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"it was a combination of all these
things."
In existence in only a few cities
around the country, Z'havah's name
derives from the Hebrew word zahav, or
"gold," and is a Hebrew acronym for
"Generating Our Leadership
Development."
Barbara Safer, Florida-based WLCJ
vice president and Z'havah chair, agrees
with Katz.
"Z'havah is important because it pro-
ll Alayna Langnas did to
become a synagogue leader
was comment that her sis-
terhood seemed to be
geared more toward her grandmother
and mother-in-law rather than toward
her peers.
The next thing Langnas knew, she
and fellow Congregation Shaarey Zedek
members Debby
Surfs of
Birmingham and
Nancy Kaufman of
Royal Oak were co-
chairing Z'havah,
the first Michigan-
based sector of the
Women's League for
Conservative
Judaism's (WLCJ)
international sister-
. hood program for
women 45 and
younger.
It all started
when Langnas of
West Bloomfield
received a call
Nancy Kaufman of Royal Oak, Debby Surfs of Birmingham
from a Shaarey
and Alayna Langnas of West Bloomfield at the Jan. 27 Creating
Zedek Sisterhood
Shabbatfir Everyone Sisterhood program at Shaarey Zedek.
officer asking why
she didn't renew
her yearly membership.
vides the opportunity for younger
"I told her I had only joined because
women to identify with the synagogue
of my mother-in-law's involvement,"
and sisterhood, while allowing them
Langnas says of Frieda Langnas, long-
flexibility to create programs to meet
time administrative assistant of the
their individual needs and interests," she
organization. "When I told her there
says.
was really nothing there for younger
"We looked at Shaarey Zedek
synagogue members like me, she sug-
Sisterhood membership," says Katz,
gested I get a few friends together and
"and we identified almost three-quarters
give our opinions on sisterhood."
of them as 45 or older. That meant the
A focus group was scheduled for a
other one-quarter, who are under 45,
night with so much snowfall that Surfs
were probably just supporting us with
and Langnas were the only two to show
their dollars.
up to meet with sisterhood officers.
"We realized there was a place at
"We just sat there and asked them a
Shaarey Zedek for their husband, kids,
bunch of questions," says Karen Katz of parents to go to meetings, but not for
West Bloomfield, Shaarey Zedek
them."
Sisterhood president. "The main things
we learned were that they were willing
Forming The Group
to work hard and they wanted to be
It was decided the invitation list for
involved in programming that involved
Shaarey Zedek's Creating Shabbat for
their children and their friends."
Katz says she discovered Z'havah and Everyone Sisterhood program on Jan.