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We Are All Israel
Since last Saturday, I have been experiencing a nagging sense of unease, a feeling that I’m not myself, that everything is different,...
Oct 14, 2023
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A Prayer for Israel
It was supposed to be the culmination of a successful and heartening holiday season, a joyous Simchat Torah. I woke up to the terrible...
Oct 10, 2023
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Oseh Shalom
Yesterday was supposed to be a day of joy. In spite of early news reports that something was going on in Israel, I headed in to Brussels...
Oct 8, 2023
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Building Bridges in Jerusalem
Anneke Silverstein reports on the ‘Teach your Chapter’ trip to Jerusalem... It’s lonely out there in the desert. What do you say? Lonely?...
Sep 7, 2023
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Celebrating a Year of Renewal
Dear IJC Members and Friends: it’s Rosh Hashanah time. As we stand on the threshold of a New Year in a world that faces severe...
Sep 6, 2023
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A Lifetime of Choosing
I’ve had several in-person, online and email conversations during the summer with people who want to embrace Judaism. Most of the time...
Sep 6, 2023
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Summer @ IJC
While IJC, like many progressive Jewish congregations, enjoys a short summer recess, there is always plenty going on behind the scenes,...
Aug 13, 2023
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Like an Open Book?
A few weeks ago, I was invited to participate in a programme on BRUZZ TV, Brussels Flemish network. I was there as a book, a living book,...
Jul 16, 2023
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Dr Marina Bers on Personal Theologies
An interview by Andres Mosquera.. In June, during the semester-kinus of the Instituto Rabinico Reformista, I had the opportunity to meet...
Jul 16, 2023
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The Kazerne Dossin and Memorial
By Imke Roebken -- On the last Sunday of May, IJC organized a visit and tour of the former Kazerne Dossin with its Memorial and Museum in...
Jun 7, 2023
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Yoko Morikawa and the Japanese Schindler
I have just spent the month of May in Japan. Our youngest son Benjamin had won a two-year fellowship to work in Hiroshima and my husband...
Jun 7, 2023
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Joining Forces for Shavuot
The days between Pesach – the commemoration of our liberation from slavery in Egypt – and Shavuot – our commemoration of receiving the...
Jun 7, 2023
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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...
May 7, 2023
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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...
May 7, 2023
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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...
May 6, 2023
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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...
May 6, 2023
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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...
Apr 11, 2023
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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...
Apr 7, 2023
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Voting for Volunteers
Volunteers founded the IJC two decades ago. A group of seven families, including mine, gathered together and vowed to begin holding...
Apr 7, 2023
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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...
Apr 7, 2023
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