Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue – Head Teacher

Location: Wanstead, London Saturdays: 9 am – 12 pm (plus prep time) Salary:  £26 per hour (possibly more for an exceptional candidate) We are a growing community of 475 members and associate members with approximately 90 children (about 15 who attend the cheder), most of whom live in East London … Read More

Friday night dinners across the Three Counties

More than 90 people attended Friday night dinners all over Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire as part of a pioneering initiative organised by members of Three Counties Liberal Jewish Community (3CLJC). Rabbi Anna Gerrard and Karen Reynolds are behind the annual project – this year placing community members at nine different … Read More

Support the 25th anniversary of the Karen Morris Memorial Trust

Karen Morris

By Sylvia Morris MBE Chair, Karen Morris Memorial Trust Many members of the Liberal and Reform movements will remember my sorely missed daughter Karen Morris (pictured) – who grew up at Finchley Progressive Synagogue, attended many ULPSNYC (now LJY-Netzer) weekends and Kadimah summer camps and became a very popular Shemesh … Read More

Karen Newman elected as Liberal Judaism Chair at AGM

Karen Newman has been elected as the new Chair of Liberal Judaism. Karen, who has been Acting Chair since October 2023, was unanimously voted into the position at Liberal Judaism AGM. She becomes the first member of the LGBTQI+ community to hold the position of Chair within Liberal Judaism. Karen … Read More

Rabbi Charley represents Jewish community at Abbey service

Rabbi Charley Baginsky at Westminster Abbey rehearsal

Progressive Judaism Co-Lead Rabbi Charley Baginsky gave a blessing on behalf of the Jewish community at Westminster Abbey – as part of a Service of Thanksgiving in the 30th Year of South Africa’s democracy. The event marked three decades since the ending of Apartheid in South Africa and honoured Nelson … Read More

Kehillah North London hosts first ever Yiddish Bas Mitsve

Tamara Guincher

The thriving congregation of Kehillah North London has celebrated what is believed to be the first Yiddish Bas Mitsve service in a British Progressive Jewish community. In recent years a number of members from Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi and mixed-heritage backgrounds at Kehillah have had an adult B’nai Mitzvah, but 39-year-old … Read More

High Holy Days Ticket Scheme 2024/5785

HHD ticket scheme 5785

We are proud to once again launch the Progressive Judaism High Holy Days Ticket Scheme for young adults. This allows any young person, aged 18 to 26, to attend Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services free of charge at any Reform or Liberal community of their choice. Covering 80 congregations, … Read More