WRJ YES Fund

women in synagogue social room being honored

Creating a Successful YES Tea Event

In 2000, when I was President of Beth Am Women in Los Altos Hills, California, our board was trying to decide what to do for our end-of-year event. One of our board members had previously belonged to a congregation in Massachusetts whose sisterhood had a brunch around WRJ’s YES Fund.
headshots of five women, the inaugural JWA Pomegranate Fellows, smiling

Supporting the Thought Leadership of Women of Color

Judith Rosenbaum, PhD
This year, with the support of a WRJ YES Fund grant, the Jewish Women’s Archive launched the Pomegranate Writing Fellowship for Jewish Women of Color, a new model for Jewish thought leadership that centers the voices and vision of Jewish women and gender-expansive people of color as writers.
four young women smiling at a Women of the Wall event at the kotel in Jerusalem

My Experience as an American Jew in Israel

Camila Slatopolsky
Being on a gap year program and living in Israel for a year has given me a different perspective on Jewish practice. As the heart of Jewish life, Israel is a place where Jewish identity is expressed in deeply diverse and sometimes conflicting ways.
WRJ International Travel

Connecting Internationally with WRJ

Morgan Helfman
Lauren Wilson

There’s something uniquely powerful about international travel—the way it invites you to step outside your comfort zone, discover new perspectives, and find connections in unexpected places. And as is such in the small interconnected Jewish world, those

Barbara Ostfeld, a woman with short gray hair, round black glasses, and a peacock-printed shirt, stands in front of a microphone

"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