ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Maboud Ebrahimzadeh* (Hetchman) Theater J credits include Nathan the Wise, Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, and Boged. DC credits include: The Seafarer, Ink, Oslo, Curious Incident, Small Mouth Sounds, The Book of Will, and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at Round House Theatre; Here There Are Blueberries at Tectonic and Shakespeare Theatre; English, People, Places, and Things, Water by the Spoonful at Studio Theatre; The Price at Arena Stage; Lend Me a Soprano, Oil, The Invisible Hand at Olney Theatre Center; 1 Henry IV, King John, Timon of Athens, and Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre. Regional credits include Disgraced, Murder on the Orient Express at McCarter Theatre and Hartford Stage; Disgraced at Milwaukee Rep; The Invisible Hand (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Lead Actor) at Theatre Exile. Film and television includes Jessica Jones, Imperium, Sally Pacholok, and Homebound. maboudebrahimzadeh.com | @ mindthechasm |
Tyler Herman* (Gabe/Golem) born and raised in Silver Spring, Tyler was last seen at Theater J in Trayf. Since then he has gotten married and has two daughters, Mira and Orly, who are amazing spitfires. Recently seen onstage with Ford's Theatre (A Christmas Carol) and The Kennedy Center (Shear Madness), Tyler also teaches theatre at Montgomery College and runs the theatre program at Walt Whitman High School. Upcoming: Directing The Liar (Montgomery College) Love, love, and unending gratitude to Sarah. BA: Cornell University. MFA: Brown University/Trinity Rep. www.TylerLHerman.com
Ashley D. Nguyen (Voice) (she/her) DC AREA: Signature Theatre: King of the Yees (Lauren Yee), Pacific Overtures (Swing); Arena Stage: Ride the Cyclone (Swing); Olney Theatre Center: Dance Nation (Zuzu); The Kennedy Center TYA: The Day You Begin (Min), The Dragon King’s Daughter (Xing u/s); Keegan Theatre: Shakespeare in Love (Viola de Lesseps, Helen Hayes Nomination); Creative Cauldron: Into the Woods (Little Red); Studio Theatre: White Pearl (Ruki Minami u/s – US World Premier); Catholic University: A Little Night Music (Fredrika Armfeldt), The Wolves (#8), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marcy Park). EDUCATION: BM in Musical Theatre from Catholic University. Instagram: @ashley.d.nguyen, Website: ashleydnguyen.com
Michael Russotto* (Meckel) (he/him) is delighted to return to Theater J, where he has previously appeared in Tuesdays with Morrie, The Christians, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Falling Out of Time. Most recently Michael played Chauncey Miles in the 1st Stage production of The Nance. Prior to that, he toured Michigan in Tuesdays With Morrie (Morrie) for the 25th anniversary of the play. Other recent credits include the world premiere of The Joy That Carries You (Martin) at Olney Theatre Center, and My Lord What a Night (Abraham Flexner) at Ford’s Theatre. Michael has performed regionally at Cleveland Play House, The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, and The Folger Shakespeare Theatre. He is a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and has received numerous Helen Hayes Award nominations for
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performances in the DC area. Film and television work includes Playing Through, The Battle of Bloody Lane, and Death of a Nation. Michael can be heard on the L.A. Theatre Works recording of Seven Days in May, with Ed Asner. He has also narrated hundreds of audio books for Books on Tape and The Library of Congress.
Sue Jin Song* (Hetchman’s Wife) Off Broadway: The World of Extreme Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club); Iphigenia at Aulis, Exit the King (Pearl Theater). Regional Theater: The Tempest, Sense & Sensibility (PA Shakespeare Festival), A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), The Arsonists, Marie Antoinette (Woolly Mammoth). Smart People, Hot 'n Throbbing (Arena Stage). Mirele Efros, Yellow Face, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide (Theater J); Children of Medea, 36 Views (Constellation Theatre). Waiting for Tadashi (George Street Playhouse); Burn This (Syracuse Stage). Film: Steel Town, Pipe Dream, Someone Like You. Television: Genera+ions, New Amsterdam, 24, ER, Law & Order. Education: MFA Acting NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Alex Tatarsky (Wall) Called “a hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones) and “outrageous and profane” (NYTimes), Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant–sometimes with songs. Their original solo performances Americana Psychobabble, Untitled Freakout, Dirt Trip, and Sad Boys in Harpy Land have been presented by venues including Abrons Arts Center, The Kitchen, La Mama, MoMA PS1, Playwrights Horizons, The Whitney Museum, and many bars and basements. As curatorial fellow at the Poetry Project, they organized a series on the poetics of rot. Research interests include bootlegs, hellscapes, and compost. @tartar.biz
Lauren Yee (Playwright) is an award- winning playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer. Her plays Cambodian Rock Band and King of the Yees have been performed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage, Signature Theater, and many other theaters. She is the winner of the Doris Duke Artist Award, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the ATCA/Steinberg Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, and the Francesca Primus Prize. Her plays were the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. Lauren is a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists member (class of 2025), Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, former Princeton University Hodder fellow, and Playwrights Realm alumni playwright. Current commissions include Arena Stage, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. She has been a writer on Pachinko (Apple TV+), Soundtrack (Netflix), and a soon-to-be announced upcoming FX limited series.
Dan Rothenberg (Director) is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company. He has directed almost all of Pig Iron's original performance works, including the OBIE Award-winning Chekov Lizardbrain and Hell Meets Henry Halfway.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Pig Iron's work has toured to 15 countries on four continents, with stops at the Humana Festival, Edinburgh Frince, Under the Radar, TR Warszawa, Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival, and Tokyo Performing Arts Market. Dan has directed three critically acclaimed premieres by Toshiki Okada for the Play Company in New York City, a national tour for the Acting company, and collaborations with the alt-comedy group Berserker Residents, new music outfit Bowerbird, and Sweden's Teater Slava. Dan teaches physical theater at the Pig Iron/UArts MFA and Certificate Programs. Pew Fellow; USA Artists Knight Fellow; Artist-in-Residence, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.
