By Doreen Bornfreund, International Vice President, Membership Chair, WLCJ 2023-2026 As I look at the date that I have chosen for my WLCJ Shabbat Message, my thoughts are swirling. Foremost is that I am one month away from attending Convention 2026. What a three years it has been since I was installed as WLCJ International Continue Reading »
On behalf of the WLCJ 2023-2026 Membership Team, “Thank you!” as we wrap up a successful term of office. During this time the WLCJ Membership Team has run two campaigns highlighting our wonderful members of Women’s League. We began with a Why WL? Zoom in December 2024 showcasing some of our members and, subsequently, shared Continue Reading »
By Wendy Glasser, International Vice President, Convention Vice Chair for Logistics Back when I was Region President in 2017, then International President Margie Miller wanted a new tag line to go with the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism logo. We came up with the tag line we use today: “We are Women’s League.” The “we” Continue Reading »
By Mindy Steinholz, WLCJ Finance Chair The Priestly Blessing, or the Birkat Hakohanim, comes from this week’s Torah portion, Nasso. I have heard it recited from the bimah during holidays, sometimes by the kohanim in the traditional manner and sometimes by the prayer leader. I have heard it recited on the bimah as children become Continue Reading »
By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, WLCJ Executive Director On Shavuot, we celebrate the moment that changed the Jewish people forever: the revelation at Sinai. We gather to remember Matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, with learning, prayer, and community. Yet Judaism asks us to notice something remarkable about the language we use around this Continue Reading »
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President You can’t help but imagine a Cecil B. DeMille version of the opening of Parashat Bamidbar. The Torah paints this enormous, incredibly visual scene in the wilderness: tribes arranged carefully around the Mishkan, each group with its own degel, its banner, its identity, its place. North. South. East. West. Continue Reading »
Lori Beth Susman, Individual Member, Southern Region, Biloxi, Mississippi Many years ago, the synagogue where I live along the Mississippi Gulf Coast started a Sisterhood Affiliate, but we were such a small shul that it did not last long at all. A few years later, things changed at the synagogue and I, along with many Continue Reading »
Elaine B. Smith, Individual Member, Central Great Lakes Region WLCJ Executive Director Rabbi Ellen Wolintz-Fields, my niece, paid my dues and sent the Calendar Diary, and that is how I became a Women’s League for Conservative Judaism member. When the calendar arrived I was impressed that it included the dates of other world religions so we Continue Reading »
By Lymor Wasserman International WL Budget Chair, WLCJ Consultant, WLCJ Executive Committee, Southern Region Treasurer This Friday afternoon, I will be sitting in the Breslin Center at Michigan State University watching my youngest graduate from college. Many of you have been in this same spot, and I imagine you’ve felt the same emotions I’m feeling Continue Reading »
By Anise Parnes, International Vice President and Consulting Services Vice Chair As this Women’s League for Conservative Judaism term comes to its conclusion and I reflect upon my WLCJ journey, I keep asking myself: how did I become a modern-day version of my mother? My mother’s 20th-century life choices included being a bride at 18; Continue Reading »
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