AC high school students are invited to join Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Rabbi Yael Hammerman, and Sam Hollander, Ansche Chesed’s Youth and Family Program Director, for a bi-weekly class involving current events, Jewish texts and engaging conversations. We’ll serve the pizza, and you’re encouraged to bring questions, ideas and your friends. As an “Alternative Break” during Presidents’ Week, February 18-22, we will go on a service trip to Memphis, Tennessee, to learn about the history of civil rights activism and do social justice volunteering. Space will be limited, and priority will be given to those who attend our classes.

Ethics from History and Today: Judaism, Fall Semester: Gender and Sexuality

Each week we will explore different topics of gender and sexuality through a Jewish lens. How did our tradition grapple with gender and sexuality throughout the ages, and what is taking place within the Jewish community today?

Spring Semester: The Jewish People, America, Zionism, and Judaism

How is Judaism like a religion, comparable to Christianity and Islam? How is it like a nation, comparable to France or Japan? For us American Jews, what is our connection to the modern state of Israel and to an ancestral homeland?