Ashley Mapley-Brittle (Associate Director) is excited to be working on The Hatmaker’s Wife as her first production with Theater J. Previous Associate Directing experience includes Private Jones at Signature Theatre. Some of her Assistant Directing experience includes A Not So Quiet Nocturne at VOCA, A Christmas Carol at McCarter Theatre, Good Bones and Colored Museum (upcoming) at Studio Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing and Jane Anger at Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Great Leap, We Declare You a Terrorist…, and Nine Night at Round House Theatre. Directing experience includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Nu Sass (upcoming), Peerless staged reading at We Happy Few, Undiscovered Country and Elbow staged reading at Spooky Action, and MOJO at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has her BA in Performance Theatre from High Point University and her MFA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School (London, UK).
Misha Kachman+ (Scenic Designer) is a visual artist and a scenographer who has worked at Arena Stage, Asolo Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Court Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Olney Theatre Center, Opera Royal Versailles, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Rattlestick Theatre, Round House Theatre, Seattle Opera, Seattle Rep, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Signature Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, The Wilma Theater, Woolly Mammoth, 59E59 Theaters and many other companies in the United States and abroad. Misha’s previous Theater J credits include The Odd Couple, The New Jerusalem, Lost in Yonkers, Race, Our Class and This Much I Know, among many others. Mr. Kachman is a Helen Hayes Award recipient and a Company Member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, as well as an Associate Artist at Olney. He is a graduate of the Academy of Theatre Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia. Misha serves as Professor and Head of MFA in Design at University of Maryland. For more information visit www.mishakachman.com.
Ivania Stack+ (Costume Designer) is delighted to return to Theater J, where she has designed many productions including, most recently: Nathan the Wise, Two Jews Walk Into a War, and Tuesdays With Morrie. Ivania designs for many regional and DC area theatres including: Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The McCarter Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Gulf Shore Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Everyman Theatre, The Wilma Theatre, TFANA, The Second City, The Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Company Member), Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre, and Gala Hispanic Theatre. She has an MFA in design from UMD, College Park, and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Alberto Segarra+ (Lighting Designer) Recent credits include: Jane Eyre at Alley Theatre; Lend Me a Soprano at Olney Theatre; and The Nance at 1st Stage. Other credits includes: The Honey Trap (Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Lighting Design) at Solas Nua; Look Both Ways (Helen Hayes nomination Outstanding Lighting Design) at The Kennedy Center/Theater Alliance; Monumental Travesties at Mosaic Theater; Espejos Clean at Studio Theatre; Sweat at Keegan Theatre; Passing Strange at Signature Theatre; Two Jews Walk into a War at Theater J; The Joy That Carries You (Helen Hayes nomination Outstanding Lighting Design) at Olney Theatre; Blood at the Root (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design) at Theater Alliance; The Great Leap at Hangar Theatre Company/Portland Stage; and The Three Musketeers at Cleveland Play House. Upcoming: Camelot at Village Theatre; and Romeo and Juliet at Folger Theatre. albertosegarra.com.
Sarah O’Halloran+ (Sound Designer) is a sound designer and composer. Her theater credits include Theater J: This Much I Know, The Chameleon, Gloria: A Life, Two Jews Walk into a War, Compulsion, Nathan the Wise, and Talley’s Folly; Olney Theater Center: The Brothers Paranormal, The Humans, Our Town, and Labour of Love; Woolly Mammoth/The Second City: She the People: The Resistance Continues; 1st Stage: The Phlebotomist, The Brothers Size, Swimming with Whales, Trevor, and When the Rain Stops Falling; Studio Theatre: Cry it Out; Rep Stage: The Glass Menagerie; E2, The 39 Steps, The Heidi Chronicles and Things That Are Round; Everyman Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, Be Here Now, Proof, Dinner with Friends; Mosaic Theater: In His Hands and The Return; Theater Alliance: A Chorus Within Her. Sarah has worked on educational productions and projects at UMBC, American University, Imagination Stage, The John F. Kennedy Center, and the Educational Theater Association. Sarah is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829.
Anthony O. Bullock* (Production Stage Manager) is the Resident Production Stage Manager for the 23-24 season. Theater J: Hester Street, This Much I Know, Moses, The Chameleon, One Jewish Boy, Gloria: A Life, Two Jews Walk into a War…, Intimate Apparel, Nathan the Wise, Compulsion or the House Behind, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Wanderers, Sheltered, Occupant, Love Sick, The Jewish Queen Lear, and Actually. DC: Red Velvet, Our Town (Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Pajama Game (Arena Stage); SOUL: The Stax Musical, Twisted Melodies (Baltimore Center Stage); Billy Elliot (Signature Theatre); The Children, The Hard Problem, Cloud 9, Hedda Gabler, Moment, Between Riverside and Crazy, Chimerica, Jumpers for Goalposts, Laugh (Studio Theatre). NYC: The School for Lies (Classic Stage Company) and workshops with Project Springboard: Developing Dance Musicals. Other regional credits include Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, TheatreSquared, among others. BFA from Oklahoma City University. Proud member of AEA.
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.
