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Looking to the Future: Events for Youth & Students

Posted on October 4, 2023

On TRY, Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim, Israel is your classroom and Jerusalem is your home. Open to 10th-12th grade North American Jewish high school students. Spend the best semester of your life in Israel this spring! Aliza Zeff, TRY Director, will be traveling to North America after Sukkot. If you are considering TRY for your child, Continue Reading »

A message from the WLCJ Programming Team

Posted on October 2, 2023

Are you missing those days back in July like we are? We continue to look at the pictures!! We continue to feel those hugs!!   Sunday was informative… Leadership and Opening Plenum Monday was celebratory… B’not Mitzvah — Torah Fund — Seminaries — Installation Tuesday was a Party… Sisters Around the World — Jewels in Continue Reading »

THIS COULD BE YOU! Future Bat Mitzvah Class

Posted on September 19, 2023

Picture yourself here three years from now –  leading a service, delivering a d’var Torah, and chanting Torah. THIS COULD BE YOU! Here is your opportunity to become a member of the next Bat Mitzvah class. This three-year program, taught by Rabbis, Educators, and Leaders of the Conservative movement, will meet once a month. Joining Continue Reading »

Rosh Hashanah

Posted on September 16, 2023

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President This Shabbat ushers in the Yamim Noraim—the Days of Awe. Rosh Hashanah is observed from Friday night to Sunday night. The Torah refers to this holiday as Yom Teruah, the day of sounding the shofar.  The Talmud understands the shofar blasts to represent the cries of women, and the Continue Reading »

Fall and the High Holidays

Posted on September 2, 2023

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President Ah Fall! As the calendar flips to September, I keep thinking of the song “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”– Not the Andy Williams Christmas version, but the Staples commercial with parents excitedly pushing carts down the aisles to get school supplies for their children who are Continue Reading »

WLCJ App

Posted on August 23, 2023

It’s available for download on all devices (iPhone/iPad/Google Play/Android).  

10 steps. Pay close attention to the 10 steps.

Posted on August 19, 2023

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President No, this opening isn’t clickbait for a get rich quick scheme, or an abbreviated 12-step program, but 10 physical steps that separate the main level of our home from the bedrooms upstairs. I go up and down these 10 steps many times a day without thinking about it, but Continue Reading »

Women’s League Cares – The collective WE of WLCJ can make a difference!

Posted on August 16, 2023

Women’s League Cares – The collective WE of WLCJ can make a difference! Give a gift today so we can help them be here for tomorrow…. Jerilynn Payne August 16, 2023 The Maui Hawaii wildlife fire is one of the deadliest wildfires in modern United States history with a death toll of, as of August Continue Reading »

New Beginnings

Posted on August 5, 2023

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President In the past few weeks, I have experienced several new beginnings—an installation as President of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, a family wedding and Tishah B’Av, which marks the beginning of the period of seven weeks leading up to Rosh Hashanah. The overriding message of Tishah B’Av  is that Continue Reading »

Additional Opportunities

Posted on August 3, 2023

Additional Opportunities For the past six years, Keshet and USCJ have worked together to deliver Keshet’s Shivyon Project cohort for USCJ-affiliated synagogues.  Keshet, in partnership with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), has launched the Shivyon Project cohort for USCJ-affiliated synagogues! The Shivyon project is a year-long cohort-based opportunity for synagogues that want to focus on creating organizational change in order Continue Reading »