Celebrations

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Suzanne Pollak
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On June 28, approximately 100 Holocaust survivors, children, grandchildren and even one great-grandchild attended the fourth annual garden party sponsored by The Generation After, a Washington area organization for children and descendants of Holocaust survivors and friends. The annual event was held at the Bethesda home of Anat and Avi Bar-Cohen. Musical entertainment was provided by Machaya, a local klezmer band, headed by Barbara Hess. Audience members joined in singing and dancing. Photo courtesy of The Generation After
On June 28, approximately 100 Holocaust survivors, children, grandchildren and even one great-grandchild attended the fourth annual garden party sponsored by The Generation After, a Washington area organization for children and descendants of Holocaust survivors and friends. The annual event was held at the Bethesda home of Anat and Avi Bar-Cohen. Musical entertainment was provided by Machaya, a local klezmer band, headed by Barbara Hess. Audience members joined in singing and dancing.
Photo courtesy of The Generation After
Ukuleles for Peace orchestra recently performed at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. The co-existence project brings together Arabs and Jews, who play ukulele and sing in English, Arabic and Hebrew. Screenshot via kennedy-center.org
Ukuleles for Peace orchestra recently performed at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. The co-existence project brings together Arabs and Jews, who play ukulele and sing in English, Arabic and Hebrew.
Screenshot via kennedy-center.org
On July 26, Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, senior advisor on disability rights at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, was honored for her dedication to the cause of disability rights with the first ever Thornburgh Family Award. Pictured, left to right: Rabbi David Saperstein (former RAC director, current ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom), Rabbi Landsberg, RAC associate director Barbara Weinstein, former Eisendrath legislative assistant Deborah Swerdlow and current Eisendrath legislative assistant Jordan Dashow. Photo Courtesy of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
On July 26, Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, senior advisor on disability rights at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, was honored for her dedication to the cause of disability rights with the first ever Thornburgh Family Award. Pictured, left to right: Rabbi David Saperstein (former RAC director, current ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom), Rabbi Landsberg, RAC associate director Barbara Weinstein, former Eisendrath legislative assistant Deborah Swerdlow and current Eisendrath legislative assistant Jordan Dashow.
Photo Courtesy of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Samuel Dov Glassman, a rising eighth grader at the Berman Hebrew Academy, was called to the Torah in honor of his bar mitzvah last shabbos at Ohev Sholom, The National Synagogue. He is the son of Jeffrey and Elana Glassman of Washington. Family photo
Samuel Dov Glassman, a rising eighth grader at the Berman Hebrew Academy, was called to the Torah in honor of his bar mitzvah last shabbos at Ohev Sholom, The National Synagogue. He is the son of Jeffrey and Elana Glassman of Washington.
Family photo
Thirty-six children and siblings of fallen Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers recently visited the Washington area as part of the Friends of the IDF (FIDF) LEGACY program to attend an eight-day recreation camp. Pictured: FIDF LEGACY camper Or, whose brother was killed during his military service in Israel, enjoys a picnic in Potomac as part of the FIDF LEGACY program. Photo courtesy of rlstevensphotography
Thirty-six children and siblings of fallen Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers recently visited the Washington area as part of the Friends of the IDF (FIDF) LEGACY program to attend an eight-day recreation camp. Pictured: FIDF LEGACY camper Or, whose brother was killed during his military service in Israel, enjoys a picnic in Potomac as part of the FIDF LEGACY program.
Photo courtesy of rlstevensphotography
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