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 »
By Teresa Samtur, WLCJ Recording Secretary “I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” — Kahlil Gibran When I began thinking about this week’s double Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora, I thought I would write about adoption, motherhood, and my adult bat mitzvah. Tazria-Metzora was the Torah portion for that Continue Reading »
Aviva Ezring, Individual Member, Florida Region Why choose Women’s League Individual Membership? Because connection matters. Because Judaism is a central thread in my life. Because women are stronger when we lift one another up. I’m a rabbi’s kid who knew early on that I didn’t want to follow the family path into the rabbinate or the Continue Reading »
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