We invite you to end your week and welcome Shabbat with us!

We start the evening by celebrating you — our amazing members, without whom this community wouldn’t be the wonderful one it is. We will be blessing milestone membership anniversaries and all October birthdays this week!

Beginning Religious School represents the start of a new chapter in a child’s life and the life of their family. It is our hope that we will be writing many lovely and meaningful notes on the pages of that chapter over the course of many years in our community!

To formally recognize this milestone, we invite ALL families, especially those with children starting Religious School this year, to join us for a special Shabbat Consecration Ceremony. The ceremony will take place in conjunction with our Shabbat@WHC celebration. During this service, each new student will receive a special blessing on the bimah and a gift from our community.

If you plan to attend and/or have a child new to Religious School, please RSVP below.

And if all that wasn’t enough, the Women of WHC will have a pop-up Judaica Shop in the lobby for all your shopping needs.

At 6:00 pm and again after the service: Have something to eat (to tide you over or as your dinner), a drink (we offer a full bar, plus non-alcoholic options), and connect with your community.

Kids are always welcome, and they’ll be able to eat before (and after) the service, play Connect 4 or create at a coloring table.

6:30 pm – Our Shabbat service begins.

Watch the Livestream

After the service – Stay for dessert, or more food and drinks — and catch the WWHC Judaica Shop pop-up!

Pre-Neg and Oneg are sponsored by the Women of Washington Hebrew Congregation in honor of Member Appreciation Shabbat and by Kim & Skip Lehman and Diane & Bruce Heiman in celebration of their daughters’ marriage.

Special thanks to our musicians who add so much to the service. We wouldn’t have them without the support of the Irene & Abe Pollin Music Program Initiative.

This week’s featured menu items include:
(GF – Gluten-free, V – Vegetarian, VG – Vegan)

• Chicken Marsala
• Pasta with Mushroom & Lentil Meatballs (VG)
• Roasted Seasonal Vegetables (GF, VG)
• Garden Salad (GF, V)

Served during oneg:

• Fruit Platter (GF, VG)
• Gluten-Free Desserts
• Cookies & Mini Cupcakes

These items are catered by Sunflower Bakery.

If you would like to sponsor a portion of a future Shabbat@WHC to celebrate a milestone or honor a memory, please contact Director of Development Alexis Channin at achannin@whctemple.org.