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All posts tagged "dcjcc"

  • Russian Jewry

    Oy vey! The Yiddish construction is fun to use and say in English, even though it expresses dismay or exasperation. Yet, just the sound of...

  • Make Me a Match

    Find something cute to wear. Pick a place to go. Make sure your teeth are clean and you smell wonderful. Get a haircut. When you...

  • Village People

    There were barely enough chairs to go around Sunday, Nov. 23, as about 25 people -- possibly a capacity crowd for the D.C. Jewish Community...

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    Sandra Bernhard Twenty years ago when Sandra Bernhard debuted her one-woman show, Without You I'm Nothing, it was the start of a long-lived and highly...

  • Passover in Pink

    While the modern world has the bittersweet claim of Juneteenth -- the June 19 holiday that since late in the 19th century marked the end...

  • A Warm GLOE

    The District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, better known as the DCJCC -- or simply as ''The J'' for those really in the know --...

  • Pure Gold

    It's hard to say what Theater J audiences will carry away with them after seeing Judy Gold perform 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (...

  • Here come the chatans

    Long before December 2006, when a panel of rabbis on the Conservative Movement's committee on Jewish law and standards voted in to allow individual seminaries...

  • Gay and Yiddish

    ''For me to sing a standard Yiddish love song would kind of ring false. Pretending that I'm some straight loverboy -- it just doesn't work...