Every two years, LJY-Netzer picks a new social action project to work on. This year, attendees at Veidah, LJY’s annual decision-making event, decided our social action project for at least the next two years is mental health, in association with Time to Change. At Veidah we decided a Read more…
On this years Veidah there was a particularly interesting and lively debate surrounding who should be LJY’s charity of the year. Whilst there were a number of extremely worthy causes put forward, there is one which I believe is particularly well-suited to LJY’s ideological mission, to the nature of our Read more…
What’s happening LJY-Netzer? It’s your faithful CoYoCo here hitting you up with a little article about the power of community work. I see a lot of you beautiful people around the communities when I visit and run activities, but havn’t had the opportunity to talk to you en masse for Read more…
On the 8th of November the three movement workers along with 7 Bogrim descended on Bristol for Mazkriut. Mazkirut is a combination of both a decision making forum and a social event for our Bogrim, a chance for our Bogrim to let their hair down and spend time in Read more…
By Rebekah Quixano Henriques The 1st November 2013 marked the start of LJY Netzer’s new Hadracha (leadership) Course for LJY-Netzer chaverim (members) aged 15-18. The course commenced with a Hadracha Seminar. Similar weekends have run before but this year, antics involved leading sessions for our more-than-troublesome peers, discussing welfare policies Read more…
YESSS! On saturday the 26th of October, 13 chanichim from Yamim descended on the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St Johns Wood for the Yamim Extra-Special Social Saturday. A brand new event in the LJY-Netzer calendar. A great day was had by all, including their super bogrim tzevet. The day was Read more…
This year in June, LJY-Netzer sent 20 Bogrim, 1 Movement Worker and 1 Communities Youth Coordinator to Morocco on a coexistence Tour with the Bristol based media and creative arts interfaith group Salaam Shalom. This tour was very successful, and we are interested in looking for further oppurtunuties. Do you Read more…
Israel, History and Optimism – By Ben Leibowitz It was 20 years ago today that, under a perfectly blue sky and a sparkling sun, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin stepped out onto the manicured White House Lawns and performed a handshake that was, supposed to be, of world altering Read more…
It is known to be said that LJY-Netzer is a movement run ‘by youth for the youth’. Whilst the most obvious manifestation of this may be Machaneh Kadimah, where a team of fifty 18-24 year olds empower and care for Read more…
Israel Tour 2013 with LJY Netzer Year Eleven came to a close; the Promised Land was here. No more GCSEs, no more work (well, until next year anyway) and a long, glorious summer waited ahead. But my summer, like a lot of Jewish kids around the UK, was going to Read more…
Wow. What a summer. Today is the first day that the new team, Bethany, Tom and Graham are back in the office after nearly a month away on Machneh Kadimah, and then a week in Israel on the annual visioning seminar Read more…
So last weekend Sammy G (Youth Community Co-Ordinator) and I headed to YHA National Forest to run youth activities during the Nottingham Progressive Jewish Congregation’s (NPJC) Shabbaton. The journey up wasn’t the best, our train lacked air conditioning on one of the hottest days of the year but we were Read more…
Over 80 chanichim (‘participants’) aged from 9-15 have enjoyed six days of learning, games, music, art, sports and good old-fashioned fun. On the largest ever Machaneh Aviv, the site rocked with their ruach (‘spirit’) and enthusiasm. Throughout the week, they have taken part in activities as diverse as edible skyscraper-making Read more…
Kayitz Netzer is LJY-Netzer’s two-week summer tour of Europe for 17 year olds (finishing school year twelve). Kayitz Netzer has been taking Jewish teens through Central Europe for over fifteen years! It’s a trip like no other – an opportunity to learn about the story of Jewish Europe – the roots Read more…
Weekly Chinuch Article, Kashrut by Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris The levitical text gives no explanation for the laws of kashrut; the laws are simply stated and we are expected to follow them. Many of us may be familiar with the ‘pigs carry tricnosis’ theory or the ‘seafood went off easily in the Read more…
Poppies, Music and lots and lots of glitter Following on from our Third Night Seder and Kabbalat Shabbat visits last year, LJY-Netzer ran activities at Ravenswood on Mitzvah day. A group went down by train with guitars and instruments and ran a two hour long art and crafts session for the Read more…
For the first time in LJY-Netzer history, P.O.W. (Plagim October Weekend) and N.O.W. (Nechalim October Weekend), were held jointly at the same site! Whilst for some of the activities chanachim split off into their shickvot, much of the event was done jointly creating twice the ruach, twice the noise and twice the Read more…
Kadimah 5772 was a two week long adventure of fun and games, prayer and learning and singing. Kadimah has finished and now all that is left is the happy memories of to fantastic weeks. We had the usual last night show song, the crazy wide games, the water fights, the discos, the trips Read more…
Summer Options Scheme (SOS) returns after a phenomenal month in Israel SOS is LJY-Netzer’s new internship program which sent 10 of our member to Israel for a month. In Israel the participants had two seminars as a group, one at the beginning and end, and split into pairs for a three week internship at Read more…