Aish outreach leaders, including Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum, director of Aish Greater Washington (top row, fourth from left), met last week in Denver for the first Aish Branches Conference. Photo courtesy of Aish InternationalWashington Hebrew Congregation’s Brotherhood softball team, the Washington Hebrew Nationals, defeated B’nai Shalom of Olney on July 19 to win the 2015 Suburban Maryland Synagogue Softball League. This was their third straight championship. Photo providedMontgomery County’s Senior Center Transportation Program, operated by the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington under contract with Montgomery County Recreation, recently earned an Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties. Pictured are a JCA Elderbus driver and passenger standing in front of a bus. Photo courtesy of Jewish Council for the AgingDavid Luchins, Touro College professor, community activist and lifelong advocate for social justice, will receive the Albert D. Chernin Award from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs at its annual meeting, the 2015 Jewish Community Town Hall, Oct. 10-13, in Washington. Photo courtesy of Jewish Council for Public Affairs