November 19, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Event Series Hebrew Reading for Adults Hebrew Reading for Adults Online Unlock the mystery of the aleph-bet! The Hebrew letters will come together, and Hebrew prayers come to life as you learn to read the language of our Torah. Click here to learn more and to register for this course.
Featured Featured November 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Congregational Conversations Discussion Online We are examining historic and contemporary racial injustice in our nation to find a path to help repair our world. With each other and with our partners in the Black faith community, we will explore, talk, listen, and do the important work that is critical to affect change. This fall, in partnership with Shiloh Baptist ...
November 20, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Event Series Sunday Stuffing Bag Pick-Up Sunday Stuffing Bag Pick-Up JBSC & Temple Sunday Stuffing, one of WHC’s favorite tikkun olam traditions is being reimagined for 2020. We’ve adapted this signature event to be socially distant and pandemic-friendly in a way that will enable us to continue to help those in need in our area have a happy holiday. As in past years, the focus of Sunday Stuffing ...
November 20, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Event Series Sunday Stuffing Bag Drop-Off Sunday Stuffing Bag Drop-Off JBSC & Temple Sunday Stuffing, one of WHC’s favorite tikkun olam traditions is being reimagined for 2020. We’ve adapted this signature event to be socially distant and pandemic-friendly in a way that will enable us to continue to help those in need in our area have a happy holiday. As in past years, the focus of Sunday Stuffing ...
November 20, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm WHC’s EmptyNesters Present: Jeanine Cummins Online The WHC EmptyNesters welcome New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins to discuss her critically aclaimed book American Dirt. Already being hailed as “a Grapes of Wrath for our times” and “a new American classic,” Jeanine Cummins book, American Dirt, is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer ...
November 20, 2020 @ 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
November 20, 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
November 20, 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
November 21, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Event Series Sunday Stuffing Bag Drop-Off Sunday Stuffing Bag Drop-Off JBSC & Temple Sunday Stuffing, one of WHC’s favorite tikkun olam traditions is being reimagined for 2020. We’ve adapted this signature event to be socially distant and pandemic-friendly in a way that will enable us to continue to help those in need in our area have a happy holiday. As in past years, the focus of Sunday Stuffing ...
November 21, 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 ...
November 21, 2020 @ 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
November 21, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Clash of the Classes Online Clash of the Classes goes virtual! Our annual Grade vs Grade Color War will still take place, even if we can’t compete in person! Join us on Saturday, November 21 at 7 p.m. on Zoom for a grade wars like never before! There will be group and individual competitions ranging from Kahoot trivia to “design your own meme” and ...
