Parshat T’tzavveh
February 27, 2021 / 15 Adar 5781
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Mishloah Manot Pick-Up and In Person Purim Gathering (Weather permitting)
Thursday, February 25, 4:45-5:45pm 100th Street and West End Avenue
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Ansche Chesed Celebrates Purim: A Virtual P.P.E (Purim Pandemonium Experience): Thursday, February 25, 6pm Via Zoom
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Minyan M'at Full Megillah Reading Thursday, February 25, 6:30pm Via Zoom
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Leil Purim - TeleMegillah II: Thursday, February 25, 6:30pm Via Zoom
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Full Megillah Reading: Friday, February 26, 7:30am Minyan 8:10 Megillah Reading Via Zoom
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Mishloah Manot Pick-Up and In Person Purim Gathering (Weather permitting) Friday, February 26, 12-1pm 100th Street and West End Avenue
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Kabbalat Shabbat: Friday, 5:30pm Via Zoom
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Sanctuary Services: Saturday, 9:45am Via Zoom
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Mishpacha Service: Saturday, 10am Via Zoom ( Next Service March 13)
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TeleTefila Services: Saturday, 10am Via Zoom
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TeleTefilah Havdallah Saturday, 6:26pm Via Zoom
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Torah Reading: T’tzavveh | Exodus 27:20 - 30:10 (28:31 - 29:18)
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Haftara: Ezekiel 43:10 - 27
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The Un-Distancing Hour: Returns NEXT Thursday, 5:30pm Via Zoom
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High Risk: Stories We Don't Tell w/Chavi Karkowsky Thursday, 7pm Via Zoom
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Shabbat Morning Study: Saturday, 8:45am Via Zoom
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Psalm Of The Week Tuesday, 8:15am Via Zoom
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Talmud Study With Rabbi Kalmanofsky Wednesday, 7pm Via Zoom
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We wish comfort to Michael and James Shapiro -- as well as their wives and children, Susan Chira and Mary Cregan, and their children Eliza, Jay and Luke -- at the passing of their father and grandfather, Herbert Shapiro. |
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Tax Letters
The Ansche Chesed office sent 2020 tax letters to all members in early February. If you did not receive your letter, please contact Josh Ashley in the Ansche Chesed offices and he will arrange to get another copy sent to you.
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Monday-Friday at 7:30am
Sunday at 8:30am
or call: 929 205 6099
Meeting ID: 933 006 171
Passcode: minyan
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Join us as we begin Shabbat with our traditional Kabbalat Shabbat and, now that Shabbat is beginning earlier, a full maariv service.
Please join the Ansche Chesed clergy to reconnect with our community as well as find nourishment and inspiration in the music and words of our tradition.
Please click in before services begin for some time to schmooze and greet each other first, the ritual gathering will start at 5:30pm.
or call
929 205 6099,
Meeting ID: 875 1782 0145
Passcode: Shabbat
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Shabbat Morning Services:
Join the Ansche Chesed community for a traditional Conservative Shabbat morning prayer service. We will recite prayers for healing during our morning services. Since most participants will be muted, you won't get to call out the name of those you have in mind. If you'd like to give Rabbi Kalmanofsky the name of an ailing friend or loved one, please email the names to him at RJK@AnscheChesed.org and include your relationship to the person you are praying for. When/if the person you've been praying for is doing better, please let us know, so we can joyfully remove them from this list!
We hope that everyone will be able to fully participate with us!
or call
929 205 6099
Meeting ID: 875 1782 0145
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Mishloach Manot Pick-Up and In Person Purim Gatherings
Thursday, February 25th at 5pm and Friday, February 26th at 12:15pm
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Weather permitting, during our Mishloach Manot pick up on Thursday and Friday, we invite you to join the Ansche Chesed community on our street (100th and West End Avenue) for a masked (both costume and protective), socially distanced, Purim experience including the reading of a portion of the megillah, some Purim songs, and unity as as community. |
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Minyan M'at Erev Purim Megillah Reading
Thursday, February 25th at 6:30pm Via Zoom
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Join with the Minyan M'at community to celebrate Purim and hear a full reading of Megillat Esther.
