
Washington DCJCC After Rashi, Challah French Toast is the best contribution to Jewish culture ever to come out of France. Discuss.

While doing my usual CNN check at work - to be completely caught up on important news, not celebrity gossip, no way - I was caught by surprise at the homepage. Right there on the front is a picture of the back of somebody's neck with a tattoo reading "Kosher" and a picture of a pig...

In case you missed it, we’ve been pretty busy with Lit Fest. So busy that I don’t even have time to type out the full name of the Festival, as we are expecting a full theater of 250 individuals tonight for Melvin Urofsky’s lecture on his new biography Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. Yes, a [...]

Washington DCJCC Shout-out to all area poets and spoken word performers: come out tomorrow night and show your skills at our poetry slam! Featured artist Jake Marmer will take the stage to show you how it’s done before you take your turn. Share your latest work or cheer on your friends as they compete in this great night of spoken word poetry.
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Saturday, October 24SLAM! An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry9:00 pm | Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Court NW$10, Discounted Members/Seniors/Under 25 $8

Washington DCJCC Free tickets to Past Imperfect: New Jewish Fiction panel tomorrow night at the DCJCC. Click here to reserve yours: http://tinyurl.com/yf6l4fq
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Thursday, October 22Binnie Kirshenbaum | The Scenic RouteJonathon Keats | The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-SixNorah Labiner | German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons7:30 pm | Ina and Jack Kay Community Hall$10, Discounted Members/Seniors/Under 25 $8

You know you've made it in DC when Bob Madigan, WTOP's Man-About-Town comes to your event. And thanks to our kick-ass Festival Publicist, Bob was there last night at the Opening of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival...

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Do you have YOUR tickets to hear author Zoe Heller speak Tues, Oct 20? Read her interview in The Express and come at 7pm to buy your tickets! http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2 009/10/zoe-heller-the-believers.php
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ZOE HELLER'S 2003 novel, "What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal" was a major breakthrough, earning her a spot on the Man Booker Prize shortlist and inspiring an acclaimed film adaptation starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench.

We're sorry. Although really it is the Washington Post's fault. For some reason they thought that Philip Roth would be attending the Opening Night of the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, which every year offers dramatic readings of some of the finest Jewish authors...

After slaving away in our offices for the last number of months, the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is finally upon us. This coming Sunday, October 18, we kick off 10 days of the best and brightest of this year’s Jewish-related book releases. ...

Washington DCJCC Don't take this the wrong way, but a JCC is not going to join your Mafia family. We're more of a mishpocheh kind of outfit.

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Siona Benjamin is a painter originally from the Bombay Jewish (Bene Israel) community; she now lives in the US.
Her rich, colorful paintings reflect the experience of being Jewish in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India.
By combining the imagery of her past with her present in America, she makes a mosaic inspired by both Indian miniature paintings and Sephardic icons.
With Artist's Talk
Time:5:30PM Thursday, October 15th
Location:Washington, DC

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Jonathan Keats'
latest piece: the First Bank of Antimatter, a financial institution
that will issue a new currency backed by antimatter.http://www.good.is/post/the-good-100-jon athon-keats/ See Keats in DC - only here at the 16th Street J on Oct 22!
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Antimatters of the Art Jonathon Keats is an artist-philosopher whose conceptual projects have examined everything from the nature of the divine (he tried to

Engaging Israel in Our Community: The Arts Programs of the Washington DCJCC « The Blog at 16th and Q
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Theater J’s participation in the upcoming J Street Conference is part of a long-established and agency-wide tradition of engaging in conversations about Israeli society through a variety of artistic media, public lectures and policy debates. ...

Theater J’s participation in the upcoming J Street Conference is part of a long-established and agency-wide tradition of engaging in conversations about Israeli society through a variety of artistic media, public lectures and policy debates. ...
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