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SUMMARY:Documentary Screening: Singing at Sinai with Am Kolel
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a screening of Singing at Sinai: The Jewish Folk Arts Festivals documentary\, produced by Am Kolel\, which captures the excitement of these festivals and their unique contribution to the enrichment of Jewish life in the Greater Washington DC area. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion (Larry Paul\, Shirley Waxman\, Rabbi David\, Esther Siegel) with producers and film makers\, refreshments\, and live music. \n \nAccommodations: ADA Accessible Venue \n \nOrganization: Am Kolel \n \nLivestream or Virtual: No\, it’s not
URL:https://gatherdc.org/event/documentary-screening-singing-at-sinai-with-am-kolel/
LOCATION:Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="Melissa Eisen":MAILTO:admin@amkolel.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T183000
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SUMMARY:Forging a More Perfect Union: American Jews & Democracy w/ Capital Jewish Museum
DESCRIPTION:Journey through the history of American Jewish political activism in the 20th and 21st centuries. \nIn this 250th year since American independence\, Professor Lauren Strauss goes beyond theoretical discussions about the nation’s founding to focus on the many ways that Jewish Americans have engaged politically. From the streets to the courts to Capitol Hill\, Jews in the U.S.—especially in Washington\, DC—have helped to redefine what it means to live in a democracy.  \n  \nPresented in partnership with Moment Magazine. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nLauren Strauss teaches Jewish history and literature at American University in Washington\, DC\, and is Director of Undergraduate Studies for AU’s Jewish Studies Program.  A scholar of American Jewish political and cultural history\, Strauss is completing her book Painting the Town Red: Jewish Visual Artists\, Yiddish Culture\, and Radical Politics in Interwar New York.  Her next book will explore the political activism of DC Jews and the relationship between American Jews and democracy.  She lectures widely\, is a commentator at Jewish cultural events and in the press\, and has served as historian for several museum exhibits.  She is also active in “shared society” groups that focus on Arab-Jewish relations in Israel\, and in Black-Jewish dialogue groups in the DC area.\nCost Range: $5 – $10 \n \nAccommodations: ADA Accessible Venue \n \nOrganization: Capital Jewish Museum \n \nLivestream or Virtual: No\, it’s not
URL:https://gatherdc.org/event/forging-a-more-perfect-union-american-jews-democracy-w-capital-jewish-museum/
LOCATION:Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="Hally Silberg":MAILTO:hsilberg@capitaljewishmuseum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T183000
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SUMMARY:Supreme Court Justice Arthur and Dorothy Goldberg’s Passover Seders with CJM
DESCRIPTION:In 1960s Washington\, the Goldbergs hosted annual seders famous for weaving the Haggadah together with the songs and history of the labor movement. As Arthur Goldberg’s career carried him from representing steelworkers\, to serving as JFK’s Labor Secretary\, to a seat on the Supreme Court\, the guest list grew from local Jewish families and labor leaders to include Washington’s A-list. Arthur and his wife\, Dorothy—an artist and activist in her own right—filled their civil-rights-themed seders with joy and music. (Picture Dorothy singing Yiddish labor songs\, AFL-CIO leader George Meany belting Irish ballads\, and Chief Justice Earl Warren warbling “The Yellow Rose of Texas.”) \n  \nJoin us for a night of stories from guests lucky enough to have known the Goldbergs and attended these gatherings. \n  \nPresented in partnership with the Supreme Court Historical Society. \n  \nImage caption: Photograph by Mel Chamowitz\, gift of the photographer. Capital Jewish Museum Collection. \nSec. of Labor Arthur Goldberg being greeted by officers and spiritual leaders on the occasion of Shabbat services on Memorial Day at Adas Israel Congregation\, 1961. (L to R): Cantor Ray Edgar\, synagogue president Joseph  Blumenthal\, Sec. Goldberg\, Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz\, and first VP of the congregation\, Samuel Lebowitz.\nCost Range: $5 – $10 \n \nAccommodations: ADA Accessible Venue \n \nOrganization: Capital Jewish Museum \n \nLivestream or Virtual: No\, it’s not
URL:https://gatherdc.org/event/supreme-court-justice-arthur-and-dorothy-goldbergs-passover-seders-with-cjm/
LOCATION:Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="Hally Silberg":MAILTO:hsilberg@capitaljewishmuseum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261203T183000
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SUMMARY:Promise and Perils of Public Art: Ben Shahn’s Murals on Social Security with CJM
