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With continued wishes for a happy, healthy New Year
October, 2019
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Greetings!
Women of Rodef Sholom provides you the opportunity for community. Come feel connected and meet some wonderful women. We want to get to know you!
October is here and we are doing so much!
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It's time to renew your Membership for the 2019-2020 year
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You can do it on-line. It's easy!
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10/15 1-3 pm Rodef Sholom Social Hall
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Monthly open Mahj play is usually the first & third Tuesday of every month.
Due to High Holy Days, we will meet only on the 15th this month.
Remember to bring card and sets. All skills welcome!
Let's have fun!
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10/16 7:15-8:15 JCC Library
(3rd Wed. of the month)
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Schedule:
October 16:
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict (also uses the name Heather Terrell)
November 20: Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thorton
December 18: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
January 15: On Division by Goldie Goldbloom (One Bay One Book selection)
To RSVP
CLICK HERE
or Call Alice Miller with questions: 415-381-6792
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Religious School Opening Day
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Members of Sisterhood were at the Opening Day of Religious School to answer questions about WRS. There was also a Gift Shop pop-up where families could do some shopping.
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WRS Opening Event
(Sept 15)
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Planned Parenthood Northern CA
Antonia Landels, Sr. Health Educator/ HIV Educator
and Naeemah A. Charles, Public Affairs Officer.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
This is not just a woman's issue
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This was a well-attended and educational event. The question and answer session was lively and informative. We stand in support of Planned Parenthood.
Thank you to the Programming Committee for doing such a fabulous job!
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Save the Date in November
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SISTERHOOD SHABBAT
November 8 at 6:15 (pre-oneg at 5:45)
This service will be a lovely, spiritual and communal evening of song and prayer lead by the Women of Rodef Sholom. All are welcome to celebrate Shabbat!
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BRCA (Breast and Ovarian Cancer) Event
November 13 at 6:30 pm
Because our health is the most important thing, Congregation Rodef Sholom, in partnership with Congregation Kol Shofar, Marin Brandies School and the Jewish Community Center, will host an event on BRCA. There will be a panel of speakers on this subject and free testing kits will be available.
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Save the Date this Winter
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Curriculum: 10 Commandments
February 20, 27 and March 5
7-8:30 pm
JCC Library
Claire Mikowski, Jewish Education extraordinaire, will be teaching this class. An opportunity to make connections while learning.
Cost of Curriculum is $36 plus shipping
(If cost is a concern, arrangements can be made)
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WANT TO GET INVOLVED BUT DON'T KNOW HOW?
The Women of Rodef Sholom’s Programming and Membership Committees are seeking new volunteers. Volunteering time, energy and passion to these committees is rewarding work! It is also a great way to meet new people, contribute to interesting projects, and give back to our wonderful organization.
Programming Team meeting:
Thurs, Oct 10 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: JCC Library
Topics include, final plans for the Sisterhood Shabbat service and programming for winter events and activities.
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BE OF SERVICE: GIVE A SISTER A RIDE
Some Sisterhood members no longer drive and would still like to come to events. Can you offer a ride to a Sister in need?
If so,
CLICK HERE and Jen Levine will connect you. Thank you for being of service!
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Fall and Winter Hours:
MON - THURS: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
FRI: 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
SUNDAY (most) 10:00 - 12:30
Closed all Saturdays
Or by appointment, call Ingrid: 415-640-7868
As we are solely run by volunteers, call to make sure we're open: 415 444 8098
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Jewelry Galore - New Year gifts for yourself or others!
Bat mitzvahs, birthdays, and with Hanukkah just around the corner, the Gift Shop jewelry has everything you need.
Fantastic Jewish bracelets and necklaces made in America.
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Message from our President
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Dear Women of Rodef Sholom and friends:
Shanah Tovah! Or if you are like me and are a little better with the English in our traditions, Happy New Year, actually, “good year,” a traditional greeting for Rosh Hashanah. I love this time of year, all of it, secular and spiritual: back-to-school, meaningful traditions, a change in the weather (sometimes), intentional introspection, and wonderful time with friends and family.
Hopefully you received (and sent) some sweet honey greetings courtesy of the Women of Rodef Sholom (WRS). Enjoy your honey with apples this New Year, ideally on the beach after Tashlich, the “cast off” ritual during which you ceremoniously shed last year’s regrets by tossing crumbs of bread into water. Tashlich has been our family tradition for many years, after an original invitation from several Rodef Sholom friends. This will actually be the first time none of my children will be home for Rosh Hashanah. While I am generally so excited for them to be experiencing college, two of them for the first time, this season is a reminder of their absence.
