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Morning Meditation with Fran Zamore
2028-02-01 09:00 - 10:00, 2028-01-25 09:00 - 10:00, 2028-01-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2028-01-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2028-01-04 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-12-28 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-12-21 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-12-14 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) and 95 more dates
In this particularly stressful time we have many ways to creatively come together and support one another. Please join us for meditation. I’ll start off with a little teaching and then we will meditate together. Those who have the time and interest can stay on longer to share. I anticipate that teaching and meditation will run about 30 minutes. All are welcome — no experience necessary. Please mute your mic when you come into the zoom meeting. You are encouraged to unmute during our discussion. We have found that background noises seem to be amplified in the meeting.

Israeli Dancing
2028-01-31 19:30 - 21:30, 2028-01-24 19:30 - 21:30, 2028-01-17 19:30 - 21:30, 2028-01-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2028-01-03 19:30 - 21:30, 2027-12-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2027-12-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2027-12-13 19:30 - 21:30 and 95 more dates

Morning Minyan
2028-01-31 08:00 - 08:45, 2028-01-27 08:00 - 08:45, 2028-01-24 08:00 - 08:45, 2028-01-20 08:00 - 08:45, 2028-01-17 08:00 - 08:45, 2028-01-13 08:00 - 08:45, 2028-01-10 08:00 - 08:45, 2028-01-06 08:00 - 08:45 and 198 more dates
A great way to begin your day along with members of both Adat Shalom and fellow Reconstructionist synagogue Darchei Noam (Toronto). There are numerous opportunities to enhance your davening, lein Torah, and lead parts of the service. For more information and to receive Zoom login information, email Info@AdatShalom.net.

Morning Minyan at Adat Shalom
2028-01-30 09:30 - 10:00, 2028-01-23 09:30 - 10:00, 2028-01-16 09:30 - 10:00, 2028-01-09 09:30 - 10:00, 2028-01-02 09:30 - 10:00, 2027-12-26 09:30 - 10:00, 2027-12-19 09:30 - 10:00, 2027-12-12 09:30 - 10:00 and 95 more dates | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States
Need to say Kaddish? Want to join a community of people who relish regular davening or are learning to? Join us for 30 minutes on Sunday mornings at Adat Shalom for a great way to begin your day along with members of both Adat Shalom and fellow Reconstructionist synagogue Darchei Noam (Toronto). There are numerous opportunities to enhance your davening, lein Torah, and lead parts of the service. For more information, email Info@AdatShalom.net.

Tot Shabbat with Ms. Ellie
2028-01-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2028-01-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2028-01-15 11:00 - 12:00, 2028-01-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2028-01-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-12-25 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-12-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2027-12-11 11:00 - 12:00 and 92 more dates | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States

Limmud Classes PK-7
2028-01-29 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-22 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-15 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-08 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-01 09:30 - 12:00, 2027-12-25 09:30 - 12:00, 2027-12-18 09:30 - 12:00, 2027-12-11 09:30 - 12:00 and 92 more dates | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States

Shabbat Morning Services
2028-01-29 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-22 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-15 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-08 09:30 - 12:00, 2028-01-01 09:30 - 12:00, 2027-12-25 09:30 - 12:00, 2027-12-18 09:30 - 12:00, 2027-12-11 09:30 - 12:00 and 95 more dates

Music and Maariv
2028-01-25 19:00 - 19:30, 2028-01-18 19:00 - 19:30, 2028-01-11 19:00 - 19:30, 2028-01-04 19:00 - 19:30, 2027-12-28 19:00 - 19:30, 2027-12-21 19:00 - 19:30, 2027-12-14 19:00 - 19:30, 2027-12-07 19:00 - 19:30 and 94 more dates
Basic evening prayers woven with melodies to uplift and soothe our souls. Via Zoom. Please email Info@AdatShalom.net for Zoom access.

Prayer Through Movement
2028-01-08 12:45 - 15:00, 2027-12-11 12:45 - 15:00, 2027-11-13 12:45 - 15:00, 2027-10-09 12:45 - 15:00, 2027-09-11 12:45 - 15:00, 2027-08-14 12:45 - 15:00, 2027-07-10 12:45 - 15:00, 2027-06-12 12:45 - 15:00 and 16 more dates | Triple Classroom
In Prayer Through Movement, we express the spirit of Shabbat through movements suggested by the parsha, prayers, holidays, or other content identified by participants. Sessions begin with a focus on breath, joint mobility, and general body awareness and culminate in collaboratively creating a short movement sequence. No dance experience is required. We will meet int he Triple classroom.

