In
ternational Northeast Region
Women's League
for Conservative Judaism
Networking to Engage, Enrich, and Empower Conservative Jewish Women
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February 21, 2020 Volume 4, Issue 5
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FROM THE REGION PRESIDENT--JOAN LOWENSTEIN
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This week's message is from guest contributor Rusty Zackheim. Rusty was the first president of the newly formed International Northeast Region. She has been very involved on the Region and International levels of Women's League for many years and has some thoughts she wanted to share with us. I hope you will take her message to heart and get involved!
If you have ideas for programs or events please get in touch with our Sisterhood Support Vice President, Toby Maser at Tobala704@aol.com or myself at INRPresident@wlcj.org. Let's make something happen!
On another note, will you be joining us at Convention? Registration is now open!
Convention 2020 will be held Sunday, July 12 - Wednesday, July 15 at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg in Schaumburg, Illinois. Check out the different packages being offered and get the early bird rate! Go to the Women's League website -
WLCJ.ORG
- and Login to the member's area. Click Login at upper right of your screen (or click
HERE
) and enter your email address and password where directed. Need your password or help with login? Contact Razel in the Women's League office at
rkessler@wlcj.org
or 212-870-1263.
Wishing you a very meaningful and peaceful Shabbat,
Joan
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FROM RUSTY ZACKHEIM
The International Northeast Region was born in 2008. We began with 24 - yes 24 - Sisterhoods in Montreal, Ontario, Central and Western New York. This may or may not have been a good combination geographically but it was what we were given and our goal was to make it a strong, supportive Region.
Over the years we have lost many of those Sisterhoods who started with us. In 2010 we lost Adath Israel in North York, Ontario. In 2011 we lost Ahavas Isaac in Sarnia, Ontario. In 2013 we lost Agudath Israel Synagogue in Ottawa, Shaar Shalom Synagogue in Thornhill, ON (closed), Temple Beth David in Rochester, NY, Temple Beth El in Troy, NY and Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda in Downsview, Ontario. In 2015 we lost Beit Rayim Synagogue and School in Thornhill, Ontario.
That brings us to today with 16 Sisterhoods although not all of them are fully functioning. Right now Congregation Beth El in Mount Royal, Quebec is sharing space with Shaare Zion in Montreal as the congregation has sold their building. Beth El Sisterhood ladies are discussing their future as a Sisterhood.
We are small and shrinking. We NEED to become a stronger and more active region. We have wonderful members but do we really know each other? Our geography makes it difficult for us to physically meet as a whole but we should be meeting and doing things within our areas. We have a yearly conference when it is not a WLCJ convention year but that is not enough. We must start working together more, inviting each other to events, programs, dinners, meetings, happenings - whatever we have - and create more programs and events to bring us together. From an original seven Sisterhoods in Toronto, there are now 3 active ones remaining and Or Shalom is alone in London, ON. How often do you get together? Not often enough. There is Central NY and there is Western NY but we act as if it is more like different States than a quick ride on the NYS Thruway. We need to unite and have more programs to bring us together.
We don't even really need to get together physically anymore. There are so many options for us to utilize where we can "see" each other and have online programs. We can use Zoom and have a two-hour conference or program. We can have a conference call or a SKYPE meeting. Let's be creative but let's get to know our sisters in INR!
I know this is not a rah, rah note but I am asking us to come together and show how we are small but a strong region. We need to make our presence felt in Women's League. I believe very strongly in our region and I want us to make a positive impression. I want us to stop being overlooked. Let's make something happen!
I would also be remiss in my duties as WLCJ Vice President, Per Capita Chair, if I didn't remind you that not everyone has paid their per capita yet. It is past due unless you have requested a variance and are waiting for the results. Please send in your per capita ASAP so we can have 100% compliance. Remember, if you are applying for a Jewel in the Crown award, your per capita and Torah Fund commitment must be paid.
Rusty Zackheim
Past President INR
WLCJ Vice President, Per Capita Chair
Women's Network of Temple Beth Tzedek, Williamsville, NY
Irisz@aol.com
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MORE GOOD NEWS WANTED
Toot your own horn.
Tell us what is going on in your Sisterhood.
Tell us what is successful in your Sisterhood.
