Volunteers from YLJC turned out in force to help at the St Nick’s Environment Centre this weekend (19th November). We helped turn soil and sew flower seeds in their wild meadow area. We were delighted to play our part once again in Mitzvah Day, which is now
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Religious, political and civic leaders from across York came together to hold a vigil in York Minster on Saturday 11th November to call for peace and an end to the conflict in Israel and Gaza. The vigil began with a welcome and address from the Very Reverend
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Sunday 20th November – York’s Liberal Jewish Community’s Mitzvah Day grocery collection for York Foodbank has netted at least £2,000 estimated worth of items, from tuna to tampons and from soup to sticky toffee puddings. Generous shoppers at Sainsbury’s Foss Bank – site of the medieval Jewish
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York Liberal Jewish Community were delighted once again to be able to build the sukkah – to celebrate the harvest festival of Sukkot – on the terrace of York’s Friends Meeting House. Joined by a number of the Quaker members, children and adults from York community built
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High Holidays Appeal 5783 (2022) The High Holidays are an opportunity for those who wish to give to good causes. Traditionally three are chosen: a local charity, a UK Jewish organization and an undertaking that will provide benefits in Israel. Carecent York Since the founding of our Community,
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Sunday 9 October 2022 at Friargate Quaker Meeting House – on the terrace 2pm arrival for Sukkah building, followed by tea until around 4pm. Please bring fruit and vegetables to decorate the sukkah and some baking to share. YLJC is delighted to invite both our members and our
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The YLJC Rosh Hashannah Seder this year had its highest attendance ever. Almost 70 people attended the event at Clements Hall in York, on Sunday 25 September. Rafe Thurstance, our student rabbi, led us through the Seder service and the symbolic meanings of the foods. The number
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To mark Yom HaShoah (27th Nisan), please join us for a live streaming of songs and sketches written by the prisoners of the Theresienstadt Ghetto. New York playwright and director Edward Einhorn has created the performance Cabaret in Captivity, now in its 9th year, from one of of
Read more →Please join us for the return of our in person, fourth night communal seder with four questions, the plagues, afikoman hunt and lots more, led by Student Rabbi Rafe Thurstance. Monday 18 April 2022 At a central York venue, easy walking distance from the railway station, with
Read more →On 9th September at Everyman York, Blossom Street, YLJC will be co-hosting the film premiere of David Nicholas Wilkinson’s feature-length documentary, Getting Away with Murder(s). In it, David reveals that almost 1 million people in 22 countries willingly carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent
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