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Laura Katzman as she discusses the public art of Ben Shahn (1898-1969)\, focusing on his most prominent New Deal fresco murals\, The Meaning of Social Security\, which were commissioned by the Public Works Agency’s Section of Fine Arts (1940-1942) for the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington\, DC. Dr. Katzman will address how Shahn navigated the demands of federal agencies\, the needs of his own art and activism\, and the larger goals of his social criticism. The program will illuminate the status of Shahn’s murals in the context of the current administration’s controversial efforts to sell specific government buildings and its drastic staff cuts to the General Services Administration—the official steward of federally funded art in government buildings across the United States. \n  \nKatzman’s lecture will be accompanied by a conversation with former director of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Center for Fine Arts\, Jennifer Gibson. \n  \nPresented in partnership with Moment Magazine. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nLaura Katzman is a professor of art history at James Madison University\, and has served as the Terra Foundation Professor of American Art at the Free University Berlin. An internationally recognized scholar of documentary photography in the United States and Puerto Rico\, Dr. Katzman has co-authored numerous publications\, including Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times (2000)\, Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam (2014)\, and The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano (2023). Her most recent book\, Ben Shahn\, On Nonconformity (2025)\, accompanied the eponymous and highly acclaimed retrospective that she curated for the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid (2023-2024) and adapted for the Jewish Museum in New York (2025). \n  \nJennifer Gibson recently retired as the director of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Center for Fine Arts where she was responsible for the policy\, oversight\, and management of the Fine Arts Collection and Art in Architecture program.  The collection includes over 27\,000 artworks dating from the 1850s to the present.  These artworks are permanently installed in federal buildings\, U.S. courthouses\, and land ports of entry throughout the country or are on loan to public institutions.  The center commissions new artworks through the Art in Architecture program.  Gibson joined GSA as a project manager for Art in Architecture and then assumed responsibility for the Fine Arts Program.  Subsequently she established and became director of the Center for Fine Arts which combined the two programs and resulted in a more seamless process for the commissioning of new artworks and long-term care of GSA’s Fine Arts Collection.  She currently serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Board Collections Panel. \nPrior to GSA\, Gibson directed the visual arts program for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission\, a regional government agency\, where she curated exhibitions\, lectured on art\, established art outreach programs\, and developed a public art program.  She has taught art history\, served on the board of Pyramid Atlantic was chair of the art advisory board at the University of Maryland\, University College\, and sat on numerous advisory boards\, juries\, and artist selection panels.  She earned a Ph.D. in art history at the University of Virginia\, and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. \n  \nImage credits: \nLaura Katzman\, Museo Reina Sofia\, Madrid\, October 21\, 2023. Photo by Olive Santos \nBen Shahn\, Housing\, from The Meaning of Social Security\, 1940-42\, fresco secco. Photo courtesy of Carol M. Highsmith Archive\, Library of Congress\nCost Range: $5 – $10 \n \nAccommodations: ADA Accessible Venue \n \nOrganization: Capital Jewish Museum \n \nLivestream or Virtual: No\, it’s not
URL:https://gatherdc.org/event/promise-and-perils-of-public-art-ben-shahns-murals-on-social-security-with-cjm/
LOCATION:Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Learning
ORGANIZER;CN="Hally Silberg":MAILTO:hsilberg@capitaljewishmuseum.org
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SUMMARY:Craft and Sip with Capital Jewish Museum
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an art workshop inspired by the work of Esther Bubley! Bring your own printed photos for a guided photograph embroidery workshop. Or bring your own project and join other crafty folks for an evening of creativity and connection. Beer and wine are available for purchase \n \nAccommodations: ASL Interpretation \n \nOrganization: Capital Jewish Museum \n \nLivestream or Virtual: No\, it’s not
URL:https://gatherdc.org/event/craft-and-sip-with-capital-jewish-museum/
LOCATION:Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social
ORGANIZER;CN="Hally Silberg":MAILTO:hsilberg@capitaljewishmuseum.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261216T183000
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SUMMARY:"Exceptional Hatred" Author Talk with James Loeffler with Capital Jewish Museum
DESCRIPTION:Has antisemitism always been woven into American history or are we witnessing something fundamentally new? Why do Jews and Israel stand at the center of so many battles over free speech? And can we confront hate speech without sacrificing the freedoms we hold dear? \nDrawing on his acclaimed new book\, historian James Loeffler tackles these urgent questions head-on\, illuminating what our current crisis reveals about the fragility—and resilience—of liberal democracy\, and where we might go from here. \nPresented in partnership with the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies and Moment Magazine.\nCost Range: $5 – $10 \n \nAccommodations: ADA Accessible Venue \n \nOrganization: Capital Jewish Museum \n \nLivestream or Virtual: No\, it’s not
URL:https://gatherdc.org/event/exceptional-hatred-author-talk-with-james-loeffler-with-capital-jewish-museum/
LOCATION:Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social
ORGANIZER;CN="Hally Silberg":MAILTO:hsilberg@capitaljewishmuseum.org
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