Judaica Shoppe

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Matza trays & covers, books, horseradish dishes, paper goods, seder plates, coloring mats & games for kids, etc. If we don’t have what you need in our Shoppe, go to Judaicabeautiful.com, our on-line partners.

Wedding or Bar/Bat Mitzvah?…… Sign up on our Gift Registry

JudaicaBeautiful Comes to CEEBJ

Shop on-line for gifts and benefit the WOE Judaica Shoppe at the same time. Look for the icon on the www.ceebj.org home page or click the icon above. You will find thousands of the finest Judaica products from the best artists in US and Israel. There are items for the home, jewelry, books, music, toys, ritual, holidays as well as the ability to start a CUSTOM REGISTRY for a wedding, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah and baby gifts.

This is an additional service to our Judaica Shoppe. All on-line purchases are handled by the professional customer service team, billed and delivered to the customer directly. The WOE will receive 25% of all net sales. Now you and your families can support our organization with every purchase, as long as they first go to www.ceebj.org and then click the link for ceebj.judaicabeautiful.com.

What are we doing?

SAVE THESE DATES:

Tuesday, March 13, 10:30am: Knitting Circle (see article below).

From the President

WOE Ends 2011 on a High Note

The WOE ended 2011 with another busy month of activities. The 4th Annual Mah Jongg Friend’zy was held December 4, with 100 women playing mah jongg to support KOACH and the Jewish Community Food Pantry (our event was noted in Shepard Express). We collected food and raised over $1200 to split between the two organizations. There were surprise double winners of the “Mah Jongg Mavens” crown this year: Marlene Kagen and Miriam Enright (see photos). Congratulations!! Special thanks to my cochair of the event Judy Joseph and to Judy Lerner for her expert treasurer $kill$. Then, on December 8, the WOE and Brotherhood hosted a delicious lunch with homemade bakery at the Staff Appreciation Luncheon. Thank you to Estelle Felber for coordinating the afternoon and to the volunteers who helped setup and bake: Florence Fishman, Nadine Zuckerman, Michelle Dloogoff, and Michael Levin.

On December 9, we all shared a beautiful Shabbat service with the Brotherhood, with our members taking parts with the readings, and Neil Hootkin presenting a wise and well researched devar Torah. Reenie Kavalar, chair of the Salinsky Program to Feed the Hungry, spoke on the status of hunger in our community. The evening ended with a beautiful champagne oneg. Thanks to Allen Lavine for coordinating the event. Finally, the WOE assisted with the annual Latke Dinner on December 23 by providing support for volunteers, bakery, jelly donuts, dreidles, gelt and decorations. …can’t wait for 2012!!

Happy and healthy New Year everyone!
Sara Cherny

Knitting Circle

The Knitting Circle provides hand-knit comfort shawls and children’s hats and scarves to meet the needs of our congregation and the community. Comfort shawls are available upon request to any congregant by contacting Toni in the clergy office. In addition, we have donated shawls to Jewish Family Services and the Jewish Home and Care Center. Hats and scarves have been donated to Channel 10 for their annual drive held each October and to Tikkun Ha-Ir which distributes them to homeless shelters. We meet every other month from September through May in the Temple Lounge. For additional information, please contact Brenda Safer at saferbrenda@sbcglobal.net.

Stronger Together

The Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), The Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, is the voice and presence, and arena of action of the women of Reform Judaism in the synagogue, the larger community, nationally, and internationally. WRJ is a federation of independent Sisterhoods, numbering approximately 550 in the United States and Canada, with a cumulative membership of nearly 75,000 women organized into 12 District Federations. Our three key projects are: YES Fund (Youth, Education, and Special Projects), World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), and JBI International (formerly Jewish Braille Institute of America).

Beth Wynn College Outreach Program

Please call Toni at the synagogue office, (414)228-7545, as soon as you have the new information on the address of your college student so we can keep in touch with him or her for the High Holy Days, Hanukkah, and Passover. Gift boxes will be mailed to your son/daughter for each of these holidays. We need to update our address list each year as many students move and change their addresses. Thank you for your prompt reply with this information.