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    Mitzvah Day

    Temple & JBSC
    Faith in Action

    It's our biggest tikkun olam event of the year! Volunteer opportunities abound for all ages at both Temple and JBSC, as well as out in the community.

  • 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.

  • Social Justice Dinner & Discussion

    Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States
    Connect

    Join WHC members who care about tikkun olam and social justice after Shabbat Services for a light dinner, dessert, and discussion on how we can use our voices to ensure our Edlavitch-Tyser Early Childhood Center (E-T ECC) preschool teachers in D.C. are paid a fair wage.

  • WHC Collects: The Bookshelf Project

    If you've been to Sunday Stuffing, MLK Day of Service, or Mitzvah Day recently, you've seen volunteers putting bookcases together for donation to The Bookshelf Project. During the month of ...

  • 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.

  • Social Justice Discussion: Allies of Federal Workers

    Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States
    Faith in Action

    For those who are concerned with federal layoffs but are not directly impacted. And we will discuss ways that we can be helpful to our friends and neighbors during these ...

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    Special Screening & Talkback Discussion: “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round”

    Non-WHC Site
    Faith in Action

    When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history was born.

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