Email Lois Silverman, Chai Line editor, at
and she'll share your news.
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FROM WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR
CONSERVATIVE
JUDAISM
Shabbat Message: The Roots of My Childhood
By Margie Miller, WLCJ President
Twice over the last month, I have reconnected with women from my past. We all embrace the concept of Jewish geography. While spending Shabbat at Agudas Achim in Alexandria Virginia, I met a woman who taught at an elementary school near my childhood home. Although I attended a different school in the district, she taught during the years that my peers from high school would remember her. I posted on my Elmont, New York Facebook page and got so many responses. Former students remembered her fondly and shared memories that are now close to seven decades old.
This week I spoke at a TF luncheon at Temple Emanu-El in Palm Beach. I reconnected with my Sunday school teacher from Temple Gates of Zion in Valley Stream, New York. Mrs. Carmella Kalmanson was a formidable teacher and always had a deep connection and commitment to Israel. She served as the national president of Hadassah.
I often tell the story of my mother who is not a "joiner". She dropped my brother and I off at Sunday school and then Hebrew school for years, never attending any meeting or event at our synagogue. Yet here I am, the child who was dropped off. I truly believe my love of Judaism began in Mrs. Kalmanson's Sunday school class.
We never know in life who will inspire us. We never know what pieces of the puzzle of life will frame and shape our lives. Certainly two teachers of my past did that for me and there are hundreds of other students. I'm sure teachers always wonder whatever happens to the children they taught. I am grateful that I had the opportunity this week to say to Carmella Kalmanson "I am a child whose life you inspired."Here's to the teachers who truly shape our lives.
This Shabbat let's remember all the
teachers who truly shape our lives.
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Margie & Edna nee Ceisler
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Margie &
Carmella Kalmanson
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Margie
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Come to Convention 2020 in Schaumburg, Illinois!
Sunday, July 12 - Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg
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CONVENTION REGISTRATION OPENED ONLINE
Check out the different packages being offered / get the early bird rate!
Go to the Women's League website - WLCJ.ORG - and Login to the member's area. (Click Login at upper right of screen and enter your email address and password where directed.) Need your password or help with login, contact Razel rkessler@wlcj.org or 212-870-1263
https://www.wlcjmembers.org/convention2020/index.php
READ ABOUT THE LATEST SPEAKER FOR WLCJ CONVENTION 2020!
*Special message for WLCJ Board of Directors at the end of this newsletter.
From Illene Rubin, Convention 2020 Program Vice Chair
The Convention Program Committee says
Todah Rabah to our Social Action team:
Social Action/Justice is always a featured part of convention. Our team is placing an emphasis on this aspect as well. Our opening panel "Why advocacy? History, DNA or Both?" will be moderated by Rabbi Cheryl Peretz and will feature how and why it is the obligation of women to empower other women! Our Stand Strong concert (featuring Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro, Hazzan Raquel Pomerantz Gershon and Laurie Akers) immediately following will bring energy to this mission - a very exciting opening to our Convention!
Our sisterhood and region chairs will present ideas for social action projects, including guidelines for the WLCJ Resolutions writing process. And, of course, we will present our t-shirt bags and fleece blankets to The ARK at our final plenary on Tuesday (following Jewels in the Crown). All in all, you will take home many ideas for your sisterhoods social action teams!
Check out two of our upcoming
Convention 2020 Social Justice projects
with
The Ark Chicago
here
and
here
in these new videos by WLCJ's Rachel Ferber and Edna Schrank, and don't forget to share with your friends on Facebook!
Agnes Emert Marjorie Fuhrmann Edna Schrank Ardis Wexler
Agnes Emert
Past PSW Region President, Current Shabbat Bulletin Chair (region), Intl' WL VP, Assessment & Evaluation Chair
Loves Convention because: It is the GIFT I give myself - well deserved and very much appreciated! There is nothing more exhilarating than spending 4 days with the most active, vital, powerful, determined, feisty, diverse and intelligent women who share your values, your dreams and hopes for the future, and your passion for Judaism. And, know how to have FUN!
