The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending
with Franklin Foer, Yolanda Savage-Narva, Dr. Pamela Nadell, and Rabbi Aaron Potek
Continuing the conversation sparked by his April 2024 cover story for The Atlantic, “The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending,” Atlantic staff writer and bestselling author Franklin Foer will be joined by Yolanda Savage-Narva, the vice president of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion for the Union for Reform Judaism, in a dialogue lead by Sixth & I’s Senior Rabbi, Aaron Potek.
- Date:
- Mar 18, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In-Person:
Ticket: $18Virtual:
Ticket: $12
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TISRA: Zakir Hussain, Sabir Khan, and Debopriya Chatterjee
Indian tabla legend Zakir Hussain returns to Washington Performing Arts for an exciting evening of Indian classical music also featuring Debopriya Chatterjee, bansuri, and Sabir Khan, sarangi.
Becky Lynch
In Conversation with Lauren Ober
Culled from decades of journal entries, Becky Lynch, The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl Rebecca Quin, the WWE superstar now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame—offering a raw and honest depiction of the complex woman behind the character played on TV.
- Date:
- Mar 28, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $25
Ticket + Signed Book: $40Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $37
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Liberal American Jews and Israel: An Inflection Point
Leading American Jewish thinkers on Israel—Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Peter Beinart, journalist and political commentator, and Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer at the Israel Policy Forum—offer differing perspectives on how some American Jews have been reevaluating their identities as liberals and their relationships to Israel in a conversation moderated by Senior Rabbi Aaron Potek, Executive Director of Jewish Life at Sixth & I.
Chris Dixon
In the New York Times bestseller Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet, technology entrepreneur, startup investor, and general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks.
- Date:
- Apr 9, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In Person:
Ticket: $20
Ticket + Signed Book: $40Virtual:
Virtual Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book $39
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Ruston Kelly
Too Chill To Kill Tour
Ruston Kelly has established himself as an essential songwriting voice, capable of transforming his unsparing and often-painful self-examination into moments of sublime catharsis. With a lyrical sensibility that constantly shifts from candid to poetic, the South Carolina-born singer-songwriter and guitarist imbues his songs with equal parts nuanced confession and punk-rock irreverence, mining inspiration from such eclectic sources as the Carter Family, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and seminal emo act Dashboard Confessional.
- Date:
- Apr 21, 2024 • 8:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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$25 in advance
$30 day of show
$110 Are You Chill Too? VIP Experience
- Category:
- Music
Joseph E. Stiglitz
In The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz—Nobel Prize–winning economist, chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, and former chief economist of the World Bank—dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure.
- Date:
- Apr 25, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In-Person:
Ticket: $25
Ticket + Book: $40Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Virtual Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $38
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
An Evening with The Bulwark
Trump’s Trials and the 2024 Election
Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Jonathan V. Last, founders of The Bulwark and hosts of “The Next Level” podcast, will tell you what they really think during an evening full of their signature banter, sharp political insights, lots of laughs, and maybe even a few tears. Special guest George Conway will join Longwell on stage to discuss the twists and turns in the many Trump trials. After the show, stick around to meet fellow attendees in this community built on good faith and the Bulwark gang.
- Date:
- May 15, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In-Person: $50
Virtual: $15
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George Stephanopoulos
In The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis, George Stephanopoulos recounts the crises that decided the course of history from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions.
- Date:
- May 16, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In-Person:
Ticket: $25
Ticket + Signed Book: $45Virtual:
Ticket: $12
Ticket (free) + Signed Book: $43
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Gabrielle Zevin
On the occasion of the paperback release of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow—a New York Times bestseller and #1 Indie National Best Seller—Zevin shares the exhilarating story of two friends who come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
- Date:
- Jul 10, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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Ticketing information coming soon.
- Category:
- Authors & Talks