7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern August 5, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern Each class will be a deep dive into one Talmudic text on a topic relevant to Jews engaged with the Left. We'll use some supplemental materials to inform our reading, but the core of our study will be the Talmud and its commentaries. Everyone is welcome, but the target audience is Jewish people seeking spiritual nourishment as we engage in the work of building a better world, whatever that looks like for you! The class time will be split between chavruta (paired independent study, with guidance from me) and full-group discussion. My goal is for the full-group discussion to feel exciting, stimulating, and accessible to people with a wide range of previous Talmud experience, whether this is your first time encountering the Talmud or you learn Gemara regularly. I will strive to match chavrutot based on your learning needs and goals, particularly around preferring to learn in the original language or in translation. Consider inviting a friend who you might like to be your chavruta! T $18
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern August 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern Each class will be a deep dive into one Talmudic text on a topic relevant to Jews engaged with the Left. We'll use some supplemental materials to inform our reading, but the core of our study will be the Talmud and its commentaries. Everyone is welcome, but the target audience is Jewish people seeking spiritual nourishment as we engage in the work of building a better world, whatever that looks like for you! The class time will be split between chavruta (paired independent study, with guidance from me) and full-group discussion. My goal is for the full-group discussion to feel exciting, stimulating, and accessible to people with a wide range of previous Talmud experience, whether this is your first time encountering the Talmud or you learn Gemara regularly. I will strive to match chavrutot based on your learning needs and goals, particularly around preferring to learn in the original language or in translation. Consider inviting a friend who you might like to be your chavruta! T $18
6:45 pm - 9:15 pm Egalitarian Services and Potluck with Tikkun Leil Shabbat August 15, 2025 @ 6:45 pm - 9:15 pm Egalitarian Services and Potluck with Tikkun Leil Shabbat Please join TLS this week to welcome Shabbat, to recharge and find warmth and comfort in community. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at tikkunleilshabbat@yahoo.com. We will learn about Free DC this week, an organization fighting for DC self-determination. Services: 6:45 PM Potluck: 8:00 PM - approximately Place: The Festival Center 1640 Columbia Rd NW Washington, DC 20009 We will meet in an indoor space at the Festival Center in Columbia Heights for a songful, soulful Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv, followed by potluck dinner. TLS will provide dessert! Covid rapid testing will be required and masks will be optional for this indoor gathering. There will be optional outdoor space for the potluck portion. Please get tested prior to attending, or allow for extra time to get tested on site. TLS will have a limited number of Covid rapid tests for day-of testing. More Covid protocols below. POTLUCK DINNER: Please bring a vegetarian entree or salad/side to s
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Make Art and Noise for a Free DC! with Jews United for Justice August 17, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Make Art and Noise for a Free DC! with Jews United for Justice Make art, build community, and fight for a free DC with JUFJ. Join us as we stand in solidarity with our partners at Free DC to make clear that we will protect our home. We'll gather to join the two calls to action from Free DC to make our movement visible, loud, and united -- we'll make DC flag posters to put up in our windows, yards, or businesses, and we'll bang pots at 8pm alongside everyone else at Free DC. We will provide some art supplies but you are welcome to bring your own! This event is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, exact location will be sent to registrants ahead of the event.
