VIRTUAL: Organizing Training
With Washington Interfaith Network
How do you want to make a difference this year? Are you ready to harness your community’s power to create change? Meet, exchange ideas with, and learn alongside other Sixth & I’ers as organizers from the Washington Interfaith Network provide training on how to be an effective agent of change in the public arena.
Pop-Up Food Distribution
Volunteer with the DC Fridge Collective
Support the DC Fridge Collective’s efforts to provide fresh food for those who need it in our community.
- Date:
- Feb 18, 2022 • 11:00 am ET
- Admission:
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FREE; donations appreciated. RSVP required.
- Category:
- Social Justice
Pop-Up Food Distribution
Volunteer with the DC Fridge Collective
Support the DC Fridge Collective’s efforts to provide fresh food for those who need it in our community.
- Date:
- Feb 20, 2022 • 8:30 am ET
- Admission:
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SOLD OUT
Space still available for prep shift on February 18
- Category:
- Social Justice
National Refugee Shabbat
Celebrate National Refugee Shabbat at this inclusive service led by Rabbi Nora. With music from Aaron Shneyer, Jeff Geld, Sarah Fredrick, and Wren Elhai the service blends contemporary and traditional elements for an experience that feels both familiar and fresh.
- Date:
- Mar 4, 2022 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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In-Person Attendance: FREE. Registration required.
Virtual Attendance: FREE via Facebook.
- Category:
- Jewish Education
Toiletry Drive
In partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington’s Good Deeds Week, Sixth & I is collecting toiletries to benefit Central Union Mission and the facilities they operate across Washington, DC for those at-risk of and experiencing homelessness.
- Date:
- Apr 4, 2022 • 8:00 am ET
- Category:
- Social Justice
Hot Topics: A Jewish Approach to Abortion
As political developments unfold on the local and national stage, learn from Rabbi Aaron and Rabbi Nora about what Jewish sources have to say about abortion and reproductive justice. After studying the texts, we’ll then process and reflect both the texts and the news in small groups through conversation.
- Date:
- Jun 2, 2022 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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$12
Half of the proceeds will go to the DC Abortion Fund
- Category:
- 20s & 30s Programming
Pop-Up Food Distribution
Volunteer with the DC Fridge Collective
Support the DC Fridge Collective’s efforts to provide fresh food for those who need it in our community.
- Date:
- Jun 26, 2022 • 8:00 am ET
- Admission:
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FREE; donations appreciated. RSVP required.
- Category:
- 20s & 30s Programming
Letter Writing with VoteRiders
VoteRiders will train volunteers on the importance of combating confusion around state voter ID laws and share best practices for letter-writing to provide voters with the ID information and assistance they need to ensure their votes count.
CANCELED: Working for Change: Labor, Justice, and Judaism
Leading up to Labor Day weekend, hear what Judaism has to say about labor justice and learn about local organizing efforts from Hannah Garelick of Jews United for Justice, Altagracia Kubinyi of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Sarah Levesque of OPEIU-Local 2, which represents thousands of workers in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
- Date:
- Sep 1, 2022 • 7:00 pm ET
- Category:
- Social Justice
Labor on the Bimah
Before Labor Day, Rabbi Nora and musicians Aaron Shneyer, Sarah Fredrick, and Jeff Geld lead a Shabbat service that weaves together labor issues, social justice, and Judaism.
