A Brief Message from our
President about Convention:
WOW!! I am not sure what
to say!!!! Are you still wearing your boas and crowns?? Women's League
Conventions always offer information, learning, community and empowerment and
this one was no exception. For the next weeks, all the delegates will be
processing their experiences and, I hope, sharing them with all of us in
future messages. I thank all of you who shared my experience of the Baltimore
convention-- sisters -- one and all!!
- Congratulation again to
the "Jewels in the Crown" winners! Frame the certificates and put them
somewhere in your buildings for all to see!
- Books for Baltimore was a
tremendous success--11800 books for pre K and 3rd graders in the Baltimore
City schools. Seaboard was a big part of it! Check out this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ma36DcGRAg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
and try not to be farklempt!
By the way, if you want a community service for your city, this can be
duplicated.
Remember to send
your notes from the Convention to me for upcoming Shabbat Messages!
More news at Jewel in the Crown and Books for Baltimore sections under Around
the Region.
eBay and Torah Fund
A NEW WAY
TO SUPPORT AN IMPORTANT CAUSE!
Torah Fund
has partnered with eBay to raise funds to benefit Torah Fund’s campaigns
and support scholarship projects at the four rabbinical schools. It is easy to
do.
- Select the item
you want to sell. If you have a digital camera, take pictures of the item. It
helps to sell it.
- Register as a
seller at eBay (www.ebay.com), designating Torah Fund
as your charity choice, when asked. You’ll need to pick a user name and password
(just like when you created your email address). You must select the long form
of registration.
- You’ll be asked
to select a donation percentage (10% - 100%) that will be given to Torah Fund
from the proceeds of the sale.
- Create a brief
description and post this information to your listing as directed on the eBay
site. The key words selected are important in directing people to your item.
- When you’re
notified by eBay that someone has bought your item, wait for payment to arrive
before sending the item to the buyer. Then wrap the item and ship it off. The
buyer has paid the shipping costs. (There’s help on the eBay site to determine
the shipping costs.)
- If you don’t
want to wrap it yourself, take it to a service store (e.g. UPS).
- Send the
donation percentage to MissionFish, the company that processes these funds for
eBay, when asked. Torah Fund receives your donation from MissionFish.
- You keep the
remaining proceeds of the sale, if any.
That’s it— your mitzvah
is completed. Mission Fish, eBay’s agent, will provide you with a tax receipt
for your taxes when you ask for it. Easy stuff!
Your region Torah Fund volunteers are available to help you as well as Torah
Fund staff. Also, eBay has a number of help areas and people who can help you
with your sale. Your region Torah Fund vice president has a disc available that
explains this process step by step. Ask for it!
Immediate News of the Region!
Circle your synagogue and sisterhood
calendars with Sunday, March 27th for a "town
meeting" to be held in the southern part of Seaboard and
May 22/23 for the annual Conference
to be held in Fairfax VA at Olam Tikvah.
One empowerment tool is still available
this winter! One last pitch for the winter Women's League Leadership
Institute is being held in Atlanta, GA on January
23-25. It is an inspiring three days to grow as a Sisterhood woman.
You can apply for the Seaboard Region Zelda D. Dick Scholarship Award to
assist with the finances along with any support your Sisterhood can provide.
Contact me right away with names and numbers!!!!!
Torah Fund has an alternative to
shalach manot for your friends and family too far away to deliver a
basket of goodies. Purim
greeting cards are available in packets of five for $25 per packet ($5
donation per card). For more information, contact Lynn Lichtig, Region
President.
Remember to use the wlcj.org
website! Tu B'Shevat ideas and materials, Sisterhood Shabbat and
installation scripts are available there!
Important request from the
Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project:
The Poland Jewish Cemeteries
Restoration Project, Inc. (PJCRP) began in May 2001 with the restoration of the
Ozarow cemetery (http://www.ozarow.org).
Since then, PJCRP Shtetl donors in many countries are volunteering to
reconstruct and preserve Poland's 1400 Jewish cemeteries and fence the large
number of mass graves. This requires the participation internationally of
governments, foundations, and individuals. Cemetery restoration in Poland is
about remembering and honoring those who were murdered in the Shoah and keeping
the lessons of the Shoah alive to younger generations.
You and your sisterhoods can
help! Please sign the online petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/1200des/petition.html asking the German
government to pay its share of the costs for restoration and perennial care of
the 1200 Jewish cemeteries which German forces destroyed and the thousands of
mass graves they created in Poland during World War II.
Contact your synagogue, federation and local
board of rabbis and ask them to send a brief letter of support for the petition
to
nweinberg@roadrunner.com. Already on the impressive list of organizations
supporting the petition are the Jewish National Fund (representing over 1
million Jewish supporters) and the city of Lodz (representing over 300,000
Poles).
Women’s League for Conservative
Judaism will be added to the list. Won’t you help by asking your synagogue, day
school, JCC, and sisterhood to add their names? We have the potential of adding
tens of thousands of names to the list.
Copies of the petition will be presented by Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi
of Poland, to the ambassadors to the United States from Germany, Poland and
Israel in late January/early February 2010; therefore time is of the essence.
To learn more about PJCRP, go to:
http://www.pjcrp.org/menu_eng.html.
Here's a painless way for you to support the good works of
our organization... With our many members and supporters, pennies can turn into
significant dollars to support Women League’s vital work. Each time you use
Goodsearch.com, the Yahoo-powered search engine will donate half its advertising
revenue, approximately a penny per search, to the charity(ies) you designate.
Use it as you would any search engine. Simply designate Women's League as your
charity of choice, womensleagueofconservativejudaism! All you have to do is use
this site to search as you would use Google, or Bing, or any other search
engine. There's nothing to buy or sign. Not bad, huh?
Let me tell you more about GoodShop.com. It's an online
shopping mall that operates just like the neighborhood mall down the street. A
percentage of the amount you spend, when you purchase through GoodShop, will be
donated to your designated charity. Please designate Women's League. There are
hundreds of great stores to choose from, including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best
Buy, eBay (a double mitzot by supporting Torah Fund too if you select an item
that designates a portion to be donated to Torah Fund), Macy's and/or Barnes &
Noble. Each time you order from these online stores through GoodShop.com, you
can choose to benefit Women's League. Again, totally easy.
Additionally, when you download the GoodSearch – Women's
League of Conservative Judaism toolbar, Women's League will receive funds every
time you shop and search online - even if you forget to go to GoodShop or
GoodSearch first! Add the Women's League of Conservative Judaism toolbar at
www.goodsearch.com please.
We have been privileged throughout
the years to have many talented women contribute creative projects for the
Creative Judaic Arts area of Women's League. The CJA committee has been working
very hard this year at converting as many projects as possible from the paper
format to the computer age. Please check out all of the new patterns that have
recently been added to the CJA page of the web site. Use them for sisterhood
programming!
Women's League has now started a Virtual
Rosh Hodesh Group.
Contact Information
- Electronic mail
- General Information:
seaboardregionpresident@gmail.com
Webmaster:
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