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May 18 at 7:30pm

Let’s Talk Sisterhood: How can WRJ Northeast support you?
Register here

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May 28 at 7:30pm
on Zoom
WRJ: From Ideas to Impact: Making Or Ami Programs Your Own
Details on MN
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June 3 at 7:30pm
on Zoom
District Board Meeting
Open to everyone
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at Eisner Camp in
Great Barrington, MA

Please join us for a Northeast District board meeting on Zoom on June 3 at 7:30pm. The Board meeting is open to everyone who resides in the NE District. We will launch our Strategic Vision Phase 2. Come and share your voice, as your ideas are important to us.

Register here

Interested in getting more involved in the Northeast District? We would love to have you work with us on projects. We have different groups that you can join to help us with the planning and running of our district. 

Interested in learning more about NE District committees? Look at our committee descriptions. We would love your participation. 

Interest survey

In our June eblast, we are featuring your Day of Action events from around our district. Please send us a write-up of 150 words or less about what you did. A photo or two of the event would be lovely too.

Share your Day of Action

Some of our district sisterhood's have shared successful events they have run over the past year. We are sharing them now to help inspire you for next year's planning.

For the past three years, Temple Shalom of Newton, MA, has provided nearly 1000 post abortion kits to HealthQ, a health care clinic that provides exceptional reproductive and sexual health care to all who need it.

They helped to facilitate this project for our District Convention as well. For this, an Amazon Wish List was set up asking for heating pads, sanitary napkins, snacks, juice boxes, and more. Publicity went to all NE District members who graciously filled Robin Krieger’s basement with enough items to make 100 post abortion care bags.

The project was promoted throughout the weekend with the kits completed after the delicious Saturday night ice cream social. 100 bags were delivered the following Monday to a very grateful staff at HealthQ.

On April 11, 2026, thanks to a microgrant from the WRJ, the sisterhood of B'nai Israel in Southbury, CT, held a Havdalah event at the Discovery Center Planetarium in Bridgeport. The event garnered much excitement leading up to it not only from our sisterhood members but from the temple's religious school students who were also in attendance. Our sisterhood members have been forming new bonds with our students through this and other joint programs, including an opportunity to create their own Havdalah sets in advance of this program. 

Did you know that WRJ has a treasure trove of programming ideas for you to use for your sisterhood? Whether you are looking for sisterhood, spirituality, or social justice, there is help available to plan your programs.

Looking to focus on Sisterhood? Having social programming based on common interests is a great way to build community and sisterhood. Feeling crafty? Want to have a book group? How about hosting bagels and coffee while kids are at religious school? Maybe get a group together to attend a theater production or concert in your area? You can also take a look at the WRJ Mighty Networks space to see what other sisterhoods have done or even just to connect with other reform Jewish women.

Learn more about Sisterhood on Mighty Networks

Click here to learn about and register for Mighty Networks

Looking to focus on Spirituality? WRJ inspires spiritual growth by enriching contemporary life with Jewish rituals, traditions, culture, and opportunities for lifelong learning. There are Torah study guides, Jewish holiday program ideas, and Jewish food and cooking just to name a few.

Learn more about Spirituality

Looking to focus on Social Justice? Leading with the principle of Tikkun Olam, WRJ mobilizes collective action on a variety of causes to create a more just and compassionate world for all. See what projects that WRJ is involved and discover action roadmaps and resources for you to use. The Religious Action Center is another great resource for planning.

Learn more about Social Justice

Plus, you have access to your Area Director who is your liaison to the district board. Your AD is an excellent resource for information! In fact, you also have the option to have a board member come join you for an event, meeting, or service at no charge to your sisterhood. You can choose what topic she will cover with your sisterhood.

Contact the Speakers Bureau

Communicate with other WRJ North American sisters online in a secure, private platform. Exchange ideas. Learn from each other. Ask questions. Get the latest scoop on WRJ. Be sure to join the Northeast District space.

Learn more and sign up for Mighty Networks here

Visit our Northeast District online store to get some great merch! We have shirts, jackets, bags, and more available. Items ship within 2-3 weeks so you may have them in time for convention. Orders are shipped via UPS and have a flat shipping rate.

Continental US: $5.95 shipping
Canada: $14.95 shipping

Did your sisterhood do something you would like to share? Or maybe you are having an event that you would like to invite other area sisters to join?  Please email us at wrjneblast@gmail.com. We love to share good ideas with each other.

Deadline for inclusion in an eblast is the 25th of the prior month.

Your sisterhood is entitled to a district speaker
at no cost to your sisterhood.

Make a gift to WRJ Northeast District Fund (NDF) to say thank you, happy birthday, mazal tov, or to send get well wishes or condolences to your family members and friends. An acknowledgment will be emailed to each person whose email address is provided.

Did you miss the April newsletter? Read it here. 

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Send event listings, photos, and articles to wrjneblast@gmail.com by May 25 ,2025
for inclusion in the June eblast.