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Welcome to
York Liberal Jewish Community
York's Liberal Jewish Community provides a friendly Jewish home to any residents, students and visitors to the City of York who identify as Jewish.
Welcome to
York Liberal Jewish Community
As members of YLJS, we co-create spaces and events that are meaningful, engaging and fun. We support one another in times of joy and in times of sorrow.
Welcome to
York Liberal Jewish Community
York's Liberal Jewish Community provides a friendly Jewish home to any residents, students and visitors to the City of York who identify as Jewish.

Our Mission

Recognising that we are all created in the Divine image, YLJC welcomes new people with open hearts.

Within the flexibility of Jewish tradition, we foster the fundamental human needs of growth, connection and kindness.

We believe in the transformative power of religious exploration, and we invite you to join us.

Statement about Israel

York Liberal Jewish Community is deeply disturbed by the ongoing events in Israel and Gaza which were precipitated by Hamas' horrendous and indefensible attack on civilians, including women, children and old people, on the 7th October. The right of Israel to exist and defend itself within international law speaks to our identity as Jews. Many of our members have been and will continue to be deeply affected by the conflict - directly and indirectly - and fear the consequences of those who seek to use the crisis to promote hatred and division here in the UK.

We are a religious not a political institution. For this reason, it is not for us to express a view as a community on the conduct of the war, and our members no doubt hold a wide variety of views. We will not provide a running commentary on the crisis and will leave it to others to issue or share any further statements, internally or externally, other than on behalf of our parent movement, Liberal Judaism.

Instead we seek to offer all our members and the wider York community and fellow faith organisations our emotional and physical support at this difficult time in the cause of peace. We continue to be a safe space within which all can come together and reflect as a community. We pray for a just, sustainable and peaceful outcome for all those in the region, and for all conflicts throughout the world.