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November 2016
Hebrew School: No School, Thanksgiving
At the Ansche Chesed Hebrew School, we help children discover their spirituality, learn to live the rhythms of Jewish life and discover themselves as members of the Jewish people.
Find out more »Hebrew School: No School, Thanksgiving
At the Ansche Chesed Hebrew School, we help children discover their spirituality, learn to live the rhythms of Jewish life and discover themselves as members of the Jewish people.
Find out more »Daily Minyan: Thanksgiving
Meeting in the chapel on the ground floor, this daily service is brisk and allows for a more meditative and personal approach to prayer.
Find out more »Monthly Middot: Gratitude
Tuesday, November 29 from 8:30-9:30am Join Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky for bagels and coffee at our morning learning session. Each month, we will reflect on virtues - courage, honesty, generosity, humility - that make for excellent Jewish character. What makes these character virtues admirable and desirable? How do we apply them in modern life? How does a person acquire these traits? Consider joining us for morning minyan beforehand, or stay after davening if you are already a minyan regular. This Month:…
Find out more »December 2016
Change a Story and You Can Change the World
Join the Ansche Chesed community for a Shabbat dinner and learn from Dr. Dovid Roskies about how, bu learning the power of twice-told tales, three restless rebellious Jews—Reb Nahman of Braslav, I. L. Peretz and I.B. Singer— were reborn as Yiddish storytellers. **Families Welcome! Open Gym available from 6:30-9pm** Register using link below.
Find out more »Torah Study with Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses
Rabbi Kalmanofsky leads a discussion on the weekly Torah portion, looking at it through the eyes of favorite commentators, ancient, medieval, modern, midrashic, mystical and academic. This week Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses will teach Toldot in place of Rabbi Kalmanofsky.
Find out more »Family Shabbat Services and Dinners
Join Rabbi Yael and Deena Cowans for family-friendly Shabbat services, followed by Shabbat dinner, dynamic learning, and open gym. A great time to meet new friends and reconnect with old friends.
Find out more »Record Your Story
During our year-long Humans of Ansche Chesed programming, we hope to compile a database of the stories that compose who we are as a community. In just a few minutes of audio (we don't need more than 3 or 5 minutes!), we would love to hear a story about YOU. No matter how silly or serious, how unique or mundane, we want to hear YOUR story. It can be about an experience at Ansche Chesed, or it can have nothing…
Find out more »Lecture and Text Study in Memory of Dr. Yochanan Muffs, זצ״ל
Desperately Seeking Israel: Divine Struggles with Intimacy in the Torah with Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses The Torah's famous phrase: Panim El Panim-- meeting God face to face, has become a well-used maxim. We know that meeting God face to face is mortally dangerous for human beings. And, indeed, for the Israelites, meeting God in visual or auditory form is not an easy encounter; it is fraught with fear and trembling. In this lecture/text study, we will consider the nature of the divine/human encounter…
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