Celebrate the New Year for Trees with song, study, and inspiration. We join with Makom Kodesh, the Jewish Fellowship of Chester County to bring meaning and joy to this holiday. Your Zoom link is: https://aleph-ordination.zoom.us/j/9554251996?pwd=YlRoRjJXTzk0Qjc3N0xOVlZxTCtQQT09
Another great Friday Night service, with Cantor David Abramowitz, Rabbi Evan Krame and our special friend, Cantorial Soloist Sally Heckelman. ZOOM HERE!
Join us for a pre-Purim cooking event with the founding chefs and authors of Gefilteria. Liz Alpern and Jeff Yoskowitz give traditional European Jewish cooking a Brooklyn spin and a hipster vibe. So let’s make vegetarian Kreplach! Sign up here.
This could be your best Purim ever. Not the real megillah, we’ve got Judy Gold, emmy winning comedian! Sign up here. And please donate to support our events.
Join us for another sweet and soulful Friday Night! Zoom in for the fun.
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Meryl Feinstein loved Shabbat dinners with family and friends so much that she found her happy place in a kitchen. Pasta maker extraordinaire, Meryl founded the Pasta Social Club to share her joy of pasta making. So let’s get a pasta dish on the menu for Shavuot. Classes are open to supporters of the Jewish […]
Please join us for a discussion of this new mode of literary exploration of the experience of searching for family and connections through the shadow of the Shoah. Our Zoom link.
Join us for a hike, stay for some prayer, and feel the love! Limited to 30 people, we will gather under a great sycamore tree, find our footing as a community and test out our mettle with a hike along the Cabin John trail. Please sign up in advance.. If you arrive after 9:30, make […]
Learn to make Shakshuka with home grown hero Kerry Brodie, founder of Emma’s Torch in Brooklyn, NY. Grab your peppers and eggs and Click on our Zoom link on Sunday. The ingredients and recipe are below: Ingredients - 4 cups medium diced yellow onion (approximately 2-3 medium onions) - 2 cups medium diced red peppers (approximately 2 […]
A lifelong musician, cantorial soloist Caitlin McLaughlin has been a service leader and band member at Temple Emanuel of Kensington, MD since 2011, has led alternative High Holiday and Women’s Retreat worship services, and has also taught music in the Religious School since 2020. She joined the Jewish Studio worship leading team in Rockville MD in 2021.
Caitlin completed vocal studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and a master’s degree in Music (Choral Conducting) at the University of California, Irvine. She has led choral groups in schools and congregations in California, New England and Minnesota before settling in Maryland. Beginning in 2021, Caitlin will be a member of Cohort 11 of the Davennen Leadership Training Institute. She has taken part in other Jewish music workshops including Shabbat Shirah and Hava Nashira at OSRUI, NewCAJE and the Jewish Collaborative Songwriters’ Retreat.
She lives in Silver Spring MD with her family.
David Abramowitz was ordained as a Cantor by the ALEPH Ordination Program in January 2016 and received his certificate as a spiritual director in January 2017. David enjoys leading Shabbat morning services at the Charles E. Smith Life Communities in Rockville, Maryland twice a month and officiates life cycle events year round.
In his other professional life, David is the Mid-Atlantic regional technical lead at Trend Micro, a specialist in computer and network security. In his free time, he enjoys playing drums and singing in a rock cover band, and playing in an adult ice hockey league.
David graduated from Brandeis University with a B.S. in Computer Science and received his Masters in Computer Science from The George Washington University.
Evan J. Krame was ordained as a rabbi by the ALEPH Ordination Program in January 2015 and is currently a fellow of Rabbis Without Borders. He has served as president of several non-profit organizations, including the Hillel at George Washington University and Shared Horizons, Inc.
In addition to leading the Jewish Studio, Evan also serves as a founding builder of Bayit, a national organization that provides innovative tools to build a new Judaism. His honors include Hillel’s Exemplar of the Year, Israel Bonds Young Leadership Award, the Jewish Federation of Washington’s Campaigner of the Year, ORT’s community leadership award and the Shared Horizons Humanitarian award.
In addition to his religious activities, Evan is also a partner at Krame and Biggin, a Maryland law firm specializing in estates and trusts work with a focus on assisting families of persons with special needs. Evan is a graduate of Brandeis University and George Washington University Law School and has an LLM in Taxation.