For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hayley Finn (Theater J Artistic Director) is an accomplished director and producer with over twenty-five years of experience in professional theater across all aspects of the profession, including producing, directing, casting, education, fundraising, and has been instrumental in creating national partnerships for theaters across the country. Prior to joining Theater J, she was the Associate Artistic Director at the Playwrights’ Center, where she worked with some of the nation’s leading playwrights and in her tenure produced over 1,000 workshops. She also served as a Co-Artistic Director of Red Eye Theater from 2019-2023 where she co-produced and curated the New Works 4 Weeks Festival—an annual four-week festival that commissions 11 artists each year to make new performance works—and co-led the fundraising and development of a new 150-seat black box theater in Minneapolis.
She has directed nationally and internationally, including at Cherry Lane Theatre (New York, NY), Curious Theatre Company (Denver, CO), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), Ellis Island (New York), Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), HERE Arts Center (New York, NY), History Theatre (St. Paul, MN), Flea Theater (New York, NY), The Kitchen (New York, NY), LAByrinth Theater Company (New York, NY), Marin Theater Company (Mill Valley, CA), New Dramatists (New York, NY), O’Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT), Pillsbury House (Minneapolis, MN), People’s Light (Malvern, PA), Public Theater (New York, NY), Playwrights’ Horizons (New York, NY), Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis, MN), Six Points Theater (St. Paul, MN), South Coast Repertory Theater (Costa Mesa, CA), and the Nine Gates Festival in Prague. Finn was Assistant Director on several Broadway productions, including the Tony Award-winning production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
Finn is an alumna of the Drama League Director’s Program, a recipient of the Ruth Easton Fellowship, TCG Future Leader Grant, National Endowment for the Arts support, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. She received her BA and MA from Brown University.
David Lloyd Olson (Theater J Managing Director) made his stage debut at age five at the Marcus JCC of Atlanta preschool and is now proud to be one of the leaders of the nation’s largest professional Jewish theater. He most recently served as managing director of Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia where he oversaw the organization’s largest ever fundraising campaign and the doubling of their annual foundation support. He was manager of the executive office and board engagement at the Shakespeare Theatre Company where he supported the transition of the theater’s artistic directorship from Michael Kahn to Simon Godwin. He has also held positions at Arena Stage, GALA Hispanic Theatre, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Pointless Theatre. He was an Allen Lee Hughes management fellow at Arena Stage, a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Valmiera, Latvia, and the recipient of two DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Fellowship program grants. He proudly serves on the board of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre (alljewishtheatre.org) and the board of Adas Israel Congregation.
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Creative Connections is Theater J's robust, independent series, aiming to connect audiences with the artists, artistic processes, the broader DC community, and themselves.
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS PRE-SHOW HAPPY HOUR
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Thursday, June 6
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Thursday, June 13
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GOLEMS
AND DYBBUKS AND LEVIATHANS, OH MY! JEWISH MYTHOLOGY IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Sunday, June 16, after the 2:00 PM matinee
Join panelists, including Theater J favorite Dr. Miriam Isaacs, in discussing how Jewish mythology has become an integral part of American culture.
CAST
TALKBACK AND AAPI COMMUNITY NIGHT
Thursday, June 20, after the 7:30 PM performance
Join us after the show and hear from cast members about their work on the production.
MAKING
A HOME: A CONVERSATION ON HOMELESSNESS ADVOCACY AND PLACEMAKING
Sunday, June 23, after the 2:00 PM matinee
The Hatmaker’s Wife tracks a young couple leaving their life in the city to try to make a home for themselves for the first time. For many in DC and across the country, making a home for oneself is harder than ever, with over 400,000 citizens across the US experiencing homelessness in 2022, and homelessness continuing to be on the rise.
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THE HATMAKER'S WIFE STAFF
Assistant Costume Designer: Colin Franz
Rehearsal Production Assistant: Elena Zimmerman
Casting Director: Jenna Place
Light Hang Crew: Calvin Anguiano, Charles Martin Jr., Mike House, Rex Hsu, David Ramsey
Load-in Crew: Matty Griffiths, David Higgins, Alexander Kim, Willow McFatter, Von Mont Martin, Tori Schuchmann
EDLAVITCH DCJCC LEADERSHIP
Edlavitch DCJCC
Chief Executive Officer: Jennifer Zwilling
Senior Director of Institutional Advancement: Emily Jillson
Chief Experience Officer: Jesse Bordwin
THEATER J STAFF
Artistic Director: Hayley Finn
Managing Director: David Lloyd Olson
Associate Producer: Charlotte La Nasa
External Affairs
EDCJCC Arts Outreach Coordinator: Jacob Ettkin
Director of Patron Experience: Jasmine Jones
Development Executive Assistant: Ryan Muha
Ticket Office Manager: Nino Porter
Marketing Consultant: Rachel / Media
EDCJCC Creative Director: Molly Winston
House Managers and Ticket Office Associates: Sophia Bonde, Steve Chazanow, Emily Eason, Cristen Fletcher, Lily Goldberg, Ted Leibovitz, Candace Mills, Lauren McNeal, Sarah Moosadzeh, Regev Ortal, Robert Reeg, Hadiya Rice, Kaneeka Rice, Sam Rollin, and MaryMargaret Walsh.
Production
Resident Production Stage Manager: Anthony O. Bullock
Head Electrician: Garth Dolan
Technical Director: Tom Howley
Technical Coordinator: Willow McFatter
Audio Supervisor: Kaitlyn Sapp
Education & New Play Development
Education Programs Manager: Hester Kamin
Expanding the Canon Rosh Beit: Sabrina Sojourner
Expanding the Canon Commissioned Writers:, Harley Elias, Zachariah Ezer, Caroliva Herron, Jesse Jae Hoon, MJ Kang, Thaddeus McCants, and Kendell Pinkey
Yiddish Theater Lab Commissioned Writers: Aaron Posner
Teaching Artists: Nayna Agrawa, Dr. Debra Caplan, Rick Foucheux, Jen Jacobs, James J. Jacobson, James Carlos Lacey, Tori Niemiec, Caraid’ O’Brien, Aaron Posner, Sharyn Rothstein, Howard Shalwitz, Bobby Smith, Holly Twyford, and Erin Weaver.
