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Adas-Behrend Senior Fellowship is a program that provides seniors from the DC metro area a kosher lunch, social activities, and Friday Shabbat celebrations. Social activities include games (such as bingo, scrabble) group exercise classes, entertainment (musicians, sing-alongs, movies), field trips to Theater J and museums, art classes, etc. Lunch and FellowshipSeniors from the DC metro […]

Adas-Behrend Senior Fellowship is a program that provides seniors from the DC metro area a kosher lunch, social activities, and Friday Shabbat celebrations. Social activities include games (such as bingo, scrabble) group exercise classes, entertainment (musicians, sing-alongs, movies), field trips to Theater J and museums, art classes, etc. Lunch and FellowshipSeniors from the DC metro […]

Click Here to Join the ClassJoin us for an exclusive in-depth look at the Torah portion. On alternating Fridays Rabbi Holtzblatt will explore the parsha through the lens of Hassidut and mysticism, Rabbi Alexander will use the Talmud as the prism for the weekly reading, and Rabbi Krinsky will teach the hidden recesses of the Parsha’s passages and discover its […]

Adas-Behrend Senior Fellowship is a program that provides seniors from the DC metro area a kosher lunch, social activities, and Friday Shabbat celebrations. Social activities include games (such as bingo, scrabble) group exercise classes, entertainment (musicians, sing-alongs, movies), field trips to Theater J and museums, art classes, etc. Lunch and FellowshipSeniors from the DC metro […]

Please join the Wellness Center @Adas for two Yoga pop-ups this Spring. As we prepare for Pesach & Shavuot, we focus on freedom and liberation. Through a one-hour practice, we invite participants to join us for a mindful yogic flow, that grounds us in our holy space. We will stretch, breathe, and set an intention […]

Study and discuss a medieval teshuvah (responsum) that asks this question after lists of faith began to emerge and gain popularity, like Maimonides' 13 principles of faith.Register

On Sunday morning join us at minyan at 9 am and stay to eat breakfast and learn with Laynie in a shiur (class) entitled, "Nothing About Us Without Us’: Power, Autonomy, and Expertise in Shaping Halakha”.Register

Join us for an in-person discussion of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, a big-hearted historical novel about a community of Jews, Blacks, and Italians in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in the 1920s and 1930s.  The characters have divergent views on many things, but they somehow unite to protect a young deaf black boy that state […]

Wise Aging is a small group exploration of aging well and wisely through a Jewish lens. The Wise Aging Adas group will meet monthly to learn, share experiences, and acquire skills to sanctify the moments in time that make up this stage in our lives. The program uses the book developed by the Institute for […]

Honoring the Van Damme Family from BelgiumPlease join us on Sunday, May 5, at 2 pm as we honor the Van Damme Family from Belgium. This year we will welcome Laurette and Luc Matthijs as we honor their family, as well as Adas Israel member Hirsch Grunstein, who was given sanctuary by the Van Damme […]