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SUMMARY:Men's Support Group
DESCRIPTION:First Wednesday of the Month at 7pm – Participants will support each other navigating life stages drawing upon an established men’s group model. The group generally meets the first Wednesday of each month. Interested in receiving updates on Brotherhood activities? Email us here.
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/mens-support-group-5/
LOCATION:Funger Hall
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T190000
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SUMMARY:WC Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Please join our burgeoning Or HaLev sitting group in DC for an hour of chanting\, silent practice and teaching most Tuesday nights this winter and spring from 7-8pm.  \nWe begin and end with a chant\, offer about 10-15 minutes of teaching related to where we find ourselves in Jewish spiritual time and allow for a spacious\, rich period of silent practice. These sits are held by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman\, Jill Minneman and Amy Golen. We are delighted to be offering a new season of sitting. All levels of experience with meditation practice are warmly welcomed. Come to every session or drop in as your schedule allows.  \nWe look forward to practicing with you. \nRegister
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/wc-meditation-3/
LOCATION:2nd floor Gan Classrooms
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T193000
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SUMMARY:Intro to Judaism 2.0
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/intro-to-judaism-2-0-3/
LOCATION:Biran Beit Midrash
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T100000
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SUMMARY:Meet a Palestinian-American Member of Adas
DESCRIPTION:Meet a Palestinian-American Member of Adas \nHear about lessons learned from a Jewish-American and Palestinian-American marriage.  \nSunday\, March 15\, 10am – 11am\, Post Morning Minyan\, Biran Beit Midrash \nJoin Adas members Helen Qubain and Harry Matz for a meaningful and intimate conversation about Helen’s story as a Palestinian American\, and Helen and Harry’s story of how they have navigated their marriage\, especially after October 7th\, 2023.
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/meet-a-palestinian-american-member-of-adas/
LOCATION:Biran Beit Midrash
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T190000
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SUMMARY:Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews & the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:In 1860\, there were 150\,000 Jews living in the United States. How did this small minority\, mostly recent immigrants\, react to the fierce national debate over slavery? During his virtual visit\, Richard Kreitner\, author of Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews\, the Civil War\, and the Fight to End Slavery\, will introduce noteworthy Jewish individuals who opposed slavery\, defended it\, or remained silent. The case of those who opted to stay silent raises some uncomfortable questions.  Would we have been more courageous in their circumstances? What is the cost of political courage in our own time? \nRegister
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/fear-no-pharaoh-american-jews-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T120000
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SUMMARY:Weekday Sisterhood Torah!
DESCRIPTION:Monthly on Tuesdays at 11:00am- Sisterhood’s Weekday Torah: \n2025: October 28\, November 18\, December 16  \n2026: January 13\, February 24\, March 17\, April 21\, May 19\, June 16 \n  \nWeekday Torah with Sisterhood is an engaging approach to traditional text study that offers \nparticipants the opportunity to study and discuss challenging texts and ideas. Students of all levels and backgrounds are welcome. Please contact Marilyn Cooper with questions\, or if you would like a link to the Zoom Torah study class.
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/weekday-sisterhood-torah-14/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T190000
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SUMMARY:WC Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Please join our burgeoning Or HaLev sitting group in DC for an hour of chanting\, silent practice and teaching most Tuesday nights this winter and spring from 7-8pm.  \nWe begin and end with a chant\, offer about 10-15 minutes of teaching related to where we find ourselves in Jewish spiritual time and allow for a spacious\, rich period of silent practice. These sits are held by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman\, Jill Minneman and Amy Golen. We are delighted to be offering a new season of sitting. All levels of experience with meditation practice are warmly welcomed. Come to every session or drop in as your schedule allows.  \nWe look forward to practicing with you. \nRegister
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/wc-meditation-4/
LOCATION:2nd floor Gan Classrooms
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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SUMMARY:Dare to Imagine a Free Iran. It's Time.
DESCRIPTION:Tens of thousands have been killed by the regime’s security forces. And still\, the Iranian people march. \nNot because they are reckless\, but because they are resolute.  They march because liberty is not an abstract idea to them. It is the very air they breathe. \nWhy have leftists and feminists\, who once stood far from even the notion of monarchy\, publicly united behind Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as a transitional opposition figure? \nWhy are lifelong pacifists now speaking the unspeakable\, arguing that the world may need to confront the Islamic Republic with force? \nWhat breaks a society so profoundly\, so deeply\, and so painfully that even its gentlest voices begin to speak in the language of urgency? \nKhosro Isfahani will explore these questions and more through a tapestry of personal witness and national history. \nKhosro was born and raised in Tehran\, where he lived for over three decades\, working as a journalist and frontline human rights defender until 2021. He infiltrated secretive missile facilities. He smuggled classified documents beyond the regime’s reach. He delivered aid quietly to communities placed deliberately in harm’s way. \nThose choices carried consequences: interrogations\, threats\, surveillance\, and finally exile. \nBut exile did not silence him. \nOver seventeen years reporting on Iran’s political and human landscape\, Khosro has transformed lived experience into disciplined research and strategic advocacy: he found Hashem and His tribe — not as a metaphor\, but an anchor. Today\, he serves as Research Director at the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI)\, documenting abuses and articulating a pathway toward a democratic transition. \nThis is not merely a lecture about geopolitics. It is a call to moral imagination… to dare and imagine a free Iran. And to also recognize that the time for imagining alone has passed.