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Leil Purim: TeleMegillah II
Thursday, February 25th at 6:30pm Via Zoom
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Megillah reading in the EVENING (a joint project of Minyan Rimonim and the West Side Minyan). There will be songsheets and SINGING!
Wear a costume! Bring snacks to “share”! Bring alcoholic beverages — you don’t have to worry about driving home! Be frailach! Nu?
Meeting ID: 896 1220 8109
Passcode: 403117
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Morning Minyan and Full Megillah Reading
Friday, February 26, 7:30am (Megillah reading will being at 8:10am Via Zoom
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Join us for our daily morning minyan, and stay for a full reading of the megillah at the end of the services.
Meeting ID: 933 006 171
Passcode: minyan
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UPCOMING SPECIAL PROGRAMS |
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Hillel’s Burrito, the Spanish Pesach Bunny, and Pomegranates From the Sea: Seder Gems from Fruits of Freedom, the Torah Flora Hagadah
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Much of the Pesach seder is rooted in the history of Jewish food and agriculture. Dr. Greenberg will present some of this forgotten Pesach lore that he recovered during his research for this unique and important new Hagadah. Come learn about the German rabbi who reversed the meaning of maror by replacing it with vermouth herbs; how ancient rabbis used botany, physics, and sophisticated culinary techniques to explain the Paschal lamb barbecue; and how the potential conflicts between Torah and science over leaning left at the seder and baking matzah in the southern hemisphere have been resolved.
Dr. Jon Greenberg is one of the very few living biblical and talmudic ethnobotanists. He is often consulted by rabbis and other scholars for his broad knowledge of this area.
Meeting ID: 836 6374 8288
Passcode: Pesach
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Who Knows Four?: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Passover Seder
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Why is the number four so important in the Passover Seder? Join Rabbi Bill Plevan to study the passage of the four children from the Haggadah and similar Rabbinic texts. Are these texts inclusive or exclusive? What can we learn from these texts about the tension between maintaining standards of behavior (moral or religious) and achieving inclusive community?
Rabbi Bill Plevan holds rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a doctorate in Religion from Princeton University where he wrote his dissertation on the German-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber.
Meeting ID: 825 8542 6230
Passcode: pesach
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Family Memoir Workshop: The Holiday Meal
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Nothing says family like food. But how do you tell your family’s story when there are so many meals to choose from? The Family Memoir Workshop invites you and your family—wherever they are—to join us for a virtual class as we discover new ways to put our stories on the page.
Within family clusters, you’ll decide on a shared holiday meal—Passover, Hanukkah, the break-fast following Yom Kippur—and then each of you will write it from your own individual perspective. Sharing these stories will let you see the same event through someone else’s eyes and bring you even closer to both the story and each other. Join us with your parents, children, siblings, or cousins, and together we’ll learn what it means to write about food and the significant role it plays in your family, culture, and community.
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To Schmooze or not to Schmooze: The Un-Distancing Hour
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Before the pandemic, Kiddush has traditionally been a way for people at Ansche Chesed to connect with one another, to share milestones, to kvetch and moan a bit, to express support to friends who are going through one of life's many struggles, or even to share a joke. It's informal, unstructured, and enables people to check in and out as they please. The Pre-Shabbat Un-Distancing Hour is a way to enable people to get together and continue doing that with one another, for one another.
So join us with your paper cup of seltzer or beverage of your choice. Looking forward to schmoozing.
Meeting ID: 859 7986 0603
Passcode: schmooze
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While we will not be together in person on Shabbat morning for services, that doesn't mean that we can not study together. Join Rabbi Kalmanofsky to delve into the weekly portion through the eyes of favorite commentators-ancient, medieval, and modern; midrashic, mystical, and academic.
Meeting ID: 875 1782 0145
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Join us for virtual mindfulness meditation and contemplative practices to help us keep centered in these unpredictable times. A number of our fellow congregants are experienced meditation leaders and will act as facilitators. Through the wonders of technology, we can enjoy the power of meditating together as a community.
No prior meditation experience is necessary.
Meeting ID: 614 506 599
Passcode: breathe
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Most of the Bible reads as God's communication to humanity, in messages delivered through prophets like the unique Moses and his successors, Isaiah, Jeremiah and the rest. But in the Book of Psalms, Israel turns toward heaven and pours out its praises, hopes, fears and laments.
