Shabbat Message

It’s all in how you look at it

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President There is an old story about a shoe company in the early 20th century that sent two sales agents to check out the possibility of expanding their sales into a...
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A Life Cycle Event: Coming Of Age

By Linda Klempner, WLCJ International Vice President and Patron/Scholarship Patron Chair As I was preparing to retire from teaching I began to form a bucket list of projects I wanted to accomplish. Number...
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Lessons from Ruth

By Renee Ravich, WLCJ Vice President and Region Services Chair As I read the Shabbat messages each week, I’m amazed at how many of my “sisters” have chosen to live a Jewish life, though raised in another...
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New Roles, New Journeys

By Anise Parnes, WLCJ Consulting Services Vice Chair When spring arrives, I think “transitions.” I think of school graduations and commencements. June brides and grooms. New jobs. New journeys. It’s the...
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An End to Uncertainty

By Grace Schessler, WLCJ Executive Committee Appointee and Personal Conversations Co-Chair Commencing on the evening of the second Seder, we count the days between Pesach and Shavuot, or as we know it,...
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Ruminations on Yedid Nefesh

By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, WLCJ Executive Director My Rabbi often encourages us to just use the words of the Siddur, prayer book, as a guide. He suggests that if we feel drawn to one particular...
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A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance – Reflecting on Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President In the United States, we observe Memorial Day as the start of the summer season. Some place wreaths at gravesites, but many just spend the day at picnics or...
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Building Community by Building Family

By Fran Hildebrandt, WLCJ International Vice President and Kehilah Co-Chair This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day. A day when we honor the wild and wonderful women in our lives who have raised us and/or...
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Walking the Walk

By Janet Kirschner, WLCJ International Vice President and Per Capita Chair By now everyone has probably put away those Pesach dishes and cleaned up from the holiday. I hope you had a zissen and...
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Zissen Pesach

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President As the first night of Pesach approaches on Monday, our communities are abuzz with both excitement and the typical pre-holiday panic. This week, we...
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