Southern Region
Women's League for Conservative Judaism
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Southern Region
Office
Barbara Ezring, President
6726 Folger Drive
Charlotte, NC 28270
Phone 704-362-4905
Cell 704-607-7195
bezring@bellsouth.net
Website Updates Oct. '08
B’ruchot HaBa’ot
Welcome to Southern Region, Women’s League for Conservative Judaism.
In the beginning, 1958, we were a "Branch in Training". Eleven Sisterhoods participated in our first conference in 1959 where Phyllis Weinstein was chosen to be our leader. Women’s League officially accepted us as a Branch at Convention 1960 and Phyllis Weinstein became our first president. We continued to change, becoming Southern Region in 2007, and to grow, welcoming in 2008, our newest affiliate transferring from Seaboard Region, Beth David Sisterhood, Greensboro, North Carolina. Today, we encompass the great states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee with 25 Sisterhood affiliates.
Our mission is to serve as a connection between Women’s League and its affiliates and members and to provide services that will strengthen our Sisterhoods.
With Strength & Splendor: Jewish Women as Agents of Change
With Strength and Splendor is an engrossing look at 48 Jewish women who have made significant-- and often overlooked-- contributions to modern live. Author Lisa Kogen, Women's League Education Director, presents such fascinating stories as that of silent film vamp Theda Bara; award-winning children's author Judy Blume; Frances Slanger, the army nurse who was the first female casualty after D-Day; fashion icon Carrie Marcus Neiman; Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg; and dozens more.
You will laugh, you will cry, you will be surprised, and you will be in awe. Additional sidebars feature unusual and often humorous complementary information. Find out about the Barbie Dolls that offended, crazy fad diets, banned children's books, and birth control methods from the pantry and garden.
You'll find a bit of your Grandma Rose, you mama and Aunt Tessie. And your Jodi or Sydney or Talia will find the inspiration to dream dreams and to act on them.
You can order your copy at the pre-publication price of $29.95, by calling 212.870.1260, extension 7165#.
Women's League for Conservative Judaism
Women's League for Conservative Judaism is organized to further the preservation of traditional Judaism and recognizes that the home, the synagogue and its religious school are necessary to reach those goals. Women's League for Conservative Judaism, as a religious organization affiliated with the Conservative Movement, recognizes its responsibility to its membership to formulate ideals of leadership, which can serve as a standard toward which we can all serve.
In this spirit, the following cornerstones of commitment and observance, consistent with the halakha of the Conservative Movement, are set forth: Israel, Jewish Study, Kashrut, Shabbat and Yom Tov, Synagogue, and Tz'dakah.