Washington DC Jewish Community Center
Past Events
The Washington DC Jewish Community Center has hosted many events in the past. There are 135 listings stored in the HistoryGuide database for this property.
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| 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Beyond the Pale. Award-winning and critically-acclaimed, Toronto's Beyond the Pale is one of the most exciting ensembles in the Canadian folk, ro… (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. | |
| 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Like a Scarlet Thread. Like a Scarlet Thread: Jewish Motifs in Classical Music features acclaimed pianist Benjamin Hochman who explores Jewish motifs i… (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. | |
| Every Sun Every Sun Every Tue More... | Lost in Yonkers. A 4 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, two brothers are left to fend for themselves in a dysfunctional household with their formi… (Performance - Theater) |
| 06/02/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Beyond the Pale. Award-winning and critically-acclaimed, Toronto's Beyond the Pale is one of the most exciting ensembles in the Canadian folk, ro… (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. |
| 06/03/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Like a Scarlet Thread. Like a Scarlet Thread: Jewish Motifs in Classical Music features acclaimed pianist Benjamin Hochman who explores Jewish motifs i… (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. |
| 06/03/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Screening of Silent Film The Golem. The Golem (Germany, 1920; 85 minutes; Director: Carl Boese; Paul Wegener, 16mm) will be screened. Live music performed by Davka. (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. |
| 06/05/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - The Afro-Semitic Experience. The Afro-Semitic Experience is an ensemble dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural and musical herita… (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. |
| 06/06/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Rhythm & Roots: The Afro-Semitic Experience for Kids. Afro-Semitic Experience will lead in a morning of fun for kids and grown-ups with an interactive performance filled with energy,… (Kids Theater) 202-777-3250. |
| 06/06/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Musical Erev Shabbat with Linda Hirschhorn. Cantor, composer, arranger, choral conductor, and director of Vocolot ensemble, Linda Hirschhorn will co-lead a musical Erev Sha… (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. |
| 06/07/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - Closing Night : David Buchbinder's Odessa / Havana. An exciting Jewish-Cuban musical fusion, Odessa / Havana is led by award-winning trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder and inc… (Performance - Musical) 202-777-3250. |
| 06/08/08 | 9th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival - The Sheynville Express with the Sisters of Sheynville. Sisters of Sheynville is a high-energy, all-female sextet which brings to life Yiddish swing, klezmer and roots music, inspired… 202-777-3250. |
| 01/28/10 | Myla Goldberg: The Story Behind Stories. Goldberg offers a behind-the-scenes look at where novels come from, talking about what inspired her novels Bee Season and Wicket… (Community - Lecture) 202-777-3254. |
| 01/31/10 | Authors Out Loud: Controversial Author Lenore Skenazy. Author Lenore Skenazy will discuss "Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry". (Community - Lecture) 202-777-3251. |
| 10/23/11 10/23/11 10/24/11 More... | The Washington DCJCC Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival. The Washington DCJCC's Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival celebrates the year's best in Jewish writing. Whether… (Festivals) 202-390-2255. |
| 05/14/12 | Roberto Rodriguez and the Cuban Jewish Allstars. The DCJCC's Washington Jewish Music Festival presents Robert Rodriguez and the Cuban Jewish All Stars. (Nightlife - Live Music) |
| 05/15/12 | Basya Shechter: Songs of Wonder. The DCJCC's Washington Jewish Music Festival presents Basya Schecter: Songs of Wonder. A rich new collection of Yiddish songs, t… (Nightlife - Live Music) |
| 05/18/12 | ShirLaLa Family Shabbat Service and Dinner. DCJCC'S Washington Jewish Music Festival presents ShirLaLa Family Shabbat Service and Dinner. Dynamic performer and music educat… (Community - Jewish) |
| 05/21/12 | The Yellow Ticket with Alicia Svigals. Alicia Svigals premieres an original score to the silent Pola Negri film The Yellow Ticket. Svigals is the world's leading klezm… (Community - Jewish) |
| 02/16/13 02/17/13 | Race in America: Where Are We Now?. During Presidents Day Weekend the Washington DCJCC will bring together authors, activists, politicians, academics, theater and… (Community) |
