Shabbat Services
SHABBAT MORNING SERVICES - 6/7
Join us for Shabbat Morning Services on Saturday, June 7 at 9:15 am. Kids programming will begin at 10:30 am.
Kiddush is sponsored by the following people in honor of our minyan’s graduates:
- Ben Solomon-Schwartz, David Tessler, Berek, and Dafna.
- Katie and Jon Hyman, and Diane and John Webber.
- The Schleifer-Levitan family, who wish a mazal tov to all our young scholars in residence graduating high school. We’re very proud of you!
- The Magder family, who wish a mazal tov the entire graduating class of 2025! May you all go from strength to strength!
- Rachel Lipman, who wishes a congrats to Erin Beiner and Ben Rosenbaum on completing their respective Master's degrees!
- Eytan Deener-Agus, who says congrats to all graduates, and especially current and former housemates Ben Rosenbaum and Erin Beiner!
- The Szubin family in honor of all the graduates, especially our high schoolers.
- If you want to add your kiddush sponsorship, see below.
FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES - 6/13
Join us for Friday night davening on Friday, June 13 at 7:00 pm at The Chastleton (1701 16th St NW).
Upcoming events and programs
NIGGUN CIRCLE WITH SEUDDAH SHLISHIT - 6/14
Thank you to those who made the niggun circle over Shavuot so magical. Please join us for the next niggun circle with a potluck seudah shlishit on Saturday, June 14 at 6:00 pm. You can sign up here to participate and note your potluck contribution. If you are able to host, please email niggunim@dcminyan.org by Friday, June 6.
Get Involved
LOOKING FOR KIDDUSH CO-CHAIR
We are looking for a new kiddush co-chair to join Naomi Hernandez as our current co-chair, Mendy Fisch, is ending his term as he prepares to spend an extended period of time outside of DC. Responsibilities include ordering food for kiddush on both Shabbat and holidays, and overseeing set-up and clean-up volunteers. For more information on kiddush co-chair responsibilities, please contact Naomi Hernandez at kiddush@dcminyan.org. If you are interested in taking over this role, please email programming@dcminyan.org.
We would also like to thank Mendy for his time on the Kiddush Committee, and wish him well on his next ventures!
COMMUNITY NEWS
LET'S CELEBRATE OUR GRADUATES!
We would love to wish DC Minyan members who recently graduated from schools of all stripes (kindergarten, elementary, middle, high, undergraduate, graduate, and beyond) a Mazal Tov during services on Saturday, June 7.
Please send the graduate’s name and degree level to Tamara Litwin at lifecycle@dcminyan.org by TOMORROW (June 5) if you would like a shout-out at shul on June 7 and in this email the week after.
To contribute to a special kiddush on that date honoring the graduates in our minyan, please fill out the form here.
SHAVUOT THANK-YOU'S
Thank you to everyone who joined us during Shavuot and who helped make it a fantastic holiday. We would especially like to thank the following community members who volunteered their time, energy and skills to make Shavuot a huge success!
- Josh Jacobs and Julia Zuckerman for hosting the Kids’ Tikkun Leil Shavuot at their home, Julia Zuckerman and Deena Fox for organizing the tikkun, and Rivka Friedman and Deena Fox for teaching
- Noam Kantor, Elliot Dine, and Eric Schulman for organizing Tikkun Leil Shavuot and the following teachers for leading shiurim: Rabbi Atara Cohen, Hillel Smith, Zach Margulies, Rabbi Ilana Zeitman, Deena Fox, Malka Himelhoch, Jon Dine, Winston Lee, David Elitzer, Samuel Levy, and Elliot Dine
- Lianna Brenner for organizing food for Tikkun Leil Shavuot and the Farbrengen
- Eliana Fishman for organizing the potluck picnic on the first day of Shavuot
- Erin Beiner for running logistics during the Farbrengen; Abby Wolfe, Gidon Halbfinger, Josh Weiner, Mollie Feldman, Rachel Bercovitz, and Yael Nagar for bringing the ruach and organizing Divrei Torah during the Farbrengen; Kaylin Bugos for helping with the alcohol menu; Shira Klapper, the Schleifer family, and Margarita Bronshteyn and Mo Pasternak for lending us space in their homes to store items for the Farbrengen; and Josh Klein for donating beer
- Adam Fineberg for organizing the match-up meal on the second day of Shavuot; Ben Rosenbaum and Ari Givner for helping with food delivery
- Match-up meal hosts: Hannah Seligman and Leslie Marmer, Josh and Rebecca Murow Klein, Becca Tanen and Jesse Rabinowitz, Mo Pasternak and Margarita Bronshteyn, Hannah Weiss, Ayelet Weiss and Benjamin Epstein, Abigail and Shai Romirowsky, and Hannah Warshawsky
- Colin Berkley for printing materials for both Tikkuns
- Everyone who set up, cleaned up, schlepped items, davened, leyned, gave a d’var Torah and more, at all hours of the day and night
COMMUNITY RELATIONS BAGEL KIDDUSH - THANK YOU
A huge thank you to Naomi Hernandez, Mendy Fisch, and all the volunteers who set up and cleaned up our bagel spread at kiddush on Saturday, May 31. We couldn’t have done it without you!