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"You Have a Voice!"

Ellen Miller

“I’m not a cantor.”

Surrounded by more than 200 cantors at the American Conference of Cantors (ACC) Convention 2025 in Washington DC earlier this month, this was my mantra as I introduced myself throughout the gathering.

Thank you, thank you, thank you WRJ for

Maintaining a Learner's Mindset

Rabbi Rachael Houser

Lately, I’ve been playing a game of comparisons. My old place in Cincinnati had lilac bushes by the front door. Now my new block in Astoria smells of roses, owing to the talented gardeners who grow all varieties of colors and scents in their tiny patches of

Introspection: A Scheduling Balance

Trina Novak

I don’t wear a Wonder Woman costume or a cape, but I do have superpowers. One, which I developed and worked on over time, is called seder, or order. This is a concept that is well embedded in our traditions. In the first few verses of Torah, God creates order

Becoming a Bat Mitzvah at Camp Coleman

Kristen Sostrom

Traditionally, several women have their B’not Mitzvah at the Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) Southeast (SE) District Fall Kallah at Camp Coleman amidst all of God’s splendor and with the support of all their “sisters.” This year, I was one of them.  

The process

We All Stood Together

Merle Feld

My brother and I were at Sinai

He kept a journal

of what he saw, 

of what he heard,

of what it all meant to him.

 

I wish I had such a record 

of what happened to me there

It seems like every time I want to write

I can't —

I'm always holding a baby,