| 02/27/14 02/27/14 03/01/14 | The Wonders. A modern day film-noir, with music by Israeli mega-stars Hadag Nahash, Avi Nesher's latest centers on a bartender who doubles as… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | (WJFF) Taxman. What starts as a routine tax evasion investigation quickly morphs into a cold blooded murder trial, full of unsavory and dangero… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 03/09/14 | A Prayer for Aliyah. 7,500 tribal Kuki-Chin-Mizo from a turbulent corner of Northeast India believe they are the descendants of the Lost Tribe of Men… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | Album 61. The World Chess Championship is an epic battle, rife with passion, power, and money. Boris Gelfand-the first Israeli to compete… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | The Jewish Cardinal. The Jewish Cardinal is based on the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintain… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | The Man Who Made Angels Fly. Michael Meschke and his family escaped from Nazi Germany to Sweden when he was a young boy. His childhood experience, and family… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/14 | (WJFF) The Jewish Cardinal. The Jewish Cardinal is based on the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintain… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/14 | (WJFF) The Sturgeon Queens. Four generations of a Jewish immigrant family created Russ & Daughters, a Lower East Side lox & herring emporium. On the 100th a… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/14 | (WJFF) Turn Left at the End of the World. A few Indian families move to a small Israeli town, inhabited by Moroccan immigrants. A culture war ensues: the Morrocans look d… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/14 | Before the Revolution. Director Dan Shadur's documentary begins as a nostalgic look into his family's glorious past, but quickly morphs into a thrillin… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/03/14 | (WJFF) Master of a Good Name. Treasures of wisdom often come from humble hearts. Follow the Baal Shem Tov - the famed Jewish mystical rabbi often credited as… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/03/14 | (WJFF) Nothing Old About This Testament. An ambitious and inventive slate of Biblical tales retold, renewed, and updated. With films hailing from South Africa, Tanzania,… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/04/14 | (WJFF) An Evening of Yiddish Song. Lyrical soprano Sara Geller, Cantor at B'nai Shalom of Olney, will perform Yiddish art songs and favorites from the Yiddish thea… (Nightlife - Live Music) |
| 03/04/14 | (WJFF) Dancing In Jaffa. Renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine has a burning desire to use dance for social good, teaming Jewish and Palestinian Israel… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/04/14 | (WJFF) Handa Handa 4. Ronen and Orit, two young Bukharins living in Israel, have been dating for almost three years. Ronen and his brother make up the… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/14 | (WJFF) Regina. Regina Jones, played here by Rachel Weisz, was the first female Rabbi- a prototypical feminist, who would have never copped to t… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/14 | (WJFF) Speakeasy DC's Mavericks And Outliers: Stories About Defying Convention and Challenging the Status Quo. Each story will shed a new perspective on Mavericks and Outliers, a theme that resonates deeply in films such as The Women Pione… (Performance) |
| 03/06/14 | (WJFF) Arabani. The first feature by an Israeli-Druze filmmaker, Adi Adwan's Arabani is a beautifully crafted tale about Yosef, who, newly divor… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/14 | (WJFF) Hanna's Journey. Hanna's motives for spending several months in Israel working with disabled youths and elderly Holocaust survivors aren't exactl… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/08/14 | (WJFF) Aftermath. A tense and gripping thriller, Aftermath tells the story of two brothers, Jozek and Franek, who discover a terrible secret and a… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/08/14 | (WJFF) Friends From France. It is 1979. Carole and Jerome are 20, and going on an organized trip to Odessa in the USSR, deep behind the Iron Curtain. During… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/08/14 | (WJFF) Natan. Bernard Natan, a Romanian Jew, changed the course of French cinema but has since been nearly forgotten. It took a pair of Irish… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/08/14 | (WJFF) Nothing Old About This Testament. An ambitious and inventive slate of Biblical tales retold, renewed, and updated. With films hailing from South Africa, Tanzania,… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 06/01/14 | Klezmer Brunch. Klezmer brunch pairs fantastic music with a delicious kosher buffet. The Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Easte… (Dining - Brunch) |
| 06/02/14 | Theater J's Annual Benefit, Stars of David: Story to Song. A musical adaptation of Abigail Pogrebin's best-selling book, Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. A celebrat… (Community - Fundraiser / Benefit) |
| 06/09/14 | Film: Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon - Sneak Preview!. Mike Myers documents the astounding career of Hollywood legend Shep Gordon. Following a chance encounter with Janis Joplin and J… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 06/10/14 | The Big Broadway Sing-Along. Sing along to your favorite show tunes from Jewish Broadway (aka Broadway)-from Rodgers & Hammerstein and the Gershwins, to Kand… (Nightlife - Live Music) |
