“uplifting and joyful”, “fantastic”, “really enjoyed it” Members of GRS enthusiastically welcomed the return of musician Dean Staker and Student Rabbi Elliot Karstadt, part of Shabbat Resouled—a musical project based in Finchley Progressive Synagogue in London—for the Shabbat evening service on 4 May, following their successful visit last month for our …
This past Sunday GRS held a rededication ceremony for our newly refurbished Prayer House at Cardonald Cemetery, now with a connection to the electricity grid, enabling new lighting and heating, plus the installation of fixed seating, painting, and other repairs. Members and invited dignitaries were in attendance, with the rededication …
We have already had some rabbinic visits this spring, with many more to come! Below is a list of upcoming visits. Details for services, study sessions, Chavurah suppers, and more will be forthcoming in the weekly announcements and on the website calendar. Save the dates and show your support for GRS and …
GRS is delighted to announce that Rabbi Dr. Daniel Katz will be leading services on both Friday and Saturday: our Seventh Day Pesach service on Friday morning and the Shabbat morning service on Saturday, followed by a study session. Rabbi Katz was raised in New York and completed his rabbinic …
BBC Radio Scotland’s Thought for the Day on 16 March was presented by GRS member (and former Chair) David Goodman, a regular contributor to Thought for the Day. He spoke about seeing Jewish comedian David Baddiel’s one man show in Glasgow, which he found “funny…at times outrageous and thought provoking, as well as…mildly …
On Saturday 10 March, GRS was visited by Paul and Sharon Boorstin from Los Angeles. Paul is an award winning documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and author, and both he and Sharon are contributors to the Los Angeles Times. Following the kiddush after services, Paul gave a talk about his recently published novel David …
Madeleine Black, GRS member and author of the autobiographical work Unbroken, will be honoured today—International Women’s Day—at the No. 1 Amazing Women Awards. The story of her personal resilience, drawing from her father’s Holocaust experience, is recounted in the Jewish Chronicle: Surviving and thriving is my revenge by Nadine Wojakovski
We have been busy in cheder in the last few weeks. Here is a summary of some of our cheder work: We managed to learn about the importance of the mezuzah in the home, the “Shema” and make our own mezuzahs with personal messages. We celebrated Tu B’Shvat in class by …
Simon Wiegand, international intern at Interfaith Scotland and Interfaith Glasgow, wrote a lovely account of his visit to GRS for last week’s Holocaust Memorial Day service. Read his post by following the link to the Interfaith Scotland blog below: “Hine mah tov…”
On Sunday our cheder children worked on the story of Chanukah. We discussed freedom of worship as part of the story of the Jewish people being forbidden to practice Judaism by the Hellenists. We explained and played the dreidel game, and etched Chanukah symbols in pastels colours. We also had …
