I am a glass half full kind of person. When something happens that

might not be what I wanted, I usually assume something better is coming along. My mother always said that things happen for a reason and it may take some time, but in the end, it will be better.

With that in mind, I welcome you to our first edition of New Outlook for Women’s League.

Many of you will recall when Wom-en’s League for Conservative Juda-ism published the original Outlook,

a magazine that was totally ours, geared to our members and sisterhoods. So when CJ: Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism was no longer being published, we took that as an opportunity to produce this publication, and logically to title it New Outlook.

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IT’S NOT MANY OF US who can say they know a pres-ident of a national sports organization. But for the members of the sister-hood of the Jacksonville Jewish Center, Donna Orender is just that.

Donna has spent a lifetime navigating un-charted waters in the field of sports. But be-fore serving as president of the Women’s National Basketball Association (2004-2010), she was an All-Star in the Women’s Professional Basketball League. She also played on AAU teams and even in the famed Rucker League in Harlem.

Donna’s love of sports goes goes back to when she played for Elmont High School, Elmont, NY. She was an All-American basketball player at Queens College of the City University of New York where the coach, Lucille Kyvallos, was one of the best in the nation. Donna only wanted to play at that elite level.

Basketball isn’t her only sports infatuation. Donna spent 17 years at the PGA Tour where

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The knotty road to getting girls to assume rituals once reserved for men

Whenever I drape my tallit over my shoulders, I feel like God is over me,” says Talia Shapiro, 13, of Bethesda,

Maryland. But wearing the ritual garment to synagogue is a tricky matter for Talia. It’s not so much that she’s breaking with her Hebrew school peers at Congregation Beth El, where her bat mitzvah was held last fall. She can understand the hesitation she sees among both boys and girls to wear a tallit, even if she feels differently. “It’s a big statement that you’re making to God,” she says, one she defines as: “I’m going to put this garment on to show my love and respect toward You.”

WHY NOT FOR GIRLS? considers how girls might adjust their reactions to wearing a tallit

BRICK BY BRICK is the first in a series in prepa-ration for our upcoming centennial celebrations

PASSING ON THE PASSOVER describes how hosting family holidays moved from one generation to the next

SHE PLANTS A SEED FOR THE FUTURE is the newest Torah Fund campaign

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100We look forward to connecting with you, our members, in these pages. Look for features on current trends

in Jewish life, profiles of fascinating women who happen to be members of sisterhoods, as well as information and resources for you to use as a Conservative Jewish woman everyday.

This month’s feature article (Why Not for Girls?) grew out of discussions at our annual meeting in January, when Rabbis Danielle Upbin and Michael Gold took on the issue of what it means to be a truly egalitarian move-ment. Does everyone have to do everything the same way? Do the traditional gender-based obligations now apply to all of us? It was a very compelling discussion, one that many felt was unfinished.

Most, but not all, Conservative congregations say that they are equalitarian, but actions speak

louder than words. We need to encourage our daughters and granddaughters to wear their bat mitzvah tallitot more than once, model-ing for them wrapping ourselves in a tallit. As a bat mitzvah girl, I couldn’t do the same things the boys in my Hebrew school class did, even though we had spent the same five years together. It was only years later, when I became involved in my region and Women’s League that I even thought of wearing a tallit. Today, I have three, and each has very special meaning. I purchased the first in Is-rael on a Women’s League mission and said a sheheheyanu at the Conservative synagogue in Jerusalem. The second I purchased at a Women’s League convention to celebrate my installation as a vice president. The third was not purchased. It was my father’s. I needlepointed an atarah, had it sewn on top of the original, and wore it for the first time on my father’s first yarhzeit. Every time I wear it, I feel as though my father’s arms are hugging me. Each of my tallitot is special, and each one will go to one of my grand-daughters for them to carry on the tradition. I invite you to begin your own family tallit traditions, and to tell us about them.

As spring fast approaches, I wish you a zissen Pesach. We hope you find something to think about on every page of New Outlook, and that perhaps you’ll discuss it at your sedarim!

We invite you to share your ideas on www.wlcj.org/NewOutlook. We look forward to your comments.

But while Talia feels comfortable sending that message, she’s less sure of the mechanics of donning her tallit so she tends to wear it to bar and bat mitzvah services of friends at Reform synagogues, which seem more lenient in case she makes a mistake. As for covering her head? Talia struggles to understand why kippot are required for boys at her congregation, but not for the girls. She opts for a doily at services.

If this all sounds a bit complicated, it may be a good example of the mash-up of mixed messages and cultural pressures around Jewish ritual garb that face girls coming of age in the Conservative movement.

Despite the movement’s talk of equal opportunity and obligation for both men and women to uphold these mitzvot, the language shifts in practice, says Rabbi Danielle Upbin of Congregation Beth Shalom in Clearwater, Florida. At that point, “boys are expected; girls are encour-aged or allowed,” she says, resulting in a “subtle message of non-egalitari-anism or non-equality.”

Additionally, girls have few examples of female teachers or camp counselors wearing tallit or tefillin, says Upbin. And although many bat mitzvah girls approach wearing a tallit with a sense of excitement, the feeling can fade fast amid peer pressure. “They don’t see other women and girls doing it,” says Upbin.

A t stake is not only the state of egalitarianism in the movement but the spiritual experience that these mitzvot afford. “To take that tallit and put it over your head and open it up is like being in

an altered state, as if you’re entering the day in a different way,” says Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner, assistant professor emerita of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. A tallit was the first ritual garb Lerner adopted, followed by tefillin, “an incredibly powerful metaphor,” she says. “You’re tying God to you.” Wearing a kippah, which she does all day long, came last. For herself and many women, hair is so connected to feminine identity that covering it can create resistance. So with each of these items, and especially with kippot, Lerner had to personally recast them “from male Jewish to general Jewish.”

Like Lerner, many women activists in the movement have not only sought to reclaim ritual garb on a personal level but also fought to widen access to these rituals for other Jewish women. Their efforts were bol-stered by a major ruling of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, in April 2014, that could create a seismic shift in our communal approach to this subject. The responsum (decision of the law committee) was written by Rabbi Pamela Barmash, of Wash-ington University, and approved with 15 in favor, three opposed and three abstaining. It states: “We call upon Conservative synagogues, schools and camps to educate men and women in equal observance of mitzvot and to expect and require their equal observance of mitzvot.”

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Still, interviews with several in the movement suggest that the use of ritual garb among women remains highly varied; where it is in prac-tice appears more common among adult women than girls, for whom the ritual has had little traction.

Whether this is a problem depends on whom you ask. “I’m not looking for sameness between men and women,” says Rabbi Michael Gold of Temple Beth Torah Sha’aray Tzedek, in

Tamarac, Florida.Gold notes that determining what’s feminine and what’s masculine

gets into tricky territory – “all of us have a little of both in us,” he says – but maintains that there are differences that play out at his congregation. So, for example, in teaching bar and bat mitzvah students, Gold requires boys to put on tefillin, but keeps it optional for girls, most of whom don’t test out the ritual. And while boys are required to wear a tallit at 13, about half of the girls choose to wear one on their bat mitzvah. Gold encourages their continued practice. “I believe that we need opportunities for women to participate in the rituals of Judaism,” Gold says. “I don’t believe that requires a unisex” approach to Judaism, or “that we erase all differences between males and females.”

Others believe more efforts could and should bring women and girls into the proverbial fold of wearing ritual garb.

For her part, Lerner calls Rabbi Barmash’s ruling a “landmark deci-sion” that warrants a movement-wide educational program to study the law and put it into practice. And in the meantime, she suggests a buddy system for women to gain support as they embark on these practices.

If adult women need a buddy to try out ritual garb, teen girls seem to need a lot more.

I t will take a female role model plus a critical mass of followers to en-courage adoption of head coverings and tallit, according to Dr. Shira Epstein, who coordinates the JTS student teacher program at day

schools. “Let’s not even touch tefillin, because very few wear tefillin,” she says. “You need a mass of people to show it’s a cool thing to do, and it’s not going to be considered masculinizing.” Toward that end, Epstein recom-mends a culture of encouragement and experimentation, which is precise-ly what’s happening in so many Conservative schools and synagogues.

At the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, tallit and tefillin workshops take place in middle school, but only a handful of the girls wear them in prayer, says Rabbi Miriam Greenblatt-Weidberg, chair of Middle School Judaic Studies. “It’s such a strong time of wanting to fit in and needing to fit in that it’s very, very difficult for girls,” says Green-blatt-Weidberg, who believes she’s the only woman at the school who dons both and covers her head. Moving from the current practice – requiring ritual garb for boys and encouraging it for girls – to equal obligation for both would mean a “complete cultural shift,” she says. “We’re moving in a certain direction. We’re not yet ready to take that step.”

