Celebrations

Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase has hired Rabbi Joshua Gischner as rabbi educator. Gischner was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion...

David Lloyd Olson will become managing director of Theater J on Aug. 16. Olson comes to Theater J from Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia,...

Five 11th graders from the Washington area are among the 26 students selected for the 35th cohort of the Bronfman Fellowship. They are: Benjamin Guggenheim,...

Rabbi and Mrs. Yitzy and Chana Tzirel (Zaks) Fox, of Silver Spring, announce the birth of their daughter, Yael Roza Fox, on April 12....

Shlomo Fantl has joined the staff of The Garden of Remembrance (Gan Zikaron) Memorial Park in Clarksburg as a memorial counselor and funeral coordinator....

Participating in Temple B’nai Shalom’s confirmation on May 23 are: Front row, from left: Rabbi David S. Widzer, Amanda Draznin, Judah Widzer, Maxwell Goldring,...

Talia Ruth Stein, daughter of Dr. Robyn Miller and Stephen Jacob Stein and sister of Maya Eve Stein, will become a bat mitzvah on...

Fancy attire, guests dancing the horah in a crowded ballroom... This might be what a wedding used to look like. In 2021, after a...

George Mason University Hillel has named Rabbi Daniel Novick as its new executive director. Novick is currently the assistant director at the Hillel at the...

Benjamin “Benji” Whiting-Eisemann will celebrate his bar mitzvah on April 24, virtually at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation. Benji is the son of Vanessa Eisemann...