Marjorie E. Kossoy Fuhrmann
Seaboard Region Torah Fund Chair and Executive Committee Member
Women's League Social Action Chair and Board member
When I attended my first convention, I didn't go with a roommate. While there, I met Sharon of BQLI Region as I wandered around the vendor area. We talked as we walked and realized we were fast becoming friends. Sharon and I have roomed together at each convention since. By attending conventions, my circle of friends has grown. My husband and I moved from Long Island to Maryland; I had a group of ready-made friends whom I had met over the years at conventions. Conventions equal friendships to me. Some of these women I see only at convention, but it doesn't matter. We embrace and pick up where we left off. This is why I love conventions.
Edna Schrank
International Torah Fund Planned Giving Chair (Torah Fund Legacy Society) and a proud member of TFLS Immediate Past President Central Great Lakes Region, Past Sisterhood President Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood-Northbrook, IL
Loves Convention because: for the camaraderie and sisterhood of our members. I have made good friends at the four Conventions I have attended and am looking forward to seeing these friends and making new ones. I love that we have a wonderful common interest in Women's League and perpetuating our Conservative Movement with our support of Torah Fund. I learn so much that will help me in my leadership role within WLCJ, Region, and Sisterhood and personally. Attending WLCJ Convention is a gift that I give to myself. I have the distinction of breaking my foot at the first Convention I attended in Baltimore.
Ardis Wexler
Immediate Past President IntraContinental Region: member of Resolutions Committee
Loves Convention because: Attending the International Convention is an opportunity to meet with like-minded women who have come to learn, share and experience a different approach to Sisterhood.
*Message for Women's League Board of Directors
When you register, please be aware of separate pricing for Convention (Sunday 3:30 pm to
Tuesday 5:00PM) Shabbat experience and for a post-Convention leadership day Wednesday called
Continuing the Journey.
All members of the International Board of Directors should plan to stay for Tuesday night through Wednesday morning for a Board of Directors meeting. The meeting will end by noon.
Shabbaton package begins with services and dinner on Friday night at a local synagogue. Saturday breakfast and dinner at hotel with services and Kiddush lunch at same local synagogue. Programming Shabbat afternoon and Havdalah included at hotel.
See Convention website for pricing.
Airline reservations should be made for late Wednesday afternoon to ensure that you have enough time to travel to airport (O'Hare 30-45 minutes /Midway 45-60 minutes).
Hotel reservations should be made separately through the link on the Convention website. Prices are based on double occupancy.
If you need help registering, please call Razel in the Women's League office at 1-212-870-1260.
I am happy to answer any questions you have. Call me at 610-324-7940.
Looking forward to journeying together with you,
Debbi Kaner Goldich
Convention 2020 Chair
Calling all Sisterhood Presidents, both new and experienced!
Our Sisterhood Presidents' Zoom calls will help you navigate a path through the world of Women's League.
Our Zoom calls are designed for you to discover the essence of Convention and why so many of us are so excited to be spending three days with like-minded Jewish women from all over North America. Just think...you have the chance to meet other Sisterhood Presidents from the comfort of your home before Convention, so you will have new friends waiting for you when you get to Chicago. This is also YOUR opportunity to let us know what tools you feel you need so that you can return to your sisterhoods feeling energized and confident. We aim to please!
Click here for the recording of the first session held on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Convention Starts NOW - I Did Not Know That!
Registration is now open for the following Sisterhood Presidents' Zoom Calls:
Convention Starts NOW! We have a website? Thurs., March 5, 8pm Eastern
Register HERE
Convention Starts NOW! You Found It Where?
Wed., April 22, 8pm Eastern Register HERE
Applications for the
2020 Jewels in the Crown Awards
are online! Has your sisterhood offered an exceptional program that nurtures and sustains Jewish life?
All Materials are under folder 5A.
Mishnah Berakhot, Chapter Six
with Rabbi Pamela Barmash,
Thursday, February 27, 2020, at 8 p.m., EST.
Rabbi Pamela Barmash, Ph.D., has served on the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly since 2003 and on the Joint Beit Din of the Conservative Movement since 2008. She is co-chair of the new Disabilities Inclusion Committee of the Rabbinical Assembly. She served as the rabbi at Temple Shaare Tefilah, Norwood, Massachusetts, for eight years, and she taught at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem for many summers. She received her B.A. from Yale, rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. from Harvard. Rabbi Barmash is professor of Hebrew Bible at Washington University in St. Louis and has served as director of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies there. She has been a fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In her rabbinic writing, she wants to inspire more Jews to observe more mitzvot, and she is the author of teshuvot (rabbinic papers) on contemporary issues in Judaism. In her academic scholarship, she addresses issues of law and justice in her book
Homicide in the Biblical World and shows how Jews have transformed the story of the Exodus and the celebration of Passover to meet changing needs and concerns in
Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations.
