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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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Diane Rehm &#...

Diane Rehm – POSTPONED

This program has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 31 at 7:00 pm.

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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.

Zuli

Zuli

Zuli’s off-kilter debut EP, Supernatural Voodoo, is an exploration in psych pop. Performing every instrument and conceptualizing each sound on the record himself, he found clarity in isolation.

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Voices in a P...

Voices in a Promised Land

Three MacArthur “genius grant” recipients—Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sarajevo-born author Aleksandar Hemon, and Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz, talk about their pioneering work as it relates to immigration.

Café Nite

Café Nite

Explore several learning options with MesorahDC, including Hebrew lessons, bar and bat mitzvah training, and basic or intermediate study sessions.

Sister to Sis...

Sister to Sister: The Stories We Share

Taking inspiration from All-of-a-Kind Family, a series of books about five sisters growing up in early 20th century New York, Judith Rosenbaum, Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive, leads a salon-style conversation about sisters—by birth and by choice—and the significance of the stories we share from one generation to the next.

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Food for Thought

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.

Knowing We Ar...

Knowing We Are Loved: Trusting in Our True Nature

Through text study, reflection, and practice, this class with Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels explores the possibility of our own lovability and ways to access our open, stable, clear and loving nature.

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Chesed &...

Chesed & Hummus: A Veg Collective

Through a variety of ancient, contemporary, religious, and secular Jewish texts, this collective explores the intersection of Judaism and vegetarianism. Enjoy plant-based snacks while discussing topics ranging from the meaning of Adam and Eve’s vegan diet in the Garden of Eden to why Israel has recently been dubbed “the promised land for vegans.”

Deer Tick “Ac...

Deer Tick “Acoustic”

The band brings a famously freewheeling musical approach to our stage for an intimate acoustic performance.

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Shabbasana™: ...

Shabbasana™: Pre-Shabbat Yoga

Prepare your mind and body for Shabbat with Jewish-inspired yoga and meditation with yoga teacher Dan Kapner. Nama-stay for services following the class; yoga attire is welcome during the service.

6th in the Ci...

6th in the City Shabbat

Musical and interactive service with Rabbi Shira and musicians Aaron Shneyer and Rich Recht. Enjoy appetizers and cocktails before the 7:15 pm service.

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An Evening Wi...

An Evening With Greg Dulli

‘An Evening With Greg Dulli’ features Dulli leading his stripped down band through a wide selection of songs encompassing his entire career along with the debut of several new songs.

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Café Nite

Café Nite

Explore several learning options with MesorahDC, including Hebrew lessons, bar and bat mitzvah training, and basic or intermediate study sessions.

Jorge Ramos

Jorge Ramos

In Take a Stand: Lessons From Rebels, Ramos—Univision’s lead news anchor since 1986—looks back on the groundbreaking interviews he has conducted during his 30 years as a journalist and shines a light on the concerns that influence Hispanics, the largest minority in the country.

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Food for Thought

Food for Thought

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

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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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.

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.

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.

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Good Soul Sha...

Good Soul Shabbat

Rabbi Scott, Aaron Shneyer, and Michal Bilick offer soulful acoustic music, deep spirituality, and thoughtful service to DC. After services, fill our sanctuary with the spirited sound of new tunes and old favorites.

Friday Night ...

Friday Night Shabbat Services with MesorahDC

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

The DC Purim ...

The DC Purim Bash

Celebrate Purim in style at the Third Annual DC Purim Bash! Dance the night away and dress to impress in cocktail attire or your favorite Purim costume.

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Running Club

Running Club

Lace up your sneakers and hit the streets for a fun run, followed by brunch in Eastern Market. We’ll meet at the Mt. Vernon Square 7th St-Convention Center metro station (yellow and green lines) for a four-mile run.

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Café Nite

Café Nite

Explore several learning options with MesorahDC, including Hebrew lessons, bar and bat mitzvah training, and basic or intermediate study sessions.

Andra Day

Andra Day

Day walks the line between reverence and revelation, using both to her advantage. The soul, jazz and R&B singer cultivates an aesthetic with clear reference points in the past, but she tells stories firmly rooted in her present. It’s a jarring and compelling combination.

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Food for Thought

Food for Thought

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

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Erev Purim

Erev Purim

Design our ne...

Design our new T-Shirt!

Have a creative spark? Want to leave your mark on Sixth & I? We need YOUR help to come up with a shirt design for our spring 2016 merchandise line. Email your design to Alli for a chance to see your design featured on our new t-shirt.

Purim 2016: M...

Purim 2016: Make Shushan Great Again

Celebrate our election-themed Purim with a full megillah reading and an unconventional spiel, a satirical spin on the traditional holiday story. Enjoy hamantaschen and plenty of libations.

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Purim

Purim

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Downtown Shabbat

Downtown Shabbat

A Carlebach-inspired service led by Chazzan Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner, followed by dinner and Shabbat singing. Open to all.

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Shabbat: Pure...

Shabbat: Pure & Simple

Rabbi Scott guides an open service at a relaxed pace that allows for thoughtful prayer in a comfortable, spiritual setting.

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UCB Improv Cr...

UCB Improv Crash Course

This intimate UCB workshop is a two-hour long “crash course” in the UCB style of long-form improvisational comedy, based on the same ideas that are central to UCB’s Improv 101 class in NYC.

Upright Citiz...

Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company

The Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company brings the very best of its New York City and Los Angeles theatres to our stage.

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Café Nite

Café Nite

Explore several learning options with MesorahDC, including Hebrew lessons, bar and bat mitzvah training, and basic or intermediate study sessions.

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Food for Thought

Food for Thought

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

DIY: Design I...

DIY: Design It Yourself

Our newest fellowship will give a whole new focus and frame to your Jewish year, as you bring Judaism to life with your own two hands.

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Inside the Mi...

Inside the Mind of a President

Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg talks to Atlantic president and editor in chief James Bennet about the magazine’s April cover story, “The Obama Doctrine,” for which Goldberg spent hours interviewing President Obama about foreign policy.

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Diane Rehm &#...

Diane Rehm – RESCHEDULED DATE

On My Own is a deeply personal account of how one says goodbye to a spouse of 54 years, and the radio host’s support of the movement for the Right to Die.

Man’s Attempt...

Man’s Attempt at Thoughtfulness: Mortality

Combining spirituality, psychology, modern masculinity, and excellent bourbon, Rabbi Scott brings a group of men together to attempt some thoughtfulness about life’s more important questions.

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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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