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July 2025
Monthly Sufi Sema at the Cleveland Park Library
You’re warmly invited to gather for a monthly Interfaith “Sema” at the Cleveland Park D.C. Library. . The "Sema" is a participatory Poetic Love Feast - an invitation to Sacred Space. We’ll be sharing short Poems from Rumi and a few other Mystical poets in English. These poems will be interspersed with Sacred Chant, Sufi Teaching Stories, and select “Dances of Universal Peace.” Our theme will be “Interfaith Unity.” Farsi Readers and Lovers of Rumi's Poetry are also especially welcome…
Find out more »CJM After Sunset: After Hours Pride Party
June might be over, but the Museum is still celebrating Pride! Hear from the curators of LGBTJews in the Federal City, watch drag performances, and sip on lavender cocktails at our upcoming after-hours party. SPOTLIGHT TALKS 6:45 pm 415 Years | Director of Curatorial Affairs Dr. Sarah Leavitt A Friday night in April, 1993 | Collections Curator Jonathan Edelman 8:30 pm Yizkor: AIDS Quilt Remembrance | Educator Methi Satyanarayana Feygele Feud | Education Manager Anna Barr DRAG PERFORMANCES 7:30–8:15 pm Featuring drag queens Pariah Sinclair, Onyx D.…
Find out more »August 2025
Inspiration from the Prophet Moses
JIDS will be sponsoring a dialogue that afternoon entitled "Inspiration from the Prophet Moses." The speakers will be Sabir Rahman, author of "In Search of Meaning" and former President of the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, and Hazzan Asa Fradkin, Cantor of Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County and a member of the JIDS Board. We will focus on why Prophet Moses continues to have such a profound impact on the lives of both Muslims and Jews today, despite…
Find out more »JIDS/JAMAAT Annual Labor Day Weekend Picnic
The picnic will be held during the late afternoon and evening of Sunday, August 31st at a home in Montgomery County. As always, there will be opportunities for plenty of conversation, live music (bring your instruments and vocal cords if you perform), swimming, trampoline bouncing, and if there's interest, marshmallow roasting by a campfire. This is a Potluck event, and the attached announcement provides information about what you would need to bring depending on where in the alphabet your last…
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