This Week at the 16th Street J

With Passover in the rear-view mirror this week, things can start getting back to, ahem, regular. Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Here’s just a sample of what’s available this week at the Washington DCJCC:
Monday, April 28
7:30pm–The Screening Room presents: The Last Fighters. This documentary film follows the lives of the last six surviving members of the Warsaw [...]

DC’s Big Read–The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The DC Public Library is participating in the National Program The Big Read by encouraging everyone in DC to read The Great Gatsby and holding a series of events and discussions between now and May 24. There was some chatter on other blogs about the choice of this particular novel, but moving past that for [...]

A Seder For Everyone: The First Stonewall Seder in DC

by Justin Lerner and Yoni Bock
On March 30, GLOE (Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Outreach and Engagement), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the DC GLBT Community Center partnered for the first annual Stonewall Seder in Washington DC.  With a sold out crowd of over 60, Jews and non-Jews of all sexual orientations and [...]

Rapid Responsa: An Invitation to Meet on 3/27 and Talk About Obama’s Philadelphia Speech on Race and Resentment

This Thursday, March 27, the 16th Street J invites you to join us at 7:30 pm in the bricks and mortar world for a discussion about race, resentment and the cultural moment signified by Barack Obama’s speech on race. We will use Obama’s speech as a “source text” and an opportunity to move beyond political [...]

A Brief Interview with Max Brooks, Zombie Expert

Q: Since the release of your books, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Zombie Survival Guide have you seen a greater public awareness of the zombie threat? In other words, how goes the struggle?
A: Very good, but never good enough. If you can’t save everyone, you’ve saved no one.
Q: [...]

This Week at the 16th Street J

Some of the highlights from the upcoming week at the Washington DCJCC…
Monday, March 17
The Screening Room Presents: His Wife’s Lover–One of the first Yiddish musicals restored on a new 35mm print.
Tuesday, March 18
Purim Gift Basket Workshop–Create your own custom baskets for delivering mishloach manot this Purim.
Wednesday, March 19
Hamentaschen Bake-In–Join our resident expert Jean Graubart for [...]

This Week at the 16th Street J

A sampling of what’s available this week at the 16th Street J:

Monday, March 10–Nextbook presents scholar Ori Z. Soltes talking about his book Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust at 7:30 pm.
Tuesday, March 11–Theater J’s final Pay-What-You-Can Preview of The Price by Arthur Miller, starring Robert Prosky, Andrew Prosky, John Prosky and [...]

Shabbat Surfing: Leap Year Edition

Dr. Marion Usher, our interfaith guru, was interviewed on NPR’s Tell Me More. According to a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religious Life, 44 percent of adults change their religious affiliation from that of their childhood. A roundtable of spiritual counselors discusses how the challenges of intimate interfaith relationships might support the new [...]

Next Generation Society Reception at the USHMM

The Washington DCJCC is proud to be a community partner with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Next Generation Society for the February 20th conversation on antisemitism and Holocaust denial. The discussion will take place between Dr. Ladan Boroumand, Research Director, Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation  and Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near East [...]

Across the Jew-niverse

Links for shabbat surfing…
Amber Sutherland is a self-proclaimed shiksa looking for a Jewish husband on the prowl in NY. May we suggest the treadmills on the 4th floor of the 16th Street J?

Looking for relationship advice? Lisa Loeb (former girlfriend of handsome shaygitz Ethan [...]