27 January 2020 More than 1,400 schoolchildren from Kingston-upon-Thames and Surrey have been attending workshops commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day throughout this month. The annual project, now in its 14th year, is run jointly by Kingston, Surbiton and District Synagogue (KSDS – part of the United Synagogue) and Kingston Liberal Synagogue … Read More
More than 100 attend ‘fantastic’ teacher training conference
9 January 2020 More than one hundred Reform and Liberal Judaism cheder and religion school teachers gathered at The Liberal Jewish Synagogue for the organisations’ flagship annual teacher training event. Participants had the opportunity to deepen a range of skills, with sessions selected based on teacher requests and specific development … Read More
Rabbi Anna Gerrard makes history with Clifton College role
1 December 2019 Clifton College – the independent boarding and day school in Bristol – has appointed Liberal Judaism’s Rabbi Anna Gerrard as its first ever Jewish chaplain. Anna’s role will ensure that Jewish pupils are able to live a Jewish life within the wider school community, including celebrating Jewish … Read More
Kabbalat Torah programme launches with weekend sleepover
26 November 2019 Rabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi The new Liberal Judaism Kabbalat Torah programme ‘Judaism In Plain Sight’ launched with a weekend sleepover in Birmingham. Ten teenagers from our Birmingham, Kingston, Nottingham and York congregations came together to welcome Shabbat together and spend the weekend thinking about what Judaism has … Read More
Join our Liberal and Reform Judaism teacher training day
21 November 2019 Do you want to learn how to teach your cheder/religion school students about the Holocaust in a sensitive way? Or maybe you wish to know more about using games as a teaching tool or introducing mindfulness into the classroom? Then make sure to register for the next … Read More
Elstree member named Most Inspirational Young Person
5 November 2019 Daniel Bernard, a member of The Liberal Synagogue Elstree (TLSE), won the Most Inspirational Young Person Award at the Inspire the House Awards at The Houses of Parliament. Following his success at the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi earlier this year – where he represented Team GB … Read More
Young Progressive Jews unite for refugee project
22 October 2019 Young Liberal and Reform Jews from the UK have spent a week volunteering in Calais and Dunkirk, as part of a team cooking and serving 2,000 meals each day to the refugees there. Nine volunteers from the LJY-Netzer and RSY-Netzer youth movements joined the Refugee Community Kitchen … Read More
Spring camp dates change to incorporate Shabbat
10 October 2019 The dates for LJY-Netzer’s Machaneh Aviv have changed so that the spring camp will now include Shabbat. The camp will take place from Tuesday 14 to Sunday 19 April, after overwhelming feedback from LJY-Netzer members and their parents that Shabbat on camp is a very special time … Read More
Former LJY-Netzer leader is new UJIA CEO
1 October 2019 Liberal Judaism has welcomed the appointment of former LJY-Netzer youth leader Mandie Winston as the new CEO of UJIA. Mandie becomes the first ever woman to hold the role, which she will take up in January. She was raised in London and is remembered as a popular … Read More
Nominate young Liberal leaders for JN poll
25 September 2019 The Jewish News is asking for nominations as it seeks to identify the top young leaders in Anglo-Jewry. The newspaper is compiling ‘40 under 40’, ‘25 under 25’ and ‘18 under 18’ lists to showcase the many young Jews doing amazing work up and down the country. … Read More