Join us on Thursday (20 July) at 7pm for a special Community Briefing with the Union of Jewish Students. Find out about creative ways for your community to reach out to students, how to make them feel welcome, how to support them and help them sustain meaningful and enriching Jewish … Read More
Ensuring that Zohar’s impact never stops
A Trust has been set up in memory of Zohar Dean Collins, the LJY-Netzer youth leader who died in a sudden tragic event in June 2022. The Zohar Dean Trust will support meaningful causes that were close to the award-winning physics student’s heart and seek to enable young people to … Read More
Join our community Friday night dinners for students
Liberal Judaism communities all over the UK will be hosting Friday night dinners on Friday 10 March especially for university students. All students are welcome, whether Liberal Jews or not, to take part in this special evening. Liberal Judaism’s Student Chaplain, Rabbi Leah Jordan, said: “Calling everyone at university! As … Read More
Your donations are already making a difference
By Rabbi Charley Baginsky CEO, Liberal Judaism We are just one month on from the biggest fundraiser in Liberal Judaism’s history and there are two things that your donations have made possible: 30 young people are off to LJY-Netzer Machaneh Kadimah summer camp and/or to leadership training camp in the … Read More
High Holy Days 5783 Ticket Scheme for students and young adults
Liberal Judaism has once again teamed up with the Movement for Reform Judaism to ensure that all students and young adults can attend Progressive High Holy Days services this year. The High Holy Days 5783 Ticket Scheme enables students and young adults to attend services for free at the Liberal … Read More
[Blog] Become an LJ Ambassador and help our youth
By Becca Fetterman I am writing today not as Director of Youth, but as a proud parent of two LJY-Netzerniks (pictured above with me and my husband Andrew). LJY-Netzer has given so many of our children a community where they feel they belong and an open place to explore their … Read More
LJY-Netzer Machaneh Kadimah: 15 – 28 August 2022
Machaneh Kadimah summer camp is LJY-Netzer’s biggest event of the year, and is certainly not something to miss out on! You can book your place HERE. Kadimah brings together Liberal Jews from all over the world for an incredible jam-packed camp with fun, singing, and bonding. Over two weeks, participants … Read More
Progressive Jewish Students to run Careers Month in Feb
During February, Progressive Jewish Students will be running a Careers Month to inspire and reassure students about their job prospects post-university. UK Ambassador to the Ukraine Melinda Simmons, BBC journalist Tim Franks and CEO of JW3 Raymond Simonson are among the speakers who will be talking to students about their … Read More
Hot Potatoes (19 Nov): Have we imprisoned our students?
With promises of in-person seminars and an imminent return to ‘normal’ university living, our students were enticed onto campus to begin their journey through higher education. Now, with the country in a new lockdown amidst ever changing Covid-19 rules and regulations, our students find themselves restricted to their halls – … Read More
Get in touch with our Progressive student chaplain
29 September 2020 Calling all students, gap year participants and people who have left school in the past few years to go onto other things. We know that for many of you this year is not how you expected it to be. Coronavirus and the restrictions that come with it … Read More