Searching for a new Jewish home? Consider Shirat HaNefesh (Song of the Soul). We are seekers from all sorts of backgrounds. We fill our services with music, and consider no question too foolish to ask. All who are “on a Jewish path” are welcome.
Share a Shabbat, or the High Holidays, with us — Rabbi Gerry Serotta and Cantor Ramon Tasat will inspire and move you. Find new meaning and joy in being Jewish!
Read about us in Washington Jewish Week
COMING UP THIS MONTH
Saturday June 22, 9:30 am – Bat Mitzvah of Tessa Eisen
Please join us in the sanctuary of North Chevy Chase Christian Church to celebrate with the Eisen family. Please also bring your prayerbooks and Torah volumes, so that we may have enough for guests.
Sunday, June 23, 10-12 am – ANNUAL MEETING – Community Room
Our annual community gathering in our home space will include the election of new board members, a report from our treasured treasurer, and proposed plans for the coming year. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us!
Looking for a different kind of Jewish education for your child?
Learn about our intimate, informal Shabbat school by contacting Rain Zohav, Education Director. We have exciting new programming and Hebrew instruction from pre-K and K-6, through Bnei Mitzvah and beyond. Non-members may enroll their children, ages pre-K through Grade 5, for one trial year before becoming members.
OUR KIDS SING! Led by teacher Noah Siegel, they recorded three original songs! Click to listen:
Judah and the Maccabees
Latkes and Hamentaschen
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Photos from our First Night Seder
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ABOUT SHIRAT HANEFESH
Shirat HaNefesh is an independent, pluralistic Jewish community serving the Washington D.C./Montgomery area that:
- Expresses its Jewish faith and heritage through prayer, joyous music, study, and Tikkun Olam (social action to repair the world);
- Welcomes everyone, including interfaith families;
- Provides interactive Jewish learning and growth opportunities for all ages;
- Gives all members an equal voice.
