| Sisterhood Celebrates Another Successful Year
Sisterhood celebrated the accomplishments of our wonderful
board and volunteers at my house on June 9 as your continuing
President. We also installed a new board of amazing women
to carry on our work in the coming year. Thanks again go
to my Co-President Deb Dreyfuss-Tuchman for all she has done
for Sisterhood over the past two years. She has taught me
a lot about leadership and I plan to lean on her as I go
it alone as President this year. We also said our final farewells
to Rabbi Greenberg. We will miss her deeply and wish her
every success and happiness in her new endeavors.
June 19 was Area Day for local temple Sisterhoods. This
year's theme, "The Women - The Wall: Taking Down Barriers
and Jewish Pluralism in Israel," featured Marlene Dodinval,
Great Lakes Regional Director of ARZA. Area Day is a great
chance for local Sisterhood women to exchange ideas and brainstorm
new ways we can work together. Area Day also reminds us that
we are part of a larger community of women through the Women
of Reform Judaism (WRJ). WRJ is the women's affiliate of
the Union for Reform Judaism, the central body of Reform
Judaism in North America. Through our dues and fundraising,
Temple Jeremiah Sisterhood supports the WRJ's work to educate
and train Sisterhood and congregational leadership and to
provide financial support to rabbinical students at Hebrew
Union College, youth programs and programs benefiting women
and children in Israel and the Former Soviet Union.
Sisterhood is deeply grateful to its members. In addition
to supporting the WRJ, your dues payments support vital programs
for women like the Women's Seder, Sisterhood Shabbat and
Sisterhood Nights Out. They also provide financial support
for temple programs such as the Youth Department, College
Connection, Purim Carnival, Yom Kippur Break the Fast, Social
Action Committee projects and much more. We really can (and
do) accomplish so much by working together! Thank you for
a great year and best wishes for a safe and soothing summer.
I hope to see you around temple!
- Gayle Edmunds
Sisterhood President
- Re-printed from the July 2010 Covenant
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