60 years ago, on August 6, 1963, Temple Micah, originally Southwest Hebrew Congregation, was officially incorporated as a religious non-profit in the District of Columbia. We’d like to sincerely thank each and every person who has made us who we are today. We know the next 60 years (and beyond!) will continue to challenge and Continue Reading »
July 2023 Dear Friends, Yesterday’s Knesset vote that strips the Israeli Judiciary of some of its authority to override extreme Knesset measures and to keep criminals out of office was a hard blow for those of us who love Israel. I was distraught until a dear friend reminded me that she had learned from a Continue Reading »
Hi y’all, I’m Graham. I’m a rising senior at Davidson College in North Carolina, studying English literature. I grew up in DC and went to Temple Micah for Hebrew school up until my bar mitzvah before dropping off the radar for a little while. I plan to come back in full force with my belated Continue Reading »
By Steven R. Weisman Kelly Whitehead, Temple Micah’s rabbinical student intern for the summer of 2023, is no stranger to our community. She taught kindergarten through second grade at Machon Micah while an undergraduate studying history at American University, and some Temple Micah families became acquainted with her at Reform Judaism’s Camp Harlam in the Continue Reading »
We are delighted to announce that Healy Slakman, our former rabbinic intern and soon-to-be rabbi, will be joining Temple Micah as assistant rabbi and director of spiritual arts. Starting this summer, Healy will oversee our musical endeavors, designing and leading our music in worship, collaborating with our choirs and musicians, and managing the b’nai mitzvah Continue Reading »
By Rabbi Stephanie Crawley Elijah’s role in tradition is to be the herald of the messiah. At Havdalah, when we link the Garden of Eden of creation to the Eden of Eternity, the liturgy asks for him to come soon. In Jewish lore, Elijah is thought to be a protector of children and a peacemaker. Continue Reading »
By Fran Dauth The Micah committee named to search for Debra Winter’s replacement as Director of Spiritual Arts was not looking to add another rabbi to the staff. But in the end, the committee did add a rabbi—and far more. Healy Slakman “was everything we were looking for—and more. Her voice is gorgeous, her guitar Continue Reading »
By Geoffrey Barron, Barbara Diskin, and Jan W. Greenberg In Spring 2023, a group of us met at Micah to talk about a tough subject: climate change. To examine climate change is to encounter forces that seem overwhelming: our whole society built on fossil fuels, the power and influence of the big oil companies, the Continue Reading »
by Rielle Miller Gabriel As you walk into Temple Micah this spring you will see a new addition to our lobby—a large poster showcasing our Roadmap Project’s drivers of our future, five levers that help us become a stronger home. As a quick refresher, the Roadmap is a living, forward looking framework intended to Continue Reading »
By Rabbi Josh Beraha In Spring 2020, we set our seder tables with all the typical accoutrements of the Passover holiday, but that year many of us added something new: a laptop computer opened to Zoom. If the addition of an orange on the seder table stood for women’s liberation, the addition of a computer Continue Reading »
By Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel I am writing this letter on March 2. In six days, I will be leaving for Israel to lead our second Micah trip there in this Jewish year (5783). In all my years of traveling to Israel, I never have experienced the level of anxiety I feel today. I have Continue Reading »
Register The next session of our Adult Conversational Modern Hebrew class will begin on Wednesday, April 19th. Taught by longtime Hebrew teacher Evie Shen-Tal, the class will continue to learn the past tense and build vocabulary. This class is for experienced beginners; familiarity with reading Hebrew in print and conjugating present/past tense verbs in the Paal Continue Reading »