Kol Ish Live in Concert - Beatbox
02/08/2018 11:45:49 PM
Rhythm 'N' Ruach: Shalom at Home Interview with the Rabbi!
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Yom Kippur 5780
10/08/2019 11:38:21 AM
The Kitchener Camp: When Britain Welcomed 4,000 German Jews
07/02/2019 12:42:53 PM
Irmgard Brill was pregnant with her first child, and she was terrified. Nazis had burned down the synagogue, violence reigned in the streets, and she and her husband Walter had been forced to hide in the home of a friend. After years of increasing abuse and discrimination against Jews in Germany, this horrific night focused their dilemma. Irmgard must have wondered if they should stay in their hometown of Munich, Germany. And if...Read more...
Rabbi and Kids Prepare for Passover Seder
04/19/2019 11:01:58 AM
The Taming of Mt. Kilimanjaro and Frank Solomon
11/05/2018 07:02:48 PM
Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. It contains almost every kind of ecological system on earth: cultivated land, rain forest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and an arctic summit. At a colossal 19,341 feet, Mt. Kilimanjaro is one of the largest volcanoes to ever break through the earth’s crust. Hemingway made the mountain a...Read more...
Shabbat Hazon, Devarim, Tisha B'Av, Tu B'Av 5778
07/20/2018 12:35:46 PM
by Abigail Leibowitz
Featured in this week's WJW!
If you Google “Jamaica images” you get sparkling beaches, white sRead more...
Kol Ish in Concert
05/15/2018 03:18:19 AM
TERRORISM EXPERT SHEDS LIGHT ON US-ISRAEL COLLABORATION
02/08/2018 09:00:07 AM
Did you know the U.S. government’s first official counterterrorism office was created in response to an attack on Israelis? In fact, many of the components of the U.S. responses to terrorism were prompted by developments affecting Israel.
During his Shabbat morning guest lecture on Jan. 27, Michael Kraft, a 19-year veteran of the U.S. State Department’s counterterrorism office, shared these and many other insights about about...Read more...
Sen. Cardin Urges Jews to Speak Up Against Bias and Injustice
12/17/2017 08:10:16 PM
A World View Shaped from a Small Town Jewish Perspective
12/08/2017 02:11:22 PM
by Daniel S. Mariaschin, B'nai Brith Executive VP & HTAA Past President
In 1955, just before I entered the first grade, we moved from Englewood, New Jersey, to Swanzey, New...Read more...
A TALE OF TWO COVENANTS
11/16/2017 04:44:58 PM
Silver Spring historian Professor David Rotenstein was the latest lecturer in Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim’s adult education series.
Today we think of Silver Spring, Maryland, as a very Jewish area, but this wasn’t always the case. In reality, Jews were banned from living in Silver Spring for decades as a result of restrictive residency covenants and land-use laws explicitly prohibiting the sale of property to specific...Read more...
Congressman Jaime Raskin's visit to HTAA!
10/18/2017 03:12:19 PM
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Read more...AT HAR TZEON-AGUDATH ACHIM, CONGRESSMAN SHARES INFLUENCE OF HIS JEWISH IDENTITY ON HIS PUBLIC LIFE
09/28/2017 01:35:01 PM
Jews may be “People of the Book,” but Congressman Jamie Raskin (D – Md.) believes in putting words into action to help make the world a better place. That was one of the messages the new representative for Maryland’s 8th District had for the packed audience at Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Sept. 23, Shabbat Shuva.
The former American University law professor and veteran Maryland state legislator said...Read more...
THE RIGHTEOUS RAILWAY WORKERS OF LILLE, FRANCE: A LOCAL CONNECTION FROM ROSH HASHANAH, 1942
09/14/2017 01:37:02 PM
My mother, Perla Brandriss, often mentioned to us as children that it was Erev Rosh Hashanah, 1942, that the Nazis came to take her parents. They and their two youngest children were rounded up and taken to the railway station in their home town of Lille, France, together with many of the city’s other Polish Jews, to be sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.
Erev Rosh Hashanah that year fell on September 11, the date on which, 59 years...Read more...
The Untold Story of the Jewish Effort to Pass the G.I. Bill. By our newest congregant, Anna Selman
07/15/2017 01:00:33 AM
Chag Kasher V'Sameach!
04/07/2017 05:16:51 PM
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From Carmi Kobren & Abbé Levin
01/08/2016 12:49:39 PM
This story begins while I was siting in Shul during Shmeni Atzeret of this year. The congregation was getting ready to begin Yizkor. I was sitting with my parents thinking about my brother Ami. Abbé was there to say Kaddish for, among others, her brother...Read more...
A Message From Cantor Ben Bazian
12/29/2015 09:19:55 AM
Shana Tova 5776
09/11/2015 01:10:16 PM
Will we ever see justice in the AMIA bombing case? by Dan Mariaschin
07/21/2015 10:35:35 AM
Did the best chance for justice in the AMIA bombing case die with Alberto Nisman?
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Not Just Numbers - The Sanctity of Speech - by Charles Shenitz
07/08/2015 10:27:45 AM
This past Monday, June 29 the 12th of Tammuz was the first yahrzeit for my father George Abraham Shenitz, Yosef Avraham ben Binyamin Halevi z"l. I presented a Torah learning session in memory of my father after daily morning services. I chose to focus on my father's ability to carefully choose his words on all...Read more...
The JCRC of Greater Washington Stands with the Community of Charleston at This Time of Tragedy
06/19/2015 02:57:06 PM
The murders committed in Charleston at the historic Emanuel AME Church and the desecration of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the unity of all of G-d's creation. We issue the following statements in response to these heinous crimes:
The JCRC of Greater Washington Stands with the Community of Charleston at This Time of Tragedy...Read more...
Who Is A God-Fearing Person?
06/04/2015 05:04:20 PM
In our Shavuot inter-generational Torah study we divided into pairs, and attempted to answer the following question:
Who is a "God-fearing" person?
By looking at the 4 stories in the Torah where the term "God-fearing" is mentioned, we found a common denominator:
A "God-fearing" person is one who treats the stranger and the underprivileged with compassion!
How did we arrive at that conclusion?...Read more...
Happy Mother's Day
05/09/2015 11:59:30 PM
Someone once asked if the idea of observing Mother's Day is consistent with Jewish law and tradition. Not because he was bemoaning having to pay inflated prices for flowers but, as a traditionalist, the concept did not sit well with him. He suspected that identifying a single day to honor...Read more...
The Magic Omer Formula: How to Figure Out the Correct Count without A Calendar or Internet!
04/22/2015 02:22:22 PM
If you were stranded on an island without a Jewish calendar and no internet connection (oy gevalt!), how would you know what number to count in the Omer?
Every year, on the second night of Passover, we begin a special 49-day period in the Jewish calendar known as Sefirat Ha’omer, the counting of the...Read more...
Shabbat Shalom
04/17/2015 03:42:06 PM
28 Nisan 5775 / 17 April, 2015
Parashat Shemini
Shabbat Shalom!
Freedom is a value to which we can relate both as Jews and as Americans. It means that we respect others' rights to live and believe as they...Read more...
Happy Passover!
04/03/2015 05:08:04 PM
14 Nisan, 5775 / April 3, 2015
Happy Passover!
For a host of reasons, this Passover does not come at a most joyous time in my life. Don’t worry, I’m...Read more...