Luckily, I have all of you with whom to celebrate, learn, and volunteer! Thank you to all of you who came to the Women of Rodef Sholom’s Opening Event in September and maybe even brought your partner, parents, or students. I was so impressed and inspired by our two speakers from Planned Parenthood, Senior Health Educator Antonia Landels and Public Affairs Officer Naeemah A. Charles. I am also so proud of the WRS, our dynamic broader community, and the Reform Judaism movement in general, for our enduring support of reproductive justice, including the $500 donation the WRS made to Planned Parenthood in gratitude for our two speakers. Of course, I also loved the home baked sweets from the talented and dedicated members of the Women of Rodef Sholom, the pop-up shop and raffle run by our fabulous Gift Shop team, and visiting with you and your families. Thank you to our energetic Programming Committee and volunteers for putting on such a motivational event!
I wish you all a meaningful holiday season; look for me as I greet congregants at the Marin Civic Center on Rosh Hashanah, and please introduce yourself or say hello!
Not long after the High Holy Days on
Friday evening, November 8, at 6:15pm is the Women’s Shabbat
hosted by the Women of Rodef Sholom. Please join us for an evocative, spiritual and song-filled service where we can ALL honor the essential women in our lives: our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our partners, our friends, our clergy and fellow congregants, and so many others.
Without you, we are one woman short.
I can’t wait to see you in person during these High Holy Days, sometimes called the Days of Awe, or at your next Women of Rodef Sholom event.
In peace,
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Jen Levine
President, Women of Rodef Sholom
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Dear Friends,
This past weekend, I was blessed to be able to spend my time with 15 Rodef Sholom families at our annual Family Camp weekend. We celebrated Shabbat together and spent much of the weekend reflecting on our lives and talking about how we wanted to enter the new year. We studied about the month of Elul, learned about shofarot, commemorated Slichot and changed our Torah mantle from colored to white. Our weekend concluded at the beach as we submerged in the Pacific Ocean and came out ready to take on 5780.
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This was the first year in many that I was able to take some time away to reflect and intentionally mark the time as we approach the High Holy Days. Usually filled with the hustle and bustle of the preparations and the rush to get everything done, it is hard to find the time to intentionally prepare and reflect. But this past Sunday morning, standing on the beach and facing the enormity of it all, I felt ready to dive in and go.
I hope that you might be able to find some time during these Holy Days to stop and reflect, to take some time for yourselves, perhaps to take some internal steps (or some actual ones) towards a goal you have or something you would like to change. I hope that you can find some time on what you might like to leave behind in 5779, and what you can look forward to in this new year. Whatever steps you choose to take, I hope that we can all stand up in the new year of 5780 and, just like Abraham in our Rosh Hashanah Torah portion, say “Hineni,” “Here I am,” and work towards goodness together.
Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, and sweet new year.
Shanah tovah,
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Congregation Rodef Sholom
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In the bin this month: In the temple lobby
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October:
Toiletries for the unsheltered to be distributed through Ritter House
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Women of Rodef Sholom unite as part of Congregation Rodef Sholom's contingent to the Marin Organizing Committee's 10th Anniversary Convention on 10/27 from 3-5 at the Marin Civic Center Exhibit Hall.
Each one of us alone might not be able change how things are done, but together, through organizing, we have a seat at decision making tables.
Join us as we determine which issues we are going to focus on as we look toward the future to create a welcoming and inclusive community in our county.
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WRS New Minhag (custom)
"Heal Her Now" SCARFS
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El na, refah na lah (Please God, heal her now)
From Numbers 12:13 -
Then Moses cried to the LORD, "Heal her now, O God."
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The Women of Rodef Sholom has a new minhag (custom) which was introduced and created at the WRS Retreat this year. Beautiful hand-made silk scarfs were produced, wrapped in Mishaberach prayers while holding the Torah, and adorned with healing prayers and love.
When a woman in our Congregation has a very serious illness, she will be presented with a "Heal Her Now" Scarf as a gift from the Women of Rodef Sholom. Rabbi Stacy has the box of scarfs.
Sharing this kind of loving kindness, refu’ah sh’leymah (complete healing), and Torah, is what Sisterhood is all about.
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We solemnly pray that you never need one of these scarfs. However, if you do, please contact Rabbi Stacy or
wrs@rodefsholom.org
and you will be wrapped in healing love.
El na, refah na lah (Please God, heal her now)!
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