Ashburn, VA Synagogue - Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation
Chocolate Passover Seder - Friday, April 15 at 7:00 PM

Learn about and taste the symbols of Passover with a chocolate Seder made of a varity of chocolate items including chocolate covered matzah, chocolate eggs, bitter chocolate, and chocolate for dipping.Elijah's cup will be filled with chocolate milk.

An event for chocolate lovers of all ages. Please note: The seder does not include dinner and will last about 1 hour.

Cost: free - but please RSVP by Monday, April 11 to Lynn Blumen, Social VP at socialvp@bcrcva.org so that we know how much food to prepare. 21740 Beaumeade Circle, Suite #100, Ashburn, VA 20147. 703-729-1659. www.bcrcva.org.

April 17 - Intermediate Workshop
- Womens World War II Resistance

Location:
Beth El Hebrew Congregation, 3830 Seminary Road, Alexandria. For directions click here.

Intermediate Workshop
Time:
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Title:
My Journey in Genealogy: Tips, How-To's & Rewards
Presenter:
Patti Maslinoff
Description:
This two-hour multimedia presentation is jam-packed with resources, helpful hints, and motivation for genealogists primarily at the intermediate level, although Ms. Maslinoff says even beginners will find much of the information useful. She will share some of her insights, joys, and frustrations from 15 years of researching one's family history.

Included will be discussion of techniques she learned and developed for improving research, data collection, organization, and presentation, along with valuable tips that can only come from experience. Included will be a focus on how digital technology such as scanners can be valuable to a genealogist, as well as new software that can help make unreadable documents more legible. Using actual video and audio clips that she made in her own genealogical journey, she will discuss how to prepare for and conduct video-recorded oral history interviews. Also covered will be some of the more common mistakes made by beginners, and intermediate, even advanced, researchers.

Ms. Maslinoffs effusive enthusiasm and involvement with Jewish genealogy will be a motivation to all attendees. She teaches detective skills that will enable us to uncover the records, facts and other information about our families that generate those thrilling Aha moments that we treasure.

Registration:
Pre-registration required. Class is limited to 40 students

Register at jgsgw_dc@comcast.net

Workshop is open to JGSGW members only and there is no charge.
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Program:
Womens World War II Resistance
Time:
1:00p Schmooze and Solve
1:30p Short Business Meeting, Announcements and Program
Speaker:
Davi Walders(click here for bio)
Description:
Davi Walders, writer and educator, will discuss what led her to research and write her moving collection of stories about women throughout Europe whose heroic acts fighting fascism during the Holocaust saved thousands of lives. She will read from her new book, Women Against Tyranny: Poems of Resistance During the Holocaust published this month by Clemson University Digital Press. The book tells the stories of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim women who resisted in many ways, from helping others escape, to parachuting into hostile territory, to providing translation support, and many other actions. She will share stories of women who survived and those who perished - women known as well as unknown. Women such as Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Emilie Schindler, Baroness Germaine de Rothschild, and others are included. The session will address the question of why women's stories are so often unknown. Walders spent 15 years researching, traveling, and writing this collection. These womens stories take place in such countries as Germany, Poland, France, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Slovakia, Albania, Greece, and elsewhere. The session will include discussion.

Davi Walders is a writer and educator whose poetry and prose have appeared in more than 200 publications including CCAR Journal, Conservative Judaism, JOFA Journal, Judaism, Lilith, and Midstream. She received Hadassah of Greater Washington's Myrtle Wreath Award for her work at NIH and its Children's Inn. For additional biographical information, click here.

There will be a book signing at the conclusion of the program.

Cost:
Free to Members and first time visitors. Others may attend for $5.

2 pm. Sunday
April 17, 2011
Jinny Marsh's Hot Kugel Klezmer Band
Leisure World Clubhouse 2
3701 Rossmoor Blvd
Silver Spring, Md

Admission:$12
Tickets Go On Sale March 28 At E & R And In The Clubhouse Lobby
Information And Reservations, Call Dave Weiss 301-598-5707 Or
Daveweiss4@Verizon.net
http://www.hotkugelklezmerband.com

BETH EL HEBREW CONGREGATION SEDER

Second Night – Tuesday April 19, 2011 / 16 Nisan 5771 – 6:00 PM

Join us in celebrating the second night of Passover at Beth El Hebrew Congregation with a traditional family style Pesach dinner.  The second night Seder will be conducted by Rabbi Brett Isserow and Cantor Sharon Steinberg.  Bring family and friends and join in celebrating Pesach!  We will begin promptly at 6:00 PM.  If you have them, please bring your CCAR “A Passover Haggadah” (1974).

Adults $25.00 / Ages 4 to 13 $15.00 / Children under 4 Free Mail your reservation form and check, payable to: “Beth El Hebrew Congregation”, to: Beth El Hebrew Congregation Attn:  2nd Night Seder 3830 Seminary Road Alexandria, Virginia 22304 Drop –Box also available in Temple Office For additional information email bethelseder@gmail.com or call 703-370-4900.

Fort Belvoir Jewish Congregation will be hosting a Community Seder on Tuesday, April 19th. 7 PM in the Religious Education Building. 

The Seder will be led by Rabbi David Rose. 

Suggested donation - $30/adult; $10/child 5-12.  Kids under 5 and Active Duty are our guests. The designated offering will be split between Yad Sarah and Jewish Council on Aging. 

POC is Sara Astrow – 703-806-3393 or email – sara.astrow1@us.army.mil. Open to Active Duty (all branches), Reserve, Guard, and Retirees and their families. 

JSSA'S FREE SPRING LIBRARY TALKS:

HOT TIPS FOR TODAY'S JOB MARKET

Free workshops presented by JSSA's Employment and Career Services and co-sponsored by Montgomery County Public Libraries

Learn from JSSA Career Counselor Wendy Morris:

- How to expand contacts and become more successful at
self-marketing
- The "do's" and "don'ts" of your resume
- The keys to mastering the interview process

April 13, 7-8 p.m.

April 28, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Quince Orchard Library,15831 Quince Orchard Road,
Gaithersburg, MD

May 11, 7-8 p.m.

May 25, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Davis Library, 6400 Democracy Boulevard, Bethesda, MD

For more information, call 301-610-8380 or email careerinfo@jssa.org