Drop-In Mah Jongg
Join WTBA members and friends for weekly drop-in Mah Jongg games at the Temple each Monday when the Temple is open from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm. Players of all abilities are welcome and there is no charge to attend. We play for fun and not money, so you can leave your quarters at home. Contact Rachel Maryn […]
Stuffed Animal Collection
Aug 23 to Sept 27
NEW Teddy Bears & Stuffed Animals for the Montgomery County Family Justice Center in Rockville. These new stuffed animals will be given to children exposed to domestic violence and will enable them to have something soft to snuggle with during a difficult time. Collection is from August 23 to September 27, including during the Picnic […]
Home Bakers
Bring your favorite recipes (nut free please) to create our High Holy day themed smorgasbord. Keep a slice for yourself and bring the rest to share. Theme: Apples and Honey – High Holy Day motif Let Roz Katz know what you’ll be bringing.
Selichot
7:30 pm
“Selichot” (Hebrew for ‘forgiveness’), marks the official beginning and spiritual “kickoff” to the High Holy Days. Join Rabbi Pokras, Rabbi Weiss, Cantor Eschler, Joshana Erenberg and our new Cantorial soloist, Ben Pagliaro, for an evening of uplifting music and prayer to open our spiritual and mental “gates” and warm up our hearts and minds for […]
TBA Cycling Club
Soccerplex/Germantown/
Boyds/Darnestown
Sun Sept 22
Hold the date. Details to follow.
WTBA Fall/Winter Yoga
10 Sundays
Sun, 9/15 (2-3 pm)
WTBA announces Fall/Winter Yoga, meeting on 10 Sundays from 2-3 pm at the Temple (9/15, 9/22, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/24, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15, 12/22). This is a “stretch and strengthen” class, taught by Monya & Dave Cohen, for all levels. Please dress comfortably and bring: a yoga mat, yoga belt, 2 yoga blocks, water bottle […]
Broadway Buzz
Great Broadway Producers
Mon. Sept 23 (10:30 am)
Topic: More Great Broadway Producers. Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Live & Learn with Ira Weiss
SRUGIM: Modern Orthodoxy in Israel
Tues, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24 (10:30 am)
Join returning teacher, Ira Weiss, for a fascinating look at young, modern Orthodox adults by being a fly on the wall in the places where they hang out, study and live. Observe their understanding of halacha (Jewish law), their social mores and how they deal with conflict, friendship and dating through this award-winning popular Israeli […]
Network & Nosh with Rabbi Luxemburg
Lessons Learned from the Pulpit
Fri, Sept 27 (8-9:30 am)
Join us for a morning of coffee and conversation with our Rabbi Emeritus, Jack Luxemburg, who will share some of his ‘takeaways’ – on and off the bimah — from his decades-long career as a pulpit Rabbi. Network & Nosh provides an opportunity for Temple folks to meet one another, share resources (and business cards), […]
Rosh Hashanah basket delivery
Sun. Sept 29 (9:00 am)
Drivers and deliverers are needed on the morning of Sunday, September 29th to help deliver 70 Rosh Hashanah ‘baskets’ (bags filled with non-perishable holiday foods purchased by B’nai B’rith) to Russian immigrants and Holocaust survivors living in the local community. WE NEED: *3 volunteers to help transport our allotment of 70 bags from Ohr Kodesh […]
New/Gently Used Coats & Socks
Oct. 1-25
Collection boxes will be in both the Temple lobby and the Nursery School lobby from October 1-25. Benefits the Interfaith Clothing Center (ADULT coats/socks) and students at South Lake ES (KIDS’ coats/socks).
Broadway Buzz
Great Love Songs & Their Musicals
Mon, Oct 7 (10:30 am)
Topic: Great Love Songs & Their Musicals. Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture with Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts, and always some love performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash/check).
