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June 2024
TeleTefila Shavuot Service
Held virtually via Zoom 9:40am P'sukei D'zimra, 10am Shacharit Includes Yizkor
Find out more »Community-Wide Shavuot Potluck Lunch Celebrating Vivian Awner
After services, the Ansche Chesed community will join together for a potluck lunch to celebrate our wonderful friend Vivian Awner. Please wear turquoise (her favorite color) in her honor. Salmon will be provided and we ask each attendee to please bring a dairy or pareve salad, side dish, or dessert to share. Food may be purchased under rabbinic supervision, cooked in a kosher kitchen, or prepared uncooked in any kitchen. All are welcome and because we are planning a personalized gift for each…
Find out more »Conversation with Tammy Gotlieb
On the second Day of Shavuot, Ansche Chesed is very fortunate to welcome Tammy Gotlieb, who will davven with us in the Sanctuary and speak after services in the Multi-Purpose Room. Please take Kiddush from Hirsch Hall and join us for the conversation. Tammy Gotlieb is a long-time path-breaker in building liberal and feminist Judaism in Israel, from her days as a combat soldier when few women took that role. Tammy is the Director of New Initiatives for our Masorti…
Find out more »Scribblers on the Roof: Franklin Foer, “The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending” and The Last Politician Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future
Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase. See our full Scribblers lineup and learn more about our authors. This Week: Franklin Foer “The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending” and The Last Politician Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future FRANKLIN FOER on his Atlantic cover story, “The Golden…
Find out more »Family Summer Sendoff
Join us for a delicious Shabbat dinner before folks head off for the summer! Families with kids are invited to join us for a participatory Family Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 5:30 and dinner at 6:00. Register online by Wednesday June 19th at 10am.
Find out more »Torah and Technology: Circuits, Cells and the Sacred Path, with Rabbi Daniel Nevins
Join us after morning minyan for breakfast and study as our member, Rabbi Nevins, presents material from his new book of Halakhic studies on ethical quandaries in technocentric times. This sensitive and learned book applies our classic tradition to cutting-edge themes like artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and medical ethics.
Find out more »Scribblers on the Roof: Anita Norich, Desires
Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase. See our full Scribblers lineup and learn more about our authors. This Week: Anita Norich Desires (translator) Yiddish-literature scholar and translator ANITA NORICH on her translation of Desires by modernist poet Celia Dropkin and on the works of Israel Joshua Singer, “one of the few genuine novelists…
Find out more »Pride Month Lunch, Learn and Love: A Kiddush Conversation with Michaela Slutsky and Rabbi Yael Hammerman
Join Rabbi Yael Hammerman and Michaela Slutsky for a conversation over Kiddush in honor of Pride Month. Michaela will share from her professional and personal experience about the role and voices of LGBTQ+ individuals and community in the organized and "not-yet-organized" Jewish community, and about her work raising up marginalized Jewish voices. Michaela is the Northeast Regional Director at Repair the World, and has spent the last decade as an educator, director, and community builder. Passionate about serving marginalized communities,…
Find out more »July 2024
Scribblers on the Roof: Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase. See our full Scribblers lineup and learn more about our authors. This Week: Sloane Crosley Grief is for People Novelist and essayist SLOANE CROSLEY on her bestselling memoir Grief Is for People (2024). “Is it wrong to say that a memoir about loss and grieving is fun to read? If…
Find out more »Scribblers on the Roof: Owen Lewis and Carlie Hoffman
Join us at our popular literary program to hear emerging and established Jewish writers read from their recent work, all on our breezy and beautiful rooftop space. Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase. See our full Scribblers lineup and learn more about our authors. This Week: Owen Lewis and Carlie Hoffman Prize-winning poet CARLIE HOFFMAN and poet OWEN LEWIS will read from their works. OWEN LEWIS is the author of two chapbooks and four poetry collections, most recently, Knock…
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