Tag: Community
Limmud Scotland 2019 survey
Announcement of Limmud Scotland 2019, with an expression of interest survey
Mitzvah Day donations
Mitzvah Day is this coming Sunday 18 November. GRS is planning to work with the Sikh community, who are organising clothing and toiletries for the homeless and planning to hand out prepared bags or backpacks with scarves, gloves, hats and warm clothes including underwear and toiletries (toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, facecloth …
Special cross community prayers to be held for the Tree of Life community in Pittsburgh
After the terrible events at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha community in Pittsburgh, there is a strong feeling that the Glasgow Jewish Community should come together in reflection, prayer, and show of solidarity for the Pittsburgh community. A cross-community service and opening of a Book of Condolence is to be …
Glasgow Jewish Representative Council’s 2018 AGM and Awards Ceremony
The Glasgow Jewish Representative Council‘s (GJRC) 2018 AGM and Awards Ceremony was held on 30 May at the Jewish Care Scotland, Walton Community Care Centre. The Co-Presidents Nicola Livingston and Evy Yedd jointly chaired the meeting. Their address to the meeting covered a wide range of subjects including the Education …
EU Antisemitism Survey
SURVEY NOW CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS Forwarded from the Movement for Reform Judaism: ANTISEMITISM: SURVEY OF EUROPEAN JEWS Your opinion matters As you may have read in the press, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is currently conducting a survey about antisemitism across Europe. It is particularly eager to …
Thought for the Day: David Goodman on David Baddiel
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 …
Author and GRS member Madeleine Black honoured on International Women’s Day
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