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News 2021 |
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| Nov 2021 |
Click here to read the Chanukah message from the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP. |
| Oct 2021 |
Professor Jason Leitch, Scotland's National Clinical Director, has updated faith communities about the progress of Covid-19 in Scotland, and thanked them for helping to suppress the pandemic. Click here to read a report and watch the video. |
| Oct 2021 |
The first hybrid events facilitated by SCoJeC's Jewish Scotland Connected (JSC) project were a talk on the Uyghurs hosted by the Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre and a book launch at the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre. Click here to read a report. |
| Oct 2021 |
SCoJeC's first live event after a year on zoom was a woodland celebration for COP26 in partnership with Interfaith Glasgow's Weekend Club and Scottish Forestry. Click here to read a report. |
| Oct 2021 |
SCoJeC was delighted to present a hybrid klezmer concert from the West Highlands, featuring award-winning musicians Gica Loening and Michael Alpert. Click here to read a report. |
| Oct 2021 |
SCoJeC is delighted to announce the start of our ground-breaking project to promote hybrid programming by communal organisations, so that Jewish people in Scotland will be able to participate fully both in person and online. Click here to read a report. |
| Sep 2021 |
Click here to read the Rosh HaShanah message from the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP. |
| Aug 2021 |
SCoJeC was delighted to arrange a visit to Giffnock Synagogue for the leader and deputy leader of the SNP group at Westminster. Click here to read a report. |
| Aug 2021 |
SCoJeC and the Glasgow Rep Council held a wide-ranging discussion with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP about the concerns of the Jewish Community. Click here to read a report. |
| Jul 2021 |
SCoJeC was delighted to host a discussion about religious hatred in Scotland with experts on sectarianism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism. Click here to read a report. |
| Jul 2021 |
SCoJeC welcomed Carol Isaacs, musician, author, and cartoonist, to talk about her graphic memoir The Wolf of Baghdad, and her "lost homeland" in Iraq. Click here to read a report. |
| Jun 2021 |
SCoJeC joined with Yet Again to host a panel of experts discussing the issues facing Uyghur people in China today. Click here to read a report. |
| Jun 2021 |
SCoJeC's AGM heard reports of a successful year, and elected a new Executive. Click here to read a report. |
| Jun 2021 |
SCoJeC was delighted to host prize-winning poet David Bleiman reading from his new volume of poems, This Kilt of Many Colours. Click here to read a report. |
| May 2021 |
SCoJeC joined Interfaith Glasgow's Weekend Club for an interfaith discussion around the topic of the Sabbath. Click here to read a report. |
| May 2021 |
Ahead of the Scottish election, political party leaders have recorded video messages endorsing the 'Ten Commitments" in the Jewish Manifesto for Scotland. Click here to read a report. |
| Apr 2021 |
SCoJeC hosted a panel on faiths communities' response on climate change, and preparations for the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November. Click here to read a report. |
| Apr 2021 |
SCoJeC, together with the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, the Jewish Leadership Council, and the Board of Deputies, has launched a Jewish Manifesto for the forthcoming Scottish elections. Click here to read a report. |
| Apr 2021 |
SCoJeC and the Board of Deputies have reached an agreement that will enable SCoJeC to appoint a full-time Chief Executive when the present Director retires. Click here to read a report. |
| Apr 2021 |
SCoJeC hosted a bread-baking demonstration in partnership with Interfaith Glasgow's Weekend Club. Click here to read a report. |
| Apr 2021 |
The Jewish Community in Scotland has paid tribute to HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, whose death was announced today. Click here to read the statement. |
| Mar 2021 |
SCoJeC's latest guest speaker was the acclaimed children's writer Tom Palmer, who spoke about his most recent book After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside. Click here to read a report. |
| Mar 2021 |
SCoJeC hosted an interdisciplinary panel of experts to discuss how Scotland, the wider UK, and Israel have responded to the Covid pandemic. Click here to read a report. |
| Mar 2021 |
SCoJeC has received funding to lead a community-wide project to provide training, equipment, and support for 'hybrid' events that combine real-world and online participation. Click here to read a report. |
| Feb 2021 |
SCoJeC celebrated Purim with a comedy show featuring four well-known Chicago Jewish comedians. Click here to read a report. |
| Jan 2021 |
Scottish painter and print-maker Stuart Duffin RSA inaugurated SCoJeC's new Lecture Series with a talk about the significance of Jerusalem in his work. Click here to read a report. |
| Jan 2021 |
Rabbi Moshe Rubin, the Senior Rabbi in Scotland has joined other faith leaders in issuing a statement encouraging Jewish people to participate in the Scottish Government's vaccination programme. Click here to read a report. |
| Jan 2021 |
SCoJeC marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a talk by Avner Avraham, on the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960. Click here to read a report. |
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