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High Holy Days attendance up a year after October 7

Some reported a 100 per cent increase in attendance

By Jane Prinsley

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Leo Baeck head is made a professor

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The street in Lviv, Ukraine, where Sasha Somish, a member of the Jewish community, lives, after a Russian rocket attack earlier this week (Photo: Sasha Somish)

Russia Ukraine War

UK shul offers support to Ukrainian communities hit by Russian airstrikes

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Precious handover: (Left to right) Rabbi David Maxa, Andrew Keene, Viljamas Zitkauskas and Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich (pic: Susannah Fields)

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From London to Lithuania: a Torah scroll brings communities together

By Elisa Bray

3 min read

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Progressive leaders ‘reassured’ by government’s commitment to Israel

By Simon Rocker

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Tamara Felisa Micner Guincher, who recently celebrated the first Yiddish Bas Mitsve in the UK Progressive Jewish community (Photo: Lexi Clare Photography)

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Progressive Judaism scheps nachas from first Yiddish Bas Mitsve

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Leading Reform synagogue chooses cantor rather than a rabbi to be its new head

Cantor Zoe Jacobs selected leader of Finchley Reform, while Rabbi Golan Ben-Chorin is to become principal rabbi of Alyth

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

April 1, 2024 12:45

By Rabbi Jonathan Romain

Why Reform and Liberal Judaism are stronger together

The two movements have more which unites than divides them

2 min read

March 27, 2024 15:39

Rabbi Charley Baginsky, head of Liberal Judaism and Rabbi Josh Levy, head of the Movement for Reform Judaism

By Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy

The Progressive Jewish voice must be heard in conversations about Israel, faith and society

The leaders of Progressive Judaism reflects on a significant year for Israel and the Jewish diaspora

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January 4, 2024 16:48

Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy, co-leads of Progressive Judaism (photo: Progressive Judaism)

Jackie Tabick, the UK's first female rabbi, to retire after nearly 50 years

Rabbi Jackie Tabick is stepping down as convenor of Reform Beit Din

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

November 21, 2023 14:40

Jackie Tabick, the UK's first female rabbi, to retire after nearly 50 years

Progressive and Masorti leaders call for recommitment to two-state solution

The letter published wednesday grieves the 'biggest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust'

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

November 1, 2023 17:31

Israeli soldiers on an armoured vehicle speak an ultra Orthodox man, as they deploy near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Sadiq Khan: 'Hamas are terrorists, end of.'

The mayor of London met with members of Jewish community in Golders Green yesterday

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

October 11, 2023 08:50

Sadiq Khan: 'Hamas are terrorists, end of.'

Progressive Judaism leaders go on tour to 83 communities to share their vision for the future

Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy, who in April announced the merger of Liberal Judaism and the Movement for Reform Judaism, say it's a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity for renewal and imagination'

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

August 24, 2023 11:37

Liberal and Reform merger ‘most significant event for a generation’

New chair of Progressive Judaism says coming together will give the two movements even more energy and momentum

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

July 14, 2023 08:37

Liberal and Reform merger ‘most significant event for a generation’

New Rabbinical recruits at top college span science and art

Biologist and professional musician among eclectic intake for the next training programme at Leo Baeck College

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 1, 2023 13:42

New Rabbinical recruits at top college span science and art

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High Holy Days attendance up a year after October 7

Leo Baeck head is made a professor

UK shul offers support to Ukrainian communities hit by Russian airstrikes

From London to Lithuania: a Torah scroll brings communities together

Progressive leaders ‘reassured’ by government’s commitment to Israel

Progressive Judaism scheps nachas from first Yiddish Bas Mitsve

Don’t label anyone a ‘bad Jew’

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