Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 25th of Elul 5785

Highlights for this week''s Women's League newsletter:

2025-2026

2nd Tuesdays of each month

7:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm PT

Dates: Oct 21 · Nov 11 · Dec 9 · Jan 13 · Feb 10 · Mar 10 · Apr 14 · May 12 · Jun 9

Meet this year's faculty:

Meet the instructors and see what they’ll be teaching – click here.

Join us as we continue our three-year educational journey with Mathilde's Master Class, open to WLCJ members.

This year our theme is Women’s Voices in Ritual. Our amazing group of instructors will be exploring how we can incorporate our voices in liturgy, life cycle events, (how to create) rituals and conclude with a discussion on how we as individuals can find our own Jewish voices.

Fran Hildebrandt
fhildebrandt@wlcj.org

WLCJ International Vice President and Kehilah/Education Chair 

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

7:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm PT

How does a globe-trotting executive combine her career and Jewish identity?

Can you live a meaningful Jewish life while singing Christmas carols, coaching vampires, and touring the world with SpongeBob?

Aviva B. Ezring has done exactly that, balancing faith and tradition with a dynamic career managing live entertainment and global attractions. Aviva is an Individual Member of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism and the daughter of longtime Women’s League leader Barbara Ezring and Rabbi Murray Ezring.

Join us for a compelling conversation on identity, belief, and finding meaning in unexpected places.

Susan Farber                  Vivian Leber

sfarber@wlcj.org           vleber@wlcj.org

WLCJ Individual Membership Co-Chairs

Doreen Bornfreund

dbornfreund@wlcj.org

WLCJ International Vice President & Membership Chair

Sunday, November 23, 2025

7:00 pm ET / 4:00 pm PT

Tova Mirvis is the author of the memoir The Book of Separation as well as three novels, Visible City, The Outside World, and The Ladies Auxiliary, which was a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Real Simple, and her fiction has been broadcast on NPR.

Inspired by a true story, We Would Never is a gripping mystery, an intimate family drama, and a provocative exploration of loyalty, betrayal, and the blurred line between protecting and forsaking the ones we love most.

Read along with your sisters and join WL Reads for a discussion with Tova Mirvis on Sunday, November 23rd at 7:00 pm Eastern Time. Even if you haven’t had the opportunity to read the book by then, join us anyway. It will undoubtedly engage your attention.

Karen Block

WL Reads Chair

kblock@wlcj.org

Still need to register?

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Central Great Lakes Region

Oct 26, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET

Join our Central Great Lakes Region Sisters for a dynamic discussion, focusing on how to talk with those of different views on Jews & Israel - A U.S. lens.

Does your Region/Sisterhood Affiliate have any upcoming programs that are virtual or hybrid?

If so, please send the details to info@wlcj.org so we can include them in an upcoming edition of WL Week.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday

12 noon ET, 9am PT, 10am MT, and 11am CT

A virtual service for our WLCJ Sisters to recite Mishaberach (the Prayer for Healing) and Psalms, and study Kaddish.

There is NO Makom on Tues., Sept. 23rd and Weds. Sept. 24th.

Zoom link can be found in WL Week. Please email info@wlcj.org if you are not in our mailing list.

The WWOT, the Weekly Words of Torah, each week through the end of June 2026, will connect to the 2025-2026 / 5786 Torah Fund general campaign, Oseh Shalom – Maker of Peace. To read more Weekly Words of Torah, click here.

Parashat Nitzavim | September 20, 2025

This short parashah is always read on the Shabbat preceding Rosh Hashanah.

Moses has called the entire nation together as he concludes his final speech to them. The men of Israel, their children, their wives, and the strangers who live among them are all gathered as one people to enter into the covenant with God [Deuteronomy 29:9-11]. They will be fulfilling the promise that God had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses says that this covenant is being made not only with those who are physically present, but also with those who are not: all the future generations of Jews not yet born [29:12-14] . . .

Oseh Shalom – Maker of Peace

Oseh Shalom Bimromav, “may the One who makes peace in the heavens, make peace for us and all the people of Israel,” appears at the end of Kaddish and in other prayers, and is also a song. We help foster Jewish unity by our support of the five global Conservative/Masorti institutes of higher education. 

Click the image to read Torah Fund’s message about the Creating New Spaces campaign!

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