Please join Rabbi Kalmanofsky for a 30-minute Zoom study of one Psalm each Tuesday morning. 8:30am, to explore the human poetry that reveals our ancestors' spiritual life. (You don't have to join the 7:30 am morning service immediately before the class ... but it would be a terrific lead-in!)
Meeting ID: 933 006 171
Passcode: minyan
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Shirei Chesed Community Chorus
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Even in the Covid era, our Shirei Chesed Community Chorus will continue to build community through learning a rich and diverse repertoire of Jewish music, and bring harmony into the world that needs it more than ever. In lieu of live performances, this semester we will focus our efforts this semester on growing our repertoire and musicianship, as well as recording a virtual choir project.
Meeting ID: 9830 7068 203
Passcode: 963608
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Talmud Study With Rabbi Kalmanofsky:
Taking Responsibility and Fixing Mistakes
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Jewish ethics require us to be responsible people — that we fix what we break, and pay for our crimes. This year we will study some of the Talmud’s lengthy examination of torts, the complicated economic damages people can cause. Bava Kamma chapter 9 examines the laws of robbery, fraud and the restitution those criminals must make.
Meeting ID: 872 9427 4347
Passcode: bavakamma
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Casting Call for Adon Olam-nikim - Calling all AC Kids! |
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One of the many things we miss during this era of virtual services are our Adon Olam-nikim - our adorable cadre of kids who lead Adon Olam at the end of Shabbat services each week. We would love to give YOUR child/ren a chance to shine on Zoom, and showcase their "Adon Olam" skills. All Adon Olam-nikim will receive a candy treat after their "service"!
Learning Adon Olam for the first time, or need a refresher? Check out our "Karaoke Adon Olam" with Rabbi Josh Warshawsky, linked here
Rabbi Yael or Cantor Natasha are also available to review Adon Olam with any kids who are interested. Please reach out to Rabbi Yael to sign up for a Shabbat slot!
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Mishpacha Services
March 13, 27, April 10, 24, May 8, 22, June 5
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Babies, toddlers and preschool age kids and their families are invited to join Leilah for our Mishpacha Service, this Friday afternoon. Get ready for Shabbat with songs, puppets, movement -- and your friends from Ansche Chesed.
Meeting ID: 634 698 822
Passcode: shabbat
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Teen Class With Rabbi Kalmanofsky and Adina Beiner
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AC high school students are invited to join Rabbi Kalmanofsky and Adina Beiner, Ansche Chesed’s Youth Director, for a bi-weekly class on Tuesdays. Throughout the year we will be choosing meaningful and relevant topics to discuss and unpack as a group (with some time left for schmoozing as well!). |
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Project Aliyah Mitzvah Project Workshop
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As your family prepares for your upcoming celebration, there is a great opportunity to explore the mitzvah of Tikkun Olam- our obligation to repair the world. There is a tradition that B'nai Mitzvah students take on a mitzvah project in honor of their upcoming ceremony. Join us for this Project Aliyah workshop as we learn more about the mitzvot of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) and Tzedakah (charity), share resources and ideas for projects, and provide a space to begin or continue working on your family's own mitzvah project. |
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SOCIAL ACTION & COMMUNITY SERVICE |
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Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry
A few weeks ago, we sent you an e-mail explaining that an Ansche Chesed member was in profound need of a transplant to address her rapidly worsening leukemia. We urged you to find someone between 18 and 35 to register as a potential donor with the hopes that we would find a match.
We're off to a good start, but we need to do more! A few minutes of your time can literally save a life.
More information is available here.
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Community Fridges Need Our Support |
Looking for a way to ease hunger in our community this holiday season and beyond? Consider supporting one of the friendly fridges in our neighborhood. At community refrigerators anyone may take what they need or leave food for others.
Donations of fresh produce, frozen meals, packaged and pantry items, etc., are all welcome.
