Jewish Life

Café Nite

Over dinner, MesorahDC offers Hebrew lessons, bar and bat mitzvah training, and study sessions.

Zadie Smith

In Conversation with Michel Martin

From the award-winning author of White Teeth, On Beauty, and Swing Time, comes Feel Free, a collection of essays covering recent events in culture, politics, and the author’s own life.

Grogger & Glow: A Purim Celebration

Experience a full megillah reading and our irreverent and politically incorrect spiel, a satirical spin on the traditional Purim story. Then get your glow on at our blacklight after-party (costumes encouraged) featuring a live DJ, dancing, libations, and a hamantaschen dessert bar.

Man’s Attempt at Thoughtfulness

Combining spirituality, psychology, masculinity, and scotch, Rabbi Scott brings men together to talk about life’s more important questions.

Jorge Ramos

What does it mean to be an American? In Stranger, the Emmy-award winning journalist and Univision anchor explores his own biography as an immigrant from Mexico, with America’s long immigration history as a backdrop, to answer this question and more about our current political moment.

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.

Saturday Morning Services with MesorahDC

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

Rodriguez

with Victory Boyd

Rodriguez, the legendary singer-songwriter and self-taught guitarist, began performing in bars and clubs in Detroit in the 1960’s as the city suffered post-industrial urban decay.

Café Nite

Over dinner, MesorahDC offers Hebrew lessons, bar and bat mitzvah training, and study sessions.

Steven Pinker

In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Pinker connects hard data with a keen understanding of the human mind to show that people are safer, freer, healthier, wealthier, and happier now than at any previous time in history.