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Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue) Rabbi Dr. Tali Artman (Sukkat Shalom) & Rabbi Jordan Helfman (South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue).
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich (The Liberal Synagogue Elstree) Guest: Rabbi Miriam Berger (Finchley Reform Synagogue & Trustee, Wellspring UK)
Host: [Erev Rav] David-Yehuda Stern (Leo Baeck College) Guests: Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu (Sha'arei Tsedek), Rabbi Dr. Tali Artman Partock (Sukkat Shalom) & Student Rabbi Shulamit Morris-Evans (Leo Baeck College).
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich (The Liberal Synagogue Elstree) Guests: Rabbi Anna Wolfson (Mosaic Jewish Community) & Rabbi Igor Zinkov (The Liberal Jewish Synagogue & Co-Chair, Ukraine Crisis Committee of the World Union for Progressive Judaism)
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue)
Guests: Rabbi Rachel Benjamin (Mosaic Liberal) & Rabbi Monique Mayer Bristol (West Progressive Jewish Congregation).
Host: Kohenet Yael Tischler, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Guests: Rachel Creeger (Comedian/Writer) & Shoshana Jedwab (Educator/Musician)
Host: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers (Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue)
Guest: Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner
Host: Student Rabbi & Kohenet Yael Tischler (Leo Baeck College)
Guests: Yael Roberts (Educator, Westminster Synagogue & Visual Artist) & Sara Moon (Writer & Rising Kohenet).
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich (The Liberal Synagogue Elstree) Guests: Rabbi Dr. Michael Hilton, Sharon Rose, (The Compassionate Friends, www.tcf.org.uk) & Rev. Bruce Thompson.
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue) Guests: Rabbi Leah Jordan (Kehillah North London) & Kohenet Yael Tischler, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Host: David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student (Leo Baeck College). Guests: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers (Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue) & Student Rabbi Eleanor Davis (Leo Baeck College).
Hosts: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers (Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue), Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue) & David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student (Leo Baeck College).
Host: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers (Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue)
Guest: Reverend Canon Dr. Tim Bull (Director of Ministry and Residentiary Canon at St Albans Cathedral)
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, The Liberal Synagogue Elstree.
Guests: Rabbi Dr. Deborah Khan-Harris, the Principle of Leo Baeck College and Robin Moss, the Chief Executive of Unitas, Barnet's Youth Zone.
Host: David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Guest: Rabbi Etienne Kerber, of Communaute Juive Libérale de Paris (CJL)
Host: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers (Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue)
Guests: Sara Nathan (Co-Founder, Refugees At Home,) & Rabbi Elliott Karstadt (Alyth Synagogue & Trustee, Together in Barnet)
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue).
Guests: Dr. Edie Friedman (Founder, JCORE) and Rabbi Jackie Tabick (Convenor of the Reform Beit Din).
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue (NLS)
Guests: Dr. Mike Harris, retired Chief-Executive of Rampton Hospital, Dr. Sheila Marriott, recently retired regional Director, Royal College of Nursing and David Braham, doctor at the NHS A&E hospital in Leeds
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue (NLS). Guests: Rabbis Noa Sattat, IRAC, Yuval Keren, Southgate Progressive and Lea Mulstein, the Ark Synagogue and chair of Arzeinu.
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue).
Guests: Avielah Barclay (Soferet STaM) & Marc Michaels (Sofer STaM).
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue). Guests: Debbie Danon (Co-Chair, Makor Hayim) & Rabbi Daniel Lichman (Makor Hayim).
Host: David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC) Guests: Zoe Jacobs (Community Educator, Finchley Progressive Synagogue) & Maya Gottlieb (Senior Youth Worker, Finchley Reform Synagogue).
Host: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers (Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue)
Guests: Navleen Kaur (Sahara Sisterhood), Ravi Khanna (Convergence Consulting) & Amaranatho Robey (former Buddhist Monk).
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue).
Guests: Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu (Principal Rabbi, Sha’arei Tsedek) and Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman (co-founder "Synagogue 2000/3000" & Professor Emeritus of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual at Hebrew Union College).
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue (NLS)
Guests: Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, Rabbi Elli Tikvah-Sarah (Brighton and Hove Liberal Progressive Synagogue) and Robin Moss
Host: David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC) Guests: Rabbi Leah Jordan (Kehillah North London) and Student Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber (LBC)
Host: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers (Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue) Guests: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue) & Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue.
