When the builders were doing a minor repair to a chimney they found that the whole synagogue roof was full of rot and woodworm, and needed to be replaced at the cost of £45,000. The Aberdeen Community have managed to cover £30,000 of this amount, but in this very difficult …
Yom Hashoah 2020 commemorations have been cancelled or postponed across the community. However individuals can commemorate on the date by participating in the YELLOW CANDLE PROJECT. The project has run alongside Yom Hashoah for the last few years. In 2019, people across the UK and beyond took part in the …
Ed travelled to Cambridge on 9th December to speak at the Cambridge Jewish Residents Association. A packed audience was hosted by Lady Alan Fersht. The Association was the first Jewish organisation in Cambridge and founded originally to organise Jewish burial. These days it is a cross communal group supporting welfare …
Prince Charles hosted a special reception to celebrate the UK Jewish community at Buckingham Palace on Thursday 5th December 2019. JSCN Director Ed Horwich was honoured to be one of the guests. “I was extremely pleased to be able to take representatives of two other small communities with me, Marian …
Kaddish for #YomPlitim Many years ago, the government of Israel supported the establishment of November 30th as Yom Plitim, a day to remember Jewish refugees from Arab lands. This Saturday is the day that many around the world will also say prayers for Jews buried in Islamic Lands. In 2018 …
Presenting our touring exhibition to the following venues between now and September… Neath Library 17-26 June Pontardawe Library 24-29 June Glamorgan Archives 1-5 July Newport Museum 15-21 July Museum of Cardiff 22-28 July Senedd 29 July – 4 Aug Tredegar Museum 5-10 August Cynon Valley Museum Aberdare 13-17 August Merthyr …
After 42 year wait, the World Premier of a 35 minute Cantata, written by a refugee who fled the Nazis, takes place in Bradford next week. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1926, Rudi Leavor escaped Nazi Germany with his parents and sister in 1937, heading for …
In the Southport Jewish community practically every family had at least one member sign up to fight in WW1. The picture below shows the magnificent marble memorial plaque commemorating those who fought and those who gave their lives. Recently British Jews in the First World War took its “We Were …
Forty people from 9 communities took part in Regional Network Meeting in Sheffield, held with the fantastic support of Sheffield United Synagogue. Two representatives from Dublin flew over especially to join community members from across the region. As well those from Sheffield, both United Synagogue and Reform, were others from …
While Lodz is rightly associated with the awful crimes associated with the Lodz Ghetto in the Second World War the leadership of the Lodz Children’s Choir has chosen to highlight a different issue associated with anti-Semitism to help understanding among the children themselves and amongst their friends, family and the …
