JLEV - Jewish Liberal-Egalitarian Organisation

JLEV is an umbrella organization for liberal and egalitarian communities in Germany. It was founded on April 20th, 2023 (Nisan 29th, 5783) by nine German Jewish congregations. We are a unit of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. 

 

The ten member congregations are:

Egalitäre Jüdische Chawurah Gescher Freiburg e.V.

Egalitärer Minjan in der Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main

Jüdische Gemeinde Göttingen e.V.

Jüdische Gemeinde Hameln e.V.

Jüdische Liberale Gemeinde Region Kassel e.V. Emet weSchalom

Liberale Jüdische Gemeinde Bad Pyrmont e.V.

Liberale Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover K.d.ö.R.

Liberale Jüdische Gemeinde Wolfsburg – Region Braunschweig e.V.

Reformsynagoge in der Jüdischen Gemeinde Hamburg K.d.Ö.R.

Unabhängige Synagogengemeinde Berlin – Bet Haskala e.V.

 

Our members are liberal and egalitarian Jewish communities of different sizes from all over Germany. We’ve agreed on high ethical standards, known as the JLEV Compass, that govern our organization. Our aim is to further liberal and egalitarian Jewish life in Germany and be a strong voice for progressive Judaism. We are open for other communities to join.

We‘ve opened the JLEV House of Learning (Lehrhaus), which gives our member communities and their congregants many learning opportunities. 

Our organization is organized by grass-roots democratic principles. Our members‘ meeting convenes regularly and has elected a board consisting of seven representatives. Our chairs are: Sarah-Elisa Krasnov (Kassel region) and Dr. Rebecca Seidler (Hannover). The deputies are Dr. Achim Doerfer (Göttingen) and Tatjana Mass (Hannover). The three committee members are: Dr. Ruth Geiss-Friedlander (Freiburg), Cornelia Haberlandt-Krüger (Freiburg) and Rabbi Prof. Dr. Elisa Klappheck (Frankfurt).

If you‘d like to learn more about JLEV, please get in touch. We speak German, English, Hebrew and Russian.

vorstand@jlev.de