January 15, 2022 @ 9:30 am – Shabbat Sanctuary Morning Service with Rabbi Siegel, Cantor Brook, and Cantor Berke This Saturday morning, we celebrate Shabbat Shira and will be joined, during service, by guest pianist Christopher Mahieu, who will play our newly donated Steinway piano. Approximate Shabbat Morning times: 9:30AM • Morning Service begins 10AM • Torah service and a musically enhanced Musaf with […]
January 17, 2022 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.
January 20, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – A New Virtual Melton Curriculum Discover, during this virtual six-week course, the Jewish responses and rituals that take us through mourning and arrive at a place of healing. When death inevitably enters our lives, Jewish wisdom and ritual can help us cope with heartbreak and loss, the anguish of why suffering exists. We will also […]
January 22, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – Join us for Havdalah Around Chicago on Jan. 22, at 6 pm at various locations throughout the greater Chicagoland area. We will be there as a community to end Shabbat on a cold winter night. In case of severely cold weather or a snowstorm, we will let you know if we are postponing this event […]
January 24, 2022 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.
January 25, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – The Chicago Gang Database has been the subject of multiple lawsuits, public hearings, and investigations in recent years. Although intended as a tool to document gang affiliation, poor data gathering practices have resulted in widespread inaccuracies that have a disproportionate and lasting impact on Black and Brown Chicagoans. Join us on January 25 at 7pm […]
January 27, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – A love story between clashing cultures and families, Kiss Me Kosher is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and an Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don’t fit but do belong together? Register Here Link will be sent to you 24 […]
January 29, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 6pm Community Havdalah Service and Shirah B’tzibur Song Session via Zoom Join the AES clergy for Havdalah as we bid farewell to Shabbat together and greet each other panim al panim, face to face, with blessings and song. The community is invited to stay afterwards with Cantor Rachel Brook and special guest, Cantor Laurie Akers for a […]
January 31, 2022 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.
January 31, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – With guest, Malina Saval, editor at Variety and author of The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens and the novel Jewish Summer Camp Mafia. In preparation, please read Malina’s article from variety on the subject of Jews in Hollywood. Register here Questions? Contact Amy Karp at akarp@ansheemet.org / 773.868.5139.
