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SUMMARY:150th Anniversary of the Historic Synagogue
DESCRIPTION:2026 marks both the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the 150th anniversary of Adas Israel Congregation’s historic synagogue. The convergence of these anniversaries is no coincidence. The synagogue’s founders timed its dedication to the nation’s centennial\, affirming Jewish belonging and patriotism in the American story. To commemorate this important milestone\, the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum will hold a celebration on June 9\, the 150th anniversary of the building’s dedication.
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/150th-anniversary-of-the-historic-synagogue/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Events & Gatherings,Leadership & Philanthropy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260524T140000
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SUMMARY:Jewish Neighborhood Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:Take a stroll through history with the Capital Jewish Museum’s walking tour of the Gallery Place neighborhood. We will stop to reflect on urban development and local Jewish history. Join us for immersive conversations about community building and change over time while gaining a greater understanding of the past 150+ years of Jewish life in the nation’s capital. This is a 90-minute walking tour. The starting location will be shared in the days leading up to the tour.
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/jewish-neighborhood-walking-tour/2026-05-24/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Events & Gatherings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T163000
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SUMMARY:Blacklists through the Ages
DESCRIPTION:The term blacklist conjures the mid-20th century and Hollywood\, but there have been blacklists throughout history\, dating back to the 1700s when blacklists were used to prevent “suspicious” people from getting jobs. Since then\, there’ve been many varieties of public and private blacklists\, ways of forcing people out or keeping them from jobs\, opportunities\, access and/or security clearances. Join scholars and journalists to explore the uses of blacklists through time and their echoes in contemporary American life. \nIn partnership with Moment Magazine. \nImage Credit: Panel Conversation at the Capital Jewish Museum\, October 2023.
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/blacklists-through-the-ages/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Events & Gatherings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T203000
DTSTAMP:20260610T034735
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SUMMARY:Nights at the Seder Table
DESCRIPTION:Join CJM and this year’s collection of inspiring partners at our third annual untraditional Passover seder. Read from our community Haggadah\, clink glasses over stories old and new\, connect over charoset and horseradish\, and find inspiration around the table. Dinner will be pescatarian and kosher style. Kosher meals are available upon advance request. [Ages 21+] \nCJM Members and Chai 💙 ticket holders are invited to a pre-dinner reception with our partners.  \nSchedule  \n5:30 – 6:30 pm | CJM Member & Chai 💙 Ticket Holders Reception with our Partners\n6:30 – 8:30 pm | Seder and Dinner \nSupport for this program is provided in part by the Morse-Loeb Fund.  \nPhoto credit: Chris Ferenzi Photography
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/nights-at-the-seder-table-2/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Events & Gatherings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260322T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260322T133000
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SUMMARY:We Want Your Stuff: Help Us Tell Your Story
DESCRIPTION:Did you know the Capital Jewish Museum is always collecting stories\, artifacts\, photographs\, and documents related to the Jewish experience in the DMV? We want your stuff! Join Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Sarah Leavitt\, at 1 pm to learn about CJM’s archives and what types of artifacts we collect. Register for this talk by clicking “register now” to your right. \nThen\, schedule a 15-minute appointment to sit with Collections Curator\, Jonathan Edelman or Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Sarah Leavitt\, to share photographs of your artifacts and learn if they would be a good fit for the Museum’s collection. Appointments must be made in advance. Appointment times are available from 1:30 – 3:30 pm. Click here to schedule your appointment with Jonathan or click here to schedule your appointment with Sarah. You only need to schedule one appointment with either Jonathan or Sarah. \nWe also collect stories! Think about one artifact that has special meaning to you or your family’s life in Jewish Washington. Then\, schedule a 15-minute appointment with Oral Historian\, Kerry Reed\, bring the item\, and record a mini-oral history in which you share your story. You’ll receive a copy of the recording\, and it will be preserved in the Museum’s archives. Please bring the item with you – if the item is too large or fragile to transport\, bring a photograph. Click here to schedule your appointment with Kerry. \nBefore scheduling\, please click here to review our collections page detailing what we are and are not able to collect.
