Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | 9th of Tishrei, 5786

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 

3-Part Series

שׂיחוֹת בֵּין אָחַיוֹת, Sichot beyn Achayot means “conversations between sisters.” This program is designed to foster a deeper mutual understanding between the Masorti women in Israel and those in other countries around the globe. It is designed to address the question, “How are we the same, and how are we different?” The theme of this year’s program is: 

עושה שלום, Maker of Peace 

The three sessions will each concentrate on one specific aspect of the contemporary quest for peace both personal and universal and will include presentations from speakers in both North America and Israel.

Rabbi Margie Cella

mcella@wlcj.org

WLCJ Educator

Session Two

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Making Peace With Others

19:00 Israel Time | 12:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM CT | 10:00 AM MT | 9:00 AM PT

עושה שלום, עזור לנו להשכין שלום בינינו לבין אחרים

Oseh shalom, azor lanu lehashkin shalom beyneynu l’veyn acherim

Maker of Peace, help us to make peace between ourselves and others

God commands us to love the stranger as ourselves. How do we learn to acknowledge and accommodate the needs of others without ignoring our own? How can we support those whose lives have been shattered by war? And what would our world look like if we could strive for the peace of others as much as our own?

Speakers

Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Co-Chair of the Racial Justice Subcommittee of the Conservative Movement's Social Justice Commission Conflict Mediation

Topic: Conflict Mediation Through a Jewish Lens

Linda Avitan, MSW,  Board Member Women of the Wall

Topic: History and Development of the Women of the Wall

Tamar Heimowitz-Richter, Co-founder and Chair, GFIDF–The Partners of Unmarried Fallen Soldiers of the IDF

Topic: GFIDF - How it Supports the Women (and Men) whose Partners were Lost in Battle

Rabbi Dorothy Richman

Topic: Blessing Practice

Still need to register?

Click the image to explore each program series on Zoom. We’d love to have you join us!

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 B'Yachad on Wednesday, October 1st, Tuesday, October 7th & Wednesday, October 8th.

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 Ha-azinu | October 4, 2025

This penultimate parashah of the Torah is Moses’ final song to the nation. In it, he offers praise to God for all that God has done for the nation and exhorts the people once again to remain faithful to God.

The central theme of Moses’ prayer is connected to ears and hearing. Moses begins by calling both the heavens and the earth to give ear to his words [Deuteronomy 32:1]. The word ha-azinu literally asks that the heavens make themselves into ears (oznaiim) after he is gone, to listen in as witnesses to all we do and experience. Speaking to the earth, Moses uses the word tishma—hear. The heavens and the earth, brought into being at the very beginning of God’s creation, will stand as eternal witnesses to the covenant forged between God and Israel . . .

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. 

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