Date & Time |
Venue or Medium |
Contact |
Event |
Sunday 7 March
5pm |
Zoom |
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Yiddish Song Open Mic
from Kleznorth
SCoJeC in partnership with
Kleznorth, and Yiddish Open Mic Cafe
Special event from the annual Kleznorth weekend featuring Yiddish songs from 'kleznorthians' and regular contributors to Yiddish Open Mic.
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Tuesday 9 March
2pm |
Zoom |
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Basic security
for your place of worship
Community Security Trust (CST)
An introduction to security for places of worship and faith communities.
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Thursday 11 March
7pm |
Zoom |
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Covid Across Borders
SCoJeC panel discussion on responses to
the COVID-19 pandemic from the UK to Israel.
Panellists:
Prof Jason Leitch
Clinical Director, Healthcare Quality & Strategy,
Scottish Government
Michael Livingston
Deputy Director, COVID-19 Taskforce,
Cabinet Office
Prof David Katz
Dept of Immunopathology,
University College London
Prof Eyal Leshem
Tel Aviv University School of Medicine
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Thursday 11 March
7.30pm |
Zoom |
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Tzipporah Johnston
Edinburgh-based embroiderer
and visual artist
Edinburgh Jewish Community Centre
Tzipporah will be speaking about her textile art and three of her current projects: The Museum of Monotropism, an installation about autistic experience; Neuk Collective, a Creative Scotland-funded collective of neurodivergent artists; and The Fruit of Her Hands, a participatory textile art project using fabric scraps from Jewish women’s scrub- and mask-making to create a Torah mantle and binder, in honour of the volunteers who have sewn PPE during the pandemic. Please feel free to bring your own needlework to work on!
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Sunday 14 March
7pm |
Zoom |
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Friendly Fire:
A conversation with Ami Ayalon
Glasgow Progressive Zionist Forum
Admiral Ami Ayalon will be speaking with Dr. Henry Lovat about his new book, Friendly Fire: How Israel became its own worst enemy, and his thoughts on how his background, including his roles as former director of the Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet), and commander of the Israeli Navy, shaped his views on Israel today.
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Wednesday 17 March
7pm |
Zoom |
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Online Security + Hate crime and your community
Community Security Trust (CST)
with
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime
and
Faiths Forum For London
Online Security (how to protect yourselfand your community from online threats) combined with Hate Crime and your Community (how to deal with racial and religious hatred – especially in the digital age).
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Sunday 21 March
7.00pm |
Zoom |
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After the War:
From Auschwitz to Ambleside
Tom Palmer
Talk with writer Tom Palmer, and hear excerpts from his latest children’s book After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside, a story based on the experiences of child holocaust survivors as they adjusted to a new life in the Lake District.
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Sunday 21 March
8pm |
Zoom |
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House of Glass:
The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
Hadley Freeman
Columnist and features writer for The Guardian
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
When Hadley Freeman found a shoebox filled with her French grandmother's treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of her grandmother, Sala, and Sala’s three siblings, Henri, Jacques and Alex Glass.
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Wednesday 24 March
2pm |
Zoom |
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Past terror attacks – lessons learned
Community Security Trust (CST)
The phases of an attack and how we can learn from past incidents to foil future attacks.
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Wednesday 31 March
7pm |
Zoom |
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SAFE by CST: Q & A Session
Community Security Trust (CST)
A panel of CST experts will answer your questions on communal security.
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Wednesday 7 April
2pm |
Zoom |
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Basic security
for your place of worship
Community Security Trust (CST)
An introduction to security for places of worship and faith communities.
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Monday 12 April
7pm |
Zoom |
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Organising security for your place of worship
Community Security Trust (CST)
Security and risk management, and how to develop a security plan.
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Tuesday 20 April
7pm |
Zoom |
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Event security for your community
Community Security Trust (CST)
Appropriate security measures to ensure the safety of large numbers of people.
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Sunday 25 April
8pm |
Zoom |
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A Life in Law
Lord John Dyson QC
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Lord Dyson will talk about his European/Jewish roots, his childhood in the Jewish community of Leeds in the 1950s and his career at the Bar and on the Bench culminating in his being appointed a Justice of the UK Supreme Court and Master of the Rolls.
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Sunday 16 May
8pm |
Zoom |
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André Schwarz-Bart’s The Last of the Just: Can there be Beauty in Barbarity?
Naomi Gryn
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Based on the Kabbalistic tradition that in every generation 36 righteous people save the world from destruction, The Last of the Just is a magical realist interpretation of Schwarz-Bart’s wartime experiences, and an act of mourning for the senseless slaughter of Europe’s Jews, including his own parents and brothers, deported to Auschwitz when he was 13 years old.
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Sunday 30 May
8pm |
Zoom |
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Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means: The Life and Work of Abram Games
Naomi Games
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Abram Games (1914-96) was one of the 20th century’s most innovative and important graphic designers; producing some of Britain’s most enduring images, which are a now a fascinating record of social history. Since the death of her father in 1996, Naomi Games has organised numerous exhibitions on various aspects of his work and of his contemporaries.
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