By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
Having recently returned from our synagogue’s Purimspiel practice, and delving into my megillah reading for the upcoming weekend, Purim...
By Teresa Samtur, WLCJ Recording Secretary and Garden State Region Immediate Past President
This week’s Torah reading, Parashat Pekudei, begins with an inventory of the gold, silver and copper...
By Cory Schneider, WLCJ Archives Chair and Past International President
Hiddur mitzvah was the theme for Women’s League and Torah Fund for 2011-2012. This excerpt from the introduction to the...
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
In Parashat Ki Tisa, we read of the golden calf, and of Moses smashing the two tablets when seeing the people dancing around and praying to the idol. But,...
By Wendy J. Glasser, WLCJ Convention Logistics Chair and North by Northwest Region Past President
This week’s parashah begins with God telling Moses to tell the Israelites to make olive oil for...
By Mindy Steinholz, WLCJ Finance Chair and MetroNorth Region Past President
When I became a Bat Mitzvah in the late 1970s (so late it was practically the 1980s), my family’s Conservative congregation was...
By Esta Z. Lichtenstein, WLCJ International Vice President and Communications Chair
What does WLCJ mean to me? It is most definitely about the relationships one builds. While in New York City for Torah...
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
I’ve been thinking a lot about strangers lately. Maybe it is because we are reading the Exodus story where the prophesy made to Abraham–that his descendants...
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
I have been hearing a popular Jewish song a lot lately since the Hamas attacks on Israel: Kol haolam kulo gesher tzar meod, veha-ikar lo lefached klal –...
By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President
This week, as we step into the new secular year, many of us will use this time for deep reflection and renewal. The shortest day has passed —Shabbat in Washington,...
