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Meet Jodie, Jewish Crisis-Communicator of the Week!

November 23, 2022

by Samuel Milligan

My Adventure at the 21st Maccabiah Games

November 16, 2022

by Michael Shapiro

Meet Caroline Kessler, GatherBay Community Director and Jewish Zine-Maker of the Week!

November 9, 2022

by Samuel Milligan

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Thanksgiving leftovers for Shabbat? Yes plz! We

Thanksgiving leftovers for Shabbat? Yes plz!

We hope you're enjoying leftovers, hanging with friends and family....or having some quality solo time 😉 Shabbat Shalom!

📸: Our very own @niikkimills showing off a delicious pumpkin challah roll (!!!) baked by the wonderful @jtbookw0rm

ID: Hand holding up a challah roll with a blurred background of folks around a table. Text across the picture reads "Shabbat Shalom"

Looking for a new gig all about helping 20s & 30s

Looking for a new gig all about helping 20s & 30s find their people and their place in Jewish NoVA? Oddly specific...but have we got news for you! Gather's NoVA Community Coordinator job is closing this Sunday. See the 🔗 in our bio to learn more and apply before it's too late! ☕️✡️🤗

Happy Thanksgiving! The Gather team has been looki

Happy Thanksgiving! The Gather team has been looking forward to this time to connect with ourselves and loved ones, rest, and reflect with gratitude on the year that is soon coming to a close. We wish the same for you (and hope that we can all roust ourselves early enough to catch the start of the National Dog Show -- this feels like a basset hound kinda year)!

We also recognize that Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday for many people. The myth of the "first Thanksgiving" is one that deserves a more critical eye. Genocide of Native Americans, whose rights to self-determination are, to this day, still being eroded by institutions in which they have been historically ignored and silenced, is a fact of American history and should not be washed away for comfort's sake. GatherDC recognizes that the beautiful townhouse our community gathers in sits on Nacotchtank (Anacostan) and Piscataway land. As we express thanks for the positive aspects of our own lives, it is important to also recognize, name, and continue to work against the ongoing inequities that hinder the creation of a more just, sustainable, and fair world - one that will be built on lovingkindness (Ps 89:3).

Hey there! It's a great time to meet Jodie -- read

Hey there! It's a great time to meet Jodie -- read GatherDC's interview with our controversy-quelling, risk-taking, community-building ODF fellow and Jewish crisis-communicator of the week! Hit the 🔗 in our bio to find out what inspired Jodie to buy a one-way ticket to Israel in 2015, and what she's discovered upon her return stateside 👀🛫💻

ID: Slide 1: Jodie stands in front of the Western Wall / Slide 2: Jodie and her ODF cohort sit on the GatherDC townhouse steps. Jodie sips from a tiny glass in a sunlit restaurant / Slide 3: Jodie, dressed in UNC basketball gear, holds her arms up and smiles in front of the basketball court.

Happy Sigd! Malkam Ba'al! Swipe through to learn m

Happy Sigd! Malkam Ba'al! Swipe through to learn more about this Ethiopian Jewish holiday celebrated in the mountaintops 🏔️

Getting into the giving spirit? There's still time

Getting into the giving spirit? There's still time to apply to GatherDC's Giving Circle, which kicks off next Tuesday! Come learn all about what Judaism has to say, and then out that learning into action. Check out the link in our bio for more deets and to apply today.

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