We hope the New Year brings health, happiness, serenity and joy!
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Greetings!
It's a New Year! Come hang out with an award-winning Sisterhood and bring goodness into your life and beyond. Do you want connection? Do you need to be of service in your life? All opportunities await you through the Women of Rodef Sholom.
We're all about doing good things!
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January 20 at 2 pm
Join your sisters for a celebration of TuBishvat in Woodacre. We will share a nature-loving ritual, sister-bonding amidst the trees, and weather permitting, a hike and perhaps a ride on a 7-seater bicycle from which to view the trees.
Event is limited to 15 women, so rsvp quickly.
Address is: 1 Elm Avenue Woodacre, CA 94973
Text: 415-298-7606
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ANNUAL TRIVIA NIGHT
a highlight of the year
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Sat Night January 26 at 7 pm
Once again Howard Rachelson will be our Master of Trivia.
Featuring great questions, music and visuals.
Enjoy an adult night out!
This is our major fund-raiser which supports the Tikkun Olam Fund
Click here to see what this fund supported last year.
$25 before 1/26; $30 at the door
Your entry includes:
- One drink plus delicious sweet and savory treats
- Door and raffle prizes available
- 50/50 Drawing (winner keeps half)
- Terrific Silent Auction items
- Bring your own team (10 per table) or join one
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This group had fun last year.
Bring your friends and have a wonderful evening out
while supporting Sisterhood's Tikkun Olam Fund!
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Monthly open Mahj play is usually the first and third Tuesday of every month, 1-3 pm in the Congregation Social Hall. Due to 1/1 being a National Holiday, we will meet only on the 15th in January.
Bring your sets, your cards and your Mahj friends. Let's have fun! For more info contact:
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1/16 7:15-8:15 JCC Library
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Third Wednesday of each month, we meet in the JCC Library.
WRS Book Club Schedule:
January 16th- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
February 20th- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
To RSVP
CLICK HERE
or Call Alice Miller with questions: 415-381-6792
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WRS JEWELRY SALE 3/3/19 afternoon
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Proceeds support our Tikkun Olam Fund!
Check it out; you too can participate in this good work while cleaning out your closet.
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We are
collecting
your new and gently used jewelry and accessories: scarfs, belts, purses, wallets.
Bring them to the CRS office marked "for WRS"
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Save the date this Spring
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Sunday, April 14th 4 pm
On-line Registration open soon
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at Westerbeke Ranch
May 3-5
On-line Registration open soon
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DO YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED BUT DON'T KNOW HOW OR WHERE?
FOUR OPPORTUNITIES:
- Offer a professional service or new desirable item to the Silent Auction at TRIVIA NIGHT (1/26). This is our major fund raiser and more funds can be raised when wonderful things are available for the bidding. Please contribute. Contact Judi Sheppard with any questions or to pick up your contributions!
- Help plan our fabulous Women’s Seder 4/14 Please join us: the Seder committee will be meeting 1/8 6:00pm JCC Library. If unable to attend but interested, email Susan Goldwasser: sigcrg@aol.com
- Join the Sisterhood Retreat Committee to plan our 5/3-5/5 Retreat at gorgeous Westebeke Ranch in Glen Ellen. Please email Susan Goldwasser sigcrg@aol.com
- Collecting Jewish paperwork for a project to be done at the WRS Retreat. Keep your Jewish calendars and greeting cards and bring them to the temple office marked "WRS Retreat."
We would love you to join us in planning these events. It takes a village, and you are part of our village. We would like to get to know you better and have some fun along the way!
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Inspired by the murders of innocent Jewish people praying in their Pittsburg, PA temple on a Shabbat morning, the gift shop is selling this T-Shirt, with a powerful message.
We have all sizes.
Come in and get one before they're gone, they will sell out!
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HOURS
Closed through January 5th; Reopens on Sunday, January 6th
REGULAR HOURS:
Monday - Thursday 10:00 - 3:00
Friday - 11:30 - 2:00
Sunday - 10:00 - 12:30
Please call ahead to make sure we are open: 415-314-9822
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November 30th -- the service was beautiful; it was a wonderful evening and we displayed our
NEW BANNER!
Thank you to Barbara Merino, Toni Golbus and Committee for a lovely evening.
