What is Women of Rodef Shalom?
 
Our name says it all, we are the organization for the women of Rodef Shalom Congregation. We come together in friendship to plan programs to benefit our congregation and the community at large for social activities, for study. Most importantly, WRS provides the opportunity to fulfill our individual potential as a person and as a woman of Reform Judaism.
 
Why Women of Rodef Shalom?
 
Within the structure of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Women of Rodef Shalom is the collective presence, voice, and strength of our congregational women. Our President maintains a voting seat on the Board of Trustees. It is a chance to meet other women and work together to initiate and develop projects for the benefit and enhancement of the Jewish life of our congregation. Frequently, we work with other groups within the Temple to achieve this goal.

Women of Rodef Shalom provides you with a chance to become part of the collective identity of our female members. Through its affiliation with WRJ, Women of Rodef Shalom will give you a worldwide identity as well. WRJ is an international federation of more than 600 Sisterhoods with 100,000 members throughout the U.S., Canada and overseas. In addition, Women of Rodef Shalom can provide you with an outlet for your energy, creativity, and leadership potential as a Jewish woman.
 
What does Women of Rodef Shalom do?
 
Our mission is to further the religious, educational, social, and philanthropic purposes of the Rodef Shalom Congregation, to promote social interaction among the members of the Sisterhood and to develop the Jewish spirit in both the public and domestic lives of its members. We carry out this mission through various congregational committees including Membership, Life Long Learning, Social Action, Communal Affirmation, and Worship. Our highlight projects include Bar/Bat Mitzvah gifts, Confirmation gifts, flowers for the Bimah, Women's Seder, scholarships for NFTY Israel trips, toiletry collection for shelters, and support of the Religious School. We are proud of the $100,000 commitment to the Temple Endowment Fund. Your dues payment includes membership in Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) which serves Jewish and humanitarian causes worldwide and also includes a pledge to Youth, Education, and Special Projects (YES Funds).

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Does Women of Rodef Shalom really need me?
 
ABSOLUTELY! We want and need the support of all the women of Rodef Shalom Congregation. Whether you're a grandmother, mother, sister, daughter, or aunt, single or married, widowed, with or without children, an empty nester, born Jewish, a Jew by choice, a non-Jew married to someone Jewish, we encourage you to become a member. The only membership criteria needed is to be a member of Rodef Shalom Congregation.
 
You may pick and choose among the activities or projects that interest you. Perhaps you have free time or no time at all. Active and inactive members support Women of Rodef Shalom with their dues contribution. We would be a better organization to have you counted among our members. Without you, we are one member short!
 
For membership information, contact Beth Frost.