Please join Professor Helen Weinstein (Director, HistoryWorks), Dr Jeremy Ashbee (Head Historic Properties Curator, English Heritage), John Oxley (City Archaeologist, York City Council) and Ben Rich (York Jewish Liberal Community) who are together leading this FREE walking tour of the Jewish sites of York, to mark Holocaust Memorial […]
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The York Liberal Jewish Community held its first ever civic Chanukah candle lighting at the York Guildhall recently on the third night of Chanukkah), in the presence of the Lord Mayor, the Deputy Leader of the Councillor, Cllr Keith Aspden, and representatives of the Conservative, […]
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After almost a year of holding regular services in York, York Liberal Jewish Community has now been officially accepted by the Liberal Judaism Council as a member. The Liberal Judaism Council voted unanimously at its meeting on 28 April 2015 to accept YLJC as a full member, […]
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York Liberal Jewish Community yesterday (Saturday 8th November) celebrated the birth of its newest member, two month old Samara McGuirk, as part of its November Shabbat morning service at the Friargate Friends Meeting House. Conducted by Rabbi Danny Rich, Chief Executive of Liberal Judaism and York Liberal […]
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York’s new Liberal Jewish Community is racking up the ‘firsts’, as the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashannah) approaches. For the first time in half a century, services will be held in the City to mark the most important festivals in the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashannah on […]
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For the first time in forty years, there will be High Holy Day services in York this year as follows: Yom Kippur Festival Study Session (Thursday 2th October) 6pm, Festivals study session with Rabbi Robert Ash, NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: BRIGANTES BAR, MICKLEGATE (www.brigantesyork.co.uk) An opportunity to understand the […]
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Following the success of York Liberal Jewish Community’s first Hebrew lessons on 12th July, lessons will be offered by at the Friends Meeting House for an hour before each service. We are incredibly grateful to Adam Rosenbach and Orly Askew, Israelis living in Yorkshire, for kindly agreeing to […]
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Sunday 14th September, 3-6pm, York Steiner School, Fulford Cross, YO10 Lawrence Gorsden, the owner and master baker of former Leeds bakery, Chalutz, has offered to come to York Sunday 14th September, 3-6pm, especially to teach challah-making to the York Liberal Jewish Community (with a few bagels chucked […]
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Liberal Judaism, the egalitarian, inclusive branch of mainstream Judaism is to launch its first York community, bringing regular services back to the City for the first time since its Orthodox synagogue closed in 1975. York Liberal Jewish Community was formally launched with a Friday night supper in May, […]
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