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PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
BY JOSHUA HARMON
DIRECTED BY HAYLEY FINN
OCT 30–NOV 24, 2024
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOSÉ RIVERA
STARRING NAOMI JACOBSON AND SARA KOVIAK
MARCH 12–30, 2025
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Back by popular demand after its sold-out January 2024 run.
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THE BERLIN DIARIES
By Miriam Isaacs
The golem of Jewish legend, a man-made humanoid of dirt or clay, in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish the word means a dumb clod, a dolt. The Yiddish expression, “der oylem iz a goylem", means that unsophisticated, gullible masses are easily led astray. The origin is from medieval days and the Talmud, when wonder-working rabbis were said to experiment with creating life for practical purposes, as servants. Special Hebrew inscriptions could bring the creature to life and when erased would turn it to dust. The model was Genesis (2:7), where God formed the human, blew into its nostrils and it came to life. Issues came up. Can a golem count in the minyan? Yes. Rabbis were said to create a golem calf to be eaten. These golems were mute and literal minded. When sent to fetch water one golem didn’t know when to stop and flooded the whole town.
In the late renaissance period, in Europe, with a rise in anti-Semitism the legends of the golem took a darker turn, they could be dangerous, violent. The classic golem story involves an actual historical figure, the Maharal, Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, said to create a golem to defend the Jews against accusations of Blood Libel. The Eastern European golem became a defender. In a tale in Yiddish literature by Yiddish writer IL Peretz, the Maharal, seeing the golem thrashing the rioters on rampage, with the Jews were concerned that there would be no more Christians left to work for Jews on the Sabbath, instead of destroying the golem, the sage stored him in the attic of Altneuschul in Prague, “just in case” he would be needed again. Creators of golems have to grapple with issues of the uses of Jewish violence for Jews and Christians. A German 1920 silent horror film Der Golem, wie her in die Welt kam portrayed the golem as a violent monster. What are the bounds of physical force, what does it mean for Jews to wield such power?
Golems traveled from Europe to America, as in Michael Chabon’s novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, an adventure tale, in which young men import the Prague golem, smuggling it to America to fight off neo-Nazis. On a lighter note, to amuse and educate hasidic children an artist in the 1980’s created a comic book series, Mendy and the Golem. The pet golem teaches moral lessons while the Klein family has adventures.
Golems are everywhere, in films, novels and plays, tchotchkes, superheroes, Pokémon, video games. They can be monstrous or cute, male or female, video games, the imagination is open. Yet the same issues of uncontrollability have remained a potent question of our time with the prospect of robots and AI becoming more and more powerful. If we create something that is like us then what if they get out of control? Is it hubris? Are humans usurping divine power through magic in creating life? What if it gets out of control? Watch out!
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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL JEWISH THEATER COMPANY IN THE NATION. THE WASHINGTON POST
Theater J is a nationally-renowned, professional theater that celebrates, explores, and struggles with the complexities and nuances of both the Jewish experience and the universal human condition. Our work illuminates and examines ethical questions of our time, intercultural experiences that parallel our own, and the changing landscape of Jewish identities.
As the nation’s largest and most prominent Jewish theater, we aim to preserve and expand a rich Jewish theatrical tradition and to create community and commonality through theater-going experiences.
The Edlavitch DCJCC embraces inclusion in all its programs and activities. We welcome and encourage the participation of all people, regardless of their background, sexual orientation, abilities, or religion, including interfaith couples and families.
All of the programs at the Edlavitch DCJCC are supported in part by a generous gift from the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington.
DEEPEN YOUR IMPACT
Theater J is dedicated to producing work that illuminates ethical questions of our time, examines the changing landscape of Jewish identities, and celebrates inter-cultural experiences. It is because of you, our community, our audience, our supporters, that Theater J has grown to be “the nation’s most prominent Jewish theater” (American Theatre Magazine). Less than half of Theater J’s budget comes from ticket revenue. We are reliant on generous gifts from audience members like you, who see the value of having a thriving Jewish cultural center in the heart of the city.
We invite you to join your friends and neighbors in supporting our work. With your gift, you’ll be recognizing the vital role Theater J plays in our community–a place where the stories of immigrants are proudly told, where we ask that theater engage both the head and the heart, and where we produce art that reminds you of who you are.
WAYS TO GIVE
Theater J accepts contributions by mail, phone, online, or through stock donation. Checks can be made payable to Theater J and mailed to 1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. For more information or to make a donation visit theaterj.org/donate or contact rmuha@theaterj.org and 202.777.3225
COMMUNITY ACCESS TICKETS
In order to ensure our work is accessible to people of all socio-economic backgrounds, Theater J has launched the Community Access Ticket program. This allows DC, Maryland, and Virginia EBT cardholders to purchase tickets to any* performance for $5 per person!
HOW IT WORKS:
Bring a valid DC Capital Access card, Maryland Independence Card, or Virginia EBT card with a photo ID to the ticket office to purchase tickets.
Reservations can be made in advance by calling the ticket office at 202.777.3210 or emailing a photo of the EBT card and photo ID to theaterj@theaterj.org with subject line “Community Access Tickets” to have your theaterj.org account setup to purchase Community Access Tickets online.
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A maximum of 4 tickets can be purchased per card per performance.
