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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.

 
 

WRJ Awards

 

The Women of Reform Judaism Or Ami "Light of My People" Awards for Excellence in Sisterhood Programming, presented at each assembly, honor sisterhoods and districts undertaking unusual and significant social action programs, community service, or educational projects. 

 

WRJ is greening the entire Or Ami application process; all Or Ami communications will be handled electronically to save paper and material resources. To apply for the Or Ami awards that will be presented in Toronto, November 4-8, 2009, at the 47th assembly:

 

  1. Review the guidelines
  2. Download an application
  3. Submit your completed application(s) electronically to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by April 24th

 

The Kavod (“Honor”) Award in Memory of Helen M. Dalsheimer acknowledges sisterhoods who have demonstrated exemplary support of the YES Fund for three consecutive Assembly periods (six years).

 

The Achat [“individual”] Award is given to the one sisterhood with the largest per capita contribution through the sale of YES Fund items and/or cash contributions to the YES Fund during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.

 

The Avodah [“service”] Award is given to the sisterhood in each of four membership size categories that has made the highest total contribution through the sale of YES Fund items and/or cash contributions to the YES Fund during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.

 

The L’Chaim [“to Life”] Award is given to the sisterhood with the highest percentage of new Lifeline members during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.  

 

The Ma’agal [“Circle”] Award is given to the one sisterhood with the highest percentage of new Circle of Service members (at any level other than Lifeline) during the two-year period prior to the Assembly.