West London Synagogue (WLS) hosted some 300 people - including Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev - as they marked World AIDS Day on Saturday 1 December with a moving Havdalah and remembrance service led by Rabbi David Mitchell. The event…
More than forty years ago, the Chairman of Bradford Synagogue Dr Hans Librowicz, having recovered from an operation, donated a cover for the bimah in the synagogue. Woven into it is a famous sentence from the Hebrew scriptures and the…
Kol Chai welcomed the Mayor of Harrow – Councillor Kareema Marikar - at their annual Interfaith Shabbat over the Mitzvah Day weekend. The congregation was packed with representatives of different faiths from across the borough and from the churches in…
Labour MP Ian Austin was interviewed at Mosaic Reform Synagogue by broadcast journalist and synagogue member Steve Levinson on Tuesday 13 November as Mosaic member Jane Harrison explains: Labour MP Ian Austin, who is being investigated over his behaviour during…
Howard Saffer of Sheffield and District Reform Congregation has stepped down as Chair of the Northern Network, a position he has held for over five years. The Northern Network is made up of the executive members and rabbis of Reform…
Rabbi Mark Goldsmith has been appointed as Senior Rabbi of Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue (EHRS) with effect from summer 2019. He will join EHRS following 12 years of service at Alyth. The community's current Senior Rabbis, Rabbi Daniel Smith…
50 people listened to Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner and Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain at Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Community on Remembrance Sunday, as they delivered a dynamic talk and debate entitled: '9 reasons for being a Reform Jew – and…
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan attended West London Synagogue (WLS) last Shabbat morning as part of the Show up for Shabbat campaign in response to the Pittsburgh attack. Jim Fletcher, WLS Trustee said: "We are honoured that he chose this flagship…
At 17 years old, we ask our young people to make enormous decisions that affect the rest of their lives. The age old question ‘what do you want to do when you’re older’ suddenly has immediate consequences, and for children…
Reform Judaism's Community educator, Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers took part in an interfaith gathering at St Giles Church Whittington in Staffordshire with the Rt Revd Dr Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Lichfield and New Zealand theologian Professor Douglas Pratt. Issues of life…