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Customized Services Available to Every Women’s League Sisterhood Your sisterhood’s per capita dues entitle you to an array of customized services from Women’s League designed to meet your sisterhood’s needs. Find out how to enhance your sisterhood’s image in the synagogue and in the community. Help your sisterhood thrive by helping your leadership acquire the information and skills they need. An Invitation from Women’s League Be sure that your si…

Women’s League provides publications and resources directly into the hands of the women who run their sisterhoods. As members of Women’s League you can download or access on line these materials and services. Sisterhood Advisor 2024 Managing Your Sisterhood Online Why Pay Per Capita during a Pandemic–Video Session Resolutions 101 MODEL_BYLAWS 2020 Nominations Distance Workshop January 2013 (script) Nominations Leadership Succession Ideas Nominati…

Women throughout the Jewish world have been creating rituals and observances specifically geared to their interests and needs. One of the most popular is the resuscitation of rosh chodesh [new moon] celebrations, an observance that was part of the women’s domain even in ancient days. Since such celebrations are based upon minhag (custom) rather than on prescribed behavior, women have displayed enormous creativity in reclaiming these observances. …

Written by Dr. Lisa Grant in conjunction with the Melton Research Center for Jewish Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary, this two-year curriculum of adult Jewish study is designed for individuals preparing for an adult bat mitzvah, but it is easily adaptable for any adult Jewish studies programs The complete curriculum is comprised of 40 units, each of which contains goals and directions for the instructor, texts, discussion points, and …

After considerable review and discussion, in the fall of 2008 the Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism (LCCJ) adopted principles of welcome and outreach to intermarried couples and their families. The LCCJ also established a keruv commission charged with developing materials to communicate the movement’s philosophy of welcoming. Members of the commission included rabbis and laypeople, representing United Synagogue, FJMC (Federation of Jewis…

By Lisa Kogen With Strength and Splendor: Jewish Women as Agents of Change was unveiled at Convention 2008 to rave reviews. It is an extraordinary book highlighting extraordinary North American Jewish women from the past two centuries. Begun as Beauty, Brains and Brawn: The New World Balabuste, the Women’s League exhibit commemorating the 350th anniversary of the arrival of Jews in North America, it has been expanded and given a new title, With S…

January 9, 2009/13 Tevet 5769 The Conservative/Masorti Movement supports the State of Israel, its government and military, in its current operations to protect the citizens of Israel’s southern region and offers our prayers and material assistance to its soldiers and their families. We lament Hamas’ unrelenting and finally intolerable barrage of rocket fire on Israel’s cities and civilians. We pray that a leadership of the Palestinian people emer…

Jillian Riseman chose Ruth Handler for her National History Day entry by looking through the pages of the newest Women’s League publication, With Strength & Splendor: Jewish Women as Agents of Change. Jillian chose Handler after her mother Lisa Riseman, sisterhood president of Temple Beth Emunah, in Brockton, MA and a member of the Women’s League board of directors, brought the book home from the Women’s League convention last November. Handler, …

This is My Prayer – Va’ani Tefillati, March 1, 2009 This ground-breaking inter-denominational conference on Jewish women’s prayer was sponsored by Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Women of Reform Judaism, and the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, which hosted the event. The keynote address, “Jewish Women’s Prayers Are Coming Home,” delivered by Dr. Aliza Lavie, editor of…

… Women’s League members joined Team Sharsheret for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, September 13, 2009 in New York City. …