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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Ellen Kaner Bresnick, Co-Chair of the WLCJ Kehilah Committee
In the whole spectrum of frequently-used sayings, I believe that “Wait till you become a grandparent! There is nothing better” is probably...
By Diane Mashioff, WLCJ Treasurer
In this week’s Torah portion, Shmini, God laid out the “laws of kashrut.” Thirty-seven years ago, I decided to convert to Judaism and adopted the...
By Cathey, Swerdlow, WLCJ International Vice President and Education Chair
Over the years as I have engaged in Torah study on a more regular basis, whenever I reach the beginning of Leviticus, I let out...
