Fire & Ice: Chanukah with the Capitals: Join us for a shul outing as we light the Chanukah candles at a CAPS game. $60/person. Limited tickets available. - Saturday, December 16 7:00pm-9:30pm
Ohev Young Professionals Chanukah Party: Join your fellow Ohev Young Professionals for a Chanukah celebration! Drinks, latkes, and sufganiyot will abound in the Blair House party room (8201 16th Street, Silver Spring). $10/person. - Saturday, December 16 8:00pm-10:00pm
Ohev Family Meetup: Chanukah Cookie Monsters: Join this Chanukah themed Family Meet Up for Cookie Decorating! Bring your young children (4 and under) to celebrate Chanukah, spend time with their shul friends, and eat some cookies. Cost is $10/child. - Sunday, December 17 10:00am-11:30am
Neighborhood Chanukah Celebration: With special guests Shir Madness, CESJDS High School A Cappella Choir. Featuring candle lighting, donuts, cider and songs! All are welcome. If you have a neighbor who wants to learn some Chanukah songs and have a donut, please reach out and invite them. This is the time of year where it is especially nice to connect with our neighbors and teach everyone about our holidays. Let's remember that even though many of us in Shepherd Park worship differently, we are all in this together! - Tuesday, December 19 6:30pm-7:15pm
Kiddush: Join the community for a Kiddush following morning services. The meal is sponsored by Yoni Margulies and Stefanie Eisenbach in celebration of their upcoming wedding. - Saturday, December 23 11:45am
Kiddush: Join the community for a Kiddush following morning services. To sponsor this meal, please contact the synagogue office. - Saturday, January 6 11:45am
Guest Scholar Yikealo Beyene: Join us on Shabbat morning for a talk from writer & poet Yikealo Beyene: "Why I Translated the Diary of Anne Frank into Tigrinya." Then join us at 8:00p that night as Lea & Jeff Mendelsohn host a Q&A with Yikealo at their home. - Saturday, January 6
Lyttonsville: Silver Spring's Other Side of the Tracks: Join us at the Talbot Avenue bridge for a walking tour of Lyttonsville with historian Dr. David Rotenstein. The bridge is scheduled for demolition in early 2018 so this will be our only opportunity to learn of the bridge’s role in the segregated community of Lyttonsville. - Sunday, January 7 12:00pm
Kiddush Luncheon: Join the community for a Kiddush Luncheon following morning services. The meal is sponsored by the Laufer family in celebration of Shoshana's Bat Mitzvah. Mazel tov, Shoshana! - Saturday, January 13 11:45am
Developmentally Different Adults Program: Residents of local group homes join with our congregation for arts and crafts and music. We hope you can join us. Dinner will be served. No RSVP is required. - Tuesday, January 16 7:00pm-8:00pm
Synagogue Board Meeting: Open to all members. - Wednesday, January 17 8:00pm-9:00pm
Shorashim Torah Enrichment Program: Join us for our after-school enrichment program for children in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. It's like Camp Kibbutz all year long! Join us for 10 Thursday afternoons this Winter. Activities include: Torah study, parsha exploration, activities, and more with our great clergy and staff. - Begins Thursday, January 18 4:00pm-5:30pm
Sunday, December 17: Chanukah (Kislev 29)8:30a Shacharit
9:30a Class with Rabbi Ben Mintz
10:00a Ohev Family Meetup: Chanukah Cookie Monsters
4:30p Mincha/Maariv
Monday, December 18: Chanukah, Rosh Chodesh Tevet (Kislev 30)6:30a Shacharit
12:30p Women's Parsha Class
7:30p Maariv
Tuesday, December 19: Chanukah, Rosh Chodesh Tevet (Tevet 1)6:30a Shacharit
6:30p Neighborhood Chanukah Celebration
7:30p Maariv
Wednesday, December 20: Chanukah (Tevet 2)6:30a Shacharit
12:30p Downtown Torah Study with Rabbi Herzfeld
7:30p Maariv
Thursday, December 21 (Tevet 3)6:30a Shacharit
7:30p Maariv
Erev Shabbat, December 22 (Tevet 4)6:30a Shacharit
4:30p Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat
4:31p Candle Lighting
Shabbat, December 23: Vayigash (Tevet 5)7:30a Mashkimin
9:15a Shacharit, with a Dvar Torah from Rabbi Herzfeld
10:30a Shabbat Youth Groups
11:45a Kiddush
3:10p Daf Yomi
3:40p Chaim Fruchter's Shiur
4:10p Mincha, followed by Seudah Shlishit
5:33p Havdalah
Sunday, December 24 (Tevet 6)8:30a Shacharit
9:30a Class with Rabbi Ben Mintz
4:35p Mincha/Maariv