| 06/12/14 | Yemen Blues. Yemen Blues mixes West African and Yemenite influences with contemporary grooves, from funk to mambo to the deep soul of old cha… (Nightlife - Live Music) |
| 06/14/14 | Asi Matathias, Violin. At 24 years old, violinist Asi Matathias is already recognized as one of the most celebrated talents of his generation. Asi wil… (Nightlife - Live Music) |
| 02/20/15 02/22/15 | Invisibles - Washington Jewish Film Festival. From Mushon Salmona, director of Vasermil, comes the story of Raid, a young Bedouin from a desert village, recently discharged f… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/20/15 02/22/15 | The Decent One - Washington Jewish Film Festival. First love, school bullies, British New Wave . and SCUD missiles. This bittersweet '80s coming-of-age drama from the director of… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/21/15 | Anywhere Else - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Noa, an Israeli student living in Germany with her boyfriend Jorg, becomes unhinged upon receiving disappointing news about her… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/21/15 | Deli Man - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Jewish culture reflects the heart of a vital ethnic history. As that culture continues to shift and adapt alongside mainstream A… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/21/15 | Serial (Bad) Weddings - Washington Jewish Film Festival. A breakout hit in France, Serial (Bad) Weddings comically plays off, and then upends, racial stereotypes of all stripes (the fil… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/21/15 | The Return - Washington Jewish Film Festival. The Return focuses on four women in their 20s who face the unique challenge of trying to create an identity in a vacuum, with li… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/21/15 02/22/15 | Red Father - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Red Father follows the life of Bernard Ades, a Communist, Jewish lawyer raised in Baltimore and radicalized by the Great Depress… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/22/15 02/27/15 | Dancing Arabs - Washington Jewish Film Festival. This bittersweet '80s coming-of-age drama from the director of The Syrian Bride and Lemon Tree adapts two autobiographical novel… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/22/15 | The Polger Variant - Washington Jewish Film Festival. The extraordinary story of three Hungarian-Jewish sisters who were raised in 1970s Communist Budapest to be chess masters. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/23/15 | Breaking Home Ties - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Thinking he has killed his friend Paul in a jealous rage, David Bergmann flees pre-revolutionary Russia for New York. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/23/15 | Brundibar - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Holocaust? Again? That's the reaction of the youth theater company at the Berliner Schaubühne to their newest project: Brundibar… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/23/15 | Divided We Fall - Washington Jewish Film Festival. "You wouldn't believe what abnormal times do to normal people," observes Josef as he and his wife Marie find themselves caught i… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/23/15 | Theodore Bikel - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Portraits of two beloved icons - Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel - are woven together in this enchanting new documentary. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/24/15 | Almost Friends - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Only 67 kilometers separate Lod and Tlamim, but the residents are a world apart, divided by vast national, cultural and ideologi… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/24/15 | Au Revoir Les Enfants - Washington Jewish Film Festival. A heartbreaking story of friendship and loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/24/15 | The Last Metro - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under German occupation during World W… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/25/15 | Zemene - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Follow a spirited 10-year-old Ethiopian girl, Zemenework (Zemene), as she fights to keep hope alive and survive her lifethreaten… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/26/15 02/27/15 | Lionel Bart: Reviewing the Situation - Washington Jewish Film Festival. The rise and fall of Lionel Bart - the songwriter behind Oliver!, the most successful English musical of all time - told with wi… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/26/15 | You Must Be Joking - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Sas Goldberg gives a frenetic, biting performance as a listless woman inspired by her childhood best friend, a ballet dancer, to… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/15 | 24 Days - Washington Jewish Film Festival. In 2006, Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Parisian Jew of Moroccan descent, gave his phone number to a pretty young woman. Later, when… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/15 | Above and Beyond - Washington Jewish Film Festival. In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish-American pilots answered a call for help. (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/15 03/01/15 | Belle and Sebastian - Washington Jewish Film Festival. A beloved tale since its adaptation for 1960s television, this heartwarming new feature film is set during WWII in the snowy Alp… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/15 | In Silence - Washington Jewish Film Festival. A vibrant, sound-rich and brilliant ode to the lives of Jewish musicians during the era of National Socialism in Slovakia, Czech… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/15 | Secrets of War - Washington Jewish Film Festival. During World War II, everyone had to keep secrets to survive, but at what price? Lambert and Tuur, two 12-year-old boys living i… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/15 | Mr. Kaplan - Washington Jewish Film Festival. Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America after… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/15 | My Favorite Neoconservative - Washington Jewish Film Festival. My Favorite Neoconservative offers a personal insight into the surreal power circles of Washington, DC. The filmmaker's eccentri… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/15 | Stateless - Washington Jewish Film Festival. In the late 1980s, on the brink of the collapse of the Soviet Union, tens of thousands of Soviet Jews were finally allowed to le… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/15 | The Farewell Party - Washington Jewish Film Festival. A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill frie… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 05/07/15 | Washington Jewish Music Festival - Neshama Carlebacj & The Glory to God Singers. Continuing the legacy established by her father Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Neshama is collaborating with The Glory to God Singers,… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 05/09/15 | Washington Jewish Music Festival - Shuffle Concert. Have you ever wished you could choose the songs at a concert? In a Shuffle concert, the audience decides what happens next on st… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 05/10/15 | Washington Jewish Music Festival - Zusha. With sold-out performances in New York, Chicago and Jerusalem, this folk/world-soul band of "neo-Hasidic hipsters" makes its D.C… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 05/11/15 | Washington Jewish Music Festival - The Big Broadway Sing-Along. Sing along to your favorite Jewish Broadway (aka Broadway) show tunes -from Rodgers & Hammerstein and the Gershwins, to Kander &… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 05/12/15 | Washington Jewish Music Festival - El Gusto. Disbanded by the 1954 Algerian Revolution, an orchestra of young Jews and Muslims in the city of Algiers went silent for 60 year… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 05/13/15 | Washington Jewish Music Festival - The Epichorus. Return to the ecstatic, mystical states of the desert and the marketplaces of the Middle East. The Epichorus is an eclectic ense… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 05/16/15 | Washington Jewish Music Festival - Anat Cohen Quartet. Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen has taken the jazz world by storm, winning a wealth of accolades for her expressive virtuosity an… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 10/18/15 | Etgar Keret - The Seven Good Years: A Memoir. Hailed as the voice of young Israelis and one of Israel's most radical and extraordinary writers, Etgar Keret is internationally… (Retail - Book, CD Signing) |
| 10/20/15 | John Klima - The Game Must Go On: Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray, and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII. Former Los Angeles Daily News baseball columnist John Klima describes how America's favorite pastime triumphed - and perhaps eve… (Community - Lecture) |
| 10/22/15 | Dina Gold - Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18 Berlin. Former BBC investigative journalist and television producer Dina Gold recounts her legal battle to reclaim a large building in B… (Community - Lecture) |
| 10/24/15 | Film: I Am Bialik. The story of Aviv Talmor, a frustrated poet and literature teacher is true.mostly. When Aviv's father (whom he never knew) dies,… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 10/25/15 | Alan Dershowitz - Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer. One of America's best-known attorneys and The New York Times bestselling author, Alan Dershowitz gives us a no-holds-barred hist… (Community - Lecture) |
| 10/25/15 | The Great Children's Read. Bring books to life during story time with Leslea Newman, author of My Name is Aviva. Also crafts, songs and a puppet show along… (Kids - Children's Activities) |