Live & Learn
Movie Screening & Lunch
Tues, Oct. 15 (10:30 am)
You’re invited for a screening of “Ushpizin,” an Israeli film hailed as powerful, touching and amusing. “Ushpizin” – the film’s title – is the Hebrew word for guests, especially those we welcome into our Sukkot during the Fall holiday – and is a heartwarming, soul-stirring film. Big-hearted Moshe is down on his luck, so he […]
WTBA Book Club
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
Tues, Oct 15 (7:30 pm)
All are welcome to join us at the Temple on Tuesday evening from 7:30-9 pm. No charge to attend. Questions? Contact Terry (301) 926-0815.
Challah Club
Fri. Oct.18, 2019
10 am
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
BITACHON Support Session
Co-Parenting our Children for Long-Term Success
Sun, Oct 20 (9-10:30 am)
BITACHON is pleased to offer a Sunday morning support session on Co-Parenting, facilitated by Roberta Drucker, LCSW-C. Single parents at any stage of separation or divorce are invited to this workshop, focusing on the skills required to be partners, not adversaries. Topics will include: the need for ample flexibility, solution-focused approaches, avoiding triggering interactions, transitions, and how […]
Live & Learn Baltimore Trip
American Visionary Art Museum/Lunch
Tues, Oct 22 (8:45-3:30 pm)
Hop aboard the bus (departing from the Temple at 8:45 am) as we head to the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore to view a special exhibit of hand-embroidered panels created by Esther Krinitz, depicting the journey of living through the Holocaust in Poland. The exhibit pays tribute to humanity’s long history, past and current, […]
TBA Cycling Club
TBD
Sun Oct 27
Reserve the day. Details to follow.
Brotherhood Brunch
Speaker: Rob Scheer
Founder of Comfort Cases
Sun, Oct 27 (9 am)
40 years ago, Rob Scheer entered the foster care system arriving at a house of strangers with all of his belongings in a tattered and torn trash bag. 8 years ago, 4 children (now his daughter and 3 sons), arrived on HIS doorstep through foster care, each clutching a garbage bag holding their few possessions. […]
Cookie Brigade
Come join the Cookie Brigade as we learn how to new techniques as we bake cookies to enhance our onegs. Theme: Chocolate chips and bar cookies Please email Joel Weinberg if you can join so we can make sure to have plenty of supplies.
Book & Author Event
Amb. Dennis Ross
Sun, Oct 27 (4 pm)
Join us for an afternoon with special guest author, Ambassador Dennis Ross, who will discuss his new book, “Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped its Destiny.” For more than 12 years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing […]
MELTON Scholar Course
Social Justice
Thursdays, beg. 10/31 (9:30-11:30 am)
This NEW 10-week MELTON Scholars course draws from text and history to explore how social justice work goes beyond addressing short-term needs and looks at structural causes of injustice today. Topics include issues related to poverty, immigration, and environmental degradation. Participants will be encouraged to identify issues that are particular to their own communities and […]
Thanksgiving Food Drive for Nourish Now
Nov, 1-15
Donate canned (yams, carrots, pie filling, chicken broth, green beans, gravy & cranberry sauce) and boxed/bagged (instant mashed potatoes, dried stuffing mix and muffin mix) foods for clients of Nourish Now, which hopes to feed 5,000 people this Thanksgiving. Collection boxes will be in the Temple lobby from November 1-15.
WTBA Trip
National Archives Museum
Tues, Nov 5 (9:45 am)
WTBA invites you for a tour at the National Archives Museum (DC), led by Ed Williams, of the exhibit, “RIGHTFULLY HERS: American Women and the Vote.” Meet downtown at the Archives Museum (Archives stop on the Green or Yellow metro lines) for the tour (9:45 am – 11:15 am), followed by lunch (optional) at a […]
Brotherhood Brunch
Author: Josh Rosenblatt
Sun, Nov 10 (9am)
What was Janice’s son doing in a mixed martial arts ring?? Josh Rosenblatt, a lifelong pacifist and romantic in search of a new, transformative experience, fought his first martial arts (MMA) match at age 40. His book, Why We Fight, follows his yearlong journey from gym to the cage as he confronts his most deep-seated […]
Challah Club – NEW Evening Times
Thur. Nov. 14, 2019
7:00 pm
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
TBA Cycling Club
Frederick, MD
Sun Nov 24
Reserve the date. Details to follow.