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/we-want-your-stuff-help-us-tell-your-story/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Jewish Identity & Inclusion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260315T100000
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SUMMARY:Community Days: Blacklisted
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Community Day! The entire Museum\, including special exhibition Blacklisted: An American Story\, will be free to the public. \nStep into one of the most charged moments in American history. Blacklisted: An American Story explores the Hollywood blacklist and the federal government’s loyalty investigations that upended thousands of lives during the Red Scare. Through powerful personal stories\, rare artifacts\, and film clips\, the exhibition reveals how fear\, politics\, and identity collided—and what was lost when dissent was silenced. \nBlacklisted: An American Story\, on loan from Jewish Museum Milwaukee\, incorporates film\, personal narratives\, objects\, costume\, and photography to examine the shifting definition of what it meant then—and what it means now—to be a patriotic American\, and who gets to decide. The Capital Jewish Museum expands on the original presentation about the Hollywood Blacklist to include a look at the Red Scare’s impact on federal employees in the nation’s capital. \nThis special exhibition made possible in part by Richard Small Alper; Bob and Kate Giaimo; Howard Morse and Laura Loeb; Nussdorf Family; and David Bruce Smith\, Grateful American Foundation. \nAdditional support from Linda and Eli Frank; Karchem Raizes Family; Wilma Probst-Levy; Pat and Robert Silverman. \nAs of 1.22.2026 \nSecurity and Safety \nWe are committed to ensuring that our museum is a safe and welcoming space for everyone. \nThe Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum reserves the right to refuse entry\, or remove anyone from our premises\, at our sole discretion. This includes\, but is not limited to\, anyone who is intoxicated\, disruptive\, threatening\, or refuses a security check. \nAll guests and bags will be searched upon entry. To speed up security screenings\, please empty your pockets upon arrival and leave prohibited items and large bags at home. \nPlease be advised\, due to enhanced security measures\, all Museum visitors 18 and older must present a government-issued ID upon arrival. The Museum reserves the right to refuse entry to anyone unable to present ID. \nImage: Hollywood celebrities arrive in Washington: Marsha Hunt\, David Hopkins\, Richard Conte\, Ralph Alswang\, June Havoc\, John Huston\, Paul Henreid\, Humphrey Bogart\, Lauren Bacall\, Joseph Sistrom\, Evelyn Keyes\, Danny Kaye\, Jane Wyatt\, Geraldine Brooks and Ira Gershwin\, 1947. Courtesy of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/community-days-blacklisted/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Events & Gatherings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T200000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Clay Risen: Red Scare: Blacklists\, McCarthyism\, and the Making of Modern America
DESCRIPTION:Explore the history and current relevance of the mid-20th century Red Scare. Learn about this dark period\, which particularly affected civil rights activists\, teachers\, Hollywood stars\, and DC’s federal workers\, including many Jewish figures. Author and New York Times reporter Clay Risen will be in conversation with Capital Jewish Museum Executive Director\, Bea Gurwitz. \nPresented in partnership with the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies. \nABOUT THE BOOK: Red Scare: Blacklists\, McCarthyism\, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen  \nFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did\, in fact\, come to an end” (The New Yorker)—based in part on newly declassified sources. \nNow\, for the first time in a generation\, Clay Risen delivers a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War II. This period\, known as the Red Scare\, was an outgrowth of the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives\, and the terrifying onset of the Cold War. Marked by an unprecedented degree of political hysteria\, this was a defining moment in American history\, completely unlike any that preceded it. Drawing upon newly declassified documents and with “scenes are so vivid that you can almost feel yourself sweating along with the witnesses” (The New York Times Book Review)\, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy\, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations\, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies. \n“Thorough\, impassioned…detailed\, [and] tension-packed” (Los Angeles Times)\, Red Scare reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS  \nBea Gurwitz is Executive Director of the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum. Prior to joining the Museum in 2024\, she served as the deputy director of the National Humanities Alliance—an organization dedicated to bolstering the humanities on college campuses\, promoting public engagement with the humanities\, and increasing funding for humanities organizations. Additional career highlights include consulting with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Department of State. She has also taught at the University of Maryland and the University of California\, Berkeley\, and in the New York City public school system. Gurwitz’s academic work focuses on the history of Jewish communities and other ethnic groups in Latin America\, and she is the author of Argentine Jews in the Age of Revolt (Brill\, 2016).  \nClay Risen is a reporter with The New York Times and the author\, most recently\, of “Red Scare: Blacklists\, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America\,” which The Chicago Tribune named one of the ten best books of 2025. He is the author of several previous books on American history\, including “The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt\, the Rough Riders and the Dawn of the American Century\,” “The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act\,” and “A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination.” He lives in Brooklyn. \nImage Credit: Promotional photos provided courtesy of the speakers.
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/author-talk-with-clay-risen-red-scare-blacklists-mccarthyism-and-the-making-of-modern-america/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Jewish Holidays, Rituals, and Traditions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T193000
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SUMMARY:Inventing New Jewish Rituals
DESCRIPTION:Explore how Jews have historically innovated rituals and how today’s Jews are inventing new ones with Rabbi Vanessa Ochs\, PhD\, University of Virginia Professor Emeritus. No Jewish ritual was created complete—consider the Passover Seder\, the Jewish wedding ceremony\, and more! Responding to current trends and challenges\, rituals have developed over the centuries\, along a winding path of rabbinical and practitioner debate and conversation. Rabbi Ochs will be in conversation with CJM Director of Curatorial Affairs\, Dr. Sarah Leavitt. Co-Sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Jewish Studies Program. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS \nDr. Sarah Leavitt is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Capital Jewish Museum. She holds an MA in Museum Studies and a PhD in American Studies from Brown University and has worked in museums for over 30 years. Since moving to the DC area in 2000\, she has worked at the museum of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda and for 13 years at the National Building Museum in DC. Her previous exhibitions have covered a range of subjects: from women’s sports\, to the history of the parking garage\, to the border wall between the US and Mexico. Sarah’s publications include several books and articles; some of her favorites cover the history of the pregnancy test\, America’s first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill\, St. Elizabeths mental health hospital\, and the history of domestic advice manuals. Sarah is a member of Temple Shalom\, and lives in Silver Spring\, MD. \nRabbi Vanessa Ochs\, PhD\, University of Virginia Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies\, is the author of numerous books related to Jewish rituals\, including Inventing Jewish Ritual (Jewish Publication Society)\, winner of a National Jewish Book Award; and The Passover Haggadah: A Biography (Princeton UP). A beloved teacher\, Professor Ochs’s most popular courses at the University of Virginia were “Jewish Weddings” and “The Passover Haggadah.” A Visiting Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, Rabbi Ochs is researching new Jewish rituals that emerged during Covid and after October 7th. \nImage credit: Promotional photo provided courtesy of the speaker.
URL:https://www.shalomdc.org/event/inventing-new-jewish-rituals/
LOCATION:Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum\, 575 3rd Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,Jewish Holidays, Rituals, and Traditions,Jewish Identity & Inclusion
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