September 22, 2025 - October 3, 2025 WHC Collects: High Holy Day Food Drive Temple & JBSC Faith in Action On the High Holy Days, we take the opportunity to recommit ourselves to social action and perform acts of tzedakah. The Community Issues/Social Action Committee and WHECTY have teamed up to help with this year’s High Holy Day Food Drive.
October 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Food & Friends Non-WHC Site Faith in Action Join other WHC members volunteering to pack meals with Food & Friends, the only community-based organization in the D.C. region providing home-delivered medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries and medical nutrition therapy to our neighbors living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other serious illnesses.
October 7, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Community Issues/Social Action (CISA) Meeting JBSC & Zoom 11810 Falls Road, Potomac, MD Faith in Action This group will meet as part of WHC Community Meeting Night. Whether you are looking for stimulating discussion or direct involvement in projects and activities, we hope you will join ...
Featured October 9, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Sukkah of Hope Non-WHC Site Faith in Action Please join survivors of captivity and hostage families for a powerful commemoration event marking two years since October 7. Thursday, October 9th 6:30 PM Location upon registration Together, we will ...
October 12, 2025 @ 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm WHC In the DMV: Bingo With Seniors Non-WHC Site Faith in Action BINGO - That's the name of the game, as our volunteers will spend a couple of hours at the Charles E. Smith Life Communities on the second Sunday of most months, volunteering to play bingo with some of our Jewish seniors (what a mitzvah!)
October 17, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Social Justice Discussion Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Faith in Action The future of LGBTQ+ rights are currently in question and on the minds of many in our WHC community. Please join us after Shabbat services on Friday, October 17 for our monthly social justice discussion. The October discussion will center around current challenges to LGBTQ+ rights and ways to improve belonging and inclusion within the WHC community. All are welcome!
October 19, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Hunger Project: Food Packing JBSC 11810 Falls Road, Potomac, MD, United States Faith in Action Volunteers – adults, children, individuals, families, and groups – put on hairnets, gloves, and aprons and carefully measure and package ingredients that become over 10,000 nutritious meals for the underserved in our area.
October 19, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Hunger Project: Food Packing JBSC 11810 Falls Road, Potomac, MD, United States Faith in Action Volunteers – adults, children, individuals, families, and groups – put on hairnets, gloves, and aprons and carefully measure and package ingredients that become over 10,000 nutritious meals for the underserved in our area.
October 23, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH Non-WHC Site Faith in Action Volunteer with us as we help feed families at the NIH Children’s Inn, where families stay when children receive experimental treatment on campus.
November 2, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Faith is Action: Standing for Health, Justice, and Humanity Non-WHC Site Faith in Action In a time when rights are diminishing, safety nets for vulnerable communities are being dismantled, and healthcare research is under siege, the need for collective action is more urgent than ever. People of faith are called to act – not just to pray reflexively, but to live their prayers through action.
November 3, 2025 - November 16, 2025 Shutdown Relief Emergency Food Drive Temple & JBSC Faith in Action So many in our community are feeling the effects of the government shutdown — from employees missing paychecks to SNAP recipients losing essential benefits. According to the Capital Area Food ...
November 7, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Food & Friends Non-WHC Site Faith in Action Join other WHC members volunteering to pack meals with Food & Friends, the only community-based organization in the D.C. region providing home-delivered medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries and medical nutrition therapy to our neighbors living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other serious illnesses.