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CANCELED: Foo...

CANCELED: Food for Thought

Each week over lunch, this class will explore different Jewish teachings as they relate to modern life.

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Running Club

Running Club

Lace up your sneakers and hit the streets for a fun run around town, followed by a meal at a local eatery. Choose either a two-mile or four-mile route.

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Friday Night ...

Friday Night Shabbat Services with MesorahDC

A traditional service with soulful melodies, contemporary insights, and stories, followed by dinner. Separate seating for women and men during the service.

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Saturday Morn...

Saturday Morning Shabbat Services with MesorahDC

Service with soulful melodies and contemporary insights. Separate seating for men and women during services.

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Born Survivor...

Born Survivors: A Holocaust Remembrance Day Celebration

Three mothers and their newborn babies survive the Holocaust. Seventy years later, Author Wendy Holden captured the mothers’ stories in Born Survivors. Holden and all three of the children will be here to share how their mothers defied the Nazis in order to give them life.

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Jam Session

Jam Session

This monthly meet-up explores the diversity of Jewish music, the sounds of Shabbat, and secular classics. Share and learn songs, jam, and create your own music.

Lies My Hebre...

Lies My Hebrew School Teacher Told Me

Shining a beacon of truth, Rabbi Scott steps in to uncover the truth behind all of the lies your Hebrew School teacher may have told you.

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Trivia Night

Trivia Night

From sports to pop culture, geography to politics, we’ll test your knowledge of it all. Coming solo? Sit at the “Mix & Match” table to meet new people and share your brainpower.

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The Jew-ish Collective: Living Out Jewish Values

Take part in a discussion revolving around Jewish moral and ethical questions in connection to how we struggle (and we all do) with everyday issues. Discussion will use selected text as a jumping-off point for conversation.

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CANCELED: Sha...

CANCELED: Shabbasana™: Pre-Shabbat Yoga

Prepare your mind and body for Shabbat with Jewish-inspired yoga and meditation with yoga teacher Dan Kapner.

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6th in the City Shabbat

6:30 pm – Cocktail Hour 7:15 pm – Service 8:15 pm – Dinner Musical and interactive service with Rabbi Shira and musicians Aaron Shneyer and Rich Recht. Enjoy appetizers and More +
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Adult B’...

Adult B’nai Mitzvah

Celebrate the graduates of our Adult B’nai Mitzvah class as they lead Shabbat services and become B’nai Mitzvah. The whole community is invited to join these accomplished students as they culminate a year of study and spiritual grown. Followed by kiddush lunch.

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POSTPONED: Mo...

POSTPONED: Modern Families

What do Jewish texts teach us about values, anxieties, and hope as we push new frontiers in reproductive technology and family structures? Rabbi Aviva Richman and Rabbi Shira lead an afternoon of learning, discussion, and reflection.

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This IS What a Jew Looks Like

This collective is a safe space for Jews of color to come together to study, explore new ideas, and build community.

Safam

Safam

The Boston based six-man band has dominated Jewish music in America with their Jewish-American Sound since 1974. Often copied, never duplicated, they are originals. Songs like Leaving Mother Russia, Amnesty, Just Another Foreigner, Moranno and Nachamu Ami by group composers Joel Sussman and Robbie Solomon have become classics and have kept Safam at the forefront of the Jewish music scene.

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Serve Others ...

Serve Others with Sixth & I

Serve breakfast at So Others Might Eat (SOME), an organization that works to end chronic homelessness in DC.

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Camp Sixth &#...

Camp Sixth & I

Pack your bags for the third annual Jewish summer camp-inspired weekend at the idyllic Pearlstone Retreat Center. Experience a spiritual Shabbat service, a Saturday night bonfire and Havdallah, and more of Sixth & I’s signature programs—all set against the backdrop of the great outdoors.

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Friday Night Shabbat Services with MesorahDC

A traditional service with soulful melodies, contemporary insights, and stories, followed by dinner. Separate seating for women and men during the service.

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Camp Sixth &#...

Camp Sixth & I

Pack your bags for the third annual Jewish summer camp-inspired weekend at the idyllic Pearlstone Retreat Center. Experience a spiritual Shabbat service, a Saturday night bonfire and Havdallah, and more of Sixth & I’s signature programs—all set against the backdrop of the great outdoors.

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Saturday Morning Shabbat Services with MesorahDC

Service with soulful melodies and contemporary insights. Separate seating for men and women during services.

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Camp Sixth &#...

Camp Sixth & I

Pack your bags for the third annual Jewish summer camp-inspired weekend at the idyllic Pearlstone Retreat Center. Experience a spiritual Shabbat service, a Saturday night bonfire and Havdallah, and more of Sixth & I’s signature programs—all set against the backdrop of the great outdoors.

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Running Club

Running Club

Lace up your sneakers and hit the streets for a fun run around town, followed by a meal at a local eatery. Choose either a two-mile or four-mile route.

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Faithfully Fe...

Faithfully Feminist

Contributors to the anthology Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay discuss how to navigate faith and feminism.

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Man’s A...

Man’s Attempt at Thoughtfulness: Feelings

Combining spirituality, psychology, modern masculinity, and excellent bourbon, Rabbi Scott brings a group of men together to attempt some thoughtfulness about the new scientific advances in the area of “feelings.”

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Downtown Shab...

Downtown Shabbat: Memorial Day Edition

A Carlebach-inspired service led by Chazzan Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner, followed by dinner and Shabbat singing. During the service, the names of the more than 50 fallen heroes will be read in solemn remembrance and prayer. Enjoy appetizers and cocktails before the 6:45 pm service.

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Maybe Baby?

Maybe Baby?

Susan Weidman Schneider, Editor in Chief of Lilith Magazine, leads an interactive discussion about choosing motherhood (or not) and how Jewish culture can influence the decision.

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Good Soul Sha...

Good Soul Shabbat

Experience deep spirituality in a thoughtful service led by Rabbi Scott, Aaron Shneyer and Michal Bilick. This service will also celebrate the Bat Mitzvah of Rabbi Shira’s daughter, Maayan. Service will be followed by a light kiddush.

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