This Week at the 16th Street J

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This Week at the 16th Street J

A sampling of program highlights from the upcoming week at the 16th Street J:
Monday, May 19
7:30 pm–The Screening Room presents: About The Body. When a terrorist attack occurs, the dead are mourned, the calls for vengeance are issued and eventually, the news cycle churns on. But what of those whose lives, whose physical bodies have [...]

Previews Postponed to Perfect Production

Theater J has cancelled its previews of David In Shadow in Light that were scheduled for this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The first preview will now be on Saturday, May 11 at 8:00 pm with an additional pay-what-you-can performance Sunday, May 12 at 8:00 pm. The show is the largest production Theater J has ever mounted [...]

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 [...]

This Week at the 16th Street J

A flurry of activity just prior to the holiday of Passover which begins this Saturday…
Monday, April 14
The Screening Room Presents: A Hebrew Lesson with director David Ofek–Meet the director of the acclaimed Israeli documentary No. 17. While that film examined Israeli society through the prism of a terrorist attack and one of its unidentified victims, [...]

This Week at the 16th Street J

Some highlights from the coming week of programming at the Washington DCJCC.
Monday, April 7

The Women Who Kept the Songs: From India to Israel — The Musical Heritage of Cochin. A unique partnership between the Embassies of Israel and India provides the rare opportunity to hear the songs of traditional Jewish communities from India’s Malabar Coast. [...]

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 [...]

This Week at the 16th Street J

A sampling of some of what’s on-offer this week at the Washington DCJCC…
Monday, March 3–The Screening Room Presents: The Champagne Spy. An amazing but true story of a Mossad agent who never really ever came in from the cold. On assignment in Cairo posing as an ex-Nazi billionaire, Wolfgang Lotz became so enmeshed in his [...]

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 [...]