This year all three LJY-Netzer Movement Workers decided to take part in Live Below the Line, in order to raise money for Tzedek and raise awareness that 1.2 Billion around our planet in extreme poverty. Live Below the Line challenges participants to spend only £1 a day on food and Read more…
This chinuch article was written by our bogeret Daisy Bogod. It does not necessarily represent the views of LJY-Netzer. I can tell you what I did over the past week. I can tell you where I went. But you will not understand my experience on March of the Living. Before Read more…
Vashti – The Forgotten Feminist When every year we retell the story of Purim we focus on one woman, Esther. She, with a bit of support from her brother, is a brave and powerful woman who convinced a King of an Empire to save her people – the Jews. Vashti Read more…
On the fifteenth of January, representatives from thirteen sniffim of Netzer Olami, the worldwide reform youth movement, met in Jerusalem for the annual Veidah. The six days were spent hearing from various speakers on the subject of Zionism, including a trip to kibbutzim on the border with Gaza, and Read more…
This chinuch article is by Gabriel Webber. It expresses his personal views and not those of the movement. There was a short discussion on Veidah about LJY-Netzer and protest – specifically whether it is appropriate to wear movement clothing on demos. I quite enjoyed that discussion. And those of you 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…
On Veidah, LJY-Netzer’s annual decision-making event for Galim and Bogrim, we passed a motion resolving to align LJY Netzer with the feminist movement and educate chanichim on feminism and the pursuit of equality. Although inherent in the ideology of Liberal Judaism, inequality of all sexes/genders is still very much – 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…