Host: Yael Tischler, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Guests: Rachel Rose-Reid (Kohenet, Rabbinical Student, Storyteller & Co-Founder of Yelala) & Annie Cohen (Rising Kohenet, PHD student focusing in Eastern European History)
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue (NLS)
Guests: Janet Berenson (Writer, Poet & Educator), Leonid Bimbat (Rabbi, Moscow Centre for Progressive Judaism) and Cllr Sajid Cllr Sajid Mohammed (Founder & CEO, Himmah Food Bank)
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue (NLS) Guests: Reverend Anna Alls (Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham), Rabbi Richard Jacobi (East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue), and Robin Moss (former Director of Strategy of UJIA).
Host: Yael Tischler, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Guests: Rabbi Naomi Goldman (Kol Chai Reform) & Nicky Spencer-Hutchings (trainee Interfaith Minister).
Host: David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Guests: Miriam Grabiner, Founder of Hesped.org & Rabbi Colin Eimer, Emeritus Rabbi of Sha’arei Tsedek, Alyth clergy team member & lecturer at LBC.
Host: Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue Guests: Dr. Abi Magrill & Dr. Natalie Shenker.
Host: Rabbi Mark Goldsmith, Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue Guests: Rabbi Marcia Plumb, Congregation Mishkan Tefila (Massachusetts)
Host: David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Guest: Rabbi Adrian Schell of The Wimbledon Synagogue
Host: Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers (Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue)
Guests: Danielle Trainis (Moishe House), Rabbi Eryn London & Jonathan Tebble (member New North London Synagogue).
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi (Rabbi at East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue)
Guests: Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers (Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue) & The Reverend Graham Buckle (Vicar of St Stephen with St John Westminster)
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich, Nottingham Liberal Synagogue (NLS)
Guests: Charlie Barker, Cheder Teacher (NLS) & Student Rabbi Matt Turchin (Leo Baeck College)
Host: Rabbi Igor Zinkov, The Liberal Jewish Synagogue
Guest: Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen,
the Principle Rabbi of Manchester Reform Synagogue,
a member of the leadership team of Tzelem, the Rabbinic Voice for social and economic justics in the UK
co-chair of Greater Manchester Citizents.
Host: David-Yehuda Stern, Rabbinical Student, Leo Baeck College (LBC)
Guests: LBC Student Rabbis Tali Artman, Eleanor Davis and Yael Tischler.
Host:
Richard Jacobi, Rabbi at East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue
Guests:
Tanya Sakhnovich, Rabbi at Nottingham Liberal Synagogue,
Pete Tobias, Rabbi at The Elstree Liberal Synagogue.
Host: Rabbi Richard Jacobi, East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue
Guests:
Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen, the Principle Rabbi of Manchester Reform Synagogue, a member of the leadership team of Tzelem, the Rabbinic Voice for social and economic justics in the UK, co-chair of Greater Manchester Citizents.
Charlotte Fischer, Senior Community Organiser, Citizens UK.
Rabbi Janet Darley
Host: Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue
Guests:
Cantor Zoe Jacobs, Finchley Reform Synagogue,
Cantor Tamara Wolfson, Alyth (North Western Reform Synagogue),
Cantor Sarah Grabiner, Radlett Reform Synagogue.
Host: Tanya Sakhnovich, Rabbi at Nottingham Liberal Synagogue
Guests: Members of Nottingham Liberal Synagogue: Jessie and Dan Clark, OBE; Karen and Solly Worth; Darren Barker talking about their community and the future of Liberal Judaism
With Dr Chani Smith, a musician and lecturer on the rabbinic programme at Leo Baeck College and a founding member and former Hon. Secretary of Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum. Host: Rabbi Monique Mayer
Host: Rabbi Debbie-Young-Somers, Rabbi at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue
Guests: Kohenet Yael Tischler and Rabbi Daniel Lichman
Host: Tanya Sakhnovich, Rabbi of Nottingham Liberal Synagogue
Guests: Reverend Bruce Tompson, Chair of Lincolnshire Methodist District ; Reverend Kevin Shaw, lead-chaplain for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS foundation Trust ; Ferzana Shan, college of Policing Training Manager, Vice-chair of Himmah and a member of Salaam-Shalom Kitchen steering group
Host: Rabbi Igor Zinkov, Rabbi of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
Guests:
Rabbi Jackie Tabick, Convenor of the Beth Din for Reform Judaism, and Rabbi of West Central Liberal Synagogue
