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We come together for camaraderie, connection, and service to the Temple and our community. You’ll find our social and cultural programs both engaging and fun, and through fundraising, volunteering, and our dues, we are able to make a significant impact.
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Fundraising and dues allow us to support special projects at WHC’s Early Childhood Centers and Religious School, Temple activities, and Carrie Simon House – a transitional housing program for young mothers and their children that was founded by Washington Hebrew and named for our first Sisterhood president. We also provide funding for children’s Purim costumes in Israel and to countless local, national, and international charities and organizations
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 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 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 go on buying trips and merchandise and staff the store (see more about the Judaica Shop below!)
You will find so many wonderful opportunities to connect and develop lasting friendships with smart, engaged, caring, and clever women.
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Stay safe, stay healthy, and enjoy our VIRTUAL Holiday Boutique
November 13-30
Shop online with some of our favorite Holiday Boutique vendors and support the Women of WHC.
Use the promo code WWHC20 at checkout and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to the Women of WHC.
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Pregnancy journeys are certainly different in our current world of tele-health, virtual birth classes and masks! Forming community with other expectant moms is challenging. Join Rabbi Fischel (a new mom) for conversation and community-building around being pregnant during this unusual time.
We will gather for four sessions around topics like:
How has COVID/isolation/political unrest affected your pregnancy experience? How to prepare for delivery? Best practices for comfort and self-care? What are you nervous about? What is bringing you joy?
Learn More & Register
Our Judaica Shop is one of the most beautiful and well-stocked shops in the D.C. area. With a full-service store at the Julia Bindeman Suburban Center and an outpost at Temple, we are able to offer an incredible selection of Judaica. Celebrating a life cycle event? You’ll find gifts for all milestones and occasions as well as tallitot and yads for a b’nei mitzvah to use on their big day. Holidays? Come see our beautiful hostess gifts (that you may want to also buy for yourself!) and toys and treats we have for children (both human and canine!).
The Judaica Shop accepts credit cards and operates by appointment only. To schedule a private shopping time, please send an email to judaicashop@whctemple.org.
CONTACT:
11810 Falls Road Potomac, MD 20852 phone: 301-354-3220 fax: 301-354-3297 judaicashop@whctemple.org
Special holiday hours for the shop may be found in Life at WHC or our weekly connection, so be sure to join our mailing list for updates and special highlights of our shop.
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
Officers and Board of Directors, 2019-2021
President: Randi Sadugor
