All are invited to participate in these upcoming events at Chesterbrook:
Israel is celebrating 77 years of independence! Join Pozez JCC for a tasty celebration featuring delicious Israeli cuisine and a variety of fun activities. All ages are invited to participate in this family-friendly event with live performances, engaging crafts, fun Israeli workshops, entertaining games, and much more!
Click here for more information.
The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony, led by Combatants for Peace and The Parents Circle Families Forum in Israel/Palestine, is the largest Israeli-Palestinian jointly organized peace event in history. Now in its 20th year, the Joint Memorial is a beacon of hope in the darkness – a space for Israelis and Palestinians to defy the forces that seek to divide them, grieve together, and choose hope over despair.
Join us as we gather in solidarity to echo the message of our allies in Israel/Palestine. We will view videos from the main event, hear from local Palestinian and Israeli speakers, and have an opportunity to reflect and connect in small-group settings.
Click here for more information and registration.
The Jewish Film Festival runs May 8-18 and there will be specific films shown at the Cinema Arts Theatre in Fairfax on May 18.
Click here to view flyer.
This year’s on-line program will feature Holocaust survivor Dr. Eugene Bergman. Dr. Bergman and his family endured the dangers and depravations of three ghettos during the Holocaust. In addition, as a child Dr. Bergman was playing in the street when a German soldier struck him in the head with a rifle butt, rendering him deaf. Despite this permanent injury Dr. Bergman was not silenced including his book Survival Artist: A Memoir of the Holocaust. This annual forum is free to the public and no registration is required. The program will be live streamed at HolocaustRemembrance.org.
Click here to view flyer.
Food Justice DMV, born in the fire of the pandemic, turns 5 🥳! To celebrate our 1.2 million (and counting) deliveries to migrant families, the one-and-only Bishop Mariann Budde joins us. The world stopped and witnessed a heroic act when she made a legendary plea for mercy and compassion. She will open up for us during for a rare, unscripted conversation with Rev. Nilse Furtado-Gilliam, associate pastor at Clarendon United Methodist Church.
Many have wondered what Bishop Budde’s life is like since her tectonic-plates shifting plea; what she has learned about faith, bravery, and power; and how her prescient book, “How We Learn to Be Brave,” informed her choices. Bishop Budde has been a supporter of Food Justice DMV since our early days and continues her backing with this appearance taking place at Sidwell Friends School.
We asked Bishop Budde about her vision for the event and she said it MUST include joy and music 🎶🌍! The musical group Son Cosita Seria brings both with their “son jarocho” style música. This sound originated in Vera Cruz, Mexico, and whips together dynamic influences from Indigenous cultures, Africa, and Spain. Be prepared to be dazzled by their “zapateado” – a rapid-fire percussive, rhythmic, riveting dance done on a wooden plank called the “tarima.” We swoon when they sing, and once again feature them, as a statement of their vast dedication to migrant justice:
Because we are a volunteer collective, every centavo from your ticket price goes to purchasing food 🥕, diapers, formula, and more for migrant families under attack.
BUY TICKETS 🎫 here.
We cannot wait to 🪅 celebrate 🪅 with you!
Your support for migrant families is needed now more than ever 🫶!
The NOVA Summer Network is now accepting applications from any college-age/college-stage individual who will be in Northern Virginia this summer! The NOVA Summer Network, awarded the 2023 Innovation Award from Hillel International, is a summer program run by Mason Hillel that supplements an internship or job. You do not have to be a student at George Mason University to apply and participate. Participants will build Jewish community, develop professional skills through a Jewish lens, be paired with a mentor for individualized mentorship, and earn a $180 stipend. Click here for more information and to apply. Questions? Email .
Sundays at 2:30 PM
You are invited to meet up behind Brown’s Hardware Store, 100 W Broad Street, Falls Church City. Join the Northern Virginia chapter of this global movement that walks weekly to maintain awareness of the hostage situation in Gaza. Each week, we meet up, have a short program, and then walk for ~1 mile on W Broad Street. All invited — please wear red. Signs and flags provided. Learn more at https://run4lives.org/.