Prayer Through Movement is led by Diane DeFries, formerly a professional choreographer and dance teacher, who guides us toward personal and communal expression through movement sequences that we create together. Diane is the daughter of long-time Adat Shalom member Tamar Lieberman z”l, who established the Creative Arts Committee, helped found Prayer Through Movement (as seen in the photo below), and believed the creative arts are an integral part of Reconstructionist services and synagogue life.

Please contact malkak@hotmail.com if you have questions.

First Friday Musical Kabbalat Shabbat
2028-01-07 18:00 - 20:30, 2027-12-03 18:00 - 20:30, 2027-11-05 18:00 - 20:30, 2027-10-01 18:00 - 20:30, 2027-09-03 18:00 - 20:30, 2027-08-06 18:00 - 20:30, 2027-07-02 18:00 - 20:30, 2027-06-04 18:00 - 20:30 and 15 more dates
Join us for a musical welcome into Shabbat. At 6PM we’ll join for a musical Kabbalat Shabbat service. Dinner to follow at 7PM. Contact info@adatshalom.net if you are interested in joining us.

Rabbi's Study
2026-06-24 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 and 11 more dates
Weekly on Wednesdays, 12 pm via ZOOM.

Shabbat Voices: Dr. David Michaels
2026-06-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States
Doubt Science and the Degradation of Expertise

Join us for our final Shabbat Voices of 2026 with Dr. David Michaels, former Ass’t Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA).
David Michaels PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. He has held high-level, Senate-confirmed public health positions, including as the Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health from 1998-2001. His primary responsibility was protecting the health and safety of workers, the neighboring communities and the environment surrounding the nation’s nuclear weapons facilities. From 2009 – 2017, Dr. Michaels served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA and was the longest serving administrator in OSHA’s history. During his tenure, Dr. Michaels issued new rules on workplace safety, injury and illness record-keeping and reporting, and hazard communications.
Much of Dr. Michaels’ current work centers on safety and health management systems, and the importance of workplace safety in achieving operational excellence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Michaels focused much of his work on improving the protection of workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2. He was a member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force on Safe Work, Safe School, and Safe Travel. Throughout his career, Dr. Michaels has focused on the health of disadvantaged communities and the impact of infectious diseases on underserved populations. Learn more about his work here.
Sponsored by Claire Engers and David Silberman in memory of Charles and Arlene Silberman.

Reconstructing Creativity
2026-05-21 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-16 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-03-19 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-02-19 19:30 - 21:00
If you’d like to join us for Reconstructing Creativity, please email us at info@adatshalom.net.

Shabbat Voices: Rachel Gildiner
2026-04-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States
Women in Leadership: Victories and Ongoing Challenges

Rachel Gildiner, Executive Director of the Safety, Respect and Equity Network, joins us this April for Shabbat Voices.
Rachel Gildiner (she/her) is the Executive Director of the SRE Network (Safety, Respect and Equity), an organization committed to advancing gender equity and inclusive workplaces in the Jewish community. A leading expert in the field of relational engagement, Rachel previously served as Chief Engagement Officer at Hillel International, Executive Director of GatherDC (the premier relational platform for Jewish 20s & 30s in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area), and CEO of Gather, Inc. Prior to joining SRE, Rachel applied her relational approach to advance women’s equity in the Jewish workplace and beyond. In 2019, she launched Year of the Jewish Woman, a vibrant Facebook community where female Jewish professionals and allies can connect and discuss key issues and challenges. She is a vocal advocate and published thought leader in this area.
Rachel has a B.A. in Sociology from Columbia University, a B.A. in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary, an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from The George Washington University, and a Certificate in Experiential Jewish Education from Yeshiva University. She is the inaugural recipient of the Phyllis G. Margolius Impossible Dream Award, a Schusterman Senior Fellow, and sits on the Board of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Rachel lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.

Sponsored by Phyllis Lerner, to advance greater inclusivity and equity in our world.

UPCOING SPEAKER

June 20th
Doubt Science and the Degradation of Expertise
Speaker: Dr. David Michaels, former Ass’t Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) and member of Adat Shalom
Sponsor: Claire Engers and David Silberman in memory of Charles and Arlene Silberman

Shabbat Voices: Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
2026-03-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States
Faith, Social Justice, and America: A Family Story

Join us for our fourth Shabbat Voices session with Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, President and CEO of Interfaith Alliance.
An ordained Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush is a longtime interfaith leader and renowned advocate for civil rights and religious freedom. He works with affiliates, networks and leaders across the country to forge powerful alliances among people of diverse faiths and beliefs to build a resilient, inclusive multi-faith democracy.

Prior to coming to Interfaith Alliance, Rev. Raushenbush served as senior vice president of the Auburn Seminary, and as the founding and executive editor of HuffPost Religion. Rev. Raushenbush has also served as associate dean of religious life and the chapel at Princeton University and as the senior advisor for public affairs and innovation at Interfaith America. Additionally, he speaks regularly at colleges, faith communities, and institutes around the country.

