27 July 2026 – 13 Av 5786 | Festivals, News, Rabbis and Cantors
Around 150 people joined this year’s beautiful and moving Movement for Progressive Judaism online Erev Tisha B’Av commemoration organised by Rabbi Alexandra Wright on the theme, ‘O God do not be silent, O humanity do not be silent’. Combining tradition with...
21 July 2026 – 7 Av 5786 | Communities, News, Rabbis and Cantors
Rabbi Rebecca Birk has been appointed as Senior Rabbi of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (LJS), taking up her post when Rabbi Alexandra Wright retires at the end of the year. The announcement was made today by the LJS President, Chairman and Council with Sue Head, LJS...
21 July 2026 – 7 Av 5786 | Communities, News, Rabbis and Cantors
Manchester Reform Synagogue have appointed Rabbi Scott Aaron. Rabbi Scott joins the synagogue from Chicago, USA, where he held a number of senior communal roles including as Associate Vice President (Community Outreach and Engagement) of the Jewish United Fund and a...
18 July 2026 – 4 Av 5786 | Publications, Rabbis and Cantors, Thought
Israel didn’t mean much to me in my north-west London childhood. My parents donated to the (then) ‘Joint Palestine Appeal’ and we had a JNF Blue Collecting Box. They had bought some land in Jerusalem before the war because I remember them talking, in the late 1950s,...
14 July 2026 – 29 Tammuz 5786 | Education, Events, News, Rabbis and Cantors
We are delighted to launch a special summer edition of the Progressive Judaism Education Hub, recorded live at Hineinu, exploring four core areas of The Movement for Progressive Judaism’s work and what the future holds. The full list of topics, speakers and...
8 July 2026 – 23 Tammuz 5786 | News, Progressive Judaism, Rabbis and Cantors
Rabbi Yael Tischler is the newest member of our Progressive Jewish clergy after becoming the 220th rabbi to be ordained by Leo Baeck College. A joyous service, held at Alyth, was led by LBC Lecturer Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen, Cantor Zöe Jacobs of Finchley...
