In a first for IJC, our community joined forces with Moshe House Brussels on March 6 / Adar 13 to celebrate Purim. A solid crowd –...

What is a Gabbai? In former times, a gabbai was the person in charge of collecting and distributing the community’s tzedakah, helping...

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is conducting a survey about perceptions of antisemitism and life as a Jew across...

The IJC is partnering with the pan-European Bar and Bat Mitzvah teacher training program. It’s called Teaching Their Chapter. The program...

I was ordained rabbi on December 1st 2022 in the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin. We tried in vain to have the ordination relocated to...

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...

Over the holidays, I visited Cordoba in Spain. At the Casa Sefarad museum, the region’s rich Jewish past came alive. Although there’s...

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...

Many courageous IJC members and guests came out on a recent rainy Sunday to learn about Jewish life in Brussels, starting in the...

On a recent rainy and cold Sunday, I joined a group of IJCers for a guided tour of the Dieweg Cemetery. This 19th-century cemetery,...

After a long and sometimes difficult wait, resulting in part from the Covid pandemic, December 1st finally arrived, the day of my...

The big news is that we exceeded our goal of €20,000 for the 5783 Kol Nidre Appeal – thanks to your generosity! As of mid-November, the...

After the solemn High Holy Days, we have celebrated more joyous holidays - and some of them with drams of whiskey. Our annual Sukkot and...

Many of you will recognize Maria’s smiling face from our IJC service and activities. She has become such an active IJC member in recent...

Life and Fate is a 1959 novel by Vasily Grossman, who was a Ukrainian Jew and correspondent for a Soviet military paper during World War...

By Andres B. Mosquera While liberal Jews have historically considered wearing the prayer shawl and phylacteries – tallit and tefillin –...