Rabbi Ellen Wolintz-Fields
Executive Director
Weekly Words of Torah goes PC (Parashah and Chesed) -
Parashat Mishpatim / Shabbat Shekalim (Shabbat 2/22/2020)
The following is a summary of
Parashat Mishpatim: After announcing the core Ten Commandments, God has Moses teach the Jewish people a basic law code which elaborates on what they have already heard. For example, there are teachings about criminal law, as well as civil law, for example, rules for owning slaves. There are laws about personal injury, and property damage. Furthermore, there are ethical commands, such as laws forbidding the oppression of the powerless, the
mitzvah of lending to the poor and other social codes, as well as ritual laws, such as the laws of the sabbatical year, called
Shemittah, and laws pertaining to Shabbat and Holidays.
B'nai Yisrael, the Children of Israel accept the law and Moses goes up to Mount Sinai alone to receive the stone tablets, remaining there for forty days and forty nights.
Parashat Mishpatim teaches, "If you lend money to any of My people, even the poor that are with you, you should not act toward him/her as a creditor, nor shall you charge him/her interest." (Exodus 22:24). This Torah verse was the reason why there has been the creation of free loan societies in the Jewish community, to help those in need. The free loan societies work to preserve the dignity of the poor, and those in need. Often it is very hard to ask for help, for the simplest, most personal items. A Chesed project for this week, is to collect sanitary napkins, tampons, new underwear, and incontinence underwear, for those who may not be able to afford to purchase, and do not want to ask. Perhaps these items can be placed somewhere, easily accessible, so that people who are in need, can obtain what they need, while maintaining their dignity, and do not need to ask.
Would you like to borrow the WLCJ Megillah for your shul this Purim ?
Our beautiful WLCJ Megillat Esther is available to borrow for Purim 2020.
Rabbi Hannah Klepansky was our scribe. Each year we make this offer to our local Sisterhoods/ Synagogues.
It must be picked up in the New York office and returned accordingly after the holiday. This is obviously a "first come first serve" offer.
Purim is March 9-10, 2020.
If you are interested please contact Razel ASAP in the New York office.
Rabbi Ellen Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director of Women's League for Conservative Judaism will be at the AIPAC Policy confernece in Washington, D.C., March 1-3, 2020.
If any Women's League member plans to attend please email Rabbi Wolintz-Fields ewolintz-fields@wlcj.org or contact the Women's Office
and share your cell phone number so you will be able to get together at the conference
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Why is it important to vote for Mercaz?
The election for the World Zionist Congress began on January 21, 2020. Vote for the Conservative Movement by casting your ballot for MERCAZ - SLATE #6.
Voting ends March 11, 2020.
Click here to vote.
Or you can vote by texting the word "VOTE" to 917-336-1162.
This election is the only direct voice we have in Israel. Once every five years we have the chance to send a clear message to leaders in Israel that egalitarianism, inclusivity, pluralism, democracy and equality are critical to creating a strong and vibrant Israel. This is a crucial opportunity for Jews in the Diaspora -- and particularly Jews in the United States -- to make our voices heard to support Masorti (Conservative) Judaism in Israel by voting for the MERCAZ Slate.
A strong showing for MERCAZ - Slate #6 will help us achieve three very specific objectives:
1- It will send a clear and undeniable message to the leaders that pluralism, democracy and equality are critical to creating a strong and vibrant Israel, and that there is support for this position from the American Jewish community.
2- By casting your vote for MERCAZ, you will ensure that we will get our fair share of the $1 billion dollars in funding for programs, both in Israel and around the world. These are critical dollars that grow our movement and make sure our voice is heard!
3- Finally, the strength of our numbers will help determine leadership roles within important organizations - another way in which we can strengthen our influence and position in Israel.
