Recognizing Excellence in Programming, Membership, and Social Action

Recognition for outstanding programs is awarded to sisterhoods on both the district and WRJ levels.  All sisterhoods affiliated with WRJ are invited to submit applications for awards.  Not only does this honor the work of the members of your sisterhood but it also enables excellent programs and recipes for success, to be shared across sisterhoods in order to easily replicate them.

Mid-Atlantic District Awards

The Rabbi Richard R Sternberger Award recognizes the best social action program/project in the District.  It was created in honor of Rabbi Sternberger, upon his retirement as Regional Director of the URJ (then, UAHC) Mid-Atlantic Council.  Rabbi Sternberger, a lifetime member of WRJ’s Circle of Service, took every opportunity to support WRJ and sisterhoods and credited WRJ for his career thanks to a WRJ scholarship that made possible his rabbinic training.  Social Action programming was chosen because Rabbi Sternberger had been a major proponent of social justice throughout his rabbinate. 

 A membership award is also presented every two years to the sisterhood who demonstrates the greatest achievement in membership recruitment and retention.

Both awards are presented at the WRJ Mid-Atlantic Convention, every two years.