April 18, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm 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.
May 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025 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 May, WHC is collecting books to fill those shelves for families in need across the DMV. Click the button below and have the books sent ...
May 2, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am 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.
May 9, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm 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 difficult times. If you are a federal worker affected by the ongoing layoffs, we have a separate gathering at the same time this week, and ...
Featured May 15, 2025 @ 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm 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.
May 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Rock Creek Conservation Project Non-WHC Site Invasive plants are a major threat to our fragile forests, and stopping their spread helps allow native plants to thrive in the understory.
May 27, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH Non-WHC Site Volunteer with us as we help feed families at the NIH Children’s Inn, where families stay when children receive experimental treatment on campus.
May 27, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH Non-WHC Site Volunteer with us as we help feed families at the NIH Children’s Inn, where families stay when children receive experimental treatment on campus.
May 27, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH Non-WHC Site Volunteer with us as we help feed families at the NIH Children’s Inn, where families stay when children receive experimental treatment on campus.
May 27, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH Non-WHC Site Volunteer with us as we help feed families at the NIH Children’s Inn, where families stay when children receive experimental treatment on campus.
June 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025 WHC Collects: 3rd-5th Grade Backpack Drive This summer, you can help area kids get ready for school by helping WHC Collects bring in everything a student will need. With one click, you can put all the items together (less than $70) or select individual supplies and have them shipped directly to Temple (3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, 20016). We'll collect ...
June 6, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am 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.
