Celebrating Two Decades
It's already 20 years. In 2003, seven families decided to set up a new synagogue in Brussels, one catering to the international...
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- May 7
Remembering
The month of April (Nisan and Iyyar) is a month of remembering with Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzma’ut, all three relatively...
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- May 6
Commemorating Transport XX
Late in the evening of 19 April 1943, Transport XX left the Dossin barracks in Mechelen for Poland. The train held 1631 Jewish men, women...
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- May 6
Navigating Israel-Palestine with Lea Mühlstein
Rabbi Lea Mühlstein helped us get political on Sunday, 16 April, by decoding the current political crisis in Israel. Rather than a...
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- Apr 11
Interfaith Seder at SHAPE
On April 5th, the SHAPE International Chapel was host to an interfaith Seder. The event was led by student rabbi Andrés Mosquera as part...
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- Apr 7
Shoes by the Door
IJC’s Pesach Seder 5783 started with a quiet moment of reflection. Our Seder is full of ancient and more recent rituals, but this year we...
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- Apr 7
Voting for Volunteers
Volunteers founded the IJC two decades ago. A group of seven families, including mine, gathered together and vowed to begin holding...
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- Apr 7
The Brummel House of Pilsen Comes to Brussels
By Steve Brummel --- I recently gave a speech at the Czech Centre Brussels on my efforts decades ago to save an architectural landmark...
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- Apr 7
Cantillation and Connection
By Anneke Silverstein --- Standing at the bimah, yad in hand and chanting from the Torah is like stepping into the flow of Jewish...
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- Mar 8
Purim in the City
In a first for IJC, our community joined forces with Moshe House Brussels on March 6 / Adar 13 to celebrate Purim. A solid crowd –...
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- Mar 8
Remembrance through Stolpersteine
By Peter Oliver -- Early February, Philippa and I attended a very moving ceremony in Haarlem: the unveiling of two Stolpersteine...
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- Mar 8
IJC’s Gabbai Team Refreshes, Renews, and Expands
What is a Gabbai? In former times, a gabbai was the person in charge of collecting and distributing the community’s tzedakah, helping...
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- Feb 21
Perceptions and Experiences of Antisemitism: Have your Say
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is conducting a survey about perceptions of antisemitism and life as a Jew across...
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- Feb 7
Announcing Teaching Their Chapter
The IJC is partnering with the pan-European Bar and Bat Mitzvah teacher training program. It’s called Teaching Their Chapter. The program...
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- Feb 7
‘This Installation Feels Long Overdue’
President Anu Ristola’s speech to Rabbi Brian, January 22, 2023 I remember our first meeting. It was during a summer Kabbalat Shabbat...
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- Feb 7
My Journey to Becoming IJC Rabbi
January 22, 2023 --- Last Shabbat, not yesterday, but the week before, in the context of reading about Moses and the burning bush that...
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- Feb 7
My Rabbinical Installation
I was ordained rabbi on December 1st 2022 in the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin. We tried in vain to have the ordination relocated to...
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- Jan 9
Grief, Loss and Mourning
Remembering my Mother This week is my mother’s yahrzeit. She passed away fifteen years ago at the age of 94, and our extended family all...
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- Jan 9
A New Year in Sefarad
Over the holidays, I visited Cordoba in Spain. At the Casa Sefarad museum, the region’s rich Jewish past came alive. Although there’s...
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- Jan 9
Letter from Berlin
By George Perlov How often do we get to experience the simcha of seeing a new rabbi being ordained? On December 1st we had the honor of...
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