TRS Sisterhood

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

Sisterhood Projects

•    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.

•    Sisterhood Treasures, our wonderful gift shop, is one-stop shopping for TRS members and friends.

•    Twice a year Sisterhood organizes a Blood Drive and our Temple Members respond generously.

•    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.

•    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

•    Members with small children benefit from the High Holy Day babysitting services coordinated and planned by Sisterhood.

•    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.

•    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.

•    All the proceeds from the sale of House Pins and Book Pins are contributed to community organizations supporting literacy and providing for the homeless.

•  Uniongrams sent to confirmands provide scholarships to rabbinical and cantorial students via the Women of Reform Judaism YES Fund.

Our Fundraising Supports Tzedakah

•  ARMDI

•  ARZA/World Union for Progressive Judaism

•  Hillel

•  Israel Emergency Fund

•  Jewish Braille Institute

•  Jewish Council for the Aging

•  Jewish Foundation for Group Homes

•  Jewish Social Services Association

•  Mazon

•  Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

•  TRS B’nai Mitzvah

•  TRS Confirmation Class

•  TRS Capital Campaign

•  TRS Annual Maintenance

•  Women of Reform Judaism Lifeline

•  Women of Reform Judaism Service to the Blind

•  Women of Reform Judaism Youth, Education and Services Fund

•  Ohel Ya’acov

•  Falls Church – McLean Children’s Center

•  High School Graduation Parties

•  Homestretch Children’s Camp

•  SHARE

Click here to read the Sisterhood By-Laws