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November 2022
How Can Faith Communities Support the Civic Capacity of Children?
As we enter the giving season, how can we make giving more meaningful for children? As faith communities, we try to teach children to look out for the needs of others, to empathize, to share what they have, to do what they can to make the world a better place for all people. But do our kids really know that they matter to their community? Our current practices of engaging kids in community are often outdated and unevenly focused on…
Find out more »Scriptural Reasoning: “Leadership”
Join the Rumi Forum for this month's Scriptural Reasoning session on Leadership: The Making of a Leader! The session will be led by Hurunnessa Fariad, Director of Outreach at Multifaith Neighbors Network. Scriptural Reasoning (SR) is a practice where Christians, Jews, and Muslims study each other’s sacred texts. SR participants meet once a month to read short passages from their respective scriptures on a certain topic. Facilitated by a study leader, each session is an opportunity to listen and share…
Find out more »Our Values: In Theory and In Practice
Join the Jewish-Islamic Dialogue Society for a two-part session on Jewish and Muslim values, comparing and contrasting the religious and moral ideals as written versus the nuance and variety in their manifestation. The dialogue will consider questions such as, what are our values in theory, and how do we tend to behave in practice where the rubber meets the road? In what ways have our ideals uplifted us? And how have they tended to give way to alternative, less-elevated choices? …
Find out more »Non-Profit Security Grant Webinar
The Jewish Federations is hosting a free Nonprofit Security Program Webinar for nonprofits facing threats to their building's safety and security to prepare and position themselves to successfully apply when the RFP in each state is issued. Speakers: Mark Silveira, Senior Advisor, Office of Grants Administration of FEMA’s Grants Program Directorate, Nate Looney, JFNA Director of Community Safety and Belonging, and other experts. The webinar will take place online on November 22, 1:30-3:oo PM. Please RSVP at https://form.jotform.com/222988419186976?utm_campaign=webinar.
Find out more »December 2022
DC Temple Festival of Lights
Come & see the Festival of Lights at the Washington DC LDS Temple. Enjoy over 400,000 lights and beautifully decorated Christmas Trees! The lights will be on every evening from dusk to 9:00 PM, December 1-January 2. Additionally, the Visitors’ Center is open from 10 AM to 9 PM every day for you to see beautiful Créche displays featuring nativities from around the world, take in one of the many performances, and give back to the community at the Light…
Find out more »Lox & Vodka and Tabla for Two Concert
On Saturday Dec. 10th, at 7:30 p.m. Focus Music and the Rumi Forum are jointly sponsoring a concert featuring two musical groups: Lox & Vodka, and Tabla for Two. The venue is the Tikvat Israel Congregation, 220 Baltimore Rd., Rockville, MD 20851. Lox & Vodka plays Klezmer, Jewish soul music dating from the Middle Ages; Tabla for Two plays traditional and classical music from Afghanistan and India. Tickets are $20 advance, and $25 at the door. Visit www.focusmusic.org for more…
Find out more »Abrahamic House Ugly Sweater Party
Wear your finest “ugly” sweater and bring along a plate of your favorite holiday cookies on Sunday, December 18th as we gather to light candles to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah and the final Sunday of Advent! We’ll provide warm cider, hot chocolate, and some of our own cookies to kick off a cookie exchange! After a candle lighting ceremony, we’ll have games out in the living room (dreidels, sock/mitten game, etc.), and more cookies for decorating in the…
Find out more »Shabe Yalda Celebration
Shabe Yalda, or Yalda night, is an evening of festivities and merriment that begins when the sun sets on the last day of fall (last day of Maah e Azar on Jalali Calendar) and continues until the dawn of the first day of winter, or first day of Maah e Dey. During this night, Persians read the enchanting poems by Hafez حافظ and great Persian mythology such as Shahnameh شاهنامه , Khosro va Shireen خسرو و شیرین, and Leili va…
Find out more »January 2023
Video Viewing and Program: To Bigotry No Sanction
The George Washington University’s John L. Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom presents TO BIGOTRY NO SANCTION, a short documentary inspired by George Washington’s 1792 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island. The film will be followed by a discussion with Maggie Siddiqi, Director of the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the Department of Education, and Professor Joseph Capizzi from the Catholic University of America.
Find out more »Our Values: In Theory and In Practice
As part of JIDS continued effort to “keep it real,” we’ll talk about the Islamic values as they are supposed to be (i.e., when taught in theory). And we’ll present how these values are often stressed in the real world to the point where we tend to practice very different values when the rubber meets the road. kid
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