TO ALL CANADIAN MEMBERS OF INR & WOMEN'S LEAGUE:
Did you know we are in the last phases of a crucial membership campaign? We have until FEBRUARY 27, 2020 to become a member of MERCAZ-CANADA because only those who are already members will be eligible to vote in the upcoming Canadian Zionist Federation election in the Spring.
We are grateful to those who have already included
MERCAZ
membership in their annual dues payments this year, so this message is written to encourage all of you who have not yet joined, to become part of
MERCAZ-CANADA
, our Masorti/Conservative Movement's party to the World Zionist Congress. You know, that Congress started by Theodore Herzl in Basel Switzerland 122 years ago - the Congress that laid the foundations for the modern State of Israel.
Through MERCAZ-CANADA and its affiliation with MERCAZ OLAMI (worldwide), we Canadian Masorti/Conservative Jews have a voice in the national institutions of the Jewish People: The World Zionist Organization(WZO), The Jewish Agency for Israel(JAFI) and Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael (The Jewish National Fund).
The stronger our MERCAZ-CANADA membership list, the more delegates we have proportionally to the other members of the Zionist Federation of Canada and the larger our percentage of leadership in the Congress. This impacts our ability as Conservative Jews to appoint leaders to the boards of the national institutions and allows us to influence the agenda, priorities and budgetary allocations.
Currently, the budgetary allocations amount to approximately four million USD, and we benefit as part of other projects and programs as well. In Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia and South America, funds support schools and education, youth movements, rabbis, life-cycle events, Jewish ritual, learning and conversions, synagogues, holiday celebrations, summer camps, young adult programming, Israel experiences and building relationships with local leadership to combat anti-Semitism. In Israel. funds also support the Tali school system, rabbis working in more than 80 Masorti communities, our Israeli youth movement (NOAM), young adult engagement (MAROM), the Conservative Yeshiva and more. In Canada, we benefit not only from these funds, but from our work with shlichim, shinshinim, educational programs, communal Israel activities, scholarships to Israel, gap year programs, MASA, Onward Israel and more.
Through MERCAZ-CANADA, we also advocate for religious Jewish pluralism in Israel with regard to marriage, conversion, the Kotel Agreement and public funding of communal institutions and rabbis. We support programs and initiatives to build bridges between the Diaspora and Israel while maintaining our value of klal Yisrael - the unity of the Jewish People. (Rabbi Wernick,of Beth Tzedec for example, is a member on the Committee for the Unity of the Jewish People.)
That's why
MERCAZ-CANADA
is so important. Adult membership is only $18, or $9 if you are between 18-25 years old. It takes less than five minutes to join and can be done
online
. It's easy.
We sincerely encourage you to join
MERCAZ-CANADA
by February 27 and in so doing, you will help increase our voice, our representation and our impact on the global conversations of the Jewish People.
With warmest wishes and deepest appreciation.
Marilyn Cohen - Past Executive Director of MERCAZ-CANADA & current Board member
Marion Mayman - Past President of MERCAZ-CANADA & current Board member as well as
our representative on JAFI (Jewish A
gency for Israel)
Fran Caine - MERCAZ-CANADA Board member
February Sisterhood Showcase: Vashti's Banquet program
Congregation Neveh Shalom Sisterhood's Purim program for several years has been a "Vashti's Banquet". The name comes from the banquet that Queen Vashti throws when she refuses to be the entertainment for the king and his guests in the story of Megillat Esther, the book we read on Purim. This program includes an opportunity for us to learn about the power of women and the choices we make, based upon the stories of both Esther and Vashti. It also provides an opportunity to gather as women with food, drink, dancing, and henna. We share the event with another Conservative Synagogue in the area. This program is well-attended by all ages of women.
Considerations for choosing a restaurant: We wanted to find a Middle Eastern-style restaurant that can hold a large number of women in a private room. We also need to serve vegetarian-only dishes and want a fixed menu so that we can charge up-front to cover all costs. (We usually add all the costs, divide by the number that we expect to come, and then add a few dollars for non-Sisterhood members. We prorated the charges between our Sisterhoods based on attendance.) The Moroccan restaurant that we chose has good food with several vegetarian choices, a wonderful atmosphere, and was happy to work with us on a fixed-price meal. It is decorated as if you are sitting in a tent, and many of the seats are soft stools at low tables. The restaurant also has a belly dancer, who loves to teach our women a few moves.
