For several months now, in response to the distress of the COVID pandemic in an area already distressed, Beit Emanuel Progressive Shul and Temple Israel Hillbrow have been handing out sandwiches and fruit to those in need in Hillbrow. Every Thursday morning, Rabbi Sa’ar Shaked heads to Hillbrow in the Beit Emanuel shul-mobile, filled with […]
Eyal Ronder, COO of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, attended the 2018 biennial of the South African Union for Progressive Judaism in Johannesburg. Below are photos from the joyous event, May 10-13 2018, which also hosted guests from the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) and the European Union for Progressive Judaism […]
South African Center for Religious Equality and Diversity (SACRED) notes the abandonment of the January 2016 agreement to create a new egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel with intense disappointment. It is painful to us that some of our Jewish brothers and sisters cannot find it in their hearts to ensure that all Jews can […]
PRESS RELEASE 26 JUNE 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Progressive Jewry taken hostage The South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ) and the South African Association of Progressive Rabbis (SAAPR) strongly condemn the decision by the Government of Israel to suspend the implementation of its own decision to establish a dignified space for egalitarian prayer […]