Featured Featured March 18, 2021 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Virtual Piano Party Online Dance, Sing, Laugh - It's a Virtual Piano Party! Forget about coronavirus for a night, and join us for a high-energy Zoom piano party where you’ll laugh, sing, clap, tap your toes, and even dance (yes, dance!). WHC member Dan Binstock is a piano player gifted with the ability to play by ear and a ...
March 19, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Event Series Tot Shabbat Tot Shabbat Online Join our clergy on Zoom for a fun Shabbat experience where children and their favorite grownups can sing, laugh, and start the weekend (virtually) with friends. Click here to join us on Zoom. Free
March 19, 2021 @ 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 Closed captioning will also be provided for this service on all platforms. We invite you to follow along with us from home using the online version of Mishkan ... Free
March 19, 2021 @ 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
March 20, 2021 @ 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 ...
March 20, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am Event Series Shabbat Morning Service Shabbat Morning Service Online This 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 b'nei mitzvah, ... Free
March 21, 2021 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am Event Series Religious School Grades K-2 Religious School Grades K-2 Online The WHC Religious School program for 2020-2021 is taking place virtually (via Zoom) in an effort to ensure safety and accessibility for our community. The experience is student-driven and elective-based for Pre-K through 7th graders and takes place on Sunday mornings. The elective offerings are a diverse mix of art, cooking, social justice, music, drama ...
March 21, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 pm Event Series Religious School Grades 3-7 Religious School Grades 3-7 Online The WHC Religious School program for 2020-2021 is taking place virtually (via Zoom) in an effort to ensure safety and accessibility for our community. The experience is student-driven and elective-based for Pre-K through 7th graders and takes place on Sunday mornings. The elective offerings are a diverse mix of art, cooking, social justice, music, drama ...
Featured Featured March 21, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Amram Scholar Series Presents: Kenneth S. Stern Online One of the most divisive and toxic issues on college and university campuses today, focusing on Israel and Palestine, will bring author Kenneth S. Stern to the Amram Scholar Series on Sunday, March 21 at 5 pm via Zoom. Drawing from his book, The Conflict Over the Conflict, Stern discusses how this bitter debate – ...
Featured Featured March 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm WWHC’s Big Afikomen Cover Up Online Join the Women of WHC and pick up some fun facts about the afikoman and other aspects of the Seder service from WHC clergy. Then, join our resident watercolorist, Wendy Cossman, for a beginner watercolor class and the opportunity to decorate your own silk afikoman cover. No experience is needed to produce a great result! ...
Featured Featured March 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Elections in Israel: Take Four Online Two years. Four elections. Israel is a nation of unprecedented events, and this fourth election in two years will be one its most consequential yet. As Israelis go to the polls on March 23rd, their vote will determine a dizzying array of pressing issues- Israel’s relations with the new US administration, Iran policy, pandemic recovery, ...
March 22, 2021 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Series 12 Jewish Questions 12 Jewish Questions Online Do I need to believe in God to be Jewish? What happens after we die? How do Where is God in times of tragedy? How do I rest when I have no time? And more... Despite years of religious school as children, many of us are unsure how to find meaning in our faith and culture ...
