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Jüdische Liberale Vereinigung EtzAmi»English

	Reading the torah in Selm-Bork

Etz Ami is "The Union of Progressive Jews in the 'Ruhr valley'" - We are a congregation of liberal Jews throughout the Ruhr-valley (Ruhr-Valley: a major industrial and former coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany including the cities Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen) and the "Münsterland" - the area around the city of Münster.

We are Jewish women and men with different backgrounds, different levels of knowledge, of different age and living in different circumstances.

What unifies us is the opportunity to hold liberal services, to learn together, to have common activities and to support each other. We created a place where also our non-Jewish relatives feel welcome and comfortable. A place where we can learn which meaning it has to be jewish today, for us as individuals in the world today and as a part of living Jewry in our world.
Since the year 2000 we meet regularly for liberal services on festivals or other opportunities. From this time on we became partners for progressive/liberal Jews in the region.
New participants and members are always welcome in our group, where everyone feels welcome soon.
Besides the activities mentioned above we plan to offer Bat- and Bar-Mitzva lessons soon, furthermore we will organize Schiurim in a relaxed atmosphere.

The synagogue we use as our sanctuary is a rural synagoge which is more than 200 years old. The ceiling is decored with golden stars on a blue background (Some pictures of our synagogue are available on our german site about the synagogue).

Driving directions/ directions to reach us by railway are on this site - for english directions please contact us.

See EtzAmi on shulshopper.com