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With Ansche Chesed members and Meditation Teachers Sheila Lewis, Sheldon Lewis, and Peter Silverman Get your week off to a great start! Join us for a break from stress, anxiety, news cycles, and uncertainty—with calming and enlivening practices like mindful breathing, imagery, and introspection. Discussion and Q&A to follow. Beginners and advanced meditators are welcome. JOIN US VIA ZOOM Meeting ID: 871 3692 1161 Passcode: Breathe

This year, 2021, marks 1,000 years since the birth of the greatest Hebrew poet of the Middle Ages. Gabirol composed sublime love songs to God, as well as groans of a suffering soul. A millennium later, his words still soar and sear. Please join Rabbi Kalmanofsky for four sessions to salute this extraordinary poet on this extraordinary birth day. Click here to view the poems that will be explored during the class JOIN VIA ZOOM Meeting ID: 884 4849 4288…

Join us to celebrate the publication of What Remains: Selected Poems, a new work by David Curzon. This evening will feature David Curzon in conversation with award-winning journalist Sandee Brawarsky and readings from the collection by Stuart Klawans, Sharon Dolin and David Roskies  “These striking poems read like the carefully distilled observations of a wise and reflective mind illuminating the experiences of day-to-day life in words that seem as if they were engraved in stone.” —Barry W. Holtz “Aphoristic, ekphrastic,…

This year we hope to bring song, light and joy into each other's hearts through the power of in-person gathering! Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn, Shirei Chesed Community Chorus singers and surprise musical guests invite you for a rousing Chanukah sing-along from around the world. Free of charge, all are welcome. Vaccination if you are eligible, masking and pre-registration are required. Bring a musical instrument to play along, if you wish. Register to Join Us In Person View the LiveStream Join Us…

Celebrate the Festival of Lights with a laugh, a chuckle, or a chortle (pronounce those with guttural "chets" please). Join the "People of Kindness" for a family-oriented program of games and stories, and a program for all ages with funny holiday videos and stories. Then we'll all gather for songs, candle-lighting, latkes and donuts. Register to Join Us In Person

On the fifth anniversary of the death of the iconic Leonard Cohen, Marcia Pally’s From this Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen explores the bard's thoughtscape through 60 years of song, poetry, and novels. Pally traces Cohen’s understanding of humanity’s relational, indeed covenantal, nature and his despair at our breaches of the relationships we need in our personal and political lives.  Cohen knew himself to be a covenant fail-er par excellence and struggled with why God…

Join Rabbi Kalmanofsky and Judith Shulevitz in conversation with Noam Sachs Zion, author of the new book Sanctified Sex: The 2,000-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy. We will discuss how old and new Jewish sages reflect on human eros, emotions, and ethics. Zion is one of our generation's greatest Jewish educators and interpreters of our tradition. You may have encountered him through his extraordinary haggadot, A Different Night and A Night to Remember, as well as A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home, and his…