Shabbat Message

Parashat Nasso

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...
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Revelation is Not Over

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...
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The Wilderness According to Women’s League

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:...
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A Recipe That Guides Us Through Life

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...
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Walking in My Mother's Footsteps

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,...
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Healing, Isolation, and the Modern Metzora

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...
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Passover Leaves More Than Crumbs: Finding the Sacred in the Everyday

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...
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"Somewhere" Beyond Our Fears

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.”...
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Our Personal ‘Mitzrayim’ - The straits we may be passing over or passed over

Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, WLCJ Executive Director Everyone has their favorite (or least favorite) aspect of Passover. My favorite part is seeing what new Haggadaot and Seder Supplements are available....
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The Pursuit of Connection

Pam Schlosberg, WLCJ Financial Secretary We hear the ding every morning—that social media call to connect. We grab a cup of coffee, green tea, or a protein drink in one hand and balance our phone in the...
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