Community for Dec. 1, 2016

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Brandon Portnoy, center, and 40 friends, including Adam Drexler, left, and Jonah Gross, threw baseballs for three hours on Nov. 20 at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington to raise $14,000 for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Brandon’s grandfather, Rabbi Hershel Portnoy, has frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia. Photo by Mitchell Solkowitz
Brandon Portnoy, center, and 40 friends, including Adam Drexler, left, and Jonah Gross, threw baseballs for three hours on Nov. 20 at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington to raise $14,000 for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Brandon’s grandfather, Rabbi Hershel Portnoy, has frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia.
Photo by Mitchell Solkowitz
Ohr Kodesh Congregation’s United Synagogue Youth (USY) chapter won an award for excellence in religious programming during USY’s annual year-end awards in November. The group includes, front from left: Anna Armoza, Sam Chodorow, Stephanie Lichtenstein, Adira Blumenthal and Talia Fleischer. Back from left: Andy Weissfeld (chapter advisor), Talia Armoza and Daniel Chodorow. Photo courtesy of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Ohr Kodesh Congregation’s United Synagogue Youth (USY) chapter won an award for excellence in religious programming during USY’s annual year-end awards in November. The group includes, front from left: Anna Armoza, Sam Chodorow, Stephanie Lichtenstein, Adira Blumenthal and Talia Fleischer. Back from left: Andy Weissfeld (chapter advisor), Talia Armoza and Daniel Chodorow.
Photo courtesy of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

 

Schlepping soup was one of the activities at Sunday Stuffing. Photo by Ira Miller
Schlepping soup was one of the activities at Sunday Stuffing.
Photo by Ira Miller
Having fun and helping out at Washington Hebrew Congregation’s Sunday Stuffing on Nov. 20 are, from left, Cecilia Bernstein, Alana Fredricks and Summer Polhemus. Members got together to prepare Thanksgiving meals to donate. Photo by RobBee Fredricks
Having fun and helping out at Washington Hebrew Congregation’s Sunday Stuffing on Nov. 20 are, from left, Cecilia Bernstein, Alana Fredricks and Summer Polhemus. Members got together to prepare Thanksgiving meals to donate.
Photo by RobBee Fredricks
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