Musical Shabbat tomorrow in Rock Creek Park, 4:30 pm @ Joaquin Miller Cabin
Sara Schoen
After the singing, we'll have grassfed hot dogs, vegan hot dogs, and kosher marshmallows for grilling (and of course, s'mores fixins). Feel free to bring any of the above (including vegan marshmallows if that’s your preference), fruit, or other food to share or for yourself/your crew.
• Bring fruit or other food to share.
• Contribute financially: As of July 2023, DC Musical Shabbat is funded by The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Please continue to support Musical Shabbat both financially and in other ways to help it continue!
Q: How did this start?
A: My (musical) husband Ari helped volunteer lead services over many years with various congregations around DC. As far back as 2016, we hosted some informal kid Jewish holiday and shabbat gatherings at our house with friends both in Petworth (pre-covid) and then after we moved to 16th St Heights in 2021. Ari had always told me he that wanted to lead with other musicians, so in May 2021 I reached out to Aaron Shneyer, a Takoma DC dad and professional musician and service leader we’d met a couple times at a mutual friend’s birthday parties. Turned out that he and his wife Lula had talked about organizing uptown shabbat gatherings, and Lula also used to organize informal shabbat gatherings in Adams Morgan when they lived there. Thankfully they were up for joining forces even though we barely knew each other :). The first Musical Shabbat happened just over 9 months later on March 5th, 2022. Am Kolel kicked us off with a very generous grant, and from March 2022 until July 2023, Musical Shabbat met once a month. In June 2023, DC Musical Shabbat was awarded Federation funding, enabling us to increase to twice a month starting in September 2023. We are very grateful for the support.
Sara Schoen
Sara Schoen
Please bring water for yourself/your crew and camping chairs or (water resistant) blankets to sit on if you'd like (there are some benches in the park too). There are public restrooms between picnic groves 9 and 10.
Sara Schoen
Sara Schoen
Please bring water for yourself/your crew, blankets or camping chairs to sit on if you'd like (there are some benches in the park too), and litter grabbers or gloves for picking up litter if you have them and want to.
There are public restrooms near picnic grove 6, just across the road from Joaquin Miller Cabin.
There's a parking lot at each picnic grove. Please note that Beach Drive NORTH of the picnic groves is closed to cars, so the only way to drive to the picnic groves is from Beach Drive SOUTH of the picnic groves. Some GPS and map apps like Google Maps are unaware that Beach Drive is closed north of the picnic groves, so may lead you to a closed road. The way to drive the picnic groves is from the intersection of Joyce Dr NW and Beach Rd NW. From there, drive north on Beach Drive to get to the various picnic groves for Musical Shabbat. Setting your navigation system to the intersection of Joyce Dr NW and Beach Rd NW may work IF your navigation system offers you a route to that intersection that avoids Beach Rd NW north of the picnic groves.
Sara Schoen
• Bring fruit or other food to share.
• Contribute financially: As of July 2023, DC Musical Shabbat is funded by The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Please continue to support Musical Shabbat both financially and in other ways to help it continue!
Musical Shabbat leader Aaron Shneyer also leads Saturday morning services at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda. Feel free to ask Aaron about it, or reply to this email for more info :)
Q: How did this start?
A: My (musical) husband Ari helped volunteer lead services over many years with various congregations around DC. As far back as 2016, we hosted some informal kid Jewish holiday and shabbat gatherings at our house with friends both in Petworth and then after we moved to 16th St Heights in 2021. Ari had always told me he that wanted to lead with other musicians, so in May 2021 I reached out to Aaron Shneyer, a Takoma DC dad and professional musician and service leader we’d met a couple times at a mutual friend’s birthday parties. Turned out that he and his wife Lula had talked about organizing uptown shabbat gatherings, and Lula also used to organize informal shabbat gatherings in Adams Morgan when they lived there. Thankfully they were up for joining forces even though we barely knew each other :). The first Musical Shabbat happened just over 9 months later on March 5th, 2022. Am Kolel kicked us off with a very generous grant, and from March 2022 until July 2023, Musical Shabbat met once a month. In June 2023, DC Musical Shabbat was awarded Federation funding, enabling us to increase to twice a month starting in September 2023. We are very grateful for the support.
Sara Schoen
Please bring water for yourself/your crew, blankets or camping chairs to sit on if you'd like (there are some benches in the park too), and litter grabbers or gloves for picking up litter if you have them and want to.
There are public restrooms near picnic grove 6, just across the road from Joaquin Miller Cabin.
There's a parking lot at each picnic grove. Please note that Beach Drive NORTH of the picnic groves is closed to cars, so the only way to drive to the picnic groves is from Beach Drive SOUTH of the picnic groves. Some GPS and map apps like Google Maps are unaware that Beach Drive is closed north of the picnic groves, so may lead you to a closed road. The way to drive the picnic groves is from the intersection of Joyce Dr NW and Beach Rd NW. From there, drive north on Beach Drive to get to the various picnic groves for Musical Shabbat. Setting your navigation system to the intersection of Joyce Dr NW and Beach Rd NW may work IF your navigation system offers you a route to that intersection that avoids Beach Rd NW north of the picnic groves.