Programs & Tours: Programs

Isachar Zacharie: Lincoln's Chiropodist -- and Peace Envoy

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Courtesy of Library of Congress

Celebrate Presidents’ Day with our noontime program about Isachar Zacharie, a chiropodist whom President Abraham Lincoln trusted not only with his feet but with a peace mission to the Confederacy. Includes new revelations on Zacharie’s meeting with the Jewish Confederate Secretary of State, Judah Benjamin.

Bring your lunch.  Drink and dessert provided.

Location: Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum
701 Third Street, NW (at G Street), Washington, D.C. - Directions

Free and open to the public. Suggested donation: $10/person

RSVP online or by calling (202) 789-0900.

Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to Olympic Stadiums

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Washington Jewish Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut, and American University's Jewish Studies Program.

Celebrate Women's History Month with a film and presentation about Jewish women in sports.
Guest speaker: Dr. Linda J. Borish, historian and film's executive producer.

Join Dr. Borish for a kosher lunch following the program.
Lunch fee: $15. Payment required by March 1.

Location: Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh Street, NW, Washington, D.C. - Directions

Free and open to the public. Suggestion donation: $10
RSVP online or by calling (202) 789-0900.

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Presented with the Embassy of France.

Join us for a special Holocaust Remembrance Day program, featuring a poetry reading by Davi Walders from her latest book, Women Against Tyranny.

Location: La Maison Française, 4101 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, D.C. - Directions

Fee: TBD

WALKING TOUR
Jewish Washington

Sunday, April 22, 2012, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Learn what it was like to live and worship as a Jew from 1850-1950 in the historic Seventh Street neighborhood, now known as Chinatown. Includes visiting the sites of four former synagogues. Approximately 0.75 miles.

Start location: Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum
701 Third Street, NW (at G Street), Washington, D.C.
Metro: Judiciary Square (National Building Museum/F St. Exit)

End location: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown

Fee: $15 members; $20 non-members

RSVP to rsvp@jhsgw.org or (202) 789-0900.

Jewish American Heritage Month

Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the National Archives, with participation from the Washington DC Jewish Community Center

Historian Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna presents his latest book, When General Grant Expelled the Jews.

Location: National Archives, Entrance at Constitution Avenue and Seventh Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Directions

Free and open to the public.

WALKING TOUR
Jewish Sites in Arlington National Cemetery

Sunday, May 6, 2012, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Visit memorials by or for Jews, and headstones of prominent Jewish leaders buried at Arlington. Learn of Jewish participation from the Civil War to present – men and women, Sephardim, Germans, and East Europeans. Approximately 1.5 miles (includes hill).

Starts location: Visitor Center of Arlington National Cemetery at stone benches facing parking garage and entry road
Metro: Blue Line to Arlington Cemetery Station

End location: Tomb of the Unknowns

RSVP to rsvp@jhsgw.org or (202) 789-0900.

Centennial of First Jewish Aviator

Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Presented with the College Park Aviation Museum

Join us to commemorate the centennial of the death of Arthur Welsh, America's first Jewish aviator and the Wright brothers' most trusted pilot. Light refreshments served.

Location: College Park Aviation Museum
1985 Corporal Frank Scott Drive, College Park, MD
Directions

Free and open to the public. Minimum suggestion donation: $5/person

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