On the 1st September, 9 Jewish volunteers from the youth movements LJY-Netzer and RSY-Netzer embarked on a 6-day trip to Calais, where we volunteered for Refugee Community Kitchen (RCK), a charity that provides meals for the refugees in Calais. The charity aims to serve hot, familiar food to a population Read more…
By Kathy Brown One of LJY Netzer’s four pillars, which make the core of our movement’s ideology, is reform zionism, and in addition to this Netzer Olami (of which LJY Netzer is a part of) is the Zionist youth movement for progressive Jews through-out the world. With all this being Read more…
by Georgie Isaacson Centrepoint was founded in 1969 by Reverend Kenneth Leech and since then has worked tirelessly towards giving homeless young people a safe and happy future, currently providing this for over 9,200 homeless 16-25 year olds. This has been done through alleviating homelessness in short term – providing Read more…
Ollie Whiteside tells all about his top 50 reasons why YOU should go on Shnat 5779! Kef Live communally Learn about ecology Build a mud dome Eat fresh dates Make the desert bloom Travel the country Stay with a host family Learn Hebrew See a mulitcultural Israel Eat Falafel Befriend Read more…
By Jessica Baker I‘m watching the sun rise as we drive to the warehouse. I’m measuring 3.5 litres of oil into 8 huge pots to start the process of cooking 160kg of rice. I’m crying as I watch two small boys play in a carpark. I’m sitting around a bonfire Read more…
by Simon Lovick “His Majesty’s government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people…it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done that might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities” – The Balfour Declaration, 1917 The Middle East is Read more…
March of the Living By Hannah & Hila For Hila and I, it wasn’t our first trip to Poland. Hila found that the approach on March of the Living was different to her first trip as it was based around the needs of the Brits. The trip was based Read more…
Yom ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence day) is a very special and happy day, although we cannot celebrate this day without mentioning Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day for the fallen soldiers. Every year these two days are one after the other, so then when we celebrate the existence of the Jewish State Read more…
This year’s Rosh Hashanah event for Galim and Bogrim had a lot to prove. At the 5773/4 event the sun was out, university hadn’t started yet and everyone was raring to go after only creating the event at Veidah that year (or the previous year, depending on how you look Read more…
The English Shnatties saying goodbye at the airport: October 2013 Two RSY-Netzer shnatties saying the prayer for going on a journey before boarding the plane: October 2013 It is not possible for me to talk about my journey with Shnat Netzer without looking back to 2011, when I went on LJY-Nezer’s Read more…
The Biennial Bonanza The first ever Biennial Bonanza happened on the 9th-11th of May this year, and it was amazing! The mixture of services and special guests with crazy golf and swimming made the weekend enjoyable, interesting and thought provoking for all ages. Although we were smaller in numbers we Read more…
From the 23rd to the 19th of April 2014, the LJY-Netzer Movement Workers went on the annual March of the Living UK trip. On our youth-movement bus alone, we were joined by participants from RSY-Netzer, BBYO, FZY, Habonim-Dror, and the Tzofim, and there were also members from Noam, Bnei Akiva, Read more…
LJY-Netzer is steeped in a rich tradition of social action. Time and time again- whether it is through charity work whilst on Tours, raising awareness whilst on camps or our set piece events such as Mitzvah Day; LJY-Netzer has long answered the clarion call to change the world. We know Read more…
Keep checking this page for links to new articles on the green line campaign. The campaign is to encourage institutions and organisations to only use contemporary maps of Israel that have the correct green lines on them, outlining the defined borders between Israel & Palestine. Please go to the Read more…
The Jewish Leadership Council has been consulting its community representatives on an initiative led by Israel’s Justice Minister to look at the character of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic state. Lucian J. Hudson, Chairman of Liberal Judaism, represented the movement last Sunday, with Gillian Merron, a member of the Read more…
Shalom chaverim, Veidah 2014 voted in the motion: ‘LJY-Netzer will formally align itself with the feminist movment’ In order to be clear what was meant by this and how this affects our ideology, a new paragraph has been written for the mission statement, as follows. LJY-Netzer is a Read more…
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…