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2023–2024 THEATER J COUNCIL
Mara Bralove, Chair
Mindy Gasthalter
Ann Gilbert
Cheryl Gorelick
Rae Grad
Patti Herman
Daniel Kaplan
Arlene Klepper
Kenneth Krupsky
Stephen Lachter
Karen Lehmann-Eisner
Ellen Malasky
Meredith Margolis
Howard Menaker
Alfred Munzer
Sherry Nevins
Patricia Payne
Saul Pilchen
Bella Rosenberg
THEATER J HONORARY COUNCIL
Patty Abramson*
Michele G. Berman
Marion Ein Lewin
Paul J. Mason
Hank Schlosberg*
Trish Vradenburg*
Evelyn Sandground
Mita M. Schaffer
Robert Schlossberg
Terry Singer
Stuart Sotsky
Patti Sowalsky
Manny Strauss
Bob Tracy
Kathryn Veal
Joan S. Wessel
Irene Wurtzel
EDLAVITCH DCJCC 2023–2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
Daniel Hirsch, President
Johanna Chanin, Senior Vice President
Meredith Margolis, Vice President
Norm J. Rich, Vice President
BOARD MEMBERS
Janet B. Abrams
Andrew Altman
Joan Berman
Michele G. Berman
Jordan Lloyd Bookey
Jennifer Bradley
Jaclyn Lerner Cohen
Sara Cohen
Eva Davis
Jonathan Edelman
Myrna Fawcett
Meg Flax
Brian Gelfand
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
Ginny Edlavitch
DIRECTORS EMERITI
Stephen Altman
Rose H. Cohen
Jill Granader
Martha Winter Gross
Stephen Kelin
Dina Gold
Janis Schiff, Vice President
Jonathan Grossman, Treasurer
David Goldblatt, Assistant Treasurer
Benjamin D. Loewy, Secretary
Debra Goldberg
Rena Gordon
Brad Lackey
Meredith Margolis
Joshua Maxey
Sid Moskowitz
Alfred Munzer
Alyson Myers
Melanie Franco Nussdorf
Amie Perl
Arnold Polinger
Shannon Powers
Ilene Rosenthal
Michael Salzberg
Rhea Schwartz
Michael Singer
Tina Small
Mimi Tygier
Diane Abelman Wattenberg
Jessika Wellisch
Eric Zelenko
Jennifer Zwilling, Chief Executive Officer, Ex Officio
William Kreisberg
Saul Pilchen
Deborah Ratner Salzberg
John R. Risher, Jr.*
Lynn Skolnick Sachs
VICE PRESIDENT EMERITUS
Lee G. Rubenstein
Mindy Strelitz
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg
Robert Tracy
Ellen G. Witman
HONORARY DIRECTOR
Barbara Abramowitz
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List as of May 2024
Theater J, as part of the Edlavitch DCJCC, embraces inclusion in all of its programs and activities. Theater J strives to make our productions accessible to all by providing the following to meet the needs of our patrons, and to enhance their experience at the theater.
For more information, please contact our Director of Patron Experience at 202.777.3268 or contact our ticket office at theaterj@theaterj.org
ACCESSIBLE SEATING
The Edlavitch DCJCC has ramp access from the Q Street entrance and all our restrooms are ADA accessible. In the Goldman Theater, removable seats provide patrons with the opportunity to be seated with their companions while sitting in their wheelchair.
ASSISTIVE LISTENING
Assistive listening devices are free-of-charge and offered on a first-come, firstserved basis at all performances.
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OPEN CAPTIONING
Open Captioning is offered twice for each Theater J production.
LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS
Large print programs are available at our Ticket Office, located on the first floor.
Theater J respects and welcomes gender diversity. Please use the restroom which makes you most comfortable or most closely fits your gender identity or expression. An all-gender restroom is located on the Lower Level.
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION
Theater J and the Edlavitch DCJCC commit to being an inclusive, safe, and welcoming space for all. This institution does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations from either patrons or staff. Please visit our website at theaterj.org to learn more about our policies and procedures
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Our building sits on the traditional homeland of the Nacotchtank (Anacostan), farmers and traders who lived along the banks of the Anacostia River. Beginning in 1608, European settlers decimated the Nacotchtank with disease, warfare, and forced removal. By the 1700s, the survivors fled to join other tribes to the north, south, and west, including the Piscataway Peoples, who continue to steward these lands from generation to generation. We know this acknowledgement is only a small step towards justice, and we ask that all of us learn about the past and present and invest in the future of our country’s Indigenous communities wherever we are.
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FRIENDS OF THEATER J
Theater J gratefully acknowledges the following donors who have supported Theater J since May 10, 2023 through May 10, 2024.
