Fairfax Open House LGBT Jewish Youth Support Group
Open House is a monthly moderated support group for LGBT Jewish teens age 13-18 and their allies. We meet monthly the second monday of the month from 7-9 pm at the JCCNV in the Youth Lounge and a Dairy/Pareve meal is served
Contact Name: Sarah Schultz
Contact Telephone: 703-501-9664
Contact Email: fairfaxopenhouse@gmail.com
Telephone: 703-501-9664
Website: www.fairfaxopenhouse.org
Washington Jewish Boys Choir
Monday Evenings at Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue
1600 Jonquil Street, NW
Washington, DC 20012
(240) 672-5285
Rabbi Yakov Majeski
The Washington Jewish Boys Choir performs Hebrew, Yiddish and all kind of Jewish songs. Provides boys a chance to meet one another, work on a project together, have fun and make people happy through singing and dancing.
Kesem Israeli Dance Troupe
Wednesday Evenings 6 - 7:30 pm at B'nai Israel Congregation in Rockville
301-787-1444
Marnina Cowan
Kesem currently rehearses during the school year on Wednesday nights from 6 - 7:30 pm at B'nai Israel Congregation in Rockville. The troupes is under the direction of Marnina Cowan. The troupes preforms several times during the year in the Washington, DC area for Hebrew Schools, Synagogue events, Community wide Israel Festivals and other Jewish Community programs.
Yesodot Israeli Dance Troupe
Wednesday Evenings, 7 - 8:30 pm at B'nai Israel Congregation
HTTP://homepage.mac.com/foxey/yesodot/Menu88.html
Yesodot is under the direction of Pepe Strauss and Mike Fox. Yesodot preforms about 10 times a year in the Washington DC area for Hebrew Schools, Synagogue events, Community wide Israel Festivals and for the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington. We also try to travel outside the DC area at least once per school year - including the New York Israeli Folk Dance Festival and to Hora Aviv - an Israeli Dance workshop "camp" outside Philadelphia. In the past, Yesodot has also preformed at Israeli Dance festivals in Boston and in Mexico City!
Shoresh Hebrew High School
Grades 7-12; Sunday evenings, 6 - 9 pm, during the school year
C/O Ohr Kodesh Congregation
8300 Meadowbrook Lane
Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
301-589-3880
Shoresh Hebrew High School at Ohr Kodesh Congregation in Chevy Chase, Maryland, is a unique Jewish studies program for 7th - 12th grade students who attend secular schools in the Washington area. Shoresh offers teenagers from diverse backgrounds a text-based course of Jewish study. Outstanding teachers are the keystones of Shoresh's success. Shoresh teachers represent the range of Jewish practice and experience in the Washington Jewish community.
Israeli Dancing for Beginners
Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Tuesdays, May 3 - June 21 (except June 7); 7:00 - 7:45 pm Students are encouraged to stay and dance as late as they want; the group usually breaks up aroung 10 pm.
Contact Mike Fox markidmike@gmail.com
You will learn the basic steps of Israeli Dancing and start building a repertoire of dances which will be reinforced every Tuesday. the seven week course costs $50 for adults/$40 for students and Ohr Kodesh members. This course includes a music CD of the dances that we were taught. If you cannot make it each week, you can pay on a weekly basis - $8 for adults/$6 for students and Ohr Kodesh members
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