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TRS Sisterhood
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Sisterhood Contacts:
President:
Sharon Higgins
skhiggins@mac.com
Sisterhood Email Distribution List
(for Temple members only)
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Sisterhood Cookbook
"Celebrating and Creating Traditions," the new Sisterhood Cookbook needs your
recipes and traditions!
A new TRS Sisterhood Cookbook is in the works! The
cookbook's theme is "Celebrating and Creating Traditions," and it will be
produced in four installments over the next year, and eventually made available
as a kitchen-friendly set. Selected recipes and traditions contributed by TRS
members (including children!), clergy and staff, and camp/nursery school
families will be featured. We aim to compile tried and true tested recipes and
information that can be used as a resource when planning, cooking, baking and
serving food on Shabbat, Passover and all other Jewish and family Holidays.
Recipes should be "Kosher" style, i.e. no shellfish, pork, or mixing meat and
dairy. Examples of traditions may be how you celebrate Shabbat outside every
Labor Day weekend at a certain park, or how your family members act out a unique
Passover play after your seder. We aim to produce a cookbook updated for
today's healthier living and trends and reflective of our congregation's unique
tastes and traditions.
Recipes and Traditions are being collected NOW through November 15.
First, fill out the recipe form, located in the Temple office and in
the Treasures Gift Shop or online here.
Download the Recipe Form Here
Submitting this form will ensure we have uniform and complete information for
each contribution. Second, return your recipe or tradition to the
Collection Boxes in the same locations, online or by mail to the
addresses located on the form.
The Cookbook committee also welcomes additional volunteers. If you are
interested in helping, there are many ways to get involved including taste
testing recipes!
Also, watch for our new Cookbook blog, coming soon, as we start to collect
recipes.
Become part of posterity as you share your favorite Jewish recipes and
traditions with your temple family!
For more information, contact
Bernice Porrazzo
(703-883-1843) or
Eileen Mandell
(703-465-1607)
or e-mail
cookbook@templerodefshalom.org.
To whet your appetite, here's a sample recipe for a dairy appetizer from
Eileen Mandell:
Filled Endive Bites:
A simple, elegant appetizer- can be used for a dairy break the fast on
Yom Kippur, at Shavout, when you want something a little more
sophisticated to go with the blintzes,
or at other times when fresh and simple is your aim.
One small log of Goat Cheese (or one 3 oz low fat cream cheese)
1 Tbsp. Honey ( may use less if you wish)
1 small chunk (1/2” cube) crystallized ginger, minced (optional)
Fresh Figs, halved Grapes or other fruit ( can use dried figs soaked in
vinegar )
2 or more heads of endive, washed, leaves separated and dried)
Good Balsamic Vinegar
Mix cheese, honey and ginger in a small bowl. Place 1/2 tsp. of cheese
filling in the center of the upturned endive leaf. Fill all leaves and
place on serving tray.
Place a small piece of fig or other fruit on the cheese. Top with a
drizzle of balsamic. Cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve.
May make the cheese mixture and wash and dry the endive a day ahead.
Fill no more than two hours ahead. These all go--- fast.
Honey Fundraiser
Click on the honey jar below to order delicious honey for family and friends!
Just $10 per jar! Includes a personalized greeting and postage within the
U.S.
Questions? Contact Valli Swerdlow at
valli2345@yahoo.com or 703-615-3834.
Sisterhood Traditions Help Line
"Questions about Jewish traditions?" Click
here
to receive an e-mail answer with answers from our Sisterhood experts. Sisterhood Welcomes You
Sisterhood offers a wealth of opportunities for friendship and service
through our many projects and programs. All members are welcome to
attend our board meetings, which are held the first Wednesday of the
month at 10 AM in the North Wing.
Volunteers are always needed for Sisterhood projects such as Bagel Bar,
Treasures, Sisterhood Shabbat, and Judy’s Place Holiday Shop for
Children and the TRS Blood Drive. Expand your horizons with Sisterhood
programs such as the Cultural Outings Group, the Book Club, or play
Bridge and Mah Jong.
Participating in Sisterhood is a wonderful way to become more involved
in the congregational life of TRS and the greater Jewish community. For
more information, please contact President Sharon Higgins at
skhiggins@mac.com
or 703/356-1733.

Sisterhood Cultural Outing to Fredericksburg, VA
June 4, 2010
Sisterhood Projects
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The Bagel Bar is a Sunday morning gathering place where
congregants can socialize, hold small meetings, and wait for children
who are attending religious school.
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Sisterhood Treasures,
our wonderful gift shop, is one-stop shopping for TRS members and
friends.
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Twice a year Sisterhood organizes a Blood Drive and our
Temple Members respond generously.
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Judy’s
Place
gives all children the opportunity to learn the joys of giving when they
pick out gifts that have been wrapped and are ready for them to buy and
give to family and friends.
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Critical issues are tracked and brought to the attention of our
Sisterhood members who respond to action calls by writing and
calling our representatives in Congress
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Members with small children benefit from the High Holy Day
babysitting services coordinated and planned by Sisterhood.
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Social
Action
takes many forms: Sisterhood members support the Falls Church Day Care
Center, help the homeless, work with the TRS Soup Kitchen, and
participate in Mitzvah Day.
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Rent
Table Settings for your Simcha.
Beautiful china, flatware, and glassware are available for rent
from Sisterhood for events held in our Social Hall. Contact Vicki
Nelson
vicki.125@cox.net
or Su Hale
bobsu147@aol.com
for more information.
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All the proceeds from the sale of House Pins and Book Pins
are contributed to community organizations supporting literacy and
providing for the homeless.
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Uniongrams
sent to confirmands provide scholarships to rabbinical and cantorial
students via the Women of Reform Judaism YES Fund.
Our Fundraising Supports Tzedakah
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ARMDI
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ARZA/World Union for Progressive Judaism
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Hillel
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Israel Emergency Fund
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Jewish Braille Institute
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Jewish Council for the Aging
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Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
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Jewish Social Services Association
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Mazon
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Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
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TRS B’nai Mitzvah
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TRS Confirmation Class
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TRS Capital Campaign
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TRS Annual Maintenance
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Women of Reform Judaism Lifeline
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Women of Reform Judaism Service to the Blind
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Women of Reform Judaism Youth, Education and Services Fund
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Ohel Ya’acov
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Falls Church – McLean Children’s Center
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High School Graduation Parties
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Homestretch Children’s Camp
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Click
here to read the Sisterhood
By-Laws
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