Celebrating women of the wall

Celebrating women of the wall

Cantor Nitza Shamah, left, with Barbara Rosenfeld, acting shul president Anne-Marie Bennoun, sisterhood president Franci Steinberg, guest speaker Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman, sisterhood treasurer Hilary Eth, and Annice Benamy, who is sisterhood ritual vice president and also region president of the Women of Reform Judaism Atlantic. (Courtesy TBS)
Cantor Nitza Shamah, left, with Barbara Rosenfeld, acting shul president Anne-Marie Bennoun, sisterhood president Franci Steinberg, guest speaker Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman, sisterhood treasurer Hilary Eth, and Annice Benamy, who is sisterhood ritual vice president and also region president of the Women of Reform Judaism Atlantic. (Courtesy TBS)

The sisterhood of Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly led kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday, March 1. It honored the 30th anniversary of Women of the Wall, the organization whose goal is to secure the rights of women to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman, a long-time women’s rights champion, was the guest speaker. She talked about the fight to protect women’s reproductive choice and health care access.

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