. More than 30 years old, our group of over 150 households comes together to davven (pray), to learn, to celebrate and to sustain each other.
Find out more »Pride Month Shabbat: A Salute to Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
For more than 30 years, Sharon Kleinbaum served Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York's prominent LGBTQ community, providing religious, spiritual, moral and social leadership. In her new retirement - she is still CBST's Rabbi Emerita - she remains an inspiring progressive activist. Join us as Sharon reflects on the arc of her long career, the changes she has witnessed in LGBTQ Jewish life and the challenges still ahead. Kabbalat Shabbat service will be held at 6:30pm, followed by Shabbat dinner around…
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Scribblers on the Roof: Ruth Franklin, The Many Lives of Anne Frank
Join us to hear renowned writers read from and discuss their recent work on the Ansche Chesed roof. Beverages, snacks and books are available for purchase. If it rains, come anyway. We have a perfect indoor space. New this year! New start time: Schmooze and wine, 7 p.m. Program: 7:15 p.m. Book sales in advance. Order your books before the event through our Scribblers Bookshop.org page. Season pass: $50 -- Register here. The first ten people to sign up will…
Find out more »Rebuilding Trust and Opportunity: Arab-Jewish Partnership in Israeli High-Tech
Please join Ansche Chesed and The Task Force on Arab Citizens of Israel for a conversation with Maisam Jaljuli, CEO of Tsofen-Tashbik, and Ifat Baron, founder and CEO of itworks— leaders advancing inclusive employment in Israel’s high-tech sector. Their work to sustain high-tech as a space for Arab economic mobility and Jewish-Arab partnership in Israel is both more challenging and important under the strains of a polarized and war-strained society. As government and international funding declines and public discourse grows increasingly polarized,…
Find out more »Scribblers on the Roof: Tova Mirvis, We Would Never
Join us to hear renowned writers read from and discuss their recent work on the Ansche Chesed roof. Beverages, snacks and books are available for purchase. If it rains, come anyway. We have a perfect indoor space. New this year! New start time: Schmooze and wine, 7 p.m. Program: 7:15 p.m. Book sales in advance. Order your books before the event through our Scribblers Bookshop.org page. Season pass: $50 -- Register here. The first ten people to sign up will…
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