Here are your UJS Presidential candidates 2020!

Results will be announced on the first day of Conference - Sign up here!

Register on our website to vote here!

Students, it’s your turn!

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN IN THE UJS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Want to be the UJS President 2021-22? Want to represent 8,500 Jewish students nationally and internationally? Want to lead your national union, create ground-breaking campaigns and combat antisemitism on a national scale?

This is our Conference 2020 page including all you need to know about Conference

What is Conference?

Every year UJS hold an event where you, the students, have voice in what happens for the next 3 years at UJS. You have the opportunity to submit ideas about different projects you want UJS to focus on, raise issues that are happening on your campus, and elect your fellow students to multiple leadership positions within UJS.

This is YOUR chance to have your say and shape your union.

This page includes all the key information you need to get involved with Conference; including a general guide, timeline of all key dates and where to seek support throughout.

 Click here view the motions booklet

(As seen in the Jewish News, 5th November - https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-jewish-students-are-creating-their-new-normal/)

I know many people believe in-person campus activity now is non-existent because of Covid-19, that people are not meeting and consequently Jewish students are not mingling. This could not be further from reality.

In a sense, we should not be surprised. For more than 100 years of Jewish university life, activity on campus has continued, stubbornly surviving two world wars, a series of devastating recessions and global health issues.

Nine months ago on Holocaust Memorial day, Secretary of State for Communities, Housing and Local Governent, Robert Jenrick MP, made the demand for all universities in the UK to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition of antisemitism.

September has been a busy month, that’s for sure!

In continuing our support of Jewish students through our nearly 70 incredible J-Socs, the UJS team have been discussing with J-Soc committees around the UK and Ireland how we can be working closer with and providing more for Jewish students.

With the new academic year starting, the UJS Presidential Elections are already approaching!

As I’ve mentioned in my previous blogs, this year will be far from ordinary. However, I don’t see the current situation we find ourselves in as a barrier to a thriving Jewish experience at university

Jewish Women’s Aid, University Jewish Chaplaincy and the Union of Jewish Students, have come together to bring consent and healthy relationships education to more Jewish students on campus and to professional teams working with Jewish students.

JWA will now work with student groups to expand its already established Safer Dating programme at UK universities. Safer Dating was launched in 2016 and brings relevant and engaging relationships education to 16-25 year-olds across the community, delivering sessions in schools, on campuses, in youth movements and other settings for Jewish young people.

This month has seen the introduction of our amazing new Sabbatical Team, who can’t wait to get stuck in with supporting Jewish students. It has certainly been a long time coming and we are all looking forward to the year ahead!