Broadway Buzz
Broadway Babies of the 1940’s
Mon, Nov. 25 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Annual Holiday Toy & Adopt-a-Family Drives
Dec, 1-16
Please help brighten the holiday season for children of South Lake ES with your donation of unwrapped gifts for children ages infant to 14. These gifts will be given to the children and families in South Lake’s Linkages to Learning program, serving the school’s neediest families. Collection boxes will be located in both the Temple […]
Book & Author Event
The Girl from Berlin
by Ronald Balson
Tues, Dec. 3 (7:30 pm)
WTBA invites everyone for a special evening with author, Ronald Balson, who will discuss his book, The Girl from Berlin. No charge to attend. Questions? Contact Terry (301) 926-0814.
Cookie Brigade
Come join the Cookie Brigade as we learn how to new techniques as we bake cookies to enhance our onegs. Theme: Icing and Piping Chanukah cookies Please email Joel Weinberg if you can join so we can make sure to have plenty of supplies.
Challah Club
Fri. Dec. 20, 2019
10 am
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
Broadway Buzz
More Broadway Babies
Mon, Dec, 23 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Purim Project
Come join us as we bake thousands of hamentaschen for the temple’s purim fundraiser that underwrites the music programs in both Machane and TBANS.
Broadway Buzz
Sondheim on View – The Early Years
Mon, Jan. 27 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Purim Project
Come join us as we bake thousands of hamentaschen for the temple’s purim fundraiser that underwrites the music programs in both Machane and TBANS.
WTBA Book Club
The Secret Chord
by Geraldine Brooks
Tues, Feb. 4 (7:30 pm)
All are welcome to join us at the Temple on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 pm – 9 pm. No charge to attend. Questions? Contact Terry (301) 926-0815.
Challah Club – NEW Evening Times
Thur. Feb. 6, 2020
7:00 pm
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
Purim Project
Come join us as we bake thousands of hamentaschen for the temple’s purim fundraiser that underwrites the music programs in both Machane and TBANS.
Purim Project
Come join us as we bake thousands of hamentaschen for the temple’s purim fundraiser that underwrites the music programs in both Machane and TBANS.
Challah Club
Fri. Feb 28, 2020
10 a.m.
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
Cookie Brigade
Come join the Cookie Brigade as we learn how to new techniques as we bake cookies to enhance our onegs. Theme: Hamentaschen and creative fillings Please email Joel Weinberg if you can join so we can make sure to have plenty of supplies.
Broadway Buzz
Sondheim – The Prince Era
Mon, March 23 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Challah Club
Fri. Mar 27, 2020
10 a.m.
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
Broadway Buzz
TV & Broadway
Mon, April 13 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Challah Club – NEW Evening Times
Thur. Apr. 23, 2020
7:00 pm
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
WTBA Book Club
Sons and Soldiers
by Bruce Henderson
Tues, April 28 (7:30 pm)
All are welcome to join us at the Temple on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 – 9 pm. No charge to attend. Questions? Contact Terry (301) 926-0815.
Cookie Brigade
Come join the Cookie Brigade as we learn how to new techniques as we bake cookies to enhance our onegs. Theme: Rugalach and Dairy Please email Joel Weinberg if you can join so we can make sure to have plenty of supplies.
Broadway Buzz
More TV & Broadway
Mon, May 11 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Challah Club
Fri. May 22, 2020
10 a.m.
Come learn how to make challah, take some home, and help make the temple’s Shabbat challot. Class is free. Please register.
WTBA Book Club
Strangers and Cousins
by Leah Hager Cohen
Tues, May 26 (7:30 pm)
All are welcome to join us at the Temple on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 – 9 pm. No charge to attend. Questions? Contact Terry (301) 926-0815.
Broadway Buzz
Leonard Bernstein
Mon, June 15 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).
Broadway Buzz
The Musical in the New Millenium
Mon, July 13 (10:30 am)
Don’t miss this popular Monday morning lecture by Steve Friedman, featuring footage, facts and always some live performance. Free for Temple members; $10 for guests (cash or check).