Just before Shavuot this year a group of 60 Jewish professionals and volunteers including Reform rabbis and community members met to commit to bringing the ritual of mikveh - ritual immersion in a pool or body of water - back…
Reform Judaism congratulates our community members recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Tim Angel of West London Synagogue and chairman of Angels Costumes is made a CBE for services to theatre, film, television and the arts. Dr Pauline Jeffree of…
All 110 issues of the journal Manna, published from 1983-2011 are now available online in a newly launched digital edition. Click here to access full colour PDFs of each issue which you can download or read online. In his foreword…
Progressive rabbis expressed solidarity with persecuted Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang region by holding a fast on Monday 3 June. The fast, led by Rabbis Alexandra Wright and Michael Hilton followed a René Cassin public meeting to raise awareness on…
Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, Reform Judaism's Community Educator has had a prayer translated into Hebrew and featured in a new volume: ‘Gates of Mercy’ edited by Nili Arbel. The prayer is for those who wish to process the experience of infertility.…
Leo Baeck College (LBC) celebrated 63 years of service to the Progressive Jewish community with a fundraising dinner at West London Synagogue on 15 May. The guests, both long-time friends and new supporters of the College, were addressed by Professor…
The World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) has paid tribute to the work of visionary global Jewish leaders and advocates Dee and Leslie Bergman and Marion and Stanley Bergman presenting them with their International Humanitarian Award. The award was presented…
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi of West London Synagogue and Luciana Berger MP have been recognised with awards at Jewish Care’s Women of Distinction Lunch. Rabbi Baroness Neuberger received the Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifetime commitment to the…
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism has responded to a recording of NEC Labour official Pete Willsman saying that the Israeli embassy was behind a letter signed by 68 rabbis attacking Labour anti-Semitism. Rabbi Janner-Klausner appeared on ITV…
Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris, Principal of Leo Baeck College gave a lecture at Canterbury Cathedral as part of their series 'See-through Stories: Windows on the World' looking at the cathedral’s stained glass windows, the biblical figures they illustrate and their…