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Hi! You’re at the right place for friends and community. Here’s what Sisterhood does & is about! 

Sisterhood has a variety of activities, adventures, programs, and events. On December 7, 2025, we met at Battle Republic for a private class just for our members. It was SO fun!

Building Friendships

We are all about connection. From hands-on art workshops to pizza parties to private fitness classes and tons more, we have a broad mix for ways to meet and have fun. We’re focused on creating opportunities for new friendships and strengthening the ones you already have.

Supporting Our Youth

We fund Jewish summer camp scholarships, Religious School programs and activities, confirmation and b’nai mitzvah presents, and gifts for college students through our Precious Legacy program. In 2026, we’re rolling out our Junior Board Program, building leadership qualities among our congregation’s teen girls.

Bringing Judaism Home

Our Temple Traditions Gift Shop (online and in-person) offers beautiful Judaica for your home, family celebrations, and gift-giving. We also put activities together with religious school kids that they can bring home to show off too. Our popular Sisterhood Bulb Sale has put tulips and daffodils and such in Birmingham landscapes for 76 years now, beautifying our community.

Strengthening Temple Emanu-El & Community

Sisterhood provides significant financial support to our congregation and sponsors beloved events like the Purim Carnival and Mitzvah Day. Our Healing Shabbat was covered in the media. In 2025, we co-sponsored the Hadassah Mah Jongg Mixer and we partnered with the Birmingham Zoo to add a very large menorah to their Glow Wild holiday attraction that draws thousands.

Support Reform Judaism

Your Sisterhood membership includes membership in Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), supporting rabbinical students, youth programs, and progressive Judaism worldwide. WRJ offers Torah education, podcasts, travel opportunities, and several Zooms each year including a regular book club and other fun get-togethers like a galette bake-along we had in November.

Last year among our activities, we made glow-in-the-dark fused glass mezuzot at an artist’s studio, took a yoga class together, and wrapped up the year with a Brotherhood-Sisterhood Lag B’Omer bbq supper. This year we’ve had a pizza party, our signature Sukkot event Lemonade in the Shade with an incredible potluck, hosted a Shabbat of Healing, Zoomed with other Sisterhoods for a galette cooking class, enjoyed a paint-your-own-pottery night, co-sponsored a mah jongg mixer, and had a blast at our private Battle Republic fitness class (low-impact boxing + strength training in a nightclub atmosphere!).

We’re casual and fun and don’t take attendance! Come to what feels good!

Membership

Annual Membership: $40
Join here
Your membership supports so much including programming, youth education and experiences, camp scholarships, and opportunities to build our friendships and connection.

Why Join?
– Connect with amazing women in our community — we are all about friendships!
– Support programs that strengthen our Temple family
– Enjoy exclusive events and programming
– Your dues are a mitzvah: they go directly toward supporting activities like religious school and camp scholarships

Upcoming Events

Date TBD in February 2026: a hands-on workshop with chocolate-making or building a charcuterie board (finalizing now) at a shop in Birmingham
Exclusive for Sisterhood members
More information soon

The Making of Fiddler on the Roof, A Zoom from WRJ
Thursday, February 5 at 6:30p
Author Harry J. Getzov presents an inside look at the creation, development, and cultural impact of Fiddler on the Roof
Exclusive for Sisterhood members, Free
Register here


February Meetup with Ginger at Top Golf
This is an opportunity to get together to really know each other in a small setting. In January, a group of us met at Bayonet for lunch; this month we’re playing at Top Golf! Email Ginger for more info.


Making Hamantaschen with Religious School Kids
A partnership between Sisterhood and Religious School

Sunday morning, March 1 at Temple’s Purim Carnival
More information soon

Together in the Middle: Navigating the Sandwich Generation
A partnership between Sisterhood and CJFS
Tuesday, March 18 at 6:00p at Temple
Free for all members of the community
More information soon

2025 – 2026
Sisterhood Board of Directors

 President
Ginger Brook

Past President
Sylvia Wright

VP Programming
Nancy Hamric & Adrian Dyer-Smith

VP Membership
Cheryl Collat

VP Ways and Means
Kim Roth

Recording Secretary
Julie Stein

Treasurer
Lori Weil

Bulb Shop Chair
Erin Arnold

Precious Legacy Chair
Donna Askenazi

Religious School Liaison
Vicki Lugar

At-Large Members
Amy Goldstein Chauvin
Deanna Danalevich
Becky Gordon
Ellen Stein
Shana Watson

Ex Officio:
Lisa Bebenek
Alison Berman
Sherron Goldstein
Leigh Anne Nomberg

Questions? Contact:
Ginger Brook, President: iheartmagnolias@gmail.com
Cheryl Collat, VP Membership: cacollat@gmail.com

Just a Few of our Special Projects

Temple Traditions Gift Shop

Sisterhood’s Temple Traditions is a thoughtfully curated selection of beautiful Judaica for the home, family celebrations, and meaningful gift-giving. Available both online and in person, the shop reflects our love of Jewish ritual, tradition, and everyday moments made special and pretty. Shop Now

Annual Bulb Sale (76th Year!)

Each fall, order gorgeous amaryllis, fragrant paperwhites, and more — shipped directly to your door! Website will reopen this coming spring 2026.

Precious Legacy

We send gifts to members’ college students twice a year, keeping them connected to our Temple family even when they’re far from home. Have a college student? Contact Donna Askenazi: djaskenazi@bellsouth.net

Jewish Youth Camp Scholarships

Through our account at the Temple’s Rabbi Grafman Endowment Fund, we gift scholarships so the youth of our congregation may attend Jewish summer camp. Apply here

From Generation to Generation: A Temple Emanu-El Cookbook

Our cookbook is a timeless tribute to our families. It’s Annie Rotenstreich’s kosher pickled tomatoes, Vidalia onion pie, stuffed cabbage, barbecue brisket, Mawmaw’s biscuits, schnecken, and Aunt Tessie’s marble squares (and a world of recipes for Passover)! It’s free for new Temple members, and we can definitely get you a copy too. Just ask!

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