Promoting the commandment of ritual garb and the range of styles available to the girls – at least in terms of kippot and tallit – is a tough sell without a culture of women and girls already on board, said Rabbi Upbin of her congregation in Clearwater. Perhaps, after the post-bat mitzvah lull, they’ll rekindle their interest in these items, Upbin muses. Or maybe, “our best bet is to pick it up when they’re older, when they’re modeling Jewish practice for their own daughters,” she adds.

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Growing up on Long Island, her parents and two sisters were very involved in their Conservative syn-agogue, the Elmont Jewish Center and its Hebrew school. A regular at Saturday morning services, Don-na led junior congregation and sang in the choir. For Donna, “The Center was a center of our family life.”

When she moved to Jacksonville from New York in 1990, she was a single young woman on her own. One of her first stops was the Jacksonville Jewish Center where she found the same kind of close community she had enjoyed on Long Island. “I would sit in the back and it would make me feel at home. I could feel the presence of my grandparents in particular and a sense of place and comfort.” She was soon “adopted” by a local family who have been with her for every life milestone since and the synagogue is still a pivotal part of her life. Continues on page 5

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We all know the story. On January

18, 1918, the diminu-tive, but commanding, Mathilde Schechter stood before a gath-ering of 100-plus women and called for the establishment of a national women’s organization of the United Synagogue of America. Every year on the Shabbat nearest to that date in January, we com-memorate our remark-able founder for whom our reverence remains steadfast. For some of us, other names besides Mathilde’s also come to mind: Fanny Hoffman and Goldie Kweller and Adele Ginsberg and Helen Fried, each a legend in her own right.

But here’s the thing. Notwithstanding a truly formidable cast of leaders who gave unstintingly of their time, talent and en-ergy to establish, nur-ture and sustain our organization, Women’s League is more than the sum of its celeb-rity parts. Women’s League is really about the work done by its members – the work on behalf of immi-grants and Jewish literacy and Israel and

war relief and Soviet Jews and egalitarian-ism and Torah Fund and handcrafts and the Jewish blind. It is a history of thousands upon thousands of women who internal-ized the message of Pirke Avot: “the world rests on three things: on avodah (worship), Torah, and gemilut chesded (acts of loving kindness).”

So as we ap-proach our cen-tennial year, its

celebration to begin at the 2017 Convention in Washington, D.C., we are looking to the past as a very practical guide for our future. Our work is our stan-dard. It has sustained and defined us for nearly 100 years.

The first generation of National Women’s League members was like an army of peripatetic teachers spreading across the continent, teaching a largely uneducated population of East European immigrant women about the most basic aspects of Jew-ish life: Bible, prayer, Hebrew language, Zionism. In the first decade, they produced a bevy of educational resources including Kiddush cards, Friday

Night Stories, Bless-ing and Daily Prayer cards, and in 1927, Deborah Melamed’s The Three Pillars – Thought, Worship, Practice. Serving as a handbook of Jewish literacy, The Three Pil-lars was the first work of its kind published in English. Despite the pessimism of publish-ers that there was no market for such a volume, that first Women’s League pub-lication went through numerous editions, maintaining robust sales even through the

Brick by BrickBY Lisa Kogen, Women’s League Director of Education and Programming Maryland.

Seminary Library groundbreaking: Women’s League presidents Evelyn Auerbach, Evelyn Henkind, Helen Fried, and Goldie Kweller, with Dr. Naomi Cohen.

Depression. In 1930, the League established its own magazine, Outlook, featuring Mathilde Schechter on the cover of the first issue.

Throughout the decades, mem-bers of Women’s

League participated in an extensive ar-ray of social/political initiatives, within the Jewish community and beyond. In 1924, the American Peace Committee awarded the Bok Peace Award to National Women’s League in recognition of its Education for Peace program. During World War II, under the steady hand of President Dora Spiegel who served from 1928-1944, members partici-

pated in the war effort as air raid wardens, switchboard operators, ambulance drivers, and organized mobile kitchens and blood units. They worked tirelessly on behalf of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in pre-1948 Palestine) and then for the State of Israel. They advocated and marched on behalf of civil rights, Soviet Jewry, women’s re-productive rights, and genetic disease aware-ness. Scores of readers created records and tapes for the Jewish Braille Institute and joined walks in sup-port of breast cancer research.

Also from its very beginning, Women’s League provided cru-cial financial support

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Join Women’s League Reads, a moderated on-line discussion group about books of interest to today’s Jewish women. Read the selected book, post comments and questions and then enjoy a special bonus conversation with the author or a scholar who can enhance our understanding of the book. You can join Women’s League Reads or listen to past conversations with authors on the Women’s League website, wlcj.org.

