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Kiddush this Shabbat is in honor of our most recent Torah Reading Class participants – Yona Corn, Seth Goldman, Nick James, Olivia Peterson, David Shimoni – who chanted from the Torah. Mazel Tov!

RSVP now for an evening of food, drink, community, and appreciation for our 2023 honorees, and place an ad in the tribute journal honoring Bena Medjuck-Bruckner & Gustavo Bruckner; Elaine Morris, Elisheva Urbas & David Morris; and Deb & Sol Mowshowitz. View the journal to see the community's gratitude to our honorees.

The Executive Director Search Committee would appreciate your help spreading the word by sharing the job description within your networks.

For more information about the position or to apply, please send a cover letter and résumé by email to directorsearch@anschechesed.org.

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Family Shavuot Pajama Party: 5:30-7pm

Shavuot "Pre-kun" on the Roof: 7:15-9:30pm

TeleTefila Tikkun: 7-10pm on Zoom

Marlene Meyerson JCC's Paul Feig z"l Tikkun Leil Shavuot: 10pm - 5am

Sanctuary Service: 9:45am In-Person, Livestream or on Zoom

Minyan M'at Service: 10am in 5 North

Community Potluck Lunch: After Services on the Roof

Sanctuary Service: 9:45am In-Person, Livestream or on Zoom

Minyan M'at Service: 10am in 5 North

TeleTefila Service: 9:40am P'sukei D'zimra, 10am Shacharit on Zoom

Join us for a family-friendly Shavuot celebration with stories, songs, dairy dinner and ice cream. Pajamas welcome -- come party in your PJs! Register here.

Come study with AC members and clergy:

We will have light food, recite Kiddush and pray the evening service, concluding early enough to enable those who wish to attend the JCC Tikkun as well.

After services, the Sanctuary and Minyan M’at will join together for a communal potluck lunch. All minyanim are welcome!

Salmon will be provided for everyone. 

Please bring one of the following to share with others: Salad, Side Dish, or Dessert.

Every year on Shavuot -- the holiday in which ancient Israelites brought bikkurim, the first fruits of their harvests, to the Temple in Jerusalem -- AC invites parents of newborns to bring their babies for a celebratory group aliyah. You can come on the 2nd Day of Shavuot for the whole service, or just slip in for a short visit around 10:30am for the aliyah. Email Rabbi Yael with any questions.

Mazel tov to our most recent Torah Reading Class participants, many of whom will chant from the Torah on the 2nd Day of Shavuot, followed by kiddush in Hirsch Hall. Please consider supporting kiddush to celebrate our new Torah readers: Yona Corn, Seth Goldman, Nick James, Olivia Peterson, David Shimoni.

RuPaul's Drag Race brought drag culture to the mainstream, and with it some fierce Jewish queens, but this art form has a long and diverse history. We will trace the subversive roots of cross-dressing in ancient texts, move through the traditions of drag queens and kings in Yiddish diaspora theatre, visit modern day gender-bending drag in prime-time TV and examine sabra drag among the LGBTQIA+ Israeli community. Learn more and register.

The UWS cluster will begin marching at 1pm (parade begins at 12pm); the route is 1 mile.

Please register here to march with the UWS cluster. Contact Gali Rabin Choresh with any questions.

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 (or indoors if it rains). Snacks, beverages and books available for purchase.

Adam Kirsch, The Revolt Against Humanity and The Discarded Life

Joseph Berger, Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

Michael Frank, One Hundred Saturdays

Judy Katz, How News Travels

Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds

Meryl Frank, Unearthed

Learn more about our authors!

Rabbi Noa Sattath has been on the frontline of Israel's battles for civil rights and equality for all. As Executive Director of the New Israel Fund's flagship grantee, the Association for Civil Rights Israel (ACRI), she is continuing to work for a more just, equal, and free society for all Israelis and Palestinians. Register or learn more.

Jewish life often seems to demand a lot of background knowledge. Where do you learn it all, especially as an adult? Join Rabbis Hammerman and Kalmanofsky to learn anew or go back and review core Jewish practices and concepts.

Saturdays, 9am in the Chapel or on Zoom

Come before class at 8:45am for hot coffee and schmoozing! This class is dedicated to Rabbi Jules Harlow, a great teacher of Torah and Jewish liturgy. Click here for this week's Source Sheet (updated on Friday afternoon). 

Join Rabbi Kalmanofsky and his buddies, Rabbis Barry Chesler and Eliot Malomet, for their weekly Parsha Talk, more popularly known as "Three Old Guys Talking About the Parsha." Click here for the latest episode!

We invite you to add the names of your dear ones to our Misheberakh List so that we can include them in our weekly Shabbat prayers for healing. Click here to submit names. Names will remain on the Mishaberakh list for one month.

ACRA is part of AC's response to the world refugee crisis. Over the past year, we have helped four families rebuild their lives in the US.

Learn more about AC's Refugee Assistance efforts HERE.

To become more involved, please reach out to us HERE.