Shabbat Services
SHABBAT MORNING SERVICES - 7/5
Join us for Shabbat Morning Services on Saturday, July 5 at 9:15 am. Kids programming will begin at 10:30 am.
FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES - 7/11
Join us for Friday night davening on Friday, July 11 at 7:00 pm.
Upcoming events and programs
COMMUNITY SECURITY UPDATES
On Friday, we sent two emails to the community:
- To all subscribers on DC Minyan’s current security practices, the steps we’ve taken in response to evolving circumstances, and ways members can participate in our community’s security;
- To DC Minyan members only with information on how to register for virtual security trainings held by Community Security Service. We hope every one of our members chooses to attend one of the two training sessions. If you are a member and did not receive information on how to register, please email Akiva Fishman at exec@dcminyan.org.
Get Involved
DC MINYAN COOP REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Registration is now open for the 2025-2026 DC Minyan Judaics Cooperative and will remain open through July 16.
The Coop will facilitate the development of cohorts of children who form community and receive high quality, engaging, individualized Jewish education. The program will focus on teaching participants content related to tefilla, chumash, and chaggim. DC Minyan will provide learning objectives to each teacher on those subjects. We hope to have cohorts for students from pre-k through eighth grades. Assuming numbers permit, we plan to place participating students through third grade into cohorts of three or four. Students beginning around fourth grade will be placed in pairs. Families commit to participating in the co-op for the full school year ending June 2025. Cohorts will aim to have 34 hours of learning. Families commit to having students participate in at least 80% of their cohort sessions. Tutoring will conducted online, with in person cohort gatherings organized by cohort families during the year.
To register your children, use the form available here: https://www.dcminyan.org/form/judaics-coop-registration-2025.html.
CALLING ALL B’NAI MITZVAH
We will kick off a new learning cohort this fall for students celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah in the 2026–2027 school year. This past year, students with b’nai mitzvah during the 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 school years gathered for social action and learning programs with their families. Please email Tamara Litwin and Deena Fox at lifecycle@dcminyan.org if your child will be celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah during the 2026–2027 school year and would like to participate in the next cohort.
COMMUNITY NEWS
A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO OUR HOSTS
In a neighborhood of limited options for a community of our size and needs, Friends Meeting of Washington (FMW) and its staff have been consistently warm, welcoming, and collaborative, ensuring that DC Minyan is able to daven in a space that meets our needs. As a gesture of appreciation and in consultation with the board, the Szubin family has sponsored the gift of an olive tree to FMW on behalf of the DC Minyan community.
The tree has been placed in a pot with a plaque bearing the following language:
ותבא אליו היונה לעת ערב והנה עלה־זית טרף בפיה (בראשית ח:י״א)
And the dove came back to him toward evening, and there in its beak was a plucked-off olive leaf. (Genesis 8:11)
A gift to Friends Meeting of Washington
From the DC Minyan Community, with deep gratitude
THANK YOU
We wanted to share our deep gratitude to Yael Nagar and Ethan Kahn, two volunteer leaders in our community, on their service to DC Minyan!
- Yael Nagar served on the Gabbai Committee for over eight years and was Gabbai Chair (and on Leadership Council) from 2020–2022.
- Ethan Kahn served as Social Action Co-Chair from 2024–2025.
REMINDER ABOUT BOARD MEETING MINUTES
With minutes to spare in Fiscal Year 2024-25, the DC Minyan Board passed the 2025-2026 annual budget, beginning July 1, 2025! More details to come.
If you wonder what gets discussed in DC Minyan Board of Directors meetings—or you want a peek at what is on the horizon for the minyan—we encourage you to check out our board meeting minutes on the Records and Minutes page. The page has been updated through May.