Jewish Life

From sports to pop culture, geography to politics, we’ll test your knowledge of it all at our monthly quizzical event.

Participate or watch in amazement as contestants compete for the honor of being named Sixth & I’s fourth-ever Pickle Eating Contest champion. The pickles used will be Sixth & Rye pickles, straight from the Lower East Side!

If you are interested in being a contestant, please click here for the rules and application and submit the form by Wednesday, August 17. If you have questions about the pickle eating contest, please contact Max.

Unemployment is still too high, the recovery is too slow, China is growing fast, so what will become of the U.S. economy? Planet Money reporters Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson offer a practical and humorous field guide to America’s economic future.

Taking a multimedia approach, Planet Moneyhelps people explore the global economy and what it’s doing to them in a way that is accessible, interesting, and fun. They produce a twice-weekly podcast and create radio stories for NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and PRI’s This American Life.

The originally scheduled date for this event was June 16. Due to inclement weather, the event was postponed to June 23.
All registrations for June 16 will be transferred to the June 23 date.
To make any changes, please email Renee at [email protected] by Monday, June 20 at 5:00 pm.

EVENT LOCATION: Capitol Skyline Hotel – 10 I (Eye) Street SW

We’re taking all the fun of trivia poolside at DC’s best outdoor summer venue, the Capitol Skyline Hotel. From sports to pop culture, history to politics, we’ll test your knowledge of it all. The 3rd annual event will include new rounds, prizes and surprises, including some wild trips into the pool! A bathing suit is optional, but encouraged. At points throughout the night, getting in the pool may win you some great prizes!

Team points will not be added or deducted for pool games. Participants may swim from 6:30 – 7:00 pm. Once the event begins participants may only get in the pool when instructed to do so.

For those in their 20s and 30s

Join us for the DC launch of the As We Forgive Rwanda Initiative (AWFRI), a new Rwandan reconciliation organization inspired by the 2008 Student Academy Award-winning documentary As We Forgive.

The screening includes a new 7-minute epilogue and a panel discussion with filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson, AWFRI Executive Director Andrea McDaniel, and Rwandan youth advocate Jean Michel Habineza.

A wine and appetizer reception follows, with proceeds supporting AWFRI’s efforts in Rwanda.

Prompted by her own experiences as co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski set out to talk with prominent women about their career paths and achieving value in the workplace. The result is a must-read book for all women, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth.

Weaving candid stories of her own career obstacles with the latest research on equal pay, women in the boardroom, and access to start-up capital, Brzezinski offers an essential look at the worth of women in the workplace. The book also includes personal anecdotes, observations, and advice from some of America’s most successful women and men—Joy Behar, Tina Brown, Nora Ephron, Arianna Huffington, Valerie Jarrett, Sheryl Sandberg, Donald Trump, and Jack Welch.

For the past seven years, actor and activist Ashley Judd has kept poignant journals of her travels into the world’s human-rights hot spots, where as a global ambassador for PSI/Youth AIDS, she waded into slums, brothels, and war-torn villages on four continents, advocating programs to improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people. As part of her journey to help these victims, Judd was forced to take a deep look at her own life, and at the damaging issues she had been wrestling with for years.

All That Is Bitter and Sweet is a highly personal and powerful memoir about change, hope, and human transformation. It tells the stories of the people Judd encountered and reveals her own personal demons—from depression to obsessive compulsion and codependency—unearthed as a result of her journeys. Judd recently received a Masters in Public Administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Watch the video trailer for the book. Book signing to follow.

Inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Dr. Abuelaish’s account of his extraordinary life and a portrayal of everyday life in Gaza. The Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor born and raised in the Gaza Strip has been crossing the lines that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life–as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line and as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East.

His daughters were killed by Israeli fire in 2009, during Israel’s incursion into the Gaza Strip. His response to this tragedy won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge, Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be “the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis.”

This event is sponsored through the generosity of the Ellenberg-Abramowitz Family in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Israel Ellenberg.

This edition features new rounds, prizes and surprises. From sports to pop culture, geography to movies, science to politics, we’ll test your knowledge of it all. Teams can be made up of 5 – 7 people.

For those in their 20s and 30s

Slate‘s Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz bring their popular and acclaimed podcast back to Sixth & I for another live performance.

Following this fall’s historic midterm elections, they’ll discuss our new Congress, a gridlock of power, and the future of policy. Halfway through his first term, they’ll look back at Obama’s accomplishments, shortfalls, and what we can expect for the 2012 presidential race.

A holiday edition with new rounds, questions, prizes and surprises. From sports to pop culture, geography to movies, science to politics, we’ll test your knowledge of it all!

For those in their 20s and 30s