Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah … Symbolizing strength and grace, open to new challenges, new paths and opportunities, embracing Jewish heritage and tradition while encompassing the total Synagogue community.

 
AND YOU SHALL TEACH YOUR CHILDREN DILIGENTLY

Overview

In the year 1920, a group of ten women revitalized a loosely organized ‘Ladies Auxiliary’ into the Ahavath Achim Sisterhood. Since that time, the women of Ahavath Achim Sisterhood have provided strong support to the synagogue community by being open to new challenges, charting new paths and welcoming new opportunities.  We look forward to celebrating our 90th birthday in 2010. Ahavath Achim Sisterhood  is a  part of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism which is dedicated to the creation of a vibrant American Jewish community that nurtures the individual, the family and the community with the values of Jewish tradition.

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Sisterhood In Action:

• creates innovative programming and Jewish education for our children and ourselves
• funds Jewish scholarships, youth activities and our religious school
• publishes the Ahavath Achim Sisterhood Synagogue Directory
• supports the Shearith Israel Women’s Shelter with funds, food and volunteers
• honors Jewish Home residents with flowers
• sponsors Discovering Women’s Voices at the MJCCA
• donated the first Torah and prayer books to Camp Ramah Doron
• operates an on-site Judaica Gift Shop with art, jewelry, glassworks and books

Sisterhood Officers

President: Madeleine E. Gimbel
Vice Presidents | Membership: Pat Balser and Delcy Harber
Vice Presidents | Donor: Tanya Jacobson and Judy Balaban
Vice Presidents | Programs: Laurie Weinstein and Brooke Rosenthal
Vice President | Arrangements: Sherry Habif
Vice President | Education: Susan Reisner
Vice President | Torah Fund: Barbara Nathan
Vice President | Special Gifts: Shelley Kaplan
Treasurer: Betty Behr
Financial Secretary: Janet Kupshik
Executive Secretary: Rachel Knopf Miller
Recording Secretary: Maury Gerson
Corresponding Secretaries: Fran Gallishoff and Renie Geller
Parliamentarian: Jean Jackson

Activities

Sisterhood Shabbat, Donor, Latte ‘n Learn and other gatherings are a special part of AA’s congregational life, providing opportunities for women of all ages to have fun, to grow spiritually and intellectually while making a difference in the well-being of AA and the greater community. 

Sisterhood Membership

The strength of Ahavath Achim Sisterhood is dependent upon the support of its membership. Membership in Sisterhood of every female congregant will enable Sisterhood to continue its invaluable work and help preserve our Jewish tradition. Please join us, find out more … here!