Featured November 8, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Shabbat@WHC – Kristallnacht Commemoration Temple & Livestream 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Learn We invite you to end your week and welcome Shabbat with us! Tonight we recognize the anniversary of Kristallnacht with two special guests — Faris Cassell, author of Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America joined by Marion Lewin, one of the subjects of the book. LEARN MORE At 6:00 pm and ...
November 19, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm WWHC Literary Club Presents: Sara Glass Online Only Learn The Women of WHC are pleased to welcome Dr. Sara Glass to discuss her memoir — A moving coming-of-age account of her desperate attempt to protect her children and family while embracing her queer identity in an Orthodox Jewish community.
Featured December 6, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Besters Book Club Presents: Lauren Grodstein Online Only Connect Join The Besters for their next Book Club event featuring author Lauren Grodstein on Friday, December 6 at 11:00 am on Zoom. About the Book: A heart-wrenching and intimate novel of defiance set inside the Warsaw Ghetto. Adam Paskow is a schoolteacher forced to share a cramped one-bedroom apartment with two other families as their ...
Featured December 15, 2024 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Amram Scholar Series Presents: Mickey Bergman Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Learn About the Book: Brittney Griner, Danny Fenster, Otto Warmbier, Trevor Reed, Paul Whelan, Kenneth Bae…When an American citizen is imprisoned overseas, that’s when Mickey Bergman’s phone starts to ring. Mickey and his tight team of savvy negotiators at the Richardson Center for Global Engagement are the go-to rescuers of last resort, carrying on the high-stakes, ...
Featured January 12, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am Amram Scholar Series: Hasia Diner, “Opening Doors” Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Learn RSVP About the Book The untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America. Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another with open hostility, fiercely competing for limited resources and even coming ...
Featured February 5, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Women of WHC’s Literary Club Presents: Jonathan Santlofer Online Only Connect About the Book: From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpieces, masterminds, and mystery. For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, ...
Featured February 18, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Besters Present: A Conversation with Rep. Jamie Raskin Connect Rabbi Shankman will moderate a freewheeling, unstructured conversation with Rep. Raskin covering a broad range of domestic and international issues. If time permits, you will have the chance to pose your own questions as well.
February 23, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am Amram Scholar Series: The American Jewish Community: New Identity Challenges After October 7th Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Learn RSVP Rabbi John Rosove and Rabbi Sue Shankman will focus their conversation on how the American Jewish community has faced new challenges since October 7. There will be a bagel brunch preceding the event. About the Book The killing of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, by Hamas militants becomes a horrible crime that challenges ...
