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Seven Women of Valour

Seven Women of Valour At the Seventh Annual Eshet Chayil - 2025 Narrated by Dina Korol Eshet Chayil Medley – Esti Hochhauser, Dina Korol, Raizel Gutnick Liri Albag, an Israeli soldier, was stationed on the Nachal Oz military base on the border of Gaza.…

A Song for Your Soul – EC 5786

The Tishrei Inspiration Eshet Chayil 2025 – RCWC A Song for your Soul It is with thanks to Hashem that we have reached this milestone of our seventh annual Eshet Chayil Event. It is seven years since my own dear mother a”h passed away on the holy day of…

Report on the RCWC Seventh Annual Eshet Chayil Event

Shulamit Nutovics The seventh annual Eshet Chayil event, organised by the Rosh Chodesh Women’s Circle, took place on 29th September, 2025 – 7 Tishrei, 5786 at the home of Perele Goldhirsch. Women from different backgrounds gathered to hear Gili…

Rosh Chodesh Energy at Chabad Frankston RCWC

Sharon Gelber, April 2024 Oh what a night!! On Tuesday, 16th April – we ran a Rosh Chodesh Women’s Circle. Thanks to everyone who helped organise such a successful evening! And thanks to everyone who came – it was so thrilling to see new…

Honouring Heritage – at the Sephardi RCWC

By Joanne Levy, April 2024 What an incredible evening we had for our first Rosh Chodesh Women’s Circle event, where we honoured the Egyptian heritage of our community, in the lead up to Pesach. We welcomed Marcelle Levi, as our guest speaker. Not only is…

Women’s Wisdom by Elissa Blaser

G-d has bestowed extra gifts on women: an uncanny “woman’s intuition”, an extra measure of compassion, and an innate desire for modesty. This spiritual nature builds the other people around into stronger people. An early example of this…

Telling Our Story by Elissa Blaser

By telling our story, we begin to unfold the mystery of our lives. Why is one person drawn to music and one person able to understand physics just by reading it? Why can one person captivate an audience with a speech, while another cannot walk up to a…

Rebbetzin Chaya Zelda (Clara) Kramer, 89, a Gracious Bastion of Kindness

Rebbetzin Chaya Zelda (Clara) Kramer, 89, a Gracious Bastion of Kindness She left her mark on generations of Jewish Montrealers By Menachem Posner - October 12, 2018 8:07 AM

Jewish Care: My Connection Newsletter Publication – Autumn 2019

Linking Generations through Storytelling.

Jewish Care: My Circle Newsletter Publication – April 2019

Linking the Generations.

Exciting New Organisation That Nurtures Women, Dor l’Dor

Rosh Chodesh is a special time for women to celebrate. It is like a mini Rosh Hashanah, being the beginning of a new Hebrew month. Sue Zimmerman writes about an organisation that brings women together at the beginning of the Hebrew month. On Rosh Chodesh…

The Gift of Rosh Chodesh by Elissa Blaser

Once a month on Rosh Chodesh, the holiday appointed to recognise the unique place of women, the Rosh Chodesh Women’s Circle offers groups of women a lovely repast, a unique Torah perspective, the opportunity to connect and, of course, the unfolding story…

Message from Rebbetzin Sara Gutnick, President

It started with a spark, an idea, that over a period of five years blossomed at Elwood Shule into the popular and successful Rosh Chodesh Women’s CircleTM. A registered not-for-profit organisation, RCWC brings together Jewish women of all ages, stages,…

Message from Elissa Blaser, Founding Sponsor

First, let me thank Hashem and the Gutnick family for the gift of being able to be involved in this project. It seems that all accomplishments take great effort. Rebbetzin Sara is our ballerina, spinning and spinning, in what seems to be effortless…