He is the great-grandson of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and the great-grandson of the theologian Reverend Walter Rauschenbusch. He lives in New York City with his spouse, author Brad Gooch, and two children.

Check out his weekly podcast, State of Belief here!

Sponsored by Polly Panitz, Allen Joseph, and Stephen Isaacson in memory of Susana (Zsuzsi) Isaacson

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

April 18th
Women in Leadership: Victories and Ongoing Challenges
Speaker: Rachel Gildiner, Executive Director of the Safety, Respect and Equity Network
Sponsor: Phyllis Lerner, to advance greater inclusivity and equity in our world

June 20th
Doubt Science and the Degradation of Expertise
Speaker: Dr. David Michaels, former Ass’t Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) and member of Adat Shalom
Sponsor: Claire Engers and David Silberman in memory of Charles and Arlene Silberman

Learning with Rabbi Sid
2026-03-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-03-08 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-03-01 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-02-22 10:30 - 12:00 | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States
The Triumph of Life: The Narrative Theology of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
A Four-Week course with Rabbi Sid culminating with a Q and A with Rabbi Yitz from Jerusalem on March 15th
Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg is one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the past century. He is credited with launching the field of Holocaust studies in the early 1960’s. In 1974 he founded and served as President of Clal for over 20 years, one of the Jewish community’s most prominent think-tanks. An Orthodox rabbi who has always been deeply committed to Jewish pluralism and women’s equality, Yitz’s books, articles and public lectures have had a profound influence on the shape of American and world Jewry. Now, in his early 90’s, he has published his magnum opus, The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism.
Rabbi Yitz is also one of Rabbi Sid’s most important mentors. The course will explore the book’s three sections: A Vision of Life in a Redeemed World; Covenant as a Method of World Repair; and The Covenant in the Third Era. Participants will be asked to pre-order the book and so that they can read each section in advance. Rabbi Sid will also help to “translate” Yitz’ theology in a Reconstructionist key. The fourth and last session will be a video Q and A with Rabbi Yitz from Jerusalem.
REGISTER HERE

How We Got Here With Marc Grossman
2026-02-22 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States
Why do most Jews live in the US and Israel today? How did your family end up where they are? How did the invent of Christianity and Islam impacted Jewish life and thought? And what does any of this have to do with bagels?
In this class, we will be tracing the epic 2,000-year journey of how Jewish communities survived, thrived, and sometimes barely made it through some of history’s wildest plot twists. We will start in 70 CE when everything changed with the destruction of the Second Temple. From there, we’ll follow the trail through: How Judaism completely reinvented itself to survive. The rise and fall of the Pale of Settlement (aka where half your ancestors probably lived). Why antisemitism became a “modern” problem in the 1800s. The birth of the idea that became Israel Plus, how Jewish food became the comfort food we know and love!
Fair warning: This is discussion-based, so your voice and questions matter. We’re not just learning what happened – we’re figuring out why it matters to YOU and your place in this ongoing story.
Cost: $150
Register here
Class schedule
Sunday, January 25th | 10 AM – 12 PM @ Adat ShalomThursday, Feb 5th | 7 – 9 PM @ Adat ShalomThursday, Feb 12th | 7 – 9 PM @ Adat ShalomSunday, Feb 22nd | 10 AM – 12 PM Location TBA
Please contact Marc Grossman with any questions at marcgrossman2@gmail.com
Featured image of the The Lombard Street Mural at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.

Shabbat Voices: Liz Lerman
2026-02-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Adat Shalom, 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States
The Choreography of Being Jewish

For our third Shabbat Voices of the season, please welcome choreographer and MacArthur Genius Award winner, Liz Lerman.

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, teacher, and speaker. She has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to everyone from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and experiences that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. Her choreography has examined everything from her days as a go-go dancer in 1974 to investigating the matters of our origins by putting dancers in the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011, when she handed the artistic leadership of the company over to the next generation of Dance Exchange artists.

Sponsored by Estelle Quain and Sy Dubow in memory of Myrna Seidman

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

March 21st
Faith, Social Justice, and America: A Family Story
Speaker: Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, President and CEO of Interfaith Alliance
Sponsor: Polly Panitz, Allen Joseph, and Stephen Isaacson in memory of Susana (Zsuzsi) Isaacson
April 18th
Women in Leadership: Victories and Ongoing Challenges
Speaker: Rachel Gildiner, Executive Director of the Safety, Respect and Equity Network
Sponsor: Phyllis Lerner, to advance greater inclusivity and equity in our world

June 20th
Doubt Science and the Degradation of Expertise
Speaker: Dr. David Michaels, former Ass’t Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) and member of Adat Shalom
Sponsor: Claire Engers and David Silberman in memory of Charles and Arlene Silberman