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Membership Hanukkah Social 12/9
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Women told stories and laughed together. The room was full of warmth and friendship. Oh what joy to celebrate together!
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A room full of lovely ladies
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A wonderful afternoon was had by so many women as is witnessed by the smiles on everyone's faces.
COME JOIN US!!
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Thank you to Fanny Stein and Rhonda Daniels for creating such a lovely event
and thanks to Sheri Langer for such terrific photos!
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Women of Rodef Sholom 2018-2019 Membership
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If you have already renewed your dues, thank you. If not, please rejoin. You can do it very easily by
Clicking here and you will be taken to the WRS website. Or download our membership form by clicking the "Join Today" button.
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A note from our President
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Dear Sisters,
We recently had a Women of Rodef Sholom Board Retreat. It was a wonderful day of learning, laughing, and connecting! I wanted to share, with all of you, one of the activities we did called a Six-Word Memoir. We wrote our memoirs about what the Women of Rodef Sholom means to us.
Six-Word Memoirs:
A Six-Word Memoir was a project of
Smith
Magazine.
The challenge is to tell the story of your life, or some part of it, in exactly six words. To tell a Six-Word Memoir is to distill a story you find important into the six most vital and expressive words. This idea originated from the novelist Ernest Hemmingway, who was challenged to write a story using only six words. His story read: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Our Six Word Memoirs describing the Women of Rodef Sholom:
- Enrich your life, join us, grow.
- Enrich your life, you will feel loved.
- Embrace us, feel connected, love & flourish.
- You will, no doubt, feel at home.
- Join us-Sisters united sharing & caring.
- Connect in service with caring and community.
- Be inspired by other badass women.
- Repair yourself, repair the world.
- The next phase of your life.
- Our wonderful sisters from another mother.
- Your path to fulfillment and support.
- Repairing the world with your Sisters.
- Women connected to Judaism and community.
- We’re not done. Just getting started.
- Multi-generational women joyfully engaged and supportive.
- Volunteer opportunity; it’s exciting, inclusive, meaningful, yours.
- Women in strength finding community together.
- Rich in friends and family together.
- Join us: friendship, personal growth, change the world.
- Be inspired to reach your passion.
- Your passion is calling-join us.
- Join supportive, fun women creating community.
- Connections to treasure with women forever.
- Women in sacred spaces and community.
- Listen, hear voices of your Sisters.
- Come close, find yourself with us.
- WRS makes me feel wanted, giving, inclusive.
Below is a word cloud heart using all the words from the above memoirs. The larger the word, the more often it was used.
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We look forward to sharing our love and passion for WRS with all of you, and seeing you at our upcoming events in 2019!
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With much love,
Lucy Schneidman
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In the bin this month: In the temple lobby
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JANUARY:
New men’s and women’s socks for the unsheltered to be distributed by Ritter House
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JCC Center for Jewish Peoplehood
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Jewish Women’s Theatre
presents
Family Secrets
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FAMILY SECRETS
Tuesday, Feb. 5
7:00 pm
Osher Marin JCC
200 N. San Pedro
San Rafael, CA
An unforgettable and provocative evening of salon-style theater!
Explore secret stories of youthful indiscretions, missteps, dishonest acts, and outright naughty activities that make for a moving, eye-opening and funny show that explores events only whispered about—until now!
Special Discount for Women of Rodef Sholom Sisterhood Members:
When buying tickets, use Promotional Code "CJP" and Receive $3 off any
Advance Purchase
Ticket
(Members & Public)
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About Jewish Women’s Theatre
Jewish Women’s Theatre (JWT) is a non-profit arts group that reinvents Jewish theater by putting a contemporary spin on the centuries-old tradition of salons. JWT aims to leave no Jewish story untold, while celebrating the truths that connect us all. Encouraging and supporting both lay and professional writers and artists, JWT inspires and performs original works that empower and educate individuals, create community and build cultural legacy. JWT seeks, develops and adapts stories celebrating a diverse Jewish population that can share the stage, regardless of gender, generation, degree of Jewish observance, ethnicity, cultural background, or sexual orientation. And so we draw audiences of all ages, both women and men, mostly Jewish, but not all.
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