Talks & Entertainment

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.

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.

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.

CANCELED – Chris Dixon

In Conversation with MacKenzie Sigalos

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.  

Ruston Kelly

Too Chill To Kill Tour

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.

Office Closed

Sixth & I is closed Tuesday, April 23 for Passover. We will re-open Wednesday, April 24 at 9:00 am.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

In Conversation with Timothy Noah

In The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, the Nobel Laureate dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure.  

Office Closed

Sixth & I is closed Monday, April 29 for Passover. We will re-open Tuesday, April 30 at 9:00 am.

Andy Cohen

In Conversation with Rep. Robert Garcia

The Bravo executive producer returns to Sixth & I for his fifth appearance to celebrate the paperback release of his New York Times bestselling memoir, The Daddy Diaries, talk about the latest Housewives happenings, and answer your questions about everyone’s favorite Bravolebrities.