Each year, we invite a different Jewish educator (we have used our female rabbi and our sister synagogue's female Education Director) to share her insights at the beginning of the evening. After her talk, we recite Ha'Motzi and begin the meal.
We are lucky that the restaurant already had a belly dancer. If they did not, we would have looked for one. (A member of our community is a trained belly-dancer and we would have asked her first.) We did hire a Henna artist who, with her assistant, gave everyone who wanted Henna tattoos on their hands, wrists, or arms. The program was successful enough that it has been continued for several years.
Your opportunity to enjoy recent Zoom Progams
Personall Conversation: Neshama, with Rabbi Jaymee Alpert
Tefillin with Anne Lapidus Lerner
 Mishnah with Rabbi Chaya Rowen Brown
How To Put On Tefillin with Janet Kirschner
We are pleased to share with you the following information on a publication jointly published by the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University and Indiana University Press.
For subscription information click HERE.
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Shalom friends,
For the first time at Women's League Convention, the Leadership sessions will take place before the Convention officially starts. This will allow all delegates to participate in Convention and not miss personal enrichment and educational sessions because they are in required sessions.
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FROM THE REGION TORAH FUND VICE PRESIDENT--MARILYN COHEN
As you all know, The Schechter Institutes of Jewish Study is one of FIVE educational institutions of higher learning, that Torah Fund supports. I am excited to share with you the latest achievements at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary.
In a festive ceremony filled with music, Torah and song, the
Schechter Rabbinical Seminary
ordained its rabbis, marking 30 years of ordaining Conservative/Masorti rabbis in Israel. The moving ceremony was held December 12, 2019 at Kehillat Moreshet Avraham in Jerusalem. Following three years of training, these three new rabbis, David Arias, Yos Baruch Fromer and Matan Stein, join the leadership of the Masorti Movement, bringing the number of rabbis ordained by the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary to 101!
Creating New Spaces
A Torah Fund Campaign Special Project
NOTE: All Special Projects are fundraising initiatives
over & above the annual Torah Fund campaign.
Both Individuals or sisterhoods may donate
any amount to this project.
Help support the JTS Crossroads Campaign by building a
study space at the new Undergraduate Residence Hall, to be named:
Women's League Study Space.
JTS opens its new campus in the spring of 2020, and
Women's League will be part of this great project, as we have been aproud presence at JTS since 1918!
Help support a special course of training at the Ziegler School of
Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, concerning issues of gender bias and harassment, to be named:
Women's League Institute on Gender Bias & Harassment.
Ziegler is developing a ground-breaking educational program for
its students, to increase their awareness for gender bias and harassment issues.
Women's League is proud to support this program!
On July 1, "Creating New Spaces" or "Spaces," the new
Special Project of the Torah Fund Campaign was launched. Our
"Creating New Spaces" campaign supports the physical and professional needs of our students in exciting new ways!
For more details regarding Creating New Spaces,
please
click here.
WHY GIVE TO OUR "CREATING NEW SPACES"
SPECIAL CAMPAIGN?
BECAUSE OF JTS AND ZIEGLER, tens of thousands of Jewish children discover the joy of being Jewish at day schools, summer camps, congregational schools, JCCs, and other educational settings.
BECAUSE OF JTS AND ZIEGLER, over a hundred thousand Jewish students find vibrant Hillels on their college campuses.
BECAUSE OF JTS AND ZIEGLER, tens of thousands of people in hospitals and hospices find comfort and healing from skillful chaplains who combine the best techniques in pastoral care with the Jewish tradition of
bikkur holim.
BECAUSE OF JTS AND ZIEGLER, over a thousand Jewish organizations across both the US & Canada - synagogues, federations, JCCs, schools, camps, and more - engage North American Jews in support of the land and people of Israel.
Invest in the Jewish communities of tomorrow by giving to the "SPACES" Special Project Campaign today. Thank you.
Marilyn Cohen
INR Torah Fund VP
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NEED HELP?
HELP IS AVAILABLE ON THE WLCJ WEBSITE.
Programs, membership ideas, education material, and more available at wlcj.org
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