Featured Featured December 15, 2020 @ 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Virtual Hanukkah Candle Lighting Virtual Hanukkah Candle Lighting Online Grab your hanukkiyah and join WHC clergy each night of Hanukkah at 6:45 pm on Zoom to light the candles and say the blessings. Join us on Zoom Our nightly Hanukkah candle lighting will also be viewable on WHC's Facebook page.
December 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm WHECTY’s (Virtual) Hanukkah Celebration Online All 8-12 graders are invited for a special Hanukkah event featuring Emmy Nominated Virtual Magician, Ben Corey. We are honored to have him join us to bring together the miracles of magic, with the miracles of Hanukkah! Please email Ira Miller, Director of Informal Education at imiller@whctemple.org for the Zoom link for this program.
December 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Fistful of Shekels Meeting Online WHC’s Fistful of Shekels (FOS) Israel Investment Club is for members who are interested in supporting Israel by buying stock in Israeli companies. It is also an interesting way to learn more about Israel’s economy and about investments. Join us, feel good about investing in Israel, and hopefully turn your investment into a profit! Join ...
December 16, 2020 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am Event Series 2239’s Espresso Shot of Torah 2239’s Espresso Shot of Torah Online Join 2239 for Espresso Shot of Torah and start off your day with some caffeination and rumination! Pour your favorite morning beverage and connect with each other and our sacred tradition. Join us on Zoom Free
December 16, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Event Series Wednesday Torah Study Wednesday Torah Study Online Wednesday Torah study is back starting November 4 This fall, we will look at "The Book of Jonah in a Year of Turmoil" Global pandemic, racial injustices, and political polarization are just a few of the ways in which 2020 has challenged our strength and resiliency. The Book of Jonah raises (and maybe even ...
Featured Featured December 16, 2020 @ 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Virtual Hanukkah Candle Lighting Virtual Hanukkah Candle Lighting Online Grab your hanukkiyah and join WHC clergy each night of Hanukkah at 6:45 pm on Zoom to light the candles and say the blessings. Join us on Zoom Our nightly Hanukkah candle lighting will also be viewable on WHC's Facebook page.
Featured Featured December 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Congregational Conversations Discussion Online A Discussion with Filmmaker Ilana Trachtman Wednesday, December 16 7:00 pm on Zoom We have great and rare opportunity to learn alongside Ilana Trachtman, a talented filmmaker who has been working on a documentary looking at the protests at Glen Echo Amusement Park, where entrance was restricted to “whites only” and “no blacks allowed” prior to 1960. ...
Featured Featured December 17, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Music and Spirituality with Cantor Manevich Online Click here to RSVP Cantor Manevich’s third and final installment of his fall music program will be with his dear friend Semyon Bychkov, Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic. Born just a year apart in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to Jewish parents, both Cantor Manevich and Semyon Bychkov studied at the esteemed ...
Featured Featured December 17, 2020 @ 6:45 pm - 7:00 pm Event Series Virtual Hanukkah Candle Lighting Virtual Hanukkah Candle Lighting Online Grab your hanukkiyah and join WHC clergy each night of Hanukkah at 6:45 pm on Zoom to light the candles and say the blessings. Join us on Zoom Our nightly Hanukkah candle lighting will also be viewable on WHC's Facebook page.
December 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Event Series Shabbat Evening Service Shabbat Evening Service Online Together with WHC clergy, welcome Shabbat together as one WHC community. This service will take place on Zoom It will also be available on our live stream & Facebook We invite you to follow along with us from home using the online version of Mishkan T’filah, our Shabbat prayer book. Free
December 18, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Series 2239’s Metro Minyan 2239’s Metro Minyan Online Join 2239 for a spirited and spiritual DIGITAL Shabbat experience! Metro Minyan is a casual, musical (with guitar), monthly Shabbat experience exclusively for DC's 20s and 30s. This service is free and open to the entire community. For security purposes, RSVP is required. A Zoom link will be emailed to you once you register. RSVP ... Free
December 19, 2020 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am Event Series Early Torah Study Early Torah Study Online 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 familiarity ...
