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 »
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 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 »
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 »
In partnership with URJ and Clal We want Temple Micah to be a place where everyone feels at home. We are proud to announce the launch of The Belonging Project in partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) and Clal to help us better understand what we as a congregation can do to ensure Continue Reading »
By Randy Tritell Half a year after leaving my job as Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of International Affairs and embarking on a new phase of life misleadingly called “retirement,” I find my Jewish identity playing a central role in providing direction and meaning in a way I never would or could have Continue Reading »
By Rabbi Josh Beraha The first time I remember longing to make aliyah, I was in high school spending a semester abroad in Israel. I lived some of the time with a family in Gilo, a neighborhood outside of Jerusalem, where conversations with my host brother, Yoav, awakened these feelings of longing that linger to Continue Reading »
By Rabbi Stephanie Crawley A number of years ago, I was sitting in a lecture with Rabbi Donniel Hartman of the Hartman Institute. On a large easel pad, he drew a tiny dot in the center. And around it, along the edges of the paper, he drew a large circle. This small dot, he said, Continue Reading »
By Rabbi Daniel Zemel I do not know how not to love Israel. The very street names sing the song of the Jewish story: Hillel, Shammai, Bialik, Ben Yehuda. Louise and I once lived in an apartment on Ahad Ha’am and was thrilled to be living on the street named for the early twentieth-century founder Continue Reading »