NoVTY Fantasy Football Draft September 1, 1-4:00 pm Attention all fantasy footballers! Come one come all on Sunday, September 1st to the NVHC multipurpose room to participate in the NVHC […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, this class will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** A weekly discovery of our personal spiritual nature, […]
Presented by Jane Priest, Regional Manager, Programs & Services, Alzheimer’s Association® National Capital Area Chapter Research suggests that healthy living is the key to aging well. This workshop will focus on […]
Text: Mishkan HaNefesh (prayer books for Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah) This class will focus on reading and understanding the prayers and the prayer variations that are unique to the High Holidays. We will look […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, this class will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** For students who want to be able to […]
Prepare the mind and soul for the Holy Days with the study of key portions of the two tractates dedicated to this season.
Havdalah and Hang September 7, 5-7:00 pm Get a new year with NoVTY started off right at Havdalah and Hang! See your friends, hang out, and bid adieu to another […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, Torah Corps will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** Torah Corps is NVHC’s unique learning experience for Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation! […]
Come see what Kehillat Limmud is all about! Take the opportunity to gather together and hear from Rabbi Wainer about the exciting new programs that we have created for this […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, Torah Corps will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** Torah Corps is NVHC’s unique learning experience for Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation! […]
One of our favorite Sisterhood annual events – join us for a night of schmoozing, chocolate tasting, and champagne!
**While NVHC's building is closed, Torah Corps will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** Torah Corps is NVHC’s unique learning experience for Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation! […]
Tamid dinner is an optional catered meal before Tamid on Tuesdays. The meal is kosher style and food comes from a wide variety of restaurants. If you’re interested in registering your child for Tamid, please email Emily Hummel.
**While NVHC's building is closed, Tamid will take place online from 5:45-7:30. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** Tamid is NVHC's post-B'nai Mitzvah program for students in 8th-12th grades. Click here for more information!
Join us as we explore the voices of women in Jewish text, as well as the voices of women about our Jewish text. We will be studying both ancient and […]
The Silver Line is NVHC's 55+ fun loving group. We get together the second Friday of the month to mingle with friends old and new and enjoy a delicious catered dinner together. Join us on Friday, September 13th at 5:45 pm in the Multi-Purpose room. Please click here to see the menu and make a […]
In this month's Great Texts of America, we will discuss Ursula K Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." We look at this thought-provoking and tragic […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, this class will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** When they speak of communities outside the Land of Israel, historians of the Jewish people distinguish between the “Diaspora” (a Greek word meaning dispersion), and the forced exile of the Jews from their […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, Kehillat Limmud will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** Kehillat Limmud is NVHC's religious school program for Kindergarten-7th grade students. For more information, click here.
Tanakh is Torah + Neviim (Prophets) + Ketuvim (Writings). The Hebrew Bible! Chevruta is a study and partnership. This study group explores Jewish spirituality by reading and discussing sacred texts. We try to take a literary and historical view of Scripture and discern the lessons it offers to apply to contemporary life. The group decides […]
Ever wondered why we say the prayers in the order that we do? Or why we start with one Chanukah candle and build up to eight? Join the clergy each week for shorts sessions on all things Jewish. Each session will be a standalone and will explore a new topic. It’s ok if you can’t […]
Cox Farms Field Trip September 15, 12:30 pm Just for 3rd-5th graders, we'll be taking a trip to Cox Farms' Fall Festival to spend a few hours gallivanting about with apples, pumpkins, and livestock galore! We'll have a quick lunch at NVHC right after Kehillat Limmud, then leave together by carpool at 12:30. We'll stay […]
Held at the home of Ellen Ranard. RSVP by August 28th. A multi-generational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer. In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, Mid-Week Hebrew will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** Midweek Hebrew is offered to all 3-6 grade Religious School students to improve their Hebrew fluency in preparation for their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Classes on Tuesdays are from 5-6 pm, 6-7 pm, […]
Join us to welcome the Days of Awe with a topical film, dessert, and worship service. 7:30 pm – Film: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 9:00 pm – Discussion and […]
**While NVHC's building is closed, this hangout will take place online. Please see your daily email or email info@nvhcreston.org for more information.** Beginning in September, we invite all of our punims (ages 0 to 5) and their caretaker(s) to join us on select Sundays for a little recreation, light nosh, some music, and a lot […]
Join Sisterhood for lunch and a matinee play at Theatre J. From an extraordinary collaboration of international artists comes Love Sick, the critically-acclaimed new musical that fuses a thrilling original score, Middle-Eastern harmonics, dazzling choreography, and an inspired story of passion and awakening. Based on the Song of Songs, Love Sick tells the story a […]
CURE participants will share about a recent trip in which they visited several significant sites of racial history and violence around Virginia in Charlottesville, Danville, and Richmond. CURE is an interfaith, multi-racial group of clergy who are working together towards racial reconciliation. This presentation will take place at Floris United Methodist church, 13600 Frying Pan […]
This month, we will meet in the St Tomas a Becket Fellowship Hall. You know St Thomas a Becket Church (or at least, you know its parking lot), but what […]
As Jews, we are no strangers to the concept of immigration. Our families were all immigrants from somewhere, facing difficult choices along the way. In today’s world, we are hearing […]
Finally Friday & Game Show Night September 27, 6 - 9:00 pm Our first event for 6th and 7th graders is Game Show Night! Following Finally Friday Shabbat services, we'll […]
It is customary on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah to gather where there is flowing water and empty our pockets, throwing bread crumbs to symbolically cast off our sins. Join us at Lake Fairfax Park for this powerful and cleansing ritual.
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