May 18th, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm – The recording is at https://youtu.be/u3A1mucJacY. A class co-sponsored with Sephardic Heritage Internation DC (SHIN-DC) about little-known events during the Holocaust and WWII in Yugoslavia Moric “Moris” Albahari, who died in 2022 within a week of his 92nd birthday, had a distinguished career in Bosnia and was especially esteemed in his Sephardic community. Jordan Sher’s Dark […]
June 5th, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Pre-program reception at 6:30 pm with kosher Iraqi hors d’oeuvres aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa in-person at Rayburn Congressional Building, 45 Independence Ave SW, DCaaaaaaaa […]
June 22nd, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm – The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/5rxkQvMuuZA. The Holocaust was one of humanity’s most traumatic experiences, and this traumatic event has a connection to the environmental problems facing us today. In fact, pollution, climate change, and mining abuses (extractivism) are closely related to hatred, racism, antisemitism and other social issues. Art is a powerful […]
September 3rd, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The Recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/es55uffzPh4. Publicly launched by Aharon Varady in 5769 (2009), the Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, and non-prescriptive community project growing a vast collection of digitized Jewish prayers, liturgies, and related works (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure), composed in every era, region, and language […]
September 10th, 2025 – September 17th, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The recording of session #1 is at https://youtu.be/XNULYShT7ZY. The recording of session #2 is at https://youtu.be/BCrTsiTkVaI. Each of this class’s participants has a website with recordings of ritual songs and other very interesting items as well as how to contact her. For Dr Rachel Adelstein’s website click on (or copy) www.JewishMusicShows.wordpress.com For Cantor Deborah Katchko-Gray’s […]
September 14th, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm – The recoding of this class is at https://youtu.be/4uqjLkKfaXk It appears that we can choose between a number of courses of action and thus become, through our choice, the cause of the action we select. Is this a true account of how we act, or are we compelled by God or by the laws of nature […]
November 9th, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Global Day of Jewish Learning – A Study Workshop The Limmud Global Day of Jewish Learning is the premier program uniting world Jewry of diverse backgrounds, cultures and religious approaches in a single day dedicated to Jewish study. Communal organizations across six continents host Global Day programs that collectively reach more than 10,000 […]
November 16th, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/R7_cUW07IU0Y. You can contact Raquel Levy-Toledano by emailing to genealogyjm@gmail.com. The link to her article recently published on Montefiore censuses (open source) is at https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/3/72. The link to Montefiore Endowment website is at https://www.montefioreendowment.org.uk/ and the link to the search section of the website is https://www.montefioreendowment.org.uk/census-search/. This program […]
November 19th, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/VBFtUKXBWP0. Deborah Katchko-Gray (Cantor Debbie) is a fourth-generation cantor and is the Founder (in 1982) and Past President of the Women Cantors’ Network. She uses her grandfather’s nusach (traditional Jewish ritual music) as the base for new synagogue music that is singable, with meaningful English and easy refrains. […]
December 7th, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm – The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/xFzySt9UN9Q. This one session course will introduce the basic concepts of Kabbalah on Shabbat and the core prayer of the Friday evening service, Lecha Dodi. This beautiful poem by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz in the 16th Century was sung in the hills of Safed on Friday evening to […]
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