From her grandparents, all first generation Americans, to her parents, her ties to her Jewish heritage run deep and she hopes to instill that love of Judaism in her twin sons, who attended the Martin J. Gottlieb School, a Solomon Schechter school in Jacksonville. “We feel strongly about grounding them in Jewish values and community, as well as giving them a deep and abiding connec-tion and responsibility to their roots.” Not surpris-ingly, her sons played basketball and the family has been involved in the Maccabi USA movement. Marching together into the Teddy Stadium in Jerusa-lem in 2013 as members of the USA delegation was a highlight for the entire family.

Today, Donna is CEO of Orender Unlimited, but her real passion is in creating broader understand-ing for women and girls and developing deeper opportunities for them. Often honored for her dedi-cation to community development, her proudest accomplishment is Generation W. A national move-ment now in its sixth year, Generation W [www.genwnow.com] is a full-day conference designed to educate, inspire and connect women and girls.

Women’s League is proud of members like Donna Orender. Let us know about other women in your sisterhood who are making a difference in the world. Write to womensleague@wlcj.org.

WHERE TO LOOK ONLINE:

These days, online resources are endless, but here are some websites we think you’ll find helpful. First, and foremost, check out the Women’s League website at www.wlcj.org.

Conservative/Masorti World

THE MASORTI FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM IN ISRAEL masorti.org

MERCAZ: THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT mercazusa.org & mercaz.ca

JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY learn.jtsa.edu

ZIEGLER SCHOOL OF RABBINIC STUDIES ziegler.aju.edu

THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTE schechter.edu

UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM uscj.org

FEDERATION OF JEWISH MEN’S CLUBS fjmc.org

MASORTI OLAMI – WORLD COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE/ MASORTI SYNAGOGUES masortiolami.org

Other Websites We Love

jwa.org/communitystories At the Jewish Women’s Archive find stories of whole communities of Jewish women through interviews, videos and the objects that have been central to their lives.

yiddishbookcenter.org The Yiddish Book Center’s new site has something for everyone. Search the center’s collections—including ma-terials in all genres, in both English and in Yiddish—com-pletely free of charge.

jewishbookcouncil.org Join the conversation about Jewish literature

to the Conservative seminaries and their students. Its first project in that first decade was the Kosher Canteen at Columbia University, and then the Jewish Student House for seminarians and Jewish military passing through New York. Through contributions to the Torah Fund campaign that began in the mid 1940s – which to date has raised more than 93 million dollars –

JTS was able to build the Mathilde Schech-ter Residence Hall, rebuild the library after the devastating fire, and the Women’s League Seminary Synagogue. In addi-tion to JTS students, Torah Fund scholar-ships are now awarded to students at the Ziegler School of Rab-binic Studies, in Los Angeles, the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, and the Seminario in Buenos Aires.

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Torah reading at the 1972 Women’s League convention: (left to right) President Evelyn Henkind, Education Director Edya Artz, and Ruth Perry, Convention Coordinator

Donna with young WNBA fans

Bar mitzvah celebration at the Jewish Braille Institute, No-vember 1964: Women’s League President Helen Fried, mother of the bar mitzvah, and Women’s League Braille Chair Adele Ginzberg behind the bar mitzvah.

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Passover in my house really began the day after Purim when my mother would kasher the small kitchen in the basement and begin to cook kugels, soups, pot roast.... whatever could be made ahead and frozen. Things really

heated up a few weeks later when she began cleaning the rest of the house. For my mother, cleanliness was godliness, so I was nev-er sure what needed to be cleaned, but clean she did, and always with the unenthusiastic assistance of her children.

But she did have a more willing partner. My father was the shlepper, the driver, the pot washer, the taster. At some point, he would lug the cabinet with all the Passover pots, pans, dishes and silver up the stairs and into the kitchen. He also would drive into the Fulton Street Fish Market to collect the makings of gefilte fish and baked carp (something I wouldn’t touch) from my uncle’s shop. My brothers and I tried to stay out of the house when it came time to cook the fish as well as when my father grated the horseradish.

Among my mother’s prize possessions were her mother’s Passover pots and a green ceramic bowl that probably came from Woolworth’s, but I like to think had made its way to New Jersey via Brooklyn from Poland.

