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February 2026
Weekday Morning Minyan
Morning Minyan is held in person in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel, Sundays through Fridays. Minyan begins at at 7:30am on weekdays and at 8:30am on Sundays and Civil Holidays. Services are also available virtually via Zoom. Please click here for more info. JOIN US VIA ZOOM at https://anschechesed.org/morningminyan Meeting ID: 933 006 171 | Passcode: minyan or call 929 205 6099
Find out more »Lunch and Learn: “There’s a Midrash About That!” with Rabbi Yael Hammerman
Working remotely? Retired? Stay-at-home parent? Taking a day off? Please join Rabbi Yael Hammerman for a monthly lunch-and-learn gathering where we will read midrashim from across the centuries. Midrashim help us fill in the blanks in the Torah, they add color to our black and white laws, and they help us develop our own voice and approach to Jewish text. Come - it will be fun! (No Hebrew background necessary). Learn more and RSVP Bring your lunch, according to the AC…
Find out more »Weekday Morning Minyan
Morning Minyan is held in person in the Mayer Cavalier Chapel, Sundays through Fridays. Minyan begins at at 7:30am on weekdays and at 8:30am on Sundays and Civil Holidays. Services are also available virtually via Zoom. Please click here for more info. JOIN US VIA ZOOM at https://anschechesed.org/morningminyan Meeting ID: 933 006 171 | Passcode: minyan or call 929 205 6099
Find out more »Rabbi Jules Harlow Parshat HaShavuah Class
Join us for our weekly Parashat HaShavua class before the start of Shabbat morning services in the Chapel. Come at 8:45am for hot coffee and a chance to schmooze before the 9am class. This weekly class is dedicated to Rabbi Jules Harlow, a great teacher of Torah and Jewish liturgy. Click here for the Source Sheet (updated Friday afternoons). Also available by Zoom.
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Sanctuary Service
The Sanctuary Service follows the traditional Conservative liturgy. We read the Torah on the annual cycle, completing the entire Torah each year.
Find out more »Minyan M’at
Minyan M’at is an independent, traditional, egalitarian community within Ansche Chesed. Now more than 30 years old, our group of over 150 households comes together to daven (pray), to learn, to celebrate and to sustain each other.
Find out more »Learner’s Minyan
The more comfortable you feel in synagogue, the more comforted you can feel in synagogue. Our rabbis and JTS interns -- Rabbi Hammerman, Rabbi Kalmanofsky, Toby Banks and Abigail Goldberg-Zelizer -- will rotate as leaders. You will become more familiar with the literary, spiritual, and musical highlights of the Saturday morning service. After the 45-minute sessions, we will rejoin the wider community in the Sanctuary. 9 Shabbat morning sessions, January 10 - March 7. RSVP here, walk-ins welcome!
Find out more »A Zionism for the Future: Discussion with Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller
Must Jewish nationalism display the zealotry and racism we see from extremists? Does Israel have resources to become a different kind of nationalism? Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller mines earlier generations of thinkers who believed that Judaism provided the framework to resist chauvinism and to build a moderate, inclusive, peace-seeking religious Zionism. We will hold two discussions, please join us for either or both. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP here
Find out more »Sunday Morning Minyan
Morning Minyan is held in person in the Chapel on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, and on Rosh Chodesh and Civil Holidays. Minyan begins at at 7:30am on weekdays and at 8:30am on Sundays and Civil Holidays. Services are also available virtually via Zoom on all days the minyan meets. In-person services are held in the Chapel. All Morning Minyan services will continue to be available on Zoom Please click here for more info. JOIN US VIA ZOOM at https://anschechesed.org/morningminyan…
Find out more »Reflections Through Painting and Collage: Workshop Series with Amy Tenenouser
In this painting and collage workshop series, led by artist Amy Tenenouser, participants will be introduced to a range of artists and art historical periods while exploring painting and collage through memory, reflection, and Jewish spiritual ideas and culture. Drawing inspiration from still life set-ups and themes that spark imagination and personal life stories, participants will begin to build the foundation for their own unique form of creative expression. Learn more and register
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