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2008 - 2009 Women of Isaiah Board

Ellen Bernstein-Ellis Photo ELLEN BERNSTEIN-ELLIS, CO-PRESIDENT
FORMER POSITIONS: Avodah co-chair
FUNNIEST WOI MEMORY: "While helping a friend look for her lost sunglasses while hiking at Sports Day, we were surprised by the Sheriff showing up in the middle of nowhere because we had veered off on the wrong path and had become a security threat to EBMUD."
Lynn Epstein Photo LYNN EPSTEIN, CO-PRESIDENT
FORMER POSITIONS: VPs: Membership, Programming, Publicity, Chair Kick-Off, Sports Day, Progressive Dinners
FONDEST WOI MEMORY: At an ice breaker during first board meeting, announced that mezza, mezza was her favorite Yiddish word!
Gloria Schiller Photo GLORIA SCHILLER, MEMBERSHIP
FORMER POSITIONS: Sports Day, Kick-Off
FONDEST WOI MEMORY: Biennial San Diego
Need Pat Hejtmanek Photo PAT HEJTMANEK,    MEMBERSHIP
Carol Copperstein Photo CAROL COPPERSTEIN, MEMBERSHIP - DATA
Sherry Rowen Photo SHERRY ROWEN, PROGRAMMING
Gail Koff Photo

GAIL KOFF, ON-GOING PROGRAMS
FORMER POSITIONS:
Past President of WOI; past Director of WRJ
FAVORITE PROJECT SUPPORTED BY WOI: The “new”  High Holiday Torah covers

Susan Maron Photo SUSAN MARON, FUNDRAISING
Cheryl Kohlreiter Photo CHERYL KOHLREITER, COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
FORMER POSITIONS: VP Programming
FAVORITE WOI EVENT: Pesach recipe exchange & Women’s Seder
Jeanette Gross Photo JEANETTE GROSS, WEBMASTER
FORMER POSITIONS:
Rosh Chodesh Chair
FAVORITE WOI EVENT: Women's Retreat; every year we say it was the best one ever!!
Michele Holtz  Photo Michele Holtz, Support Our Troops Chair
Former Position:
WOI President
Favorite WOI Event: Rosh Chodesh/WOI Retreat
Rosalie Ben Joseph  Photo Rosalee Ben Joseph, Mailings
Former Position:
Membership
Favorite WOI Event: Movie Nights
Susan Mautner Photo Susan Mautner, Mailings
Barbara Kaplan Photo Barbara Kaplan, Treasurer
Former Position:
Publicity
Favorite WOI Event: Women's Seder
Lynn Harrington-Golde  Photo Lynn Harrington-Golde, Recording Secretary
Former Positions:
Editor to Ruach
Funniest WOI Moment: Watching the film on 3 generations of a family making gefilte fish sponsored by Rosh Chodesh
Linda Waldroup Photo Linda Waldroup, Corresponding Secretary
Former Position:
Recording Secretary
Favorite WOI Event:Passover Tastings, Shabbat Services at Women's Retreat
Karen Marriner Photo Karen Marrinner, Rosh Chodesh
Former Position:
Always Rosh Chodesh
Fondest WOI Memory: Rosh Chodesh trip to mikveh with octogenarians who asked how a man and wife express intimacy during the niddah time.
Ellen Montague Photo Ellen Montague, Rosh Chodesh
Nancy Crevin Photo Nancy Crevin, Gift Shop Chair
Former Position:
WOI President
Favorite WOI Event: Fall Kick-Off Dinner
Kim Drucker Photo Kim Drucker, Gift Shop/Parliamentarian
Former Positions:
Programming Chair, Treasurer, Co-President
Fondest WOI Memory: Wrap up dinner for old board
Jan Trzesniewski  Photo Jan Trzesniewski, Parliamentarian
Former Postions:
Co-President , Co-chair membership
Fondest WOI Memory: The Women’s Seder last year. Women of all ages, from eight to eighty, coming together, praying, singing and celebrating for the first time in seven years.
Diana MaKieve Photo Diana MaKieve, WRJ Liaison
Former Positions:
Parliamentarian, Co- President, VP Programs, VP Publicity, Membership Committee
Fondest WOI Memory: When Nancy Crevin was honored as our first Woman of Valor
Nancy Horstman Photo Nancy Horstman, Avodah Chair
Former Position:
Gift Shop Volunteer
Favorite WOI Event: Rosh Chodesh movie night
Jocelyn Schneider Dunbar Photo Jocelyn Schneider Dunbar, Staff Outreach
New to WOI Board
Favorite WOI Activity: Women’s Seder
Katya Bock Photo Katya Bock, Historian
Cherri Shiffman Photo Cherri Shiffman, Special Projects
Former Position:
Graphics for years & years
Fondest WOI Memory: Baking hundreds of Ruggelah for Onegs
Melissa Jakubowitz Photo Melissa Jakubowitz, Temple Board Liason




