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If it’s one thing we like here at The Chosen, it’s music. Once we learned about the Jewish Music Festival taking place in May we couldn’t pass up the chance to give you the details. Presented by the Washington DC Jewish Community Center’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts. The Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family [...]

Young Diplomats Reception 2012:The Arab Awakening: The Changing Face of the Middle East March 13, 2012 1777 F St., NW Reception at 6:30PM; Program at 7:15PM $15 FOR ACCESS SUPPORTERS; $20 FOR GENERAL REGISTRATION If you are not yet an ACCESS Supporter, click HERE and select ACCESS Supporter to sign up! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR [...]

Delis and their food have fallen dramatically in number and quality over the past few decades, especially in DC. But before you go stockpiling corned beef and pastrami there is good news on the horizon! Chef Barry Koslow (formerly of Tallula and Mendocino Grille) is partnering with David and Nick Wiseman (Roadside Food Projects) to open [...]

We hope you’ve been enjoying this unusually pleasant DC summer! AJC Access DC has some very exciting programs coming up over the summer, and we’d like to share them with you: Sport Summerfest at the Austrian Embassy Wednesday, July 13, *6:30pm* ACCESS DC is co-hosting a “Sport Summerfest” with the Embassy of Austria! The event will celebrate Vienna’s first time [...]

Washington, D.C.’s has food trucks with lobster rolls, BBQ, gourmet pizza, Korean tacos and cupcakes and now we’ve got a kosher food truck! Spike Mendelsohn and on-board chef Malcolm Mitchell have teamed up with Sixth & I Synagogue to bring you traditional kosher fare to the streets of DC. The menu is largely community driven so [...]

If you’ve got a sweet tooth and you’re tired of the same old  Passover-safe desserts why don’t you give chocolate-covered caramel matzah a try? I REALLY doubt that there is anything better than chocolate and toffee. Chef David Lebovitz has a great blog about life in Paris which is where I stumbled across this delicious [...]

For us at The Chosen, brunch is easily the most favorite meal of the day. Give us an omelet, rye toast and some bacon (shh, don’t tell Bubbe) and we’re set! Dana Moos, born and bred in Potomac, Maryland was involved in real estate and commercial property management before her and her husband decided to move [...]

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Voices of a Changing Middle East Festival: Portraits of Home Presented by Israel’s premier Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv and its talented cast of Arab- and Jewish-Israeli actors, the adaptation will likely be an American audience’s first introduction to the works of Kanafani. Among the foremost writers of Palestinian and Arab fiction, Ghassan Kanafani was also [...]

Located in the nation’s political and diplomatic heart, ACCESS DC, the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) New Generation Program is known for its ambitious agenda in working with young diplomats, community leaders and thinkers. ACCESS empowers young professionals to engage today’s critical domestic and international issues, reaching out to diplomats, policymakers and young leaders of diverse [...]