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Hope that everyone made it over to see something during the 11-day Washington, DC Jewish Film Festival! I’ve been in the midst of end-of-semester stuff for grad school, but I now have the time to promote the film I squeezed in on Saturday, December 10: “Love During Wartime.” When I first stepped into AFI, I [...]

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No matter where you live in the Greater Washington area, you were probably close to an “Israel@63″ Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration last Sunday, which happened to be Lag B’Omer. Three JCCs—the Washington, DC Jewish Community Center, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, and the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia worked in conjunction last Sunday [...]

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Israel’s 63rd birthday was last week, leaving local Jewish organizations to get their parties on! Check out these upcoming attractions. Sunday, May 15 Magen David Yom Ha’atzmaut BBQ 2:30 pm Saturday, May 21 YP@AI Yom Ha’atzmaut BBQ 9:00 pm Sunday, May 22 Local JCCs celebrate Israel@63 DCJCC; 11:00 am JCC NOVA; 12:00 pm JCC GW; [...]

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Happy February, all! I took an impromptu week off in order to take care of a grad school application, but I’m back just in time to remind you of another deadline! The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and DC’s Birthright Israel NEXT are teaming up to provide the 2011 Alumni Leadership Mission to Israel this [...]

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J-Fed’s Birthright Israel busses 248, 249, and the Alumni Leadership Mission, are all in Israel as I type, and I can prove it by following their live blogging and tweeting. …can I just backtrack to say that I think I remember, back in summer of 2004, Hillel posting our itinerary online for our parents to [...]

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In an amusing twist of events, local Jewish groups hosted a Yom Ha’atzmaut Israeli wine tasting on Lag B’Omer. Hosted by Birthright Israel NEXT, J-Fed’s NextGen, and DCJCC’s EntryPoint DC Sunday night, the wine tasting included samples from the Golan to Beit Shemesh. Hoards of young professionals gathered into the DCJCC’s community hall for socialization, [...]

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Still looking for a way to celebrate Israeli Independence Day, or just in the mood for good food? Consider heading down to Cleveland Park today at 4 for YP@AI’s “al-haesh” BBQ. One of their biggest events of the year, taking place outside on their parking lot, it should feature lots of food and friends! Tickets [...]

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On the heels of Valentine’s Day, sign up to spend 10 days on a trip to Israel with your DC neighbors! Starting Tuesday at noon, the Shorashim/Israel with Israelis Birthright group will be offering online registrations for upcoming summer 2010 trips to Israel. Just fill in your email address and answer some Q&A about your [...]

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“Eddie,” a one-man play about President Truman’s relationship with Edward Jacobson, and his role in creating the Jewish state, will be staged at the Washington Marriot Hotel on Sunday, Dec. 6 as part of the 2009 B’nai B’rith Policy Conference. This will be “Eddie’s” first viewing in Washington, DC. Other topics discussed at the policy [...]

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I had an epiphany this weekend that I had officially entered the new era of celebrity, as I decided to go to the Benji Lovitt comedy show on Thursday evening because I knew him from his award-winning blog, WhatWarZone.com. (Geeky sidenote—not only that, but I also kicked off the evening with fellow blogger/Lovitt lover Vicki [...]

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