CENTRAL GREAT LAKES REGION

Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania

Laurie B. Davis
CGLR President

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What are you doing next December 12-15? 

You're invited to four fabulous days in Baltimore. . .

 WOMEN'S LEAGUE CONVENTION IS COMING!
 Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to join with hundreds
of women in a four-day celebration of community!

  • Toast the winners of the Jewels in the Crown Award

  • Enoy a gala Vashti’s Banquet unlike any party you’ve ever seen 

  • Experience Women’s League programs in action  

  • Learn from Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Sharon Keller, an expert on the Bible and Ancient Near East and favorite Women's League instructor  

  • Express yourself at the creative Judaic arts open studio  

  • Visit the daily Authors Salon  

  • Be inspired at the pre-convention Shabbaton 

  • Shop in a fabulous vendors hall  

  • Sign up for pre-convention tours of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the new Newseum, historic homes of Baltimore, and Jewish Baltimore  

  • For your convenience: an installment payment plan, online registration help team, travel insurance, discounted parking  

  • Support Women's League by supporting our virtual journal, which will be online until next convention 

FEATURED SPEAKERS
Dr. Arnold Eisen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies

Celebrating Community Panelists
Rabbi Avis Miller, president of Open Dor Foundation, Inc., offering outreach through counseling and classes, and Rabbi Emerita of Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, DC.
Rabbi Debra Reed Blank, Ph.D., a visiting scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, is writing a book about the historical development of contemporary Jewish birth rituals for girls.
Rabbi Myrna Matsa, Ph.D. is presently rabbinic pastoral counselor for the Hurricane Katrina Response Recovery.
Margie Miller, Women’s League vice president and trainer, was the family outreach and adult program coordinator, WTC Family Center, South Nassau Communities Hospital

Registration is online and easy. Click here.

To support our virtual journal, click here.

News & Events

Revised Virtual Rosh Chodesh Discussion [July 2010]

The newly designed virtual rosh chodesh community is up and running as a Yahoo group! Not only is the format new, but it features a new moderator, Rhonda Rosenheck. click here


Books for All 7,000 Baltimore Third Graders [March 2010]

Women’s League for Conservative Judaism will be linking the twin Jewish values of study and tzedakah at its biennial convention, slated for December 12-15, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, when women from around the world will personalize the convention theme of celebrating community. click here


Cory Schneider Reflects on the World Zionist Congress [June 23, 2010]

Women's League President Corey Schneider reflects on her week spent as part of the Mercaz delegation to the 36th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem. click here

 

 

GOOD SHOPPING = GOOD DEEDS FOR WOMEN’S LEAGUE

Do you like to shop? Do you like to shop online? Now you can shop or search online and support Women’s League for Conservative Judaism at the same time - all without spending an extra penny! Simply add GoodShop to your computer’s toolbar and you will be helping Women’s League whenever you use your computer to search or shop.

GOOD SHOP will donate a percentage of your purchases to Women’s League when you choose from the more than 1300 stores that are part of its online marketplace. Your shopping experience is exactly the same as going directly to a retailer’s website.  Every time you search the internet using GOOD SEARCH’s toolbar, a penny is donated to Women’s League. (By the way, it is powered by yahoo so you get great search results.)

It’s easy. Simply add the GoodShop to your tool bar. Once added to your Internet Explorer or Firefox, when you click on it to shop (at stores from Amazon to Zazzle) a percentage of your purchase automatically will be donated to Women’s League, at no cost to you. And you might even save money since the toolbar provides hundreds of great coupons and deals! 

It only takes two minutes to upload the GoodShop buttons to your toolbar:
http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/womens-league-for-conservative-judaism
Please pass this along to your friends. 

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Get the latest Women's League and region news from our region president, Laurie B. Davis.  Contact Karen Kaufman at karen@kaufmanlawgroup.com to receive the weekly broadcast email.

  

DID YOU KNOW???  Women's League offers you the opportunity to receive via email Ba'Olam, our monthly news roundup that includes articles from news sources across the country and the world and our League Action Alerts, timely information about advocacy on public policy issues related to our Women's League resolutions.  

You are also invited to join WLCJNet, a vibrant discussion group about world events, sisterhood events, news about the Conservative/Masorti movement, etc.  

Please email Lorraine Braun at the Women's League office to sign up for Ba'Olam, Action Alerts and/or the WLCJNet.  Lorraine's email is lbraun@wlcj.org.

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