Featured 9:30 am Parenting Book Club: Nurture the Wow Featured November 5 at 9:30 am Parenting Book Club: Nurture the Wow As a first-time mom, Rabbi Megdal is discovering how Jewish wisdom speaks to the joys and challenges of parenting small children. You are invited to join her for a fun and meaningful book club, as we read Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting. ...
Featured 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Hearing Men’s Voices Featured November 5 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Hearing Men’s Voices Beth El men are welcome to join us in person or via Zoom for our monthly gathering. Ben Bronheim will lead discussion of "Challenges as We Age – How to Stay Positive and Keep Going." Please RSVP using the form below.
Featured 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Film Screening: Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Featured November 7 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Film Screening: Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Join Chai Society 60+ for a screening of the film Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round. The movie tells the story of five Black students who rode a segregated carousel in 1960, igniting one of the earliest organized interracial civil rights protests in U.S. history. Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is the little-known story ...
Featured 8:15 am - 9:30 am Real Estate Professionals Affinity Group Breakfast Featured November 10 at 8:15 am - 9:30 am Real Estate Professionals Affinity Group Breakfast Whether you finance, build, own, operate, provide professional services to, or just enjoy, real estate, please join us to schmooze, nosh, and learn. The Real Estate Professionals affinity group will gather on Tuesday, November 10, at 8:15 am for breakfast at the office of a leading strategic advisory firm in downtown Bethesda. We'll enjoy bagels ...
Featured 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Yah Echsof Meditation Group Featured November 21 at 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Yah Echsof Meditation Group While classical Jewish teaching suggests “Naaseh V’Nishmah” (“first we do, then we understand”), Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of Jewish Renewal, advocated for an alternative approach. He believed that profound connection comes from first understanding one’s inner Jewish self through study, practice, and meditation. This monthly gathering adopts Reb Zalman’s path. We will use meditation, chant, ...
Featured 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Chutzpod! Live On Location at Beth El Featured November 22 at 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Chutzpod! Live On Location at Beth El On-Location at Beth El: Live Recording of the Chutzpod! Podcast Doors open at 5:00 pm; the podcast recording begins promptly at 5:30 pm. A light reception to follow. Chutzpod! is a renowned, frank, and wide-ranging conversation about how to build a good life, drawing on real-life dilemmas and millennia-old Jewish wisdom. Each week, Rabbi Shira ...
Featured 9:30 am Parenting Book Club: Nurture the Wow Featured December 3 at 9:30 am Parenting Book Club: Nurture the Wow As a first-time mom, Rabbi Megdal is discovering how Jewish wisdom speaks to the joys and challenges of parenting small children. You are invited to join her for a fun and meaningful book club, as we read Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting. ...
Featured 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Yah Echsof Meditation Group Featured December 5 at 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Yah Echsof Meditation Group While classical Jewish teaching suggests “Naaseh V’Nishmah” (“first we do, then we understand”), Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of Jewish Renewal, advocated for an alternative approach. He believed that profound connection comes from first understanding one’s inner Jewish self through study, practice, and meditation. This monthly gathering adopts Reb Zalman’s path. We will use meditation, chant, ...