| 10/25/15 | Flamingo Rampant Story Telling Dinner Party. Bring the kids for fun new stories & activities with S. Bear Bergman from Flamingo Rampant, dedicated to better books about gend… (Kids - Children's Activities) |
| 10/26/15 | Mary Morris, Jami Attenberg & Jessamyn Hope - Intrepid Time Travelers: New Fiction. Novelists Mary Morris (The Jazz Palace), Jami Attenberg (Saint Mazie), and Jessamyn Hope (Safekeeping) sit down with author Mich… (Community - Lecture) |
| 10/27/15 | Local Author Fair: Discover A New Book. Meet and greet authors at our annual Local Author Fair! A selection of DC-area authors will each be given three minutes to tell… (Community) |
| 10/28/15 | Shalom Auslander is HAPPYish. How does an anxious author with a dark sense of humor and no TV experience become the creator and showrunner for the Showtime se… (Community - Lecture) |
| 02/25/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Feelings are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer. At the age of 25, Yvonne Rainer took her first dance class; at the age of 32, she changed dance forever. Dir. Jack Walsh (83 min… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/25/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival -The Law. Simone Veil's intrepid fight to legalize abortion in France is brilliantly brought to life in this taut fact-based drama. Dir. C… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/25/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival -Third Person. Suzan was born with both male and female sex organs. When she was five months old, her parents decided she would be a female. Di… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/25/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Wedding Doll. Hagit, a young woman with a mild mental disability, works oar in a toilet-paper factory and lives with her nurturing and protect… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/26/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Creamator. Karl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed.… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/26/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - The Dybbuk. A Tale of Wandering Souls. The Ukrainian city of Uman is the burial site of Rebbe Nachman, one of the most important figures of Chasidism. Dir. Krzysztof K… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/27/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Persona Non Grata. The heroic tale of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat posted in Lithuania during WWII, is brought to screen in sweeping fashio… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/27/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Story District Presents: God Loves You? True Stories About Faith and Sexuality. Take a screen-break and join Story District (formerly SpeakeasyDC) for its return to the DCJCC with another live performance of… (Performance) |
| 02/27/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - A Grain of Truth. An adaptation of the titular best-selling detective novel by Polish author Zygmunt Miloszewski. Polish with English subtitles. D… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - 6th Annual Community Education Day on Arab Citizens of Israel. An in-depth exploration of the daily lives and challenges of Arab citizens of Israel. The discussion will be kicked off with the… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - On The Banks of Tigris: The Hidden Story of Iraqi Music. Majid Shokor, a Muslim Iraqi living in Australia, finds a hidden Jewish connection in his favorite childhood music. Dir. Marsha… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Arabic Movie. Israeli families of all backgrounds Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, & Palestinian would huddle next to the TV each Friday to watch the week'… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/28/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Third Person. Suzan was born with both male and female sex organs. When she was five months old, her parents decided she would be a female. Di… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/29/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Klezmer. In 1943, a group of Polish villagers gathering in the woods to discover a listless and injured man. Dir. Piotr Chrzan (97 min, P… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/29/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - The Record Man. Brooklyn-born Henry Stone exported the music of Miami to the world. Dir. Mark Moormann (110 min, USA/Bahamas. 2015). (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/29/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Portrait of a Serial Monogamist. Fortysomething Toronto TV producer Elsie is the kind of nice Jewish girl your mother warned you about: the serial monogamist who… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Einstein in the Holy Land. When Albert Einstein visited Palestine in 1932, over 85,000 Jews lived there, and nearly all of them came out to greet the most… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Raise the Roof. Rick and Laura Brown set out to reconstruct a replica of the stunning, mural-covered Gwozdziec synagogue. Dir. Yari Wolinsky and… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/01/16 03/02/16 03/03/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Library of Congress Lunchtime Talks. Join filmmakers Asaf Galay (Hebrew Superhero), Steve Rivo (Carvalho's Journey) and Chef Michael Solomonov (In Search of Israeli… (Community - Lecture) |
