DC Minyan

The DC Minyan is a lay-led unaffiliated Jewish congregation that holds worship services and other events in the Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center (DCJCC), located in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 2002, the congregation generally demonstrates the characteristics of an independent minyan, with a dual commitment to halacha/Jewish law and egalitarianism. Its programs include Shabbat/Sabbath and Holy Day worship services, education, social events, retreats, and opportunities for tikkun olam, improving and transforming the world. The leaders and members of the community seek to create "a warm and intellectually engaging community for prayer and study." Additionally, Beth Tritter, one of the group's four co-founders, stated that the minyan has been able to create worship services that exhibit "ruach [spirit] and kavanah [spiritual focus]." The DC Minyan is part of a growing number of similar lay-led programs within the national and international Jewish community, such as New York's Kehilat Hadar and Jerusalem's Shira Hadasha and Kehilat Kedem, that are sometimes described as being part of the independent minyan movement. The name, minyan, means the prayer quorum traditionally required for a full Jewish prayer service.

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