Featured Featured September 12 at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Elul Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Harris Enjoy your lunch at a local restaurant while discussing the theme of teshuva (repentance/returning) and how it connects to our everyday life as we prepare for the High Holidays. Buy your own lunch and join Rabbi Harris, who will facilitate a meaningful conversation while we eat. Please RSVP using the form to receive the address. ...
Featured Featured September 13 at 5:30 pm Back to Shul BBQ Congregation Beth El 8215 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD, United States It's time for our annual Back to Shul BBQ! Join with your friends and community for an evening for food, fun and connection! We will have information from different groups about how to get involved this year, along with inflatables, a yummy BBQ dinner, and a chance to catch up with members of the Beth ... $16
Featured Featured September 15 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Conversation and Coffee on the Crescent Trail Join the Women of Beth El for a walk down the Capital Crescent Trail and then for coffee at Starbucks afterwards (ladies only please). We will have 3 pace groups (fast, medium, and leisurely walkers). Registration is appreciated so that we can contact you with any last minute updates. Please RSVP using the form below. ...
Featured Featured September 15 at 11:00 am Book Chat: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo Congregation Beth El 8215 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD, United States Join us for an in-person discussion at Beth El of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, a thrilling novel blending historical fiction and fantasy, set in 16th century Spain. What happened to the Jews forced to become conversos (converts to Catholicism) who remained in Spain after the mass expulsion of 1492? In The Familiar, Bardugo imagines ...
Featured Featured September 15 at 6:00 pm Beth El Goes Back to the Movies Edlavitch DCJCC 1529 16th St NW, Washington, DC, United States Beth El is going back to the movies! Join your Beth El community for opening night of Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round, a JxJ* movie playing at the Edlavitch DCJCC, followed by a conversation with director Ilana Trachtman. The movie tells the story of five Black students who rode a segregated carousel in 1960, ...