Leading Producer ($100,000+)
Covenant Foundation
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Sponsoring Producer ($25,000–$99,999)
Cathy S. Bernard
Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg
Sari R. Hornstein
Kay Richman and Daniel Kaplan
Supporting Producer ($18,000–$24,999)
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Patti and Mitchell Herman
Leading Angels ($10,000–$17,999)
James A. Feldman and Natalie Wexler
Cheryl Gorelick
Marion Ein Lewin
Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Sponsoring Angels ($6,000–$9,999)
Michele and Allan Berman
Andrea Boyarsky-Maisel
Susan and Dixon Butler
Myrna Fawcett
Rae Grad and Manuel Schiffres
Supporting Angels ($3,000–$5,999)
AllShifts Anonymous
The Family of H. Max & Josephine F. Ammerman and Andrew R. Ammerman
Mara Bralove and Ari Fisher
Bonnie and Louis Cohen
Bunny Dwin
Lois and Michael Fingerhut
David and Patricia Fisher
Mindy Gasthalter ¶
Enthusiasts ($1,000–$2,999)
Linda Goldsmith and Howard Berger
Lisa and Josh Bernstein
Joyce and Fred Bonnett
Johanna Chanin and Randall Levitt
Debra Lerner Cohen and Edward Cohen
Marcy and Neil Cohen, Ryna Cohen
Dave Connick
Nancy and Marc Duber
Ginny and Irwin Edlavitch
Robert M. Fisher Memorial Foundation Theater for Youth Fund
Arlene and Robert Kogod, The Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation
The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation
Revada Foundation of the Logan Family
Alfred Munzer and Joel Wind
Patricia Payne
Dianne and Herb Lerner
The Morgan Fund at the Seattle Foundation
M. Craig Pascal
Evelyn Sandground and Bill Perkins
Diane and Arnold Polinger
Bella Rosenberg ¶
Meg and John Hauge
Daniel Hirsch and Brenda Gruss
Karen E. Lehmann
Sherry Nevins
Nora Roberts Foundation
Ann Gilbert ¶
Arlene and Martin Klepper
Kenneth and Amy Eisen Krupsky
Sandra and Stephen Lachter
Ellen and Gary Malasky
Paul and Zena Mason
Howard Menaker and Patrick Gossett ¶
Jeff Menick
Carl and Undine Nash
Saul and Nancy Pilchen
Ilene and Steven Rosenthal
Suzanne and Enrique Fefer
Michael Gross
Erez Harari
Hillel Kaye
Barry Kropf
Alan McAdams and Ellen Dykes
James & Theodore Pedas Foundation
Michael Rabinowitz
Joan and Barry Rosenthal
Hank Schlosberg*
Shapiro Family Foundation, Inc.
Share Fund
The Shubert Foundation
Nussdorf Family Foundation
Helene and Robert Schlossberg
The Leshowitz Family Foundation, Terry Singer
James Beller and Christopher Wolf
April Rubin and Bruce A. Ray
Manny Strauss and Betsy Karmin
Dr. Kathryn Veal
Judy and Leo Zickler
Trina and Lee G. Rubenstein
Mita M. Schaffer and Tina M. Martin
Leslie Sewell
Les Silverman
Richard Solloway
Stuart Sotsky
Martha Winter Gross and Robert Tracy
The George Wasserman Family Foundation
Joan S. Wessel
Ruth and Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation
Deborah and Michael Salzberg
Alfred Sanders
Lewis Schrager and Frances Marshall
Peggy and David Shiffrin
Mindy Strelitz and Andrew Cornblatt
¶ Denotes a member of the EDJCC's Community Pillars program. These supporters have committed to leaving a lasting legacy by including Theater J in their estate planning.
Philip Teitelbaum *of blessed memory
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Admirers ($500–$999)
Anonymous
Congregation Beth El of Montgomery
County
Shimmy Braun
Michelle and Glenn Engelmann
Arlene Farber Sirkin and Stuart Sirkin
Lois Fields
PHOTOS:
Gail Ginsberg
Helaine Harris
Lucia and Frederic Hill
Jean and Michael Kaliner
Aviva Kempner
Zev Lewis
Nancy Limprecht and Rick Haines
• Page 2: Hayley Finn. Photo by Josh Olson
• Page 3: David Lloyd Olson. Photo by Ryan Maxwell Photography
• Page 15: (Left to Right, from top row)
Meredith Margolis and Gary Goodweather
Ilene Meiseles
Donald and Lynne Myers
Vicki Robinson
June and Marvin Rogul
Janet and Robert Wittes
○ Niki de Saint Phalle, Maquette pour Le Golem, 1972. Collection Israel Museum, Jerusalem
○ The Golem from the portfolio The Golem – Prague Fantasies by Hugo Steiner-Prag, 1916; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
○ Lynne Avadenka, from the book Breathing Mud, 1999. photo: Lynne Avadenka.
○ Joachim Seinfeld, “Golem” (1999), series of 5 photographs. (Prague, Židovske Muzeum © Adagp, Paris)
○ Fritz Ascher, Golem (1916), Jewish Museum Berlin; photo: Hermann Kiessling.
○ Minecraft Iron Golem, LEGO Figure, 2024
○ Robert Wilson, The Golem, 1987. The Jewish Museum, New York.
○ Paul Wegener posing in his golem costume next to his puppet double for the first golem film from 1915; photo: Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt/estate Paul Wegener – collection Kai Möller
○ Christian Boltanski, Le Golem (1988). (New York, The Jewish Museum © Adagp, Paris)
○ Ignati Nivinski, Esquisse pour les costumes de la pièce Le Golem de H. Leivick (1925). (Moscou, Archives nationales russes de littérature et d’art)
○ Steve Niles and Dave Wachter, Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem (2013) (© Dark Horse Comics)
○ Miloslav Dvořak, Le Golem et Rabbi Loew près de Prague (1951); Židovske Muzeum © Jaroslav Horejc
• Page 16: (Left to Right) Jason Cohen, Morgan Morse, and Lauren Jeanne Thomas in Hester Street. A play by Sharyn Rothstein, with original music and songs by Joel Waggoner, based on the film by Joan Micklin Silver. Photo by Ryan Maxwell Photography. (Left to Right) Firdous Bamji, Ethan J. Miller, and Dani Stoller in This Much I Know by Jonathan Spector. Photo by Ryan Maxwell Photography. Grant Harrison in Moses by Michele Lowe. Photo by Ryan Maxwell Photography. (Left to Right) Arielle Moore, Dina Thomas, Eric Hissom, Emma Wallach, Sarah Corey, and Nancy Robinette in The Chameleon by Jenny Rachel Weiner. Photo by Ryan Maxwell Photography.
EDLAVITCH DCJCC DONORS
The Edlavitch DCJCC wishes to thank the following donors who enable us to serve the commnity. This list includes all fiscal year 2024 gifts to date (July 1, 2023 - May 10, 2024) from donors who made commitments or donations of $1,000 or more. The Edlavitch DCJCC thanks all of our donors for the important impact they have on our work.
