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Marking Ash Wednesday
Today is Ash Wednesday on the Christian Calendar. This marks the first day of the Lenten Season (which is the 40 days leading up to Holy Week and Easter).
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Samantha Gonzalez-Block Hired as Reverend and Christian Spiritual Leader of the Interfaith Families Project
The Board of Directors of the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington DC (IFFP) announces today the hiring of Samantha Gonzalez-Block as its Reverend and Christian Spiritual Leader, effective March 1. Reverend Gonzalez-Block will serve alongside Rabbi Deborah Reichmann, who joined IFFP in January 2020.
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Is Wandering a Curse or a Blessing?
IFFP isn’t my destination. Not exactly, what being here at IFFP gives me are companions on the road. Together, we will face the future. IFFP is a project, we have a purpose, but we are also constantly seeking other, better, different ways to accomplish our goal.
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How To Do Advent – With Rev. Samantha
As we move forward into this holiday season, with Advent, Hanukkah, Christmas, and other meaningful celebrations coming up soon, we are each encouraged to reflect upon how we can be beacons of light in the wintry darkness; how we can bring hope, peace, joy, and love into this world in need of healing.
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Elections and Human Dignity
It’s election season. Banners and flags and signs dotting the landscape. Ads on the television (and social media) lauding the qualities of the candidates. American Democracy in action. It’s election season. Property is defaced, neighbors draw their political lines at their fences. Ads on the television (and on social media) attack and smear the candidates.…
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Indigenous People’s Day — An Interfaith Families Project Reflection
In recent years, IFFP has had occasion to reflect on Indigenous People’s Day, which occurs on the day many know as Columbus Day. IFFP’s racial justice group has encouraged the community to consider these questions raised on this day.
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Q & A with IFFP’s Clergy
This month we are doing a special Q&A interview with our (mostly) new Rabbi, Debbie Reichmann, and our (really) new Reverend, Samantha Gonzalez-Block. They’ll answer five of your most important questions, like what brought them to IFFP, how they work with interfaith families, and more!
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Virtual (Out-of-Area) Interfaith Sunday School 2021-22
BIG NEWS: We are offering interfaith (Jewish-Christian) religious education to students who live outside of the Washington DC area. Our children learn about our religious traditions, question them, and, ultimately, develop their own understanding of and relationship with these traditions.
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The Torah’s Many Voices
When I was in middle school (maybe high school, I really don’t remember), I learned in either Tanach class or Rabbinics (yes, I went to Jewish Day School) the following verse from Exodus: “If a person shall dig open a pit, or dig a pit and leave it uncovered, and an ox or an ass…
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On IFFP’s Interfaith Couples Workshop: Ben & Jenna
Each winter IFFP hosts our annual Interfaith Couples Workshop series. We ask each couple to reflect on the experience and share what they’ve learned, and how they’ve continued to grow on their journey.
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Celebrating 25 Years of Tikkun Olam at IFFP
The concept of ‘tikkun olam,’ which can be traced back to Hebrew prayers and Jewish mystical tradition, focuses on “repairing the world.” The desire to personally and collectively work toward a more socially equitable, environmentally sound, and inclusive, and welcoming society is a thread woven throughout the Interfaith Families Project’s tikkun olam activities.
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Don’t Wait for a Miracle – A Passover Message
The story of Passover is the most miracle filled narrative in the Hebrew Bible. You’ve got the burning bush, the rods into serpents, the ten plagues, the crossing of the Red Sea, the pillars of smoke and fire, manna from heaven and of course, the giving of the law on Mount Sinai. It’s overwhelming to…
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