Seders were special. The table was set beautifully, usually for between 20 and 30 people, with dishes that had belonged to grand-mothers on both sides. My father would lead the seder, reading ev-ery word of the Haggadah, in his droning monotone. Unfortunately we are all blessed with his voice, so it was a treat when my brother married someone who could actually carry a tune.

Then, in January, just two weeks after he held my first child as sandek at his bris, my father got sick and passed away only a few weeks later. We got up from shiva just in time for the first seder. I think the cooking and cleaning helped my mother get through those very difficult days. I don’t remember now if friends provided some of the food. It’s been so long my son already has a son of his own. What I do remember, vividly, is on the very last night of that Passover, my doorbell rang, and there was my mother pointing to her station wagon, which was filled with three generations’ Pesach supplies, saying, “There is Passover. It’s yours now.”

And that is how I took over the reins of our family holidays. I didn’t have a basement kitchen, so my Passover attack plan doesn’t look anything like my mother’s. And, while I love him dearly, my husband is not from the big kitchen assistants (although he will gladly taste anything and he can carry a tune). Yet every year when I take out the huge pots (you need a big pot for soup for 30) and the green ceramic bowl, I remember my mother’s manic holi-day preparations, more fondly with the passing of the years.

Not the least among its enduring

legacies is Women’s League’s participation and support of Jewish feminism. In 1972, after Ezrat Nashim was rebuffed by the Rabbinical Assembly to attend its conven-tion, Women’s League invited the pioneering Jewish feminist group to present their platform at its bien-nial. Women’s League members led their own Torah reading for the first time (previ-ously done by men at conventions) and Ezrat Nashim’s Leora Fishman demon-strated how to put on tefillin. This revolu-tionary transformation in women’s religious practice resulted in widespread liturgical

literacy for thousands of members and eventually led to the ordination of women rabbis in 1985.

It bears repeating: these activities and initiatives may have been envisioned by Women’s League leaders, but the footwork and heavy lifting was (and remains) the prod-uct of its members. Whether 15,000 knitted hats and scarves for the home-less in Detroit, funds collected for Masorti kehillot in Israel or a deep bench of quali-fied Torah readers and shlichot tzibbur, it is our work that has defined us, sustained us, and binds us to the past, but focuses us, always, on the future.

1972 Women’s League convention: Ezrat Nashim’s Leora Fishman demonstrates how to put on tefillin.

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SHE PLANTS A SEED FOR THE FUTURE

Women’s League’s members’ abiding love for Israel and their passion for prayer are the inspirations for She Plants a Seed for the Future, Torah Fund’s newest special project.

Rabbi Bradley Shavit-Artson has called the year of study in Israel for third year rabbini-cal students “the heart of the heart of our

program.” Rabbi Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, adds that “at the very core of our hearts is our love for the land of Israel, for the Israeli experiment in vibrant Jew-ish democracy.” Third year Ziegler students study with Israeli scholars and American olim at the Conservative Yeshivah in Jerusalem, where they are immersed in the Hebrew language and develop a fuller appreciation for Israeli culture and the challenges Israelis face. These future rabbis bring this love of Israel to their new leadership roles.

On the east coast, Professor Arnold Eisen, chan-cellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, describes the Women’s League Seminary Synagogue (WLSS) as a space that is almost magi-cal. He says, “I don’t know of a single space at JTS that is more of a builder of community than the Women’s League Seminary Synagogue.” Originally the JTS library, it was recreated as a prayer space through a Torah Fund Special Project in 1995.

Twenty years later, the spirit of prayer in WLSS is fresher than ever, with more singing than at any time in the history of the Seminary. There is experi-mentation with niggunim, words of inspiration, meditation, movement, and the visual arts. Future rabbis and cantors are learning to move hearts, minds and souls.

Torah Fund is the dedicated philanthropic cause of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, supporting higher level Conservative/Masorti Jew-ish education around the world. The She Plants a Tree for the Future initiative, launched in October 2015, supports the year in Israel for students at the Ziegler School, and the refurbishment and re-sanctification of the Women’s League Seminary Synagogue at JTS. As Torah Fund enters its 75th year, please join us and plant a seed for our future!

Student gabbai’im in the Women’s League Seminary Syna-gogue. Its gorgeous stained glass window and ark curtain rep-resent the ‘bush that was not consumed’, the symbol of JTS.

Students from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies pose with Women’s League President Carol Simon (second row, right) and Torah Fund Chair Debbi Goldich (first row, center) in Jerusalem in October, 2015.

Goal: $600,000Plant Your Seeds

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