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October 2024
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 »West Side Minyan Yom Kippur Mincha Services
Join the West Side Minyan for our Yom Kippur services. Held in-person (with tickets pre-arranged with the office) or on Zoom. Please see our High Holiday webpage for more info, including a digital version of the Mahzor.
Find out more »Yom Kippur Mincha/Ne’ila Service
Join the Ansche Chesed community for our Yom Kippur Mincha Service. Note: attendance at this service requires tickets, arranged with the office in advance. Our Mincha Service will include a dramatic telling of the story of Jonah with Jerry Raik. Families are invited to join us in the Chapel at 6:35pm as we gather for our spectacular Neilah children’s light parade, so we can hand out glowsticks and march together. Please see our High Holiday webpage for more info on…
Find out more »Minyan M’at Yom Kippur Minha/Ne’ila Services
Join Minyan M’at for their Minha and Ne'ila services. Note: attendance at this service requires tickets, arranged with the office in advance. Learn more about Minyan M'at
Find out more »Yom Kippur Children’s Neilah Light Parade
Children and their parents are welcome to join our spectacular Light Parade, which marches during Neilah as we conclude Yom Kippur services. Gather beforehand in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel so that we can hand out glowsticks and march together.
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.
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