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Spend your evening preparing a meal for clients at Calvary Women’s Services, which offers housing, health, and other services to women experiencing homelessness. The meal we prepare together will go to residents at one of their shelters.
Join other Jews of Color and their families to celebrate the holiday of Passover with us. We will make matzah pizza, decorate planters and plant some herbs to celebrate spring, do Passover-themed crafts, and create community! A kosher-for-Passover dinner will also be served. Please note, this will not be a traditional seder. Questions? Contact …
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Help replenish the blood supply in the DC metro area! It’s safe, easy, confidential, and extremely rewarding. The EDCJCC partners with Inova Blood Services to bring skilled technicians and top-of-the-line equipment for our quarterly blood drives. A few facts about donating blood: One blood donation can save four lives All donations stay in the Washington, DC …
Join GLOE for this annual event to celebrate Passover through an LGBTQ lens, as we explore the theme of Holding Space in Narrow Times. We’ll enjoy a special Passover meal as we read our own Haggadah and perform its festive rituals with the Jewish LGBTQ community and our friends.
Join us to celebrate Good Deeds Day with a meaningful morning of learning and service. With Passover around the corner, we will embrace the theme of "welcoming the stranger, for we were strangers," and support organizations serving refugees and asylum seekers. We will start by hearing from Habib Barra, who fled Afghanistan with his …
In this interactive workshop inspired by the book The Empowered Job Search, co-author and leadership coach Lauren Weinstein will help you navigate this moment in your job search journey with more confidence and clarity. You'll explore the mindset shifts needed to move forward, uncover and reframe limiting beliefs that may be holding you back, and cultivate …
Are you hosting or attending a seder for the first time? Do you need a Passover prep refresher? In this packed Passover planning session, we will discuss the core structure of the seder, offering meaningful insights, alternate traditions, and logistical advice. You will leave with a practical handbook, an adaptable haggadah text, and feeling confident …
Hester Kamin’s pre-show conversations are a Theater J favorite! Join us to discuss the themes of our plays and how they relate to our own experiences and the issues of our times. Pre-show conversations are a great way to meet other theater fans and thinkers and to be ready to engage with the play more …
Thursday, March 27 after the performance Jewish wisdom and values can be a powerful tool to unpack the challenges and possibilities of AI. Join us for a thought provoking conversation at the intersection of faith and technology with the Den Collective’s, Rabbi Emmanuel Cantor. Rabbi Emmanuel Cantor serves as Community Rabbi for the Den Collective, …
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Join the Den for a night at Theatre J—a project of the Edlavitch DC JCC. We will see Your Name Means Dream, José Rivera’s poignant play that explores the evolving relationship between an aging woman, Aislin, and her AI caregiver, Stacy, as they navigate questions of humanity, connection, and the soul. Blending magical realism with …
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Sunday, March 23, after the matinee of 'Your Name Means Dream' The progress of technology moves faster than religion, but some of the questions central to AI ethics have been considered by Judaism for centuries. For example, what makes us uniquely human? A scholar of both Jewish law and the history of technology, David …
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Join us at the EDCJCC for brunch on Sunday, March 23rd starting at 11:00 AM as we honor Transgender Day of Visibility. Joy Ladin will give a presentation titled, “Managing Conflicts Between Religious, Secular and Nonbinary Forms of Gender." In-person brunch will begin at 11:00 AM and Joy will begin her presentation via zoom at …
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