January 27, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Connect On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, WHC is partnering with 3GDC to honor and pay tribute to those killed more than 80 years ago. 3GDC empowers third-generation survivors in our nation’s capital and the greater Washington region by creating space to share their common experience and elevating the voice of a unique constituency.
January 29, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Wednesday Study Group (Winter 2025) Online Only Learn Tests of faith. Dramatic family dynamics. Mindfulness inspiration. Moral choices. All of this and more is couched in 19 verses in Genesis known as the Akeda, or the Binding of the Isaac. This 6-week session will take an in-depth look at this text, parsing key words and exploring iconic commentary, to discover why this passage ...
February 1, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am Early Torah Study Temple & Livestream 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Every Shabbat morning, we begin the day with an informal group at Temple to study parashat hashavua, the weekly Torah portion, in English.
February 1, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm WHC Connections: Haftarah Study Group Online Only Learn This informal, lay-led group gets together to discuss the Haftarah for that week. Starting with a read-through in English, the group shares questions, answers, and opinions.
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, ...
February 5, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Wednesday Study Group (Winter 2025) Online Only Learn Tests of faith. Dramatic family dynamics. Mindfulness inspiration. Moral choices. All of this and more is couched in 19 verses in Genesis known as the Akeda, or the Binding of the Isaac. This 6-week session will take an in-depth look at this text, parsing key words and exploring iconic commentary, to discover why this passage ...
February 8, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am Early Torah Study Temple & Livestream 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Every Shabbat morning, we begin the day with an informal group at Temple to study parashat hashavua, the weekly Torah portion, in English.
February 8, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm WHC Connections: Haftarah Study Group Online Only Learn This informal, lay-led group gets together to discuss the Haftarah for that week. Starting with a read-through in English, the group shares questions, answers, and opinions.
February 12, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Wednesday Study Group (Winter 2025) Online Only Learn Tests of faith. Dramatic family dynamics. Mindfulness inspiration. Moral choices. All of this and more is couched in 19 verses in Genesis known as the Akeda, or the Binding of the Isaac. This 6-week session will take an in-depth look at this text, parsing key words and exploring iconic commentary, to discover why this passage ...
February 15, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 10:00 am Early Torah Study Temple & Livestream 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United States Every Shabbat morning, we begin the day with an informal group at Temple to study parashat hashavua, the weekly Torah portion, in English.
February 15, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm WHC Connections: Haftarah Study Group Online Only Learn This informal, lay-led group gets together to discuss the Haftarah for that week. Starting with a read-through in English, the group shares questions, answers, and opinions.
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 19, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Wednesday Study Group (Spring 2025) Online Only Learn What does it mean to say that God created the world? Does God have a personality, or is God an impersonal force? Can God redeem, and are we, as human beings, in partnership with God? This series is designed to be an opportunity for us to wrestle out loud with our own beliefs (or lack of belief) in God.