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Jews Like Free Speech, Actually: Comedy & Fundraiser with Just Kidding Comedy August 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Jews Like Free Speech, Actually: Comedy & Fundraiser with Just Kidding Comedy Shtick up for what's right with this incredible lineup of local Jewish comedians raising funds for Jews United for Justice! Laughing at a time like this? Well, it takes chutzpah. The progressive Jewish community could really use a laugh about now, and the Just Kidding Comedy Collective is delighted to deliver with this incredible lineup of local Jewish comedians! Don't miss Dana Fleitman, Carmiya Weinraub, Alex Barbag, Stacey Axler, Joey Friedman, and more special guests. Plus, a portion of proceeds go to Jews United for Justice - an inspiring local nonprofit truly doing the work that exemplifies progressive Jewish values: immigrant justice, housing justice, racial equity, and coalition-building. TLDR: We do NOT WANT deportations, fascism, or war. We DO WANT tacos, community, and laughter. Let's make it happen! This venue has a 2-item minimum (Food and/or drinks -- full bar plus mocktails, sodas, etc. Let us know if this won't be possible due to Kashrut!). Doors at 6:30pm, $25
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern August 19, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern Each class will be a deep dive into one Talmudic text on a topic relevant to Jews engaged with the Left. We'll use some supplemental materials to inform our reading, but the core of our study will be the Talmud and its commentaries. Everyone is welcome, but the target audience is Jewish people seeking spiritual nourishment as we engage in the work of building a better world, whatever that looks like for you! The class time will be split between chavruta (paired independent study, with guidance from me) and full-group discussion. My goal is for the full-group discussion to feel exciting, stimulating, and accessible to people with a wide range of previous Talmud experience, whether this is your first time encountering the Talmud or you learn Gemara regularly. I will strive to match chavrutot based on your learning needs and goals, particularly around preferring to learn in the original language or in translation. Consider inviting a friend who you might like to be your chavruta! T $18
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Make Art and Noise for a Free DC! with Jews United for Justice August 21, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Make Art and Noise for a Free DC! with Jews United for Justice Make art, build community, and fight for a free DC with JUFJ. Join us as we stand in solidarity with our partners at Free DC to make clear that we will protect our home. We'll gather to join the two calls to action from Free DC to make our movement visible, loud, and united -- we'll make DC flag posters to put up in our windows, yards, or businesses, and we'll bang pots at 8pm alongside everyone else at Free DC. We will provide some art supplies but you are welcome to bring your own! This event is in the Mt Pleasant neighborhood, exact location will be sent to registrants ahead of the event.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Open House with Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation August 24, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Open House with Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation Ready to take the next step in your Jewish journey? Come see what NVHC has to offer! Clergy and leadership will be on hand- as will representatives from our young Jewish professionals, LGBTQ+, Inclusion, Social Action and many other committees and affinity groups. We embrace interfaith couples and families and children are welcome to attend. We looking forward to welcoming you at our Open House event!
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern August 26, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern Each class will be a deep dive into one Talmudic text on a topic relevant to Jews engaged with the Left. We'll use some supplemental materials to inform our reading, but the core of our study will be the Talmud and its commentaries. Everyone is welcome, but the target audience is Jewish people seeking spiritual nourishment as we engage in the work of building a better world, whatever that looks like for you! The class time will be split between chavruta (paired independent study, with guidance from me) and full-group discussion. My goal is for the full-group discussion to feel exciting, stimulating, and accessible to people with a wide range of previous Talmud experience, whether this is your first time encountering the Talmud or you learn Gemara regularly. I will strive to match chavrutot based on your learning needs and goals, particularly around preferring to learn in the original language or in translation. Consider inviting a friend who you might like to be your chavruta! T $18
10:30 am - 11:30 am We Are All DC Shabbat Service with Jews United for Justice September 6, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am We Are All DC Shabbat Service with Jews United for Justice JUFJ and Sixth & I will hold a Shabbat Service to sing, pray, and hold each other in community immediately before the We Are All DC march begins. Following the service, we will gather and march together as a Jewish contingent in the march and rally. We encourage anyone coming to the service and march to bring a tallit (prayer shawl) as a symbol of our Jewish spiritual practice. If you have them, also please wear your JUFJ tshirt and bring any relevant JUFJ signs.
August 5, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern
August 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern
August 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Jews Like Free Speech, Actually: Comedy & Fundraiser with Just Kidding Comedy
August 19, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern
August 26, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Textual Audacity: Talmud for the Progressive Soul with Rav Avigayil Halpern