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October 2024
Commemorating the “Black Shabbat”: One Year From October 7
Please gather in mourning and solidarity as our AC community remembers the fallen, mourns the losses and laments the destruction, in song, poetry and prayer. “My eyes are worn out from crying, and my innards tremble over the destruction of my people’s children .”
Find out more »Yom Kippur Teen Schmooze with Didi
Calling all teens! Join us for some schmoozing, learning, and games in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel. Can't wait to see you there!
Find out more »Yom Kippur Meditation: Time Out, Time In
Please join us for the nourishing deep rest and reset of meditation. Reflect, recharge, and transmute the tumult of these traumatic times, with light guidance. Refresh your body and mind, replenish your spirit, and make space for greater peace, hope, and equanimity. Meditation is a timeless and time-sensitive practice for anyone who can sit quietly. Led by long-time meditation teachers & AC members, Sheila and Sheldon Lewis
Find out more »Boker Tov Tots in the Sukkah
Babies, tots, preschool kids and their families are invited to join us for breakfast before the Mishpacha service. We’ll provide the food. Kids can eat and play, and parents will have time to schmooze and get to know one another. Kids can come in their jammies, and stuffies welcome too!
Find out more »Teen Sushi Making in the Sukkah
Calling all teens! Come join us on Sukkot to make delicious Sushi in the Sukkah, play games and hang out with your friends. This event is free! Registration encouraged, walk ins welcome.
Find out more »Family Sundaes and Ushpizin in the Sukkah
On Sukkot, it’s a tradition to welcome new people into the Sukkah each day. So, bring a friend to AC and join us on the rooftop Sukkah. We’ll make ice cream sundaes and sukkah decorations inspired by the tradition of welcoming ushpizin (guests) into our sukkah. We look forward to welcoming you and your ushpizin! This event is free! Registration encouraged, walk ins welcome.
Find out more »Lunch and Learn: Why is That in the Bible?
Working remotely? Retired? Stay-at-home parents? Taking a day off? Please join Rabbi Kalmanofsky for a monthly lunch-and-learn program to study some of the stranger passages in the Hebrew Bible. You'll meet giants and sea monsters, psychedelic visionaries and stone-cold killers. We'll retell the Torah's dirty jokes, sexy poems and gruesome horror stories. Some of this material will raise important religious or moral questions. Most will be fun and funny. Bring your lunch, according to the AC Kashrut policy, and we…
Find out more »Shemini Atzeret Early Morning Shacharit
For those who cannot attend our later morning service, Jerry Raik will lead an early morning Shacharit, including Yizkor.
Find out more »Sanctuary Shemini Atzeret Service
Join the Ansche Chesed community for our Shemini Atzeret services in the Sanctuary or virtually.
Find out more »Family Simchat Torah Celebration
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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