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Any recommendations for places to stay overnight? Anyone do this trip during Sukkos?—were any kosher restaurants open? Where were the public sukkas?
theres this really nice cute restaurnt called elis….i went there like 5 years ago so idk if its still open or anything but if yeah its good!
Any time you make a trip to Washington, you should research what is open when. Many places are closed on Mondays. Also know which places you need ID for, and there are some places that make you take your hat off. So if you are going with women who are wearing baseball caps or hat falls with hats, there could be problems.
I don’t know what’s available in Washington, DC. However, I do know that Silver Spring, MD is not very far from Washington, DC – you can avail yourself of the kosher stores there, as well as the shuls (such as Young Israel Shomrei Emunah).
emlf, I was just going to write that!
Are you from there?
The restaurant in the Holocaust Museum is Kosher
There is an Orthodox synagogue, Kesher Israel, very close to downtown, within the eruv if you are there over Shabat. They will probably have a sukkah. We visited it there several years ago and found it very friendly, and their rabbi, Rabbi Barry Freundel, is a brilliant talmid chacham and worth going out of your way to hear. http://www.kesher.org/ has a list of kosher food options. Enjoy!
am yisrael chai: no, I’m not from Silver Spring, but I have relatives who live there.
The Holocaust Museum Cafe is not kosher, but there are sealed kosher products (e.g., parve sandwiches, noodle salad) available in the cafe that were brought in from a kosher caterer. There are also things like sealed bags of chips (OU) on sale at the cafe. Make sure to check for the seal on the sandwich, as the cafe serves similar products that are NOT kosher. Many of the cafe staff are aware of the issues, and can help steer frum customers to the right stuff.
Eli’s is a great meat restaurant in the District.
The largest frum communities in the DC area are in Silver Spring, and there are a larger variety of shuls and kosher restaurants in Silver Spring and Rockville (to the west), some of which provide kosher sukkos.
A good resource for any Jewish traveler to the DC area is the Washington Vaad’s (capitol k) Web site (just Google Washington Vaad and you’ll find it). They provide a list of all Vaad supervised establishments and a list of affiliated shuls.
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