17 December 2024 12:00 – 13:00 UK / 13:00 – 14:00 CET A webinar with Rabbi Dr. Jacqueline Tabick Join us for an insightful webinar with Rabbi Dr. Jacqueline Tabick, one of the foremost voices in interfaith dialogue and social action, as she shares her…
3 July at 6pm UK/7pm CET on Zoom – register here Hosted by the European Union for Progressive Judaism, Rabbi Lea Mühlstein will be reflecting on the crisis that Liberal Zionism faces today. Yet rather than only dwelling on a description of the withering away of Liberal…
By Bill Echikson, EUPJ Brussels Director From floods in Belgium, where I live, to a scorching heatwave in the United States, where I grew up, the threat of climate change seems everywhere. How should Jews respond? That was the question we asked at our most…
In Jewish belief, the Creator loved all His creations: Plants, animals and humans. The Bible tells us that the earth is given to man “to use and protect”. In this era of climate change, more and more Jewish communities realise that they must play…
By Bill Echikson, EUPJ Brussels Director More than 3,000 synagogues dot Europe’s countryside and cities. Many are abandoned. The Jews who used them were murdered or emigrated. Some lie in ruins; others have been transformed into cafés, sports halls, shops, and even a saloon, in one…
By Bill Echikson, EUPJ Brussels Director Wherever Jews have settled, they have adopted local languages and added a Jewish twist – from Yiddish and Ladino to the lesser-known varieties such as Judeo-Tat (Azerbaijan and Dagestan) and Judeo-Malayalam (Southern India). Over the past two centuries, migration…
Throughout Europe, Jewish monuments are endangered. Synagogues are abandoned. Cemeteries are overgrown. In many cases, local Jewish communities are too small to keep these heritage sites alive. Nonetheless, there is hope. Jewish communities have been revived in post-Communist countries and Jewish heritage sites are…
By Bill Echikson, EUPJ Brussels Director It has been a remarkable renaissance. Over the past three decades, Germany has been home to Europe’s fastest-growing Jewish community, which now numbers some 100,000 affiliated members. Just as remarkable — as Germany celebrates 1700 years of Jewish life…