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Upcoming Events

December 05 2008 6:00 pm Got Shabbat Dinner followed by Family Service & Candy Oneg

December 06 2008 Torah Study

December 06 2008 Shabbat Service followed by Vegetarian Potluck

December 07 2008 Great Big Chanukah Book Fair & Author Signing with Lisa Goldstein

December 07 2008 Avodah Shelter Lunch Bunch

December 07 2008 WOI/Gan Ilan Family Art Project for Chanukkah

December 07 2008 Frances Bobbie Collen Lecture

December 08 2008 Great Big Chanukah Book Fair & Author Signing with Lisa Goldstein

December 08 2008 Women's Torah Commentary Study Group

December 08 2008 Women of Isaiah Board

December 09 2008 Tefillah Tuesday with Rabbi Greninger

December 12 2008 8 pm Shabbat Service followed by Oneg

December 13 2008 Torah Study

December 13 2008 Shabbat Service followed by Vegetarian Potluck

December 15 2008 Women of Isaiah Knitting Group

December 16 2008 Tefillah Tuesday with Rabbi Greninger

December 19 2008 8 pm Shabbat Service followed by Oneg

December 20 2008 Torah Study

December 20 2008 Shabbat Service followed by Vegetarian Potluck

December 21 2008 Chanukah - 1st Candle

December 22 2008 Chanukah - 2nd Candle

December 23 2008 Chanukah - 3rd Candle

December 23 2008 Tefillah Tuesday with Rabbi Greninger

December 24 2008 Chanukah - 4th Candle

December 25 2008 Chanukah - 5th Candle

December 26 2008 Chanukah - 6th Candle

December 26 2008 6 pm Oneg - 6:30 pm Neshama Shabbat

December 27 2008 Chanukah - 7th Candle

December 27 2008 Torah Study 9:15 AM

December 27 2008 Shabbat Morning Service [Devin Stein Bar Mitzvah]

December 28 2008 Chanukah - 8th Candle

December 30 2008 Tefillah Tuesday with Rabbi Greninger

January 02 2009 6:00 PM "got shabbat" Dinner followed by Family Shabbat & Chocolate Oneg

January 03 2009 Shabbat Morning Service [Risa Dunbar Bat Mitzvah]

January 06 2009 Tefillah Tuesday with Rabbi Greninger

January 09 2009 Shabbat Service 8:00 PM With Author Dylan Shaffer. Oneg Follows

January 10 2009 Shabbat Service [Adult B'nai Mitzvah]

January 10 2009 Adult B'nai Mitzvah Class Celebration

January 11 2009 Avodah Shelter Lunch Bunch

January 12 2009 Women's Torah Commentary Study Group

January 12 2009 Women of Isaiah Board

January 13 2009 Tefillah Tuesday with Rabbi Greninger

January 17 2009 Shabbat Service [Cole Whitley Bar Mitzvah]

January 18 2009 Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend, Campus Closed.

January 19 2009 Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend, Campus Closed.

January 23 2009 WRJ's Sisterhood Leadership Conference - New Orleans

January 23 2009 Early Oneg 6:00 PM

January 23 2009 Shabbat Service 6:30 PM

January 23 2009 Meet and Greet Dinner

January 24 2009 WRJ's Sisterhood Leadership Conference - New Orleans

January 24 2009 Shabbat Service [Kevin Wieder & Brian Lilienstein B'nai Mitzvah]

January 25 2009 WRJ's Sisterhood Leadership Conference - New Orleans

January 25 2009 P'tach Libeynu: Open our Hearts (Beginning a Conversation about the Stigma of Mental Illness)

January 26 2009 Rosh Chodesh Sh'vat: Jewish Meditative Stress Reduction with Rabbi Diane Elliot



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