$300,000+
Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
$100,000 - $299,999
Anonymous
Bruce A. Cohen*
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
$50,000 - $99,999
Covenant Foundation
Sari R. Hornstein
Norbert Hornstein and Amy Weinberg
Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF)
$25,000 - $49,999
The Aviv Foundation, Inc.
Cathy S. Bernard
Johanna Chanin and Randall Levitt
Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
The Dweck Family
Lois and Richard England Family Foundation
Rena Gordon
The Kay Family Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999
Ronald and Anne Abramson
Suevia and Rudolph B. Behrend Fund
Bender Foundation
Michele and Allan Berman
Lisa and Josh Bernstein
Bookey Family Foundation
Abby and Andrew Cherner
CIBC Private Wealth Management
Sara Cohen and Norm Rich, Cyna and Paul Cohen, and Family
Myrna Fawcett
Ann Gilbert
Cheryl Gorelick
Jill and Robert Granader
Patti and Mitchell Herman
JCC Association
Elise and Marc Lefkowitz
$5,000 - $9,999
Janet Beth Abrams
Monica and Gavin Abrams
AllShifts
The Family of H. Max & Josephine F. Ammerman and Andrew R. Ammerman
Anonymous
Carol and Gary Berman
Joan and Alan Berman
Jordan Lloyd Bookey and Felix Lloyd
Andrea Boyarsky-Maisel
Susan and Dixon Butler
Bonnie and Louis Cohen
Cyna and Paul Cohen
Rose and Robert Cohen
Eva Davis and Justin Kramer
Bunny Dwin
Cindy Barad Elias
David and Patricia Fisher
Mara Bralove and Ari Fisher
Robert M. Fisher Memorial Foundation
Meg and Samuel Flax
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Susie and Michael Gelman, The Morningstar Foundation
Nussdorf Family Foundation
Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation
The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation
Dianne and Herb Lerner
Alfred Moses
Sid and Linda Moskowitz
Alfred Munzer and Joel Wind
National Endowment for the Arts
Patricia Payne
Diane and Arnold Polinger
Karen E. Lehmann
Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation
Thelma Z. Lenkin
The Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Foundation
Marion Ein Lewin
Dan Mendelson and Jennifer Loew
Mendelson
Amy and Alan Meltzer
The Morgan Fund at the Seattle Foundation
Katharina Otto-Bernstein
M. Craig Pascal
Evelyn Sandground and Bill Perkins
Saul and Nancy Pilchen
Norman Pozez and Melinda Bieber
Mindy Gasthalter
Edith Gelfand, Brian and Jenny Gelfand
GMP LLP
Dina Gold
Debra Goldberg and Seth Waxman
Michelle and Jonathan Grossman
Meg and John Hauge
Embassy of Israel
Arlene and Martin Klepper
William Kreisberg
Kenneth and Amy Eisen Krupsky
Stuart S. Kurlander and David L. Martin
Sandra and Stephen Lachter
Gary Laden, Esq.
Joy Lerner and Stephen Kelin
Dale and William Lipnick
Saskia and Benjamin D. Loewy
Ellen and Gary Malasky
Marshfield Associates
Paul and Zena Mason
Howard Menaker and Patrick Gossett
Samuel G. Rose
Daniel Hirsch and Brenda Gruss
Arlene and Robert Kogod, The Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation
Revada Foundation of the Logan Family
Share Fund
The Shubert Foundation
Kay Richman and Daniel Kaplan
Ilene and Steven Rosenthal
Martha and Philip Sagon Family Foundation
Deborah and Michael Salzberg
Hank Schlosberg*
Rhea Schwartz and Paul Wolff
Shapiro Family Foundation, Inc.
Bella Rosenberg
Trina and Lee G. Rubenstein
The Abe & Kathryn Selsky Foundation
Janis and Philip Schiff
Lisa Silver and Barry Kopit and the Silver Family Foundation
The Leshowitz Family Foundation, Terry
Singer
Rae Grad and Manuel Schiffres
Helene and Robert Schlossberg
Richard Solloway
Manny Strauss and Betsy Karmin
Martha Winter Gross and Robert Tracy
James A. Feldman and Natalie Wexler
James Beller and Christopher Wolf
Jeff Menick
Sherry Nevins
Cozen O'Connor
Nora Roberts Foundation
April Rubin and Bruce A. Ray
Joan and Barry Rosenthal
Susan Sachs Goldman
Ruth and Samuel Salzberg Family Foundation
Lynn and John Sachs
Deserie and Allen Saunders
Mita M. Schaffer and Tina M. Martin
The Schoenbaum Family Foundation, Inc.
Les Silverman
Michael Singer and James Smith
Tina and Albert Small, Jr.
Charles E. Smith Family Foundation
The Sosland Foundation
Dr. Stuart Sotsky
Mindy Strelitz and Andrew Cornblatt
Summit Print & Design, Inc.
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Francine Zorn Trachtenberg and Stephen
Joel Trachtenberg
Mimi Tygier and Robert Rubin
Dr. Kathryn Veal
$2,500 - $4,999
Babs and Rabbi A.N. Abramowitz, Wendi and Daniel Abramowitz
Andrew Altman
Stephen and Amy Altman
Anonymous
Jamie and Joseph A. Baldinger
Joy and Leonard Baxt
Devorah and Kevin Berman
Lynn and Wolf Blitzer
Deborah and Charles Both
Debra Vodenos and Samuel Boxerman
Fani and Dan Brandenburg
Susie and Kenton Campbell
Marcy and Neil Cohen, Ryna Cohen
Susan Cohn
Dave Connick
Sara Cormeny and Peter Miller
Cornerstone Research, Inc.