| 03/01/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - The Light Ahead. Possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer's shtetl films, presented here in a restored 35mm print courtesy of the National Center… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Marzipan Flowers. Leavened with a chic indie sensibility, Marzipan Flowers centers on Hadas, a 48-year-old kibbutznik. Dir. Adam Kalderon (73 min,… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/02/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Spotlight Evening: Compared to What? The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank. A polarizing, revolutionary, effective and a most-singular figure in American politics, Barney Frank shaped the debate around pr… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/03/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Once In A Lifetime. A dedicated high school history teacher in France is determined to give her inner-city pupils the best education possible. Dir.… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/03/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Miriam Beerman: Expressing The Chaos. At 90, Miriam Beerman is a survivor. This ground-breaking artist and Potomac, MD resident has overcome personal tragedy to inspi… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/03/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - One Day Pina Asked. An encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century, the film is Chantal Akerman's look at the wor… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/03/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Sunday, Bloody Sunday. John Schlesinger followed his iconic Midnight Cowboy with this deeply-personal take on love and sex. Sunday, Bloody Sunday depic… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/04/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - In Search of Israeli Cuisine. If you believe the fastest way to the heart is through the stomach, this delectable, eye-popping culinary journey through Israel… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/04/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Mussa. Twelve-year-old Mussa won't speak. A refugee from Darfur living in Tel Aviv, he's been bussed to an upscale private school for t… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Summer Solstice. Poland, 1943 - Love, friendship & fate connect a simple Polish country boy, the daughter of a local farmer, a young German soldi… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Song of Songs. Starting with Sholem Aleichem's enchanting tales, Eva Neymann concocts a strong, dreamy potion of a film that invokes young love… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Partner With The Enemy. Two women-one Israeli and one Palestinian-attempt the seemingly impossible: to build a business together. Dir. Duki Dror and Che… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/05/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - The Midnight Orchestra. Michael Abitbol, the son of a once-famous Jewish musician, returns to Casablanca for the first time after leaving Morocco as a c… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Shtisel: Season 2 (Episodes 1-3). The second season of hit Israeli TV show, Shtisel, centers on father and son Shulem and Akiva Shtisel (Dov Glickman and Michael… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - Encirclements. A 13-year-old growing up in a working class Moroccan-Israeli community, Aharon is having a tough time. Dir. Lee Gilat (98 min, I… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - The Good Son. The incredible story of 22-year-old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand by lying to his conservative… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 03/06/16 | Washington Jewish Film Festival - A Tale of Love and Darkness. Israel's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award is a tender tale of a generational divide and immigrant exp… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 08/16/16 | The Washington DC Jewish Community Center presents "The People vs Fritz Bauer" Film. Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichman… (Festivals - Film Festival) 202-777-3247. |
| 06/09/22 06/10/22 06/11/22 More... | Fires In The Mirror. Musical theatrical performance. (Performance - Musical) |
| 03/08/23 03/09/23 03/11/23 | Gloria: A Life - Preview Performance. Musical theatrical performance. (Performance - Musical) |
| 03/15/23 03/16/23 03/18/23 More... | Gloria: A Life. Musical theatrical performance. (Performance - Musical) |
| 06/07/23 06/08/23 06/10/23 | One Jewish Boy - Preview Performance. Musical theatrical performance. (Performance - Musical) |
| 06/15/23 06/17/23 06/18/23 More... | One Jewish Boy. Musical theatrical performance. (Performance - Musical) |
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