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Ujamaa Community Fridge
Columbus Ave @ 101st Street
(West Side of Columbus)
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The West End Community Fridge
77th St between Broadway and WEA
open M-F, 9am-5pm
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Ansche Chesed is pleased to announce it has joined with other New York synagogues and communal organizations in an initiative called What Matters: Caring Conversations About End of Life. This effort aims to heighten awareness around the importance of completing advance care directives, and enable individuals to thoughtfully consider and document their end of life preferences, with opportunities to engage Jewish values as part of the process. Confidential conversations are conducted by trained and certified Ansche Chesed facilitators, who are available to answer important questions and help walk you through the process, clarifying your goals and wishes for future healthcare and related choices in case you are unable to speak for yourself.
We look forward to working with you on this important initiative. Should you wish to schedule a conversation, please eMail, whatmatters@anschechesed.org, or leave a message at (212)865.0600 x201, and we will be in touch with you as soon as possible.
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Do you know someone who is ill or in need of temporary support? The Bikkur Cholim Committee is here to help. |
If you know someone who is ill and in need of a visit or a meal, or other assistance, please contact the Bikkur Cholim committee. The Bikkur Cholim committee helps care for Ansche Chesed members who are ill or have been hospitalized. We visit them; telephone and send cards; provide meals, especially for Shabbat; shop for them; and escort them to doctors' appointments.
Click here for more information on life cycle support at Ansche Chesed.
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Yonina: See and Hear Jerusalem Like Never Before
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Join Ansche Chesed and UJA-Federation for a virtual musical tour of Jerusalem with Yonina, the Israel-American musical duo! On March 14th at 11am, we’ll hear a live acoustic performance, complemented by a very special musical journey to ancient Jerusalem filled with interesting and personal stories.
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Stream Favorites From the New York Jewish Film Festival |
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COVID Vaccine Resources
DOROT has created a wonderful resource on their website with information on how and where to find and make appointments to get the COVID vaccine, and/or find out if you are eligible.
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Get Covid-19 Exposure Alerts:
Add Your Phone, Stop The Spread
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To stop the spread of COVID-19, New York needs each of us to do our part. One way you can help yourself and your community is by participating in our newly launched mobile contract tracing app COVID Alert NY.
Download the free app to your smartphone to receive an alert if you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
Apple: Download on the App Store
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DOROT's Passover Package Delivery
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This Passover, staying apart doesn’t mean we can’t stay connected! Volunteer with DOROT, a Manhattan nonprofit that combats social isolation and promotes intergenerational connections, to deliver a package of Passover treats and share warmth and companionship over the phone with an older neighbor.
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Check in at DOROT on West 85th Street to collect the package.
- Drop off the package at the senior's front door on Manhattan's Upper East or West Side
- Connect with the senior by phone to share good wishes for the holiday season!
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Weekly Pandemic Support Group
Mondays at 6:30pm
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COVID19 has led to a significant amount of stress, and many people need a space of connection and support. The Jewish Board of Family and Children Services (JBFCS) is sponsoring a special support group to help those who are struggling, to get through the current pandemic. These Zoom sessions will be facilitated by Linda Jacobs, LMSW. Please contact Linda with any additional questions, concerns by email or at 914-980-2008.
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Chef's Table Kosher Catering has prepared gourmet foods, delivered to customers in New York City. These are be pre-cooked, delicious kosher meals delivered right to your door.
Visit their website to view their menu.
Contact Bruce at (917)-868-7964 or his website for more information.
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Join the Yaldaynu Community: 2021-22 Application Process Open |
Yaldaynu Preschool is currently accepting applications for the 2021-2022 school year! Yaldaynu is a child and family-centered school, defined by its warm and nurturing environment. We encourage intellectual, emotional, physical and social growth, and Yaldaynu parents are an integral part of this process. Our "neighborhood school" atmosphere promotes friendships between families that continue long after the children have moved on to other schools. Check out our website to learn more: www.yaldaynu.org. Email office@yaldaynu.org to set up a Zoom meeting with our Director!
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If you are a member, you may send "shuk" postings to shuk@anschechesed.org. All postings must have a member's contact info, and received by Tuesday at 3pm.
Postings run for only two weeks.
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Despite our best efforts and extensive proofreading, we apologize for any errors or omissions. Please note: If you wish to be included in the Community or Shuk sections of the Weekly Newsletter (which is sent out on Thursday), please email druskay@anschechesed.org with a Word or plain text version of your title, date/time, brief blurb, and relevant link/contact info by end of business on Tuesday.
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