Talks & Entertainment

Patton Oswalt

In Conversation with Dan Kois

In Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film, Oswalt details his coming of age as a performer and writer in the late ’90s while obsessively watching classic films that informed his notions of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships.

Anita Diamant

In Conversation with Gayle Wald

From the author of The Red Tent comes The Boston Girl, a novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism, told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th century.

Serve Others with Sixth & I

Volunteering at SOME

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

#JeSuisJuif #JeSuisCharlie

Solidarity Minyan in the Face of anti-Semitism and Extremism

Rabbi Shira and Rabbi Scott facilitate both expressions of loss for those who were murdered, and thoughts and reactions to the ongoing presence of violent extremist ideologies in our time.

Jew-Ish

Behaving

Rabbi Shira leads a three-week, discussion-based class that explores and questions traditional assumptions of what it means to practice Judaism in modern society.

The Red Tent: Revisited

For women in their 20s and 30s

Revisit the themes within her first work of fiction, The Red Tent, a novel that reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood.

MLK Shabbat: Visions of Justice and Freedom

This moving service with Turner Memorial AME Church, which worshiped in Sixth & I’s building for five decades, commemorates the spirit and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Sixth & I Tour

Uncover the unexpected story of renewal, revitalization, and reinvention of our building that has led to what Sixth & I is today.

Intro to Israeli Dancing

Learn timeless, easy, and enjoyable Israeli dances.

Take on the Talmud

Over two nights, dive into this famously rich, famously difficult magnum opus of Jewish ethical and spiritual thought.