Women of WHC

Honey from the Heart and Women of WHC text with honey jar and Shana Tova label

For a sweet New Year, order a gift of honey while supporting WWHC! We have partnered with ORT, which has supported students in under-resourced communities around the world since 1880. The cost is $18 for an 8-ounce jar. Place your orders by August 8 for free shipping and delivery by Rosh Hashanah (September 22).

IMPORTANT: Be sure to type “WHC” or select “Women of Washington Hebrew Congregation” from the dropdown menu when you order.

PLACE YOUR ORDER

Questions? Contact Mildred Amer at mildredamer@gmail.com or Martha Boshnick at mboshnick@gmail.com. Thank you for your support.


WWHC’s Mah Jongg Group

Fridays at 11:00 am* at Julia Bindeman Suburban Center (JBSC)

Join the Women of WHC for Mah Jongg. The 19th Century Chinese game made its way to the West in the 1920’s when Abercrombie & Fitch began selling the first sets in the U.S. Sets sold quickly, and by the ’40s & ’50s, the game played a vital part in building communities for suburban Jewish women.

$5 purse

Everyone is welcome! No need to RSVP, just show up and join the fun!

*Check the Life@WHC newsletter for the game time each week, or email Hillary at hillary@divinelifeyoga.com if you’d like to know the time of an upcoming game.


What We Do

We proudly provide financial support

Through fundraising, we respond to important needs at WHC and support local, national, and international charities. We also support special projects at WHC’s Early Childhood Centers and Religious School and Temple activities. We also provide funding for children’s Purim costumes in Israel and to countless local, national, and international charities and organizations

We help expand your world, religiously, spiritually, intellectually, culturally, and socially

Our calendar is filled with lectures, Literary Group discussions, lunch and learn sessions, “Mah Jongg Fridays,” canasta lessons, art tours, theater outings, and more.

We have annual luncheons and dinners that bring well-known, impactful women to our stage, and one-of-a-kind events, including our Women’s Seder and a Shabbaton that gives us a weekend away with our “sisters” to learn, laugh, and grow.

We volunteer together in the community

We cook meals for the Children’s Inn at NIH, pack meals for the WHC Hunger Project, and deliver Meals on Wheels to homebound seniors.

We sponsor activities offered by the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes and tutor students at Simon Elementary School, a Southeast Washington, D.C. public school named for WHC’s first senior rabbi, Abram Simon.

And we mentor and assist with funding for the Women of Reform Judaism’s growing sisterhoods.

We have the area’s longest-running Holiday Boutique and Silent Auction

We plan, prepare, and manage every element – from sourcing vendors to soliciting silent auction items, running the café, and volunteering our time –which makes our biggest annual fundraiser a success we can all be proud of.

We run the Women of WHC Judaica Shop

We go on buying trips and merchandise and staff the store (see more about the Judaica Shop below!)

We have fun!

You will find so many wonderful opportunities to connect and develop lasting friendships with smart, engaged, caring, and clever women.

Support The Women of WHC

We welcome your support for the Women of WHC. Please click on the button below to make your gift to one of our two designated funds:

Jane Burka Sisterhood Leadership Fund
Provides resources to the Women of WHC for leadership training and development

Sisterhood (WWHC) Fund for Youth and Educational Enrichment
Ensures continuance of Women of WHC-sponsored programs and activities for our Temple youth.

To donate to these essential funds, please click “show me additional funds” using the link below.

DONATE


WWHC Leadership

Current Officers & Board Members

President: Ellen Barth

Vice Presidents
First Vice President

Sherry Burka

Communication Lisa Moss, Melissa Hurwitz
Fundraising

Sandy Nesbit

Social Action and Community Service

Martha Boshnick

Judaica Shop Randi Sadugor
Membership

Nanci Miller

Programming Gwenn Rosenthal
Religion, Youth & Education

Cheryl Katz

Treasurer Ellen Miller
Assistant Treasurers (Judaica Shop) Wendy Wilson
Assistant Treasurers (Fundraising) Jackie Paulson, Sheri Zweig
Auditor Linda Newman
Secretaries
Corresponding Judy Protas
Membership Sherry Stein
Recording

Harriet Contract

Historian Debbi Abel Lucci
Parliamentarian Jane Flior
Officers at Large Mildred Amer, Rebecca Fox, Bonnie Youngentob,  Elaine Melnick, Sharon Brown
Immediate Past Co-Presidents Brenda Holt, Gerdy Trachtman
Temple Liaison Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin

Ending June 2026
Julie Alter Ashley I. Finke Janet K. Zalman
Marla K. Caplan Karen Perkins
Barbara S. Faigen Sharon Slotkin
Ending June 2027
Sue Ader Melissa Fritz Charlene Saenz
Rachel Ehrlebacher Carol Koenigsberg Courtenay Wallach
Andrea Fenster Julie Mirman Alyson Gold Weinberg
Ending June 2028
Linda Adler Rachel Wehr
Bonnie Kramer
Eve Wallace
Honorary Board Members
Senior Cantor Susan R.A. Bortnick Shirley A. Garber Ema Manevich Senior Rabbi Susan N. Shankman
Lindsay A. Feldman Cantor Suzanne Hamstra Lauren Miller Marcia Weinberg
Rabbi Eliana Fischel Susan Hanenbaum Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin
Members at Large
Wendy Cossman Diane Heiman Sandi Miller Jennifer Weinberg
Jeanne Fleming Joyce Isaacson Lynne Schaffer Nancy Weiner
Sherry Gottlieb Elaine Minkoff Gyr Turshen

 


 

Join Us

If you are a woman of WHC, we invite you to join us! We have a place for you as a volunteer, a leader, a participant, or simply as a dues contributor. Your involvement and support — combined with that from hundreds of other women — helps our community enormously.

Your annual dues: include membership in both the Women of WHC as well our national organization, the Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ); connect us with our WRJ Mid-Atlantic District; and support the WRJ YES Fund, which trains future Reform Jewish leaders, supports youth and social justice and strengthens the Reform Movement in Israel and around the world.

Annual membership is $50 for WHC members and $80 for non-members.

Click here for our membership form

CONTACT

Ellen Barth
Women of WHC President
wwhc@whctemple.org