The Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center in Mbale, Uganda 2023 WLCJ CONVENTION SPECIAL PROJECT As Mother’s Day quickly approaches, it reminds us how vital mothers are to their babies and their families....
By Sheila Offman Gersh, American Mothers of Israeli Olim Google Group Organizer A Bat Mitzvah to Cherish For the past three years I have been attending the Women’s League Bat Mitzvah class. I completed...
By Sue Bengele, WLCJ Financial Secretary When I became a Bat Mitzvah many years ago… you know, when girls had their Bat Mitzvah on a Friday night, were able to sing the Haftarah, sing the Kiddush and perhaps...
By Lymor Wasserman, Co-Chair WLCJ Environmental Committee HaShkedia Porachat is one of the most widely known Israeli / Hebrew children’s songs for Tu B’Shevat. HaShkedia Porachat means...
By Fran Hildebrandt, WLCJ Mishpachah Chair Exploring LGBTQ+ Identities Building Bridges . . . Creating Community We live in a world in which our family members may be exploring new identities. Words like...
By Mindy Steinholz, WLCJ International Vice President and Health & Wellness Chair “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”- Benjamin Franklin Most of us would in fact prefer...
By Ellen Grossman and Randy Schwartz, Convention 2023 Social Action Project Co-Chairs In Parashat Shemot, Exodus 1:1–6:1, is the story of Pharaoh, who enslaves the Jews in Egypt and orders the midwives, SHIFRAH...
By Lymor Wasserman, Co-Chair WLCJ Environmental Committee Happy Gregorian New Year to all! We have many things we look forward to in the new year. Personally, I can’t wait for the end of March when the...
By Doreen Bornfreund, WLCJ Kol Ishah Co-Chair My favorite Hanukkah memory! Fourteen years ago, on the seventh day of Hanukkah, my first grandchild, my first grandson was born. Just after Shabbat, on Rosh...
By Ellie Kremer, WLCJ Israel Chair It is a curious thing: For Shabbat and for Hanukkah, we light candles, right? But we are not permitted to use the light from those candle flames. How does that work?...
