Machar’s all community Purim Party will be held at Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center in Silver Spring from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm. Visitors and guest are welcome to attend. Please Sign up and RSVP HERE. We hope to see you there!

All members are welcome to attend. If you are not a board member, please let President Larry Lawrence know you wish to attend so that we may contact you in case of a sudden cancellation.

As part of HIAS’s National Refugee Shabbat, Machar’s Tikkun Olam Committee is sponsoring a Havdalah to mark the end of Shabbat at 6:00 pm on March 21, in the chapel at Cedar Lane UU Church (MAP). All Macharniks are invited to celebrate the roles of immigrants and refugees in our country and in Jewish history.…

Log on with Rabbi Jeremy to learn a Jewish text relevant to the upcoming Passover holiday. This session will focus on selected parts of the traditional Passover Haggadah and explore whether/how they can be relevant to Secular Humanistic Jews today.

Learn — or refresh your memory! — about setting up and leading a Passover Seder. This session will cover the physical setup: how the Seder plate is set up, what goes on the Seder plate and why, and what else might be on the table.

Join Rabbi Jeremy for songs and stories with a Secular Humanistic Jewish twist, intended for families with children 10 years and younger — whether or not they’re Machar members!    

From now until at least the end of pandemic containment measures, we will have a “Texts on Tuesday” series. During our first session, we looked at specific parts of the Passover Haggadah and discussed how they affect our understanding of different parts of the Seder. This week’s session will take a look at the history…

During Part I, we talked about what appears on the Seder table, and we asked what might be the minimum we’d need to be able to have a Seder that at least felt like a Seder, whether alone or with family. This week, we’ll focus on the Haggadah and ask some of the same questions: How…

Each week is a challenge, and seven days of social distancing can make it hard to know what day it is! Shabbat gives us a built-in chance to think about how we might get some rest. Join Rabbi Jeremy a musical start to Shabbat, check in with the Machar community, and mark the start of…

Join Rabbi Jeremy as we end Shabbat and enter a new week. Please contact Rabbi Jeremy at Macharjeremy@gmail.com or rabbi@machar.org for meeting link and access information.