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As we mark two years since October 7, we will gather this Sukkot in front of the White House to remember the souls we lost and to continue the urgent fight to bring all the hostages home.

At its core, Sukkot is a holiday that forces us to think about the places we reside and the spaces we occupy. Our unhoused neighbors are under attack for simply existing, even while the systems meant to support and house them are being slashed both federally and locally. Join Sixth & I and JUFJ in our sukkah for a community discussion about Sukkot, homelessness in DC, and the real solutions.

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6:30 pm: Class with Rabbi Jenna OR Happy Hour
7:30 pm: Service and dancing

Simchat Torah, which means ÒRejoicing in Torah,' is the day when we gather to renew ourselves as we begin the cycle of reading from Genesis once again. Let loose and dance like no one's watching as you enjoy live music, themed cocktails and mocktails, and lively dancing on I Street, led by Sixth & I's rabbis and musicians.

Before the main event, choose from taking a class with Rabbi Jenna diving into the holiday and exploring the first few lines of the Torah, or get social and meet new people at our happy hour.

If you're looking for a more low-key experience, catch the service live-streamed on the big screen in our social hall.

Class: Creating Creation
On Simchat Torah, we read the very first lines of Torah, including the radical Jewish idea that every human being is created in the image of God. But what does that actually mean–for our lives, our relationships, and for those who don't believe in God at all?

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israeli-American Liat Atzili and her husband Aviv were at home when Hamas attacked their kibbutz. By nightfall, Liat and Aviv are captives in Gaza along with 250 other people–12 of whom, like Liat, are American citizens.

Caught between international diplomacy and a rapidly escalating war, their family must face their own uncertainty and conflicting political perspectives in the pursuit of Liat and Aviv's release. This agonizing process, and the ultimate fate of their loved ones, challenges how the members of the family understand themselves and their place in the conflict.

Through the intimate lens of a family's experience, Holding Liat poses complex questions of identity across generations, as the family is thrust into the epicenter of a global conflict rapidly unfolding in real-time.

A conversation with producer Lance Kramer follows the screening.

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl was born in Korea and grew up in Tacoma, Washington, the daughter of a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish American father. Spiritual from a young age, she felt the first stirrings to become a rabbi at sixteen. Despite the naysayers and periods of self-doubt–would a mixed-race woman ever be seen as authentically Jewish and entitled to lead a congregation–she stayed the course and became the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi in North America. Buchdahl is the Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City and the first woman to lead the congregation in its 185-year history.

Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging is Buchdahl's account of going from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world, as well as a spiritual guide for everyday living. She doesn't shy away from challenging topics, be it racism within the Jewish community to the sexism she confronted when s

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