Please join us for any or all of our High Holy Day Services throughout September. Members should receive tickets by post, included in the cost of membership, detailing the full arrangements. Non-members may purchase tickets (£40 each for adults, free to children and students) by emailing chair@jewsinyork.org.uk. […]
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On Sunday 12th August, our member, Dena Sarhang held a wonderful demonstration of Middle Eastern cookery on behalf of the community raising over £100 for Warchild, a charity working with lone child refugees. Attended by over two dozen members and friends, Dena showed us all how to […]
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Our next Shabbat morning service in York will be held on Saturday 18th August at 11am at the Friargate Meeting House. It will led by our community members, Adam Addison and Adrian Tellwright. It will be followed by our normal bring-and-share vegetarian lunch. There is no Cheder or […]
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This is the York Liberal Jewish Community’s first ever writing competition. The prize? Glory, kudos and all proceeds to go the charity* of the winners’ choice! The winning entries will also be published in the YLJC newsletter and on our website. Subject: Social Action!You can […]
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Our next community-led Erev Shabbat service will be at 6.30pm on Friday 12th October Venue to be confirmed. Please email info@jewsinyork.org.uk or call 07469 159134 for details.
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Our term restarts on Thursday 18th October at 7pm at the Friargate meeting house with: “Making a prophet: God’s agents or obsessive troublemakers?” Hebrew is the only language with a tense called the ‘prophetic perfect’, but how perfect were the prophets of old? God spoke through them, […]
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Congratulations to all the trustees elected to our committee at the AGM on 21st July. New to our committee are Shaan Bloch and Miriam Thorpe, while Tina Anderson, Orly Askew, Lilian Coulson, Xavier Scott and Adrian Tellwright are re-elected. Also continuing their terms are Adam Addison, Sam Borin, Lee Carter, Hava […]
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York Liberal Jewish Community has welcomed the decision announced today by English Heritage not to develop a visitor building at the base of the Clifford’s Tower mound. While the community actively supported English Heritage’s objectives of increasing access to the Tower and providing more information and […]
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“Becoming (ever more) Jewish – Why I identify as a Jew – What Judaism means to me?” THIS PROJECT HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS, BUT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR FUTURE PUBLICATION ARE OF COURSE STILL WELCOME – SEE BELOW In one sense, we are all becoming […]
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On Wednesday 24th January, people from York and further afield, came together at the Minster’s Chapter House to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The event, named the ‘600 Candles Commemoration’ , was held as part of a series of events all over York to mark National […]
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