Talks & Entertainment

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.

Saturday Night Believer: A Purim Disco

Break out your bell bottoms and sequins for a night of future nostalgia at our disco-inspired Purim bash. Following irreverent, guaranteed-to-offend sketches, dance the night away to live music at our after-party.

Group Chat: Laughing Matters

Judaism, Comedy, and Identity

From the Borscht Belt to “Seinfeld,” humor and self-deprecation have long been embedded into Judaism’s DNA. Rabbi Aaron unpacks historical examples of comedy in Jewish tradition and explores contemporary Jewish creators and what they reveal about being Jewish today. Pizza and wine on us.

Interfaith Couples Workshop

Rabbi Aaron and Rabbi Nora facilitate a guided, nonjudgmental space for Jews and their non-Jewish partners to talk, learn, and grow – together and as individuals.

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.

Meditation Shabbat 

Take the essence of Shabbat – rest and relaxation – and weave it together with guided meditation, singing, and reflection to create a restorative and grounding Shabbat practice. Rabbi Nora and mindfulness teacher Alison Cohen lead this one-hour experience.  

Pause and Play: A Musical Friday Night

This laid-back, alternative Shabbat experience offers stirring music, a collaborative feel, and intentions that strike a chord.

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.