By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
From Power Plays to Purposeful Paths
It’s the end of June, and to quote the famous Gershwin tune, it’s “summertime and the livin’ is easy.” Many of our Affiliates...
By Doreen Bornfreund, WLCJ International Vice President and Membership Chair
Sh’lach – Numbers 13:1 – 15:41
Adonai said to Moses: Instruct them (the children of Israel) to make for themselves fringes...
By Esta Z. Lichtenstein, WLCJ International Vice President, Communications and Calendar Diary Chair
Turning 80
Not me, but my synagogue, Temple Israel in Natick, MA, celebrated their 80th birthday in May...
By Fran Hildebrandt, WLCJ International Vice President and Kehilah/Education Chair
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
I recently listened to the duet sung by Barbra Streisand and Hozier of the...
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
Celebrating Our Newest Rabbis and Cantors
Last week, I had the extraordinary honor of representing Women’s League for Conservative Judaism at two ordination...
By Lori Snow, WLCJ International Vice President and International Torah Fund Chair
The Time Has Come…
Now is the time for all good women to come to the aid of the Torah Fund Creating...
By Marilyn Berkowitz, WLCJ Executive Committee Appointee and Torah Fund Vice Chair, Finances
Delegating is Hard to Do
Don’t take your help away from me
Don’t you make me be in misery
If you go, then...
By Doreen Bornfreund, WLCJ International Vice President and Membership Chair
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim – Leviticus 16:1–19:2
Last year when this parashah, Achrei Mot – meaning “after the...
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
Brew Harmony not Drama—Lessons from Tazria-Metzora
Parashat Tazria-Metzora is not the easiest Torah portion to connect with. The discussion of skin conditions...
By Sandy Berenbaum, WLCJ Membership Retention Chair
Planting Seeds Within Us on Earth Week Shabbat
I’d like to begin with one of my favorite poems, Trees by Joyce Kilmer. This poem has resonated with...