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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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,...
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...
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
Now that Passover is ending, I find myself in that familiar in-between moment, still vacuuming up the last crumbs of matzah while everyday dishes quietly make...
Janet C. Kirschner, WLCJ International Vice President and Per Capita Chair
Many of us grew up watching The Wizard of Oz and were captivated by Judy Garland singing the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”...
