Featured Featured December 8, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Event Series Shabbat@WHC Shabbat Hanukkah@WHC Hybrid - Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Schedule | Activities | Menu | RSVP We invite you to end your week, welcome Shabbat, and celebrate Hanukkah with the whole family! It’s an electric Festival of Lights as we make Temple glow for Ha-NEON-ukkah. Glow sticks, blacklights, glow-in-the-dark dreidels, and more will make this a Hanukkah to remember. Wear neon colors or white ...
December 9, 2023 @ 6:15 am - 7:15 am Event Series Pray Your Values: Support Abortion Access & Justice Pray Your Values: Support Abortion Access & Justice Non-WHC Site Join Rabbi Fischel, the National Council of Jewish Women, and other local synagogues on Saturday morning, 6:15 am (that is no typo — 6:15 am!) with a Shabbat Morning Service outside the Falls Church Health Care Center, 900 S Washington Street, Falls Church, VA 22046. This health center is an abortion provider that is picketed daily by abortion foes. We will ...
December 9, 2023 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am Event Series Early Torah Study Early Torah Study Hybrid - Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Every Shabbat morning, we begin the day with an informal group at Temple to study parashat hashavua, the weekly Torah portion, in English. Led by one of the clergy, we analyze, question, and reflect on Judaism’s central text. All are welcome — just occasionally or every week — and absolutely no background knowledge or ...
December 9, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Tiny Lights: Tales for Chanukah Non-WHC Site Join WHC to celebrate the joy of Chanukah and the power of the imagination for an interactive event that includes hearing great stories—and then playing with how to do the same in your own home! This show is best suited for families with children ages 4-9, though all are welcome! Check out theaterj.org/tiny-lights/ to learn more, and ...
December 9, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Event Series Shabbat Morning Worship Shabbat Morning Worship Hybrid - Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Our Shabbat morning service, led by our rabbis and cantors, often includes the b’nei mitzvah of one of our teens as well as the traditional elements of a Shabbat morning service: prayers, responsive readings, music, reading from the Torah, and a d’var Torah (interpretation of the weekly Torah portion). On mornings when there is no ...
December 9, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series WHC Connections: Haftarah Study Group WHC Connections: Haftarah Study Group Online Every Shabbat afternoon an informal group of WHC members gets together on Zoom to discuss the Haftarah for that week. We begin with a read-through in English and continue sharing questions, answers, and opinions. The group meets for one hour and is led by the lay members of the congregation. All Temple members are welcome. ...
Featured Featured December 9, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm 2239 Beyond the Lights of Hanukkah Non-WHC Site Come and celebrate Hanukkah with us at ARTECHOUSE DC! Experience the magic of this festive season like never before and immerse yourself in a mesmerizing display of lights, colors, and interactive installations. Beyond the Light, an original artistic expression of scientific discoveries, is the story of how human innovation has enabled us to see beyond our imaginations ...
December 10, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm Hanukkah Helpers with WHC’s Hunger Project JBSC 11810 Falls Road, Potomac, MD, United States On Sunday, December 10, students in grades 2-12 are invited to be a "Hanukkah Helper" and to give back to the community at a time when so many are in need. We'll be working with the WHC Hunger Project to package up thousands of meals that will go to those who would otherwise go hungry in our ...
December 10, 2023 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Event Series Release the Hostages Rally Release the Hostages Vigil Community Event Release the Hostages Vigil Sundays, 1:30 pm, Red Cross Headquarters in DC Unxeptable.org invites you to join in calling for the immediate release of the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and being held in Gaza. The group plans to gather every Sunday until the hostages are released. Please contact Ronit Yarden, riy2@georgetown.edu, for more information.
December 11, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Event Series Conversational Hebrew (Spring 2024) Conversational Hebrew Online Learning to speak a new language as an adult can be daunting. We offer an innovative method that emphasizes conversation over decoding, and you’ll find yourself speaking Hebrew in the very first class. You don’t need to read Hebrew, or even know the aleph-bet. For the Spring 2024 semester, our 8-week Conversational Hebrew classes will begin ...
December 11, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Event Series Conversational Hebrew Fall 2023 Conversational Hebrew Online Learning to speak a new language as an adult can be daunting. We offer an innovative method that emphasizes conversation over decoding, and you’ll find yourself speaking Hebrew in the very first class. You don’t need to read Hebrew, or even know the aleph-bet. For the Fall 2023 semester, our 8-week Conversational Hebrew classes will begin ...
December 11, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Series 12 Jewish Questions (Fall 2023) 12 Jewish Questions Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States DO I NEED TO BELIEVE IN GOD TO BE JEWISH? WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WE DIE? WHERE IS GOD IN TIMES OF TRAGEDY? HOW DO I REST WHEN I HAVE NO TIME? 12 Jewish Questions is a learning community for adults – Jewish and non-Jewish – who have questions about Jewish identity, beliefs, culture, and customs. It’s an ...
December 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Event Series Conversational Hebrew (Spring 2024) Conversational Hebrew Online Learning to speak a new language as an adult can be daunting. We offer an innovative method that emphasizes conversation over decoding, and you’ll find yourself speaking Hebrew in the very first class. You don’t need to read Hebrew, or even know the aleph-bet. For the Spring 2024 semester, our 8-week Conversational Hebrew classes will begin ...
December 12, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Event Series (Higher) Power Lunch with 2239 (Higher) Power Lunch with 2239 Online Tired of spending your lunch break scrolling through social media/the news/your morning inbox? What if you could use this time to get in touch with your spiritual side by exploring Torah (over Zoom) with other smart and interesting people? Every Tuesday from 12:30-1:00 pm, Washington Hebrew’s 2239 community will dive into the week’s Torah portion, ...
December 12, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Event Series Back to Basics (Fall 2023) Back to Basics Online Explore why we do what we do as Jews, find the sources for our traditions, and delve into the origins of these ideas. Through holidays, life cycle events, history, theology, beginning Hebrew literacy, Jewish religious movements, Torah laws, the Mishnah, the Talmud, and Kabbalah, we’ll uncover the answers to the “why” behind Judaism. For our ...
