Sisterhood
Judaica shop
November 3 2023
We are pleased to announce that the Judaica shop will be open on Friday nights 7pm-7:30pm when we have services and on Sundays 9:30am-12:15pm when there is religious school
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For your convenience we have an online store. Items will be added.
Purchased items will be available for pickup during shop hours or can be shipped. There is a cost for shipping.
If there is a particular item you are looking for please let us know. Email sisterhood@nershalomva.org
Get ‘home-made hamantaschen from the Ner Shalom Sisterhood
place your orders by March 15 2024.
They will be available for pick up the evening of March 22 2024
Cost- $5 for half a dozen, $10 for a ‘bakers dozen’
Just click here to order or email sisterhood@nershalomva.org
Sisterhood
The mission of Sisterhood is to support and enhance the Reform Jewish experience at Congregation Ner Shalom through service, education, and social programs. We achieve these through….
- Enhancing our Temple Family Life
- Promoting friendship and harmony
- Providing educational and social programs
- Contributing to and supporting the needs of our children
- Participating in and contributing to community programs
Our Sisterhood is one of the CNS recognized axiliaries. Membership is open to all who identify as women and are interested in providing service to our temple membership, our temple, and our community. Our temple sisterhood is currently affiliated with WRJ, the Women of Reform Judaism.
Our Leadership
WRJ D'Var Torah from Ner Shalom Sister
Lucretia Levy, former Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) Board member, former WRJ Mid-Atlantic District Vice President of Development & Special Projects and Congregation Ner Shalom Sisterhood member (and past President) wrote a D'Var Torah which is posted on the WRJ web site.
Here is the link: http://blogs.rj.org/wrj/2015/07/17/voices-of-wrj-matot-masei/#more-15897
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Chai Mitzvah is a unique experiential Jewish journey that blends monthly group study with personal choices of Jewish engagement, called the "Jewish Bucket List". Our tradition teaches that the world stands on three things: study, spirituality, and acts of kindness. Chai Mitzvah provides a structure to explore each on these things both individually and as a community.
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Upcoming Events
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Friday ,
AprApril 26 , 2024
Friday, Apr 26th 7:30p to 8:30p
Erev Shabbat Services most Friday nights at 7:30 in the sanctuary -
Sunday ,
AprApril 28 , 2024
Sunday, Apr 28th 9:30a to 12:00p
Hebrew and Judaics for grades K-7th -
Thursday ,
MayMay 2 , 2024
Thursday, May 2nd 10:30a to 11:30a
Our next book is A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones). We will meet on May 2nd at 10:30 am via Zoom to discuss As Close to Us As Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner. In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. During the weekdays, freedom reigns. Ada, the family beauty, relaxes and grows more playful, unimpeded by her rule-driven, religious husband. Vivie, once terribly wronged by her sister, is now the family diplomat and an increasingly inventive chef. Unmarried Bec finds herself forced to choose between the family-centric life she's always known and a passion-filled life with the married man with whom she's had a secret years-long affair. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss for members of this close-knit clan. Seen through the eyes of Molly, who was twelve years old when she witnessed the accident, this is the story of a tragedy and its aftermath, of expanding lives painfully collapsed. Can Molly, decades after the event, draw from her aunt Bec's hard-won wisdom and free herself from the burden that destroyed so many others? -
Saturday ,
MayMay 4 , 2024
Shabbat, May 4th 10:00a to 11:00a
Monthly Shabbat morning service -
Sunday ,
MayMay 5 , 2024
Sunday, May 5th 9:30a to 12:00p
Hebrew and Judaics for grades K-7th -
Friday ,
MayMay 10 , 2024
Friday, May 10th 7:30p to 8:30p
Erev Shabbat Services most Friday nights at 7:30 in the sanctuary -
Friday ,
MayMay 17 , 2024
Friday, May 17th 7:30p to 8:30p
Erev Shabbat Services most Friday nights at 7:30 in the sanctuary -
Friday ,
MayMay 24 , 2024
Friday, May 24th 5:30p to 6:00p
Our families with children 5 and under are invited to join us for a short Shabbat program, with singing, a story, and of course Challah and Grape Juice! -
Friday ,
MayMay 24 , 2024
Friday, May 24th 7:00p to 8:00p
Join us for a fun and festive Shabbat Service, led by the Religious School! -
Saturday ,
MayMay 25 , 2024
Shabbat, May 25th 4:00p to 8:00p
Our Teens and Young Adults are invited to an afternoon of field games, archery, and a campfire! Cook-out style dinner will be served, and s'mores will be available.
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