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…
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…
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…
Israel Tour has returned! Over the summer, a group of LJY-Netzer chaverim went on a one month tour of Israel. Zak Cohen, one of the participents, wrote the following: ‘My Israel experience was a truly incredible month. As a Jew I believe that it was important for me to go to Read more…
Kayitz Netzer, LJY-Netzer’s two week Europe tour, returned this summer having been a huge success. Four European cities (London, Prague, Budapest, Berlin) had their Jewish history explored and relived with the help of the excellent madrachot (Bethany Stone and Theo Cadbury) and the educator (Robin Moss). The group of 17 year olds who went Read more…
February Half Term Events LJY-Netzer February events have now all been and gone leaving behind memories, photos and tired madrachim. Below are write ups from some of them and some epic pictures. Enjoy! PAW 12 This year’s Plagim Activity Weekend (PAW) was an event like no other. 7-11 year olds Read more…
The Parents Circle Families Forum “We the Palestinians and the Israelis of the Parents Circle know well what life becomes when we lose our children, brothers, sisters and family members… we know that no piece of land, no matter how holy can make up for a smile from your child Read more…
Veidah Veidah Veidah (VVV), by Adam Francies As we begin 2012, it gives us a great chance to look back over 2011. 2011. A year. Only a year. But what a year! 2011 was the year that LJY-Netzer took off. New website, renewed facebook and twitter presence, more events run Read more…
Busy as our shnatties are, living the Netzer dream in Israel, they find the time to write to us on a regular basis. Watch this space for regular updates from our shnatties in Israel! Weekly report by Benji S. (Lotanick) This past week was filled with an ample amount of Read more…
LJY-Netzer is proud to welcome Adva, our new shlicha, who will be helping run the Israel education on events as well as visiting the various Liberal Judaism communities around the country. Hello LJY-Netzer. My name’s Adva and I grew up in Nazareth Illit, a beautiful town in the Gallil. All Read more…
Mitzvah day in London this year saw Galim, Bogrim and the MoWos invade a London nature reserve for a cross communal interfaith day of tree hugging madness. After a small talk about the great work which goes on at Camley Nature reserve (near Kings Cross, see below website for details) Read more…