Instructions to Log Into Your AccountLogin / TEE Directory

Sisterhood

Click Here to Join Sisterhood

Click Here to Visit the Sisterhood Facebook Group

Click Here to Shop the Sisterhood Gift Shop

Click here to visit the 76th Anniversary Sisterhood Bulb Shop

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. 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.

This year, we have a calendar filled with friendship and fun, from our always-popular Pizza Party Membership Kickoff and Lemonade in the Shade Sukkot Mahjong Game Night & Potluck to Dinner and a Movie, Honoring Our Matriarchs, Yogurt and Yoga, a Fused Glass Mezuzah Making Workshop, Bagels and Bams, Floral Arranging & Cookie Exchange, Sisterhood-Brotherhood Shabbat, our Women’s Seder, and the Sisterhood/Brotherhood Dinner following Shabbat services. Plus, we have activities with the littles, like an amazing-amazing-amazing PJs and Pancakes Havdalah!

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

SEPTEMBER

Monday, September 14 at 6:30pm
Members-Only Pizza Party 
Join beforehand or that evening
Your first beverage and appetizers are Sisterhood’s treat!
RSVP to Nancy Hamric

Wednesday, September 30 at 6pm
Everyone Welcome at our TEE Sukkah
Bring your games, knitting, books, whatever!
Hang out with us in the sukkah and enjoy an incredible potluck of apps and desserts
RSVP to Nancy Hamric

OCTOBER

Member Exclusive: Dinner and a Movie
Monday, October 19 at 6pm-ish
More details to follow

pizza party

Casual lunch at Bottega
Email Ginger here for time/date, pay-your-own-way

76th Annual Bulb Sale

Order online. Bulbs will be shipped directly to your home at the right time for planting this fall.

Order here

2026 – 2027
Sisterhood Board of Directors

President: Ginger Brook
VPs Programming: Nancy Hamric, Shana Watson
VP Membership: Cheryl Collat

Secretary: Julie Stein
Treasurer: Erin Arnold

Immediate Past President: Sylvia Wright

Bulb Shop Chair: Ellen Stein
Precious Legacy Chair: Donna Askenazi
Religious School Chair: Nina Cole
Temple Traditions Chair: Sandy Goldman
Junior Board Chair: Deanna Danalevich

 

Members at Large:
Amy Goldstein Chauvin
Adrian Dyer-Smith
Toby Gewant
Becky Gordon
Vicki Lugar
Cora Rogers

Ex Officio:
Lisa Bebenek
Alison Berman
Sherron Goldstein
Leigh Anne Nomberg
Kim Roth
Lori Weil

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 Click HERE

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!

Menu