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Shalom and Welcome to the Garden State Region of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism. WLCJ is the largest synagogue-based women’s organization worldwide, founded in 1918 by Matilde Schechter. The WLCJ network links over 100,000 women in 13 regions in the United States with groups in Israel, Europe, and South America.

Since 2008, the Northern New Jersey and the Central New Jersey branches combined to form the Garden State Region that now has 28 sisterhood affiliates. Our mission is to serve as a connection between Women’s League and its affiliates and members and to provide services that will strengthen our Sisterhoods with the tools to succeed.

Every woman has the opportunity to participate in preserving, promoting, and perpetuating Conservative/Masorti Judaism by giving to the Torah Fund Campaign of WLCJ. The Torah Fund Campaign of WLCJ helps support programs and student scholarships at Jewish Theological Seminary (New York, NY), Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies (Los Angeles, CA), Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem), Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and the Abraham J. Heschel Seminary (Potsdam, Germany).

A few of our programs scheduled for 2025-26 are:

• Coffee and Conversations with wonderful topics throughout the year. Programs are scheduled for Dec. 8, Jan. 12, Feb. 9, and Mar. 9, all starting at 7:30 pm ET via Zoom.
• Region Torah Fund event on Nov. 16, 2025
• Region Spring Conference with Installation of New Region Officers on May 3, 2026

And we will all meet as international delegates at the WLCJ 2026 Convention in Virginia on July 12-15, 2026.

Peruse our website to learn more about Women’s League and to obtain Board and Affiliate contacts, photographs, and a whole lot more!

We are here for you!

I look forward to seeing you at a program in the future.

 

B’Shalom,

Sheila Kaufman
President, GSR WLCJ
GSRpresident24@wlcj.org