8 December 2019 Award winning speakers Imam Mamadou Bocoum and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg discussed Jewish/Muslim relations at an Interfaith event co-hosted by Kingston Liberal Synagogue (KLS) and Muslims Against Antisemitism (MAAS). The pair – who won the 2017 ‘No2H8 Crime’ awards for intercultural dialogue for their work speaking to audiences … Read More
Liberal Judaism sessions and presenters at Limmud
3 December 2019 Liberal Judaism will have a large presence once more at this year’s Limmud Festival – with our rabbis, student rabbis, officers, staff, community chairs and members presenting sessions on all manner of topics. From Rabbi Dr Margaret Jacobi looking at what trees and humans have in common to Liberal … Read More
Statement on London Bridge terrorist attack
2 December 2019 Liberal Judaism joins with all those who mourn for Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt – the two victims of another awful terrorist attack on British soil. Saskia and Jack may never have heard the Jewish term of tikkun olam (repairing the world) but they were certainly practitioners … 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
‘Rabbi Mirvis echoed fears that many of us hear daily’
November 26 2019 A statement from Rabbi Aaron Goldstein (Chair of the Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors) on behalf of Liberal Judaism: When a Rabbi speaks up over an issue that crosses into the political sphere we recognise that it is difficult for them to do so and not … 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
Statement on persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China
26 November 2019 Jane Drapkin – LJ Social Justice National Officer Rabbi Aaron Goldstein – Chair, Conference of Liberal Rabbis and Cantors As Jewish Communities around the country begin planning and training for education around Holocaust Memorial Day, we cannot ignore a potential genocide unfolding in plain sight right now … 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
Mitzvah Day brings faiths (and even rabbis) together
19 November 2019 Liberal Judaism’s senior rabbi, Rabbi Danny Rich, was part of a unique and moving Mitzvah Day event that saw all sections of the Jewish community in Finchley unite with their Muslim neighbours. Danny teamed up with Finchley Progressive Synagogue’s Rabbi Rebecca Birk – as well as Rabbi … Read More
A chuppah wedding… 61 years later
18 November 2019 A couple from The Liberal Synagogue Elstree (TLSE) have got married under a chuppah – 61 years after their original civil wedding ceremony. Jack and Mina Kossoff wed at TLSE with children from the religion school making the decorations for the day. The nuptials came about after … Read More