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Details About Fabrangen | Directions to WES

• Fabrangen holds Shabbat Services on Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. at the Washington Ethical Society (WES) building at 7750 16th Street NW, with access via Silver Spring Metro and the S buses.
• Child care and children's education programs run during services.
• Newcomers, visitors, and guests are warmly welcomed at our activities.
• If you plan to attend Shabbat services for the first time or just want to get re-acquainted with Fabrangen, we will pair you up with a Fabrangen member who will meet you before services and guide you through them. Please contact Melissa Kahn with the date you plan to attend and your contact information.
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Summer Havurah Retreat

This summer, join more than 300 people from a wide range of backgrounds at the National Havurah Committee's 30th Summer Institute, "Blessed is the One who spoke the world into Being," August 11-17, Franklin Pierce University, in Rindge, NH. Spend a week on in-depth study, moving prayer, spirited conversation, creative arts, social justice work, and enriching experiences for children and families. For more information, including cost and scholarship information, visit www.havurah.org.

Fabrangen's 36th Anniversary!

Pictures of the 36th Anniversary Gala

from Chaim Dworkin (picasaweb)

from Lloyd Wolf (flickr.com)

Fabrangen celebrated its 36th, double-chai anniversary over the weekend of November 9 - 10, 2007. The celebration included Friday night services & dinners in members' home, a commemorative Shabbat service on Saturday morning followed by a potluck lunch, a panel discussion about Fabrangen's early roots in social justice activism, and a gala extravaganza on Saturday night. The theme of the gala was Fabrangen: Past, Present, and Future. The past included stories by Shoshana Waskow, Arthur Waskow, and Mike Tabor. The present included a special musical presentation coordinated by Emily DeVoto. And Fabrangen's future was foretold in a clever, hilarious skit written and presented by Fabrangen's teens. Other highlights included: Kay Elfant's rendition of the "Top 10 Reasons to Celebrate Fabrangen's 36th Anniversary;" Ellen Garshick's and Rick LaRue's "best of" selections of Adon Olam memodies from Purim shpiels over the years; and a Fabrangen piyyut by Fran Goldman.

Many thanks for all who worked hard on the celebration and to everyone who participated, especially those who came from out-of-town to join us!

Read about Fabrangen's 36th Anniversary in an article published in the Washington Jewish Week on November 8, 2007.

Larry Garber wrote an essay about Fabrangen for the Nov. 12 New Israel Fund Newsletter.

Logo by Lloyd Wolf © 2007

More Fabrangen History - (PDF format)

• Miriam Feinberg's 1978 Master's Thesis: Fabrangen, A Jewish Communal Experience:
  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

• Rob Agus's February 2, 2007 D'var Torah in honor of the Fabrangen 36th Anniversary

• FABRANGEN’S ROOTS: CONFRONTATION AND THEN RENEWAL - REMINISCENCES
  Panel Discussion on Saturday, November 10, 2007: Moderator Abby Bellows with Rabbis Harold White, David Shneyer, Arthur Waskow along with Chava Weissler and activist/farmer Michael Tabor
  
  IT’S 1966, WHO DO YOU CALL WHEN . . .

  • A rabbi of a large Washington DC temple says he doesn’t know if he supports
    integration (especially since a member is a prominent segregationist!)

  • The DC Jewish Community Center announces it’ll move to the suburbs and leave
    no JCC presence in the City!

  • Prominent area Jews have a reputation as slumlords?

  NO ONE WILL LISTEN, SO . . . YOU FORM . . . JEWS FOR URBAN JUSTICE!
  In 1966, a group of young Jewish civil rights workers, area and campus activists, and Vietnam War resistors came together to confront the Washington Jewish establishment as well as study, learn, and rediscover their Jewish heritage. Eventually JUJ evolved into Fabrangen -- which is currently celebrating its 36th anniversary!
  Part I | Part II | Part III (Handouts prepared by Mike Tabor)