Women's League for Conservative Judaism

American Jewish women's organization

Women's League for Conservative Judaism (WLCJ) is the national representative body in the United States for women within Conservative Judaism.^[1]^[2]

Overview

The WLCJ was founded by Mathilde Schechter in 1918, originally named the National Women’s League of the United Synagogue. The vision of the organization was to serve as the coordinating body for Conservative synagogue sisterhoods.

References

^ "Women's League for Conservative Judaism", Jewish Women's Archive.
^ Rugh, S. S. (1997). "Not Just White and Protestant: Midwestern Jewish Women" (PDF). Resources for Gender and Women's Studies. 18 (4): 3.

Women in Judaism

General topics

Women in Judaism
- In the Bible
- Early modern period
- In the Holocaust
- In Israel
Gender and Judaism
- Matrilineality in Judaism
- Bat-Kohen
- Bat Levi

History	Jewish Women's Congress (1893) 1902 Kosher Meat Boycott 1904 New York City Rent Strike 1906 Tonsil Riots 1907 New York City Rent Strike 1909 Shirtwaist Strike World Congress of Jewish Women (1923, 1929) Women's Torah Project (2003–2010) Women's Siyum HaShas (2020)