$1,000 - $2,499
Adas Israel Congregation
Eric Adler
Bette Ann S. Albert
Clement and Sandra Alpert
Laurence and Agatha Aurbach
Alison Baraf and Aryeh Portnoy
Cheryl and Herbert Baraf
Linda Goldsmith and Howard Berger
Emily and Adam Berman
State of Israel Bond (Bernstein Endowment)
Elaine and Richard Binder
Paul Blank
Joyce and Fred Bonnett
Susan and Steven Bralove
Ito Briones and Warren Coates
Marian and James Brodsky
Anita Wolke and Ken Brooks
Nancy Taylor Bubes and Alan Bubes
Morris J. Chalick, MD
Chevy Chase Trust
Howard and Carol Cohen
Jacqueline and Edward Cohen
Debra Lerner Cohen and Edward Cohen
Jeffrey Colman and Ellen Nissenbaum
Peggy and Morris Dahan
Toby Dershowitz
Yvonne and Jeffrey Distenfeld
Sonnie Dockser
Jessica Dodson and Jeremy Levine
Ilana Drimmer
Tamara Dunietz and David Dunn
Jonathan Edelman
John Edelmann
Anna Faure
Suzanne and Enrique Fefer
Rachel and Pete Federowicz
Daniel Freeman and Rebecca Zylberman
Laurie and Jerry Friedman
Natalie Friedman and Daniel Winston
Tova Geller
Morgan and Josh Genderson
Marsha Gentner
The George Wasserman Family Foundation
Diane Abelman Wattenberg
Jessika and David Wellisch
Scott Eric Dreyer and Ellen Clare Gillespie
Dreyer
Nancy and Marc Duber
Jay Freedman
Lois and Michael Fingerhut
Rhoda and Daniel Glickman
Paula Seigle Goldman
Leslie and Samuel Kaplan
Stacey Kluck
Aviva Kempner
Tamara Korolnek
Brad and Ali Lackey
The EJL98 Charitable Trust, on behalf of Edward Lenkin and Roselin Atzwanger
Johanna Chanin and Randall Levitt
Johannah and Jeremiah Lowin
Meredith Margolis and Gary Goodweather
Ellen Gertsen
Bernard Gewirz
Catherine and Micah Gibson
Cathy and Michael Gildenhorn
Audrey Goldstein
Richard and Sue Goldstein
Lois and Hadar Granader
Helen Greenfeld and Richard Mintz
Michael Gross
Erwin Gudelsky
Erez Harari
Margaret Hoeger
Sandra Hoexter
Mariana Levinas Huberman
Maya Hyman
Nancy and Steven Jacobson
Rob Kallman
Sandy and Eliot Kalter
Sid Kaplan
Jared Kassoff and Jaime Creighton
Irene and Lou Katz
Ellen Kay
Hillel Kaye
The Kresge Foundation
Barry Kropf
Janet Leno and Peter Harrold
Kimberly and Bruce Levin
Jesse and Alyssa Levine
Kay Klass and Mark Levitt
Margery and Sheldon London
Melanie and Hal Marcus and Family
Philip Margolius
Ellen and Ken Marks
Alan McAdams and Ellen Dykes
Rona and Allan Mendelsohn
Elaine and William Miller
Gary Mintz
Rachel Moskowitz and Ari Moskowitz
Simor Moskowitz
Joan Nathan
Miriam Morsel Nathan and Harvey
Nathan
Eric Zelenko
Judy and Leo Zickler
Eric and Kathryn Zimmerman
Carol Mates and Mark Kahan
Alyson Myers
Carl and Undine Nash
Shannon and William Powers
Suzanne Priebatsch
Eric Salzberg
Rubin Schron
Leslie Sewell
Peggy and David Shiffrin
United Bank
Heidi Wachs
Wealthspire Advisors
Susan Wedlan and Harold Rosen
Joan S. Wessel
Janice White
Carolyn and William Wolfe
Rebecca Wolozin and Louis Beckman
Gayle and Steven Neufeld
Victoria Odinotska
Ellen and Scott Paseltiner
James & Theodore Pedas Foundation
Marsha and Jamey Pelton
Amie Perl and Evan Goldman
Linda and Bruce Pollekoff
Joel and Nancy Poznansky
Deborah and Juan Prawda
Michael Rabinowitz
Rabbi Fred N. Reiner and Susan Liss
Renay and Bill Regardie
Suzanne and Bruce Rosenblum
Norman L. and Caryl G. Rosenthanl
Linda Rosenzweig and Sandy Bieber
Alfred Sanders
Lewis Schrager and Frances Marshall
Yechiel Schron
Dolores Seigel
David Selden and Julie Wallick
Susan Brett and Rob Shesser
Dale and Alan Sorcher
Barbara Silverstein and Alan Kirschenbaum
Mindy and Jeff Sosland
Leslie and Howard Stein
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Lise Van Susteren and Jonathan Kempner
Philip Teitelbaum
Ziva and Aaron Tomares
United Way of the National Capital Area
Janet B. Weiner
Helene Weisz and Richard Lieberman
Janyse and Bernie Weisz
Sharon Wilkes and Robert Kinberg
Carol and Michael Winer
Ellen Witman
Janet and Robert Wittes
Barbara Yellen and Phil West
Lynda Zengerle
Jennifer Zwilling Rosenwasser and Jon Rosenwasser
*of blessed memory
With the support from our community of donors, the Edlavitch DCJCC remains the premier address in our nation's capital for an expanding, diverse, and vibrant urban Jewish community. To make a tax-deductible contribution to the Edlavitch DCJCC today, please visit edcjcc.org/donate or contact Svetlana Fleming at 202-777-3240 or sfleming@edcjcc.org.
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