Enter your community for the Mitzvah Day Awards

Nominations are now open for the Mitzvah Day Awards! The event celebrates the amazing communities, organisations, individuals and beneficiary charities that made Mitzvah Day 2023 the success that it was. It is an opportunity to have your congregation, and Progressive Judaism as a whole, recognised – and also a chance … Read More

Join Yelala’s spring retreat for a Shabbat of song and connection

Student Rabbi Yael Tischler and Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid will be running their Yelala spring retreat in Wiltshire from 5-7 April. Student Rabbi Yael, who studies at Leo Baeck College, said: “The retreat will focus on connection, song, relaxation, and gathering up some skills and confidence to take radical Jewish … Read More

Find out more about Reform Judaism’s Shirei meets Chagigah

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 Liberal Judaism members are invited to join our friends from the Movement for Reform Judaism at Shirei meets Chagigah.The Reform equivalent of our Biennial Weekend, it will be full of wonderful music, discussion, celebration and, above all, community.A great chance to get to better know our new Progressive Judaism … Read More

Tu BiShvat around our Progressive communities

Tu BiShvat was celebrated by Progressive Jews all around the country with a series of meaningful services, Seders, plantings and events. Every generation had a chance to get involved at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue (EHRS). EHRS events included a Nagila Nursery tree planting, bird feeder making, learning with the … Read More

LJY-Netzer Tu BiShvat explores relationship with the natural world

Liberal Judaism’s youth movement LJY-Netzer hosted a Tu BiShvat Seder and volunteering event for its bogrimot (members over 18), to explore a variety of Jewish historical and Kabbalistic interpretations of our relationship with the natural world. Throughout the Seder, guests drank different coloured wines and tasted different fruits, in order to celebrate … Read More

Burns Night celebrations in Scotland… and East London

Progressive Jewish communities put on special events for Burns Night – the annual celebration of the life and work of renowned Scottish poet Robert Burns. Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community (ELJC) took part in a cross-communal celebration, hosted by their neighbouring Orthodox Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation. A hundred guests included members of … Read More

Safer Recruitment for Volunteers online training course

Liberal Judaism members and communities are invited to join a free online training course, being run by the Movement for Reform Judaism, to understand their responsibilities when recruiting and managing volunteers. The session will be delivered by MRJ’s Head of Safeguarding and Wellbeing Sharon Daniels and HR Director Gilly Shulman. … Read More

Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 UK Ceremony

Holocaust Memorial Day 2024

As well as the events taking place in Liberal and Reform Judaism communities across the country on Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), Progressive Jews are also invited to watch the official national event. The Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 UK Ceremony: Curated Moments will be broadcast on the internet this Saturday (27 … Read More

Thursday: Community Briefing on BRCA testing programme

BRCA Community Briefing

Liberal Judaism and the Movement for Reform Judaism will be hosting an important joint Community Briefing on the Jewish BRCA testing programme via Zoom this Thursday (25 January) at 8pm. The two guest speakers will be Jnetics CEO Nicole Gordon and Chai Cancer Care CEO Lisa Steele. They will talk … Read More

Historic Chanukah lightings show growth of Progressive Judaism

This Chanukah was a significant one in the growth and development of Progressive Judaism in the UK. Leaders from our movements were guests and lit candles at a number of major civic celebrations, including in a historic first at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. Progressive Judaism Co-Leads Rabbis Josh … Read More