23 September 2020

Even though we can’t physically be together this Yom Kippur, Liberal Judaism and its communities are offering a range of online services and activities so that our members and friends can have a meaningful and engaging High Holy Days.

You can find details of your local/favourite community here or else contact montagu@liberaljudaism.org and we’ll help you as quickly as we can.

Additionally, Liberal Judaism is offering a range of activities throughout the afternoon of Yom Kippur:

12pm: A shadow-puppet retelling of the Book of Jonah, click here to watch on youtube.

12:30pm: A dramatised musaf (additional) service, click here to watch on youtube.

3pm: A service for younger children, click here to watch on youtube.

4:30pm: An LJY-Netzer service for older children, click here for more information.

From 2pm-4:30pm: Liberal Judaism’s rabbis and lay leaders will be running a range of study sessions for you to dip in and out of. They are listed below:

• 2pm: What can we learn about Yom Kippur from the Mishnah? with Rabbi Margaret Jacobi. Contact montagu@liberaljudaism.org for access, or watch via LJ’s Facebook.
• 2:30pm: Jonah – Going Down, Down Down, and Up with Student Rabbi Nicola Feuchtwang. Contact montagu@liberaljudaism.org for access.
• 2:30pm: Meditative Yom Kippur service with Sharon Law. Contact montagu@liberaljudaism.org for access.
• 3pm: The Akeidah Project with Rabbi Charley Baginsky, Zoom link to be posted in advance and streamed via the Liberal Judaism Facebook page.
• 3pm: Post-modern Teshuvah? The resonance of Al Cheit with Rabbi Rene Pfertzel. Contact montagu@liberaljudaism.org for access
• 3pm: Impurity, the High Priest, and His Dark Materials, with Student Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber. Click here for Zoom access.
• 3pm: Amos: the first Liberal Jew with Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, streamed via LJ’s Facebook. Contact montagu@liberaljudaism.org for access
• 3pm: Reflections on Jonah with Rabbi Rebecca Birk. Contact administrator@fps.org for access.
• 3:30pm: Some Mussar teachings on Teshuvah with Rabbi Monique Mayer. Contact montagu@liberaljudaism.org for access
• 4pm: The LJS presents a dramatised online production of The Book of Jonah starring Dame Janet Suzman as God and featuring Joshua Higgott (Hamlet) and Felicity Davidson (Leopoldstadt) and with reflections by Jonah on his experience of being called to Nineveh, watch via the LJS’s Youtube Channel.

For further joining details please contact the community in question or montagu@liberaljudaism.org.

Services that you can watch live (without registration) will be made available by various communities, including through our Facebook group, over YouTube and via community websites.