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Purim is just around the corner and you’re invited to celebrate with the Capital Jewish Museum and the Washington Revels! Join us to design your own crowns, masks, and capes, decorate groggers, explore JewCE: the Jewish Comics Experience (complimentary access with a Family Day ticket), and purchase delicious hamantaschen from Sunflower Bakery. Then, don your costumes and …
Join us to create mixed media mezuzot during our Inside Outside In-Between workshop, led by Jessica Valoris. Inspired by Jessica’s emergent project, AfroJudaica, the workshop will explore themes of home, diaspora, return, and liberation through storytelling, text study, and art-making. No previous art experience is required. Event chaired by Yolanda Savage-Narva. Part of the Museum’s new Jews of …
Join CJM and our partners this Passover season at our second annual untraditional seder to remember. Read from our community Haggadah, clink glasses over stories old and new, connect over charoset and horseradish, and find inspiration all around the table. (ages 21+). Dinner will be pescatarian and kosher style. Schedule 5:30 – 6:30 pm …
In May, we open our landmark exhibition, LGBTJews in the Federal City. Spend an evening hearing firsthand accounts about experiences in the federal service and the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. This program is the first in our new Voices Series featuring personal stories and conversations with LGBTQ Jews in the nation’s capital. Chai 💙 tickets …
LGBTJews in the Federal City explores a turbulent century of celebration, activism, and change in the nation’s capital. This landmark exhibition is the first of its kind to explore DC history, Jewish history, and LGBTQ+ history together, drawing from the Museum’s robust LGBTQ+ archive. Immerse yourself in historical and contemporary photography, artifacts, and oral histories. …
Join U.S. News & World Report at the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. for an exclusive morning of conversations around the LGBTQ+ movement. Opening Remarks Marion Phillips III, Senior Vice President for Community Development and DEI, U.S. News & World Report Beatrice Gurwitz, Executive Director, Capital Jewish Museum Talk …
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The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) will be performing at the Capital Jewish Museum as part of their World Pride International Choral Festival. Join us on Sunday, June 1st at 1 pm, for a 45-minute pop-up concert in our lobby, featuring Potomac Fever (from GMCW) and Tonewall (from the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus) singing Broadway, pop, and R&B. …
A Pride party for all ages! Dance to live music courtesy of the Hill Havurah ensemble at 10:15 am, listen to the fabulous Jewish Drag Story Time at 12pm, and explore LGBTJews in the Federal City with our Family Guide or kid's scavenger hunt. Plus, drop in crafts and activities all day – design a …
Celebrate WorldPride DC 2025 at the Capital Jewish Museum after hours with the launch of our new special exhibition, LGBTJews in the Federal City. Discover stories of LGBTQ+ Jewish Washington with curator spotlight talks, enjoy drag performances, sip on a lavender gin and tonic, show your pride by making your own button, and get bedazzled …
Join the EDCJCC at the Capital Jewish Museum to learn about the history and current work of local organization Food & Friends, featured in the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum’s special exhibition LGBTJews in the Federal City. Support their work by making birthday bags for people with life-challenging illnesses. The bags we decorate …
Planning an upcoming special event? This one is for you! This is not your typical open house. Join hundreds of other celebrants at the Capital Jewish Museum to finalize all of the planning for your celebration. Meet caterers, decorators, entertainers, photographers, planners, and more to plan your celebration in one day This is a one-stop-shop …
In the fight to free Soviet Jewry, the Greater Washington community played an outsized role on the national stage. Discover how local activists pioneered the movement’s iconic tactics, like refusenik bracelets, bat mitzvah twinning, and more. Professor Kelner will be in conversation with refusenik, Yelena Luckert, discussing his book, A Cold War Exodus: How American …
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