JVN Blog

The JVN is looking for a new intern! But before you apply, you want to know details, wouldn’t you? Naturally, we thought we ask our current intern, Myriam, to provide you with a brief rundown of her JVN experience…

Since JVN started in 2007, we have grown rapidly from just a few hundred volunteers and a score of organisations, to thousands of volunteers and hundreds of organisations. We are – of course – delighted about this. But our poor website is creaking under the strain and so we are in the early stages of […]

It’s been a very busy few weeks here at JVN – getting schools linked in with volunteering opportunities for the Yoni Jesner Award scheme, researching new website requirements, not to mention the day-to-day business of matching volunteers and organisations! But what’s been keeping us particularly busy was our Spring Volunteer Coordinator Forums: our 2nd Regional […]

Purim (this year 20th March, Shushan Purim 21st March) is a festival that commemorates the dramatic deliverance of the Jewish people living in the ancient Persian Empire from a plot by Haman the Agagite to annihilate them, as recorded in the Book of Esther (Megillat Esther). As a result, Purim is an extremely joyous festival […]

Jewish Volunteering Network needs 10 of the very best volunteers for the London 2012 Paralympic Games As part of its work connecting volunteers to volunteering opportunities within the Jewish community, the Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN) has been asked by the British Friends of Israel War Disabled (supporting the Israel Paralympic Committee) to find ten of […]

Iwas brought up in a family where volunteering was the norm. From my grandmother’s work with refugees from Nazi Germany and the Stepney Jewish Girls’ Club to my parents’ work with the Ben Uri, I grew up thinking it was just a standard part of life. It was both about being Jewish and about being […]