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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, ...

Event Series Hebrew Reading for Adults (Fall 2023)

Hebrew Reading for Adults

Online

If you would like to be able to read our prayers in Hebrew instead of relying on transliteration or keep up with what your kids (or grandkids) are learning in Religious School, this course is for you. For our Fall 2023 semester of Hebrew Reading, classes will begin the week of October 9, and will ...

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 ...

SEA Change: Public Meeting on Climate Solutions, Housing, and Health

Non-WHC Site

Join WHC members along with our interfaith partners for a public meeting with elected officials from Maryland. Contact Laura Loeb at LauraeLoeb@gmail.com to get involved. CONFIRMED ATTENDEES: Senator Brian Feldman, Delegate Linda Foley & 300+ leaders from schools, congregations, and organizations across Maryland INVITED: Governor Moore & Secretaries of Housing, Energy, and Environment Good Hope ...

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 ...

Event Series Hebrew Reading for Adults (Fall 2023)

Hebrew Reading for Adults

Online

If you would like to be able to read our prayers in Hebrew instead of relying on transliteration or keep up with what your kids (or grandkids) are learning in Religious School, this course is for you. For our Fall 2023 semester of Hebrew Reading, classes will begin the week of October 9, and will ...

Event Series Wednesday Study Group (Fall 2023)

Wednesday Study Group: The Power of a Word

Online

For our fall session of Wednesday Study Group, we will dive into ten of the most influential Hebrew words in our canon. Poet and liturgist Alden Solovy recently published These Words: Poetic Midrash on the Language of the Torah. With this text’s unique creativity and scholarship, we will explore words rabbis use all the time, ...

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 ...

Event Series Gimels & Gimlets (Fall 2023)

Gimels & Gimlets

Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

Hebrew looks nothing like what you're probably used to reading, and we know it can seem well...foreign. That's because, for many of us, it is! But fear not - our new Hebrew class is designed for beginners and those who need a refresher because it's been a while! Join other 2239ers on the journey towards ...

Event Series Hebrew Reading for Adults (Fall 2023)

Hebrew Reading for Adults

Online

If you would like to be able to read our prayers in Hebrew instead of relying on transliteration or keep up with what your kids (or grandkids) are learning in Religious School, this course is for you. For our Fall 2023 semester of Hebrew Reading, classes will begin the week of October 9, and will ...

Partners in Fate: Arabs and Jews Working For a Shared Future

Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

Please join us for an inspiring evening with Israeli change agents Shir Nosatzki and Hanan Alsanah. In the aftermath of 10/7, Nosatzki and Alsanah joined forces to establish a shared volunteer-led Arab and Jewish center, which provides hundreds of humanitarian relief parcels of food and other crucial equipment every week to Jewish and Arab families ...

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 ...

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 ...

Event Series Hebrew Reading for Adults (Fall 2023)

Hebrew Reading for Adults

Online

If you would like to be able to read our prayers in Hebrew instead of relying on transliteration or keep up with what your kids (or grandkids) are learning in Religious School, this course is for you. For our Fall 2023 semester of Hebrew Reading, classes will begin the week of October 9, and will ...

Event Series Hebrew Reading for Adults (Fall 2023)

Hebrew Reading for Adults

Online

If you would like to be able to read our prayers in Hebrew instead of relying on transliteration or keep up with what your kids (or grandkids) are learning in Religious School, this course is for you. For our Fall 2023 semester of Hebrew Reading, classes will begin the week of October 9, and will ...

Event Series Mah Jongg with WWHC

Mah Jongg with WWHC

JBSC 11810 Falls Road, Potomac, MD, United States

Join the Women of WHC for a weekly game of Mah Jongg on Fridays at the Julia Bindeman Suburban Center. Everyone is welcome to try it out! You must become a WWHC member to play on an ongoing basis. For any questions or to confirm the time of this week’s game, please contact Hillary Blackton at hillary@divinelifeyoga.com $5 ...

Event Series Tot Shabbat & Family Dinner – Temple

Tot Shabbat Hanukkah & Family Dinner

Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

Our clergy and song leader, Lisa Baydush, make going to Friday night services a fun, fulfilling event for families with young children (or grandchildren). Held twice each month (once at each of our locations), these evenings begin with an engaging, interactive Tot Shabbat service, which lasts about a half-hour and teaches Jewish prayers, traditions, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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.