Rabbi Mark Solomon, Rosh Beit Din & Interfaith Consultant for Liberal Judaism, Rabbi of Edinburgh & Leicester Liberal Jewish Communities, Senior Lecturer in Rabbinic Literature, Leo Baeck College
Growing old, a conversation with Rabbi Roberta Eckstein-Harris, who has worked with a number of Liberal and Reform communities around the UK, and is soon starting work with the Lincoln Jewish Community; and with Rabbi Meredith Cahn, of Kol HaEmek congregation in Ukiah, CA, and interfaith chaplain at St. Paul’s Towers, a Covia elder community in Oakland, CA
Comfort and consolation, a conversation with Mitzi Kolinsky of the Jewish Joint Burial Society
A Progressive Jewish conversation on theodicy
Host: Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich of Nottingham Liberal Synagogue
Guests: Rabbi Miriam Berger, of Finchley Reform Synagogue; Rabbi Neil Janes, of South Bucks Jewish Community; and Rabbi Malcom Cohen, of Temple Sinai in Las Vegas, Nevada
Guests of the Podcast: Alison Turner the archivist of the Liberal Judaism and Cassy Sachar, the seniour librarian of Leo Back College
Host: Rabbi Igor Zinkov of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue
PJP Team: Rabbi Richard Jacobi, of East London and Essex Liberal Synagogue Rabbi Monique Mayer of Bristol & West Progressive Jewish Congregation and Facilitator with the Mussar Institute Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich of Nottingham Liberal Synagogue Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers of Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue Rabbi Igor Zinkov of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue
Binyamin Minich - Rabbi at 'Daniel' congregation in Jaffa and is a PhD student at the Department of Jewish thought of Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan.
Rabbi Margaret Jacobi of Birminghma Liberal Synagogue in conversation with Liberal Judaism movement workers, Rosa Slater and Fran Kurlansky
Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen, who is based at Manchester Reform Synagogue and and is a former human rights lawyer; and Rabbi Daniel Lichtman, rabbi of Makor Hayim - a community in the WestHampstead, Kilburn and Willesden area - that is committed to nurturing compassion, love and justice.
With Rabbi Dr. Charles Middleburgh, Dean and Director of Jewish Studies at Leo Baeck College
Rabbi Michael Hilton, Senior Lecturer in Vocational Studies, Leo Baeck College, Rabbi Emeritus, Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Jewish Community and Scholar in Residence, Liberal Jewish Synagogue
Rabbi Monique Mayer of the Bristol & West Progressive Jewish Congregation, teacher and practitioner of Mussar, a practice in which one applies Jewish wisdom to become our best selves.
Rebecca Birk of Finchley Progressive Synagogue talks about positively engaging with regret during the Ten Days of Repentance.
Rabbi Leonid Bimbat of the Moscow Centre for Progressive Judaism, serving the Jews of Russia and other Former Soviet Union countries. He will talk about the root שוב and how the prophets made a revolution by introducing the idea of personal repentance.
Michael Hilton, Senior Lecturer in Vocational Studies, Leo Baeck College, Rabbi Emeritus, Kol Chai Hatch End Reform Jewish Community and Scholar in Residence, Liberal Jewish Synagogue
Rabbi Matthew Durbin Rabbi of Temple Beit HaYam in Stuart, Florida talks about the challenges of the "Binding of Isaac" story.
Join Rabbi Monique Mayer of the Bristol & West Progressive Jewish Congregation in exploring chesed as she shares a personal story and guides us through a visualisation to strengthen our quality of chesed.
Today's podcast is a conversation between two progressive Rabbis about Acts of Kindness. Rabbi Sandra Kviat is the Rabbi of Crouch End Chavurah in London and Shir Hatsafon in Copenhagen. Rabbi Anna Gerrard is the Jewish Chaplain at Clifton College in Bristol. The conversation begins with Rabbi Sandra's reflections on her community's response to Lockdown.
Janet Burden, recently retired from the Ealing Liberal Synagogue and now Rabbi Emeritus
Igor Zinkov, Rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue & Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi of the Reform Judaism. Laura also does resilient leadership coaching and is starting a PhD on Digital Theology at Durham University.
Pete Tobias, Rabbi at The Elstree Liberal Synagogue,& Tanya Sakhnovich, Rabbi at Nottingham Liberal Synagogue & Mati Kirschenbaum, Rabbi of Bromley Reform Synagogue
Richard Jacobi, Rabbi of East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue Monique Mayer, Rabbi of Bristol & West Progressive Jewish Congregation Igor Zinkov, Rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue Tanya Sakhnovich, Rabbi at Nottingham Liberal Synagogue Debbie Young-Summers, Rabbi at Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue