13 December 2016 Guests from all of the region’s faith groups helped Peterborough Liberal Jewish Community (PLJC) celebrate its 25th anniversary on Saturday. Liberal Judaism’s senior rabbi, Rabbi Danny Rich, led a specially tailored service – explaining the origin and significance of the various aspects of Shabbat. It was followed … Read More
Reading welcomes Rabbi Miri Lawrence-Cohen
13 December 2016 Reading Liberal Jewish Community (RLJC) is set for a bright future with the appointment of a new rabbi and the re-opening of its cheder. Rabbi Miri Lawrence-Cohen will lead the first Shabbat morning service of every month. She has been a frequent visitor to the community over … Read More
Liberal Jews win major volunteering awards
6 December 2016 Liberal Judaism communities and members have won a series of volunteering awards. Simon Cooper and Rebecca Woolfe were named The Jewish News and Mitzvah Day’s Community Heroes for 2016, in a moving ceremony. Simon, who suffered from cystic fibrosis, was an ambassador for NHS Blood & Transplant, … Read More
First communications away day hailed as great success
5 December 2016 Liberal Judaism’s first ever communications and PR away day for members of communities was described as “excellent”, “engaging” and “extremely helpful” by participants. Held at Common Purpose, in London, 15 delegates attended, representing communities from all around the UK, including London, Lancashire, York, Gloucestershire, Brighton and Essex. … Read More
Luciana Berger MP joins Mitzvah Day at the LJS
29 November 2016 Luciana Berger MP joined Rabbis Danny Rich, Alex Wright and René Pfertzel – as well as Reform and Orthodox Jews, and members of three other faiths – to wrap festive presents for refugees at The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (LJS) on Mitzvah Day. Hundreds of books were brought … Read More
Liberal Jews nominated as Community Heroes
19 November 2016 Liberal Judaism’s Rabbi Janet Darley, Simon Cooper and Rebecca Woolfe have all been nominated as Community Heroes by The Jewish News and Mitzvah Day. Siblings Simon Cooper and Rebecca Woolfe have been nominated for the tireless charitable work. Before his death from lung cancer in July this … Read More
Liberal community makes history with first Lincoln funeral
16 November 2016 The first Jewish burial, of modern times, in Lincoln has taken place in the Lincolnshire Jewish Community’s new burial plot at Jews’ Court. The funeral was for Allan Levene, a prominent member of the Lincolnshire Jewish Community, which established in 1992. It was officiated by Rabbi Aaron … Read More
Elstree team win the 50th Annual LJ Quiz
15 November 2016 Members of The Liberal Synagogue Elstree fought off 11 other teams to win the hotly contested Liberal Judaism Annual Inter-Synagogue Quiz. Held at Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue on Sunday November 13, a dozen teams tackled taxing, but entertaining, questions on wide-ranging subjects. Finchley Progressive Synagogue finished … Read More
New community to be called East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue
8 November 2016 Liberal Judaism’s newest community has been given its English name – East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue. The community will officially form on January 1, 2017, after members of the area’s two current Liberal Judaism congregations – Bet Tikvah and Woodford Liberal Synagogues – voted overwhelmingly to … Read More
Civic leaders to attend York interfaith event
5 November 2016 York Liberal Jewish Community (YLJC) will hold an interfaith service on Saturday November 19, as part of National Interfaith Week. The service will be led by Student Rabbi Deborah Blausten and include a Torah reading from an ‘orphan scroll’, which was rescued from the Holocaust by Prague’s … Read More