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April 2025
Earth Day 2025: Celebrating Innovation and Action
Want to feel upbeat about saving the planet? Join the Jewish Climate Action Network NYC (JCAN) in collaboration with the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan at the JCC for an evening of film about creative and ambitious innovations followed by a talk by the director/producer and moderated discussion about the art of the possible. Buy Tickets -- $5 with promo code JCAN5 Cosponsored by Ansche Chesed.
Find out more »May 2025
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 »‘Meet Your Neighbor’ Mother’s Day Brunch with KKGAS
Join us to celebrate Mother's Day as Knock Knock Give a Sock invites mothers and children living in local homeless shelters for brunch. Neighbors will meet neighbors as we dine together and share experiences of motherhood. Programming provided for kids up to age 12. Dads and kids older than 12 will have volunteer roles with the younger kids so that the moms have a chance to relax and enjoy a break! Learn more and register
Find out more »June 2025
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…
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 »September 2025
Children’s Book Drive for PS 145
The 1,700+ books generously donated by Ansche Chesed households during the last academic year for the PS 145 Bookshelf flew off the shelves. The students of PS 145 would love more books as the new school year begins! Please bring children’s books to the Ansche Chesed lobby on Sunday, September 14th, from 11 am to 1 pm. The books will stock the PS 145 Community Bookshelf, where students can select books for free to take home, keep, and enjoy. The…
Find out more »ROOTED: A Jewish Day of Service for the Earth, with Adamah
Join New Yorkers of all ages from across NYC, Westchester, and Long Island, for ROOTED - a powerful, hands-on volunteer day of environmental service grounded in Jewish values. From parks to beaches to gardens, we’ll roll up our sleeves and care for the earth together, as one big New York family. AC will have its own volunteer group working together at a designated site. Learn More and Register When the registration form asks "Are you joining a group from one…
Find out more »November 2025
Blood Drive
Join us to save lives by giving blood. Appointments are preferred. Walk-ins will be welcomed if space permits. Please remember to eat, drink, and bring your donor ID card or ID with name and photo. Click here to make an appointment
Find out more »Shelter Volunteer Orientation
AC is thrilled to partner with Broadway Community to re-open our overnight shelter, after over 5 years, to our unhoused neighbors. Each evening starting December 1, we will offer hospitality, compassion, and dignity to seven guests experiencing homelessness. Volunteers are the heart of this effort! To prepare, we are hosting a “Shelter Volunteer Orientation.” This celebratory “training” is a way to thank everyone in advance for their involvement, AND is an interactive forum for volunteers, and potential volunteers, to learn…
Find out more »Winter Coat Drive
We are collecting new and gently worn coats and jackets in labeled boxes in the AC lobby through Sunday, November 23 at 4pm. We accept coats for adults and children. We will distribute the coats in Hirsch Hall the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Sign up by Wednesday, November 19 if you would like to volunteer to sort coats, set up, or help distribute. All ages welcome!
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