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June 2019
Levana: A Rosh Chodesh Group for Women
We hope you can join us for the next Levana, a women's Rosh Chodesh social group at Ansche Chesed. Come for conversation, a glass of wine and a bite to eat. Bring your old friends or make some new ones. Open to AC members and non-members at any age and stage. RSVP appreciated, but walk-ins welcome. Food and drink will be pot-luck. Please sign up here to bring something for the potluck. Questions? Please contact Stephanie Rose or Rabbi Yael.
Find out more »Stay the Night: Annual Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Ansche Chesed's own Pre-Kun: 7-9pm. Stay the Night: 10pm (doors open at 9:30pm) - Sunday, June 9 at 5am Both the Pre-Kun and the Tikkun take place at Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan Stay the Night is a signature spring event at the JCC. Listen to fascinating presenters and enjoy vibrant programming all night long. Did we mention there'd be cheesecake? Featuring: Kosher/Soul with Michael Twitty NASA Astrophysicist David Spergel and Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofskyon Creation and Cosmology Bret Stephens, Peter Beinart, and others on…
Find out more »The Soul of the Stranger
The Torah through A Transgender Perspective with Joy Ladin Join us for Shabbat Dinner with Joy Ladin. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others―challenges that can help us understand a God…
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Scribblers on the Roof
Monday evenings, from 8 to 10pm. $5 suggested contribution. Join us on the Ansche Chesed roof to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work. Beverages and books are available for purchase. If it rains, come anyway. We have a perfect indoor space. Full Lineup: June 17 Lynda Cohen Loigman, “The Wartime Sisters” Kitty Zeldis, “Not Our Kind” June 24 Linda Meyers, “The Tell: A Memoir” Laurie Gwen Shapiro, “The Stowaway” July 1 Sarah…
Find out more »Speaker: Evie Litwok from the Suitcase Project
Every year, 700,000 people are released from prison. In the New York area alone, 50,000 are expected to reenter the community this year. “Too many of these returning citizens have no support network, and often remain on the streets, without access to any supportive resources,” says Evie Litwok, Founder and Executive Director of Witness to Mass Incarceration. People returning to the community after paying their debts to society deserve basic necessities.
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Ansche Chesed Barbecue On The Roof
Summertime, and the living is easy... Join us as we start our July 4th festivities early at the Ansche Chesed BBQ. As the evening sky emerges, we will enjoy traditional hotdogs and hamburgers (veggies options too), as we enjoy the warmth of Summer. In the event of rain, we will hold this event indoors, so plan on coming!
Find out more »July 2019
Accompaniment Training at Ansche Chesed
Join Ansche Chesed and The New Sanctuary Committee (NSC) for an Accompaniment Training. The NSC accompaniment program recruits and trains volunteers to accompany people facing deportation to their immigration hearings and ICE check-ins. This provides moral support to the person facing deportation and enables volunteers to hold immigration authorities accountable. Standing in solidarity with migrants facing deportation also demonstrates to immigration judges, ICE officers, and government attorneys that there is a community mobilized against their deportation. NSC accompanies hundreds of people a year. The Immigration Accompaniment…
Find out more »DOROT Lunch and Learn
Bring your lunch, and come and meet DOROT’s Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ARSP) volunteer, Lukas Baur, as he talks about his journey from Germany to the United States for a year of volunteering with DOROT. RSVP to Yael Kornfeld at 917-441-3705 or at ykornfeld@dorotusa.org
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AC at the Staten Island Yankees
Take me out to the ball game! Take me out with the crowd!
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back...
Is there a better way there to spend a summer afternoon than a day at the park?
The Staten Island Yankees will play the West Virginia Black Bears (a minor league team of the Pittsburgh Pirates), and we'll root, root, root for the home team!
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