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/dare-to-imagine-a-free-iran-its-time/
LOCATION:Biran Beit Midrash
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T190000
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SUMMARY:WC Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Please join our burgeoning Or HaLev sitting group in DC for an hour of chanting\, silent practice and teaching most Tuesday nights this winter and spring from 7-8pm.  \nWe begin and end with a chant\, offer about 10-15 minutes of teaching related to where we find ourselves in Jewish spiritual time and allow for a spacious\, rich period of silent practice. These sits are held by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman\, Jill Minneman and Amy Golen. We are delighted to be offering a new season of sitting. All levels of experience with meditation practice are warmly welcomed. Come to every session or drop in as your schedule allows.  \nWe look forward to practicing with you. \nRegister
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/wc-meditation-13/
LOCATION:2nd floor Gan Classrooms
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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SUMMARY:Jewish Perspectives on Genetic Selection in Assisted Reproduction
DESCRIPTION:On March 25 at 7:30 PM\, the Reproductive Justice Team and the Inclusion Task Force will co-host an evening of learning and discussion about genetic selection in assisted reproduction. Drawing on Jewish texts as well as bioethics and disability justice frameworks\, we will explore how emerging reproductive technologies shape the choices parents can make – and the ethical questions those choices raise. This text study/discussion will be lead by Rabbi Sarah Krinsky and Rabbi Lauren Tuchman. Together\, we will consider how Jewish values can help guide our decision-making as individuals and as a community. \nRegister
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/jewish-perspectives-on-genetic-selection-in-assisted-reproduction/
LOCATION:Biran Beit Midrash
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T140000
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SUMMARY:MakomDC:  The Necessity of Narrative in Halakhic Decision Making with Rabbi Aaron Alexander - Passover Test Case: When Matzah Harms
DESCRIPTION:The Necessity of Narrative in Halakhic Decision Making \nShabbat afternoons Dec 6th\, Feb 14th\, March 28th \nIf a Jewish Legal (halakhic) decision is made in the forest with nobody present\, did it actually happen? Maybe. The reality is that written law–case-law (responsa) and codes–significantly depend on the very human stories that animates both the unique questions\, and idiosyncratic responses. In this series we’ll explore some critical halakhic decisions (responsa\, mostly) in which the stories behind the questions influenced the direction of the rabbinic decisor. (Texts provided in Hebrew & English\, all are welcome!) \nFebruary 14th: Test Cases—Sociological Identity Shifts That Stretched Halakhah in Post-Enlightenment Germany. Join Rabbi Alexander in the Biran Beit Midrash at 1:00pm to explore how modernity upended traditional Jewish life in Germany\, and created a genre of Responsa Literature (Questions/Answers) that attempted to hold the community together from within classic halakhic principles. Sources provided in original and english\, all are welcome! \nMarch 28th: The Necessity of Narrative in Halakhic Decision Making: Passover Test Case–When Matzah Harms – In this pre-Passover session\, we’ll study together a Jewish legal response to questions that circle around health and halakhah. What happens when people’s lives don’t fit into the clean legal boxes? This will also give us a chance to explore and discuss the big mitzvot of Passover. Texts will be provided in English and the original. All are welcome.
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/makomdc-the-necessity-of-narrative-in-halakhic-decision-making-with-rabbi-aaron-alexander-passover-test-case-when-matzah-harms/
LOCATION:Biran Beit Midrash
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage,Shabbat
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260329T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260329T113000
DTSTAMP:20261020T073424
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SUMMARY:Primer for the 2026 Israeli Elections - Mechanisms and Procedures of the Israeli Electoral System with Natan Guttman
DESCRIPTION:PRIMER FOR THE 2026 ISRAELI ELECTIONS  – MECHANISMS AND PROCEDURES OF THE ISRAELI ELECTORAL SYSTEM WITH NATAN GUTTMAN – EMINENT ISRAELI REPORTER BASED IN DC \nNatan Guttman has been  reporting from Washington\, DC for the past two decades. Since 2007 he has been the US correspondent for Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation – KAN 11. Natan was Haaretz’s Washington Bureau Chief from 2001 – 2005\, and Features Editor prior to that. From 1996 – 1999 he served as the Chief Editor at the Israel Broadcasting Authority’s Mabat Evening News.   He is the former Washington Bureau Chief of the Forward.   Natan served as a Diplomatic correspondent for IDF Radio for three years. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition to appearing very regularly on Israel Channel 11\, Natan Guttman is currently a Moment Institute senior fellow. \n\nThe 2026 elections in Israel are its most important ones in several decades\, and perhaps since 1948. Jews in the US will be following the election campaigns and results with heightened expectations. Each of us may be favoring one party or leader. But are we sufficiently familiar with how the system works? This is a rare opportunity to learn about the ins and outs of the Israeli parliamentary system:  \n– When are elections called? \n– How does a government fall? \n– The roles of public and private financing of campaigns \n– The mechanisms for building ruling coalitions \n– The role of primaries and the forming of party slates \n– Who appoints cabinet ministers? \n– The differences between national and municipal elections \n– The President’s role in choosing a leader to form a governing majority
URL:https://calendar.adasisrael.org/event/primer-for-the-2026-israeli-elections-mechanisms-and-procedures-of-the-israeli-electoral-system-with-natan-guttman/
LOCATION:Biran Beit Midrash
CATEGORIES:Learn & Engage
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