Shabbat dinners, youth groups, young professionals, and the volunteering the congregation organises across Hong Kong.
If what you want does not exist here yet, it usually only takes one person willing to start it.
Community Shabbat dinners several times a year, festival meals, and Shabbat B’yachad — an early, short service for families with young children, followed by a dinner where nobody minds the noise.
These are the easiest way into the community. You do not need to know anyone; you will by the end of the evening.
Junior and senior youth groups run their own programme of social events, leadership and trips, including the regional gatherings that connect them with Progressive Jewish teenagers across Asia.
Teenagers who have had their b’nai mitzvah often come back as madrichim, helping teach the younger classes on Sunday mornings. It is how a good number of our teenagers stay connected through secondary school.
An informal group for younger Jewish adults in Hong Kong — junk boat trips, dinners, and the holidays marked together by people whose families are a long flight away.
Many members arrive in this city knowing nobody. This is where that usually stops being true.
Smaller groups form around shared interests and stages of life. They come and go with the people who run them — the office can put you in touch with any of these.
School years 3–6
Social events, holidays and the occasional spectacularly messy craft morning.
School years 7–13
Teen-led programming, leadership training, and regional gatherings with Progressive communities across Asia.
Twenties and thirties
Dinners, junk trips, and festivals marked with people in the same position.
Monthly
Jewish fiction, history and memoir, in person and on Zoom.
Judaism asks for more than attendance. The congregation organises volunteering with Hong Kong charities, an annual day of service, collections for people in need across the city, and practical support for refugee and asylum-seeker families.
Members bring the opportunities and the congregation provides the hands. If you work with an organisation that could use a dozen volunteers on a Sunday, we would like to hear about it.
The easiest introduction to this community is a meal. Write to the office and we will tell you when the next one is and put you at a table with people worth meeting.
Write to the office