Date & Time |
Venue or Medium |
Contact |
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Wednesday 20 January
7.30pm |
Zoom |
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Scottish Jewish Textile Craft Group
The first meeting of a monthly online group for Jewish people in Scotland interested in textiles, crafts, and Judaica. The group will primarily be a social group for sharing ideas, techniques, and skills, and potentially a forum for developing fundraising ideas for local Jewish and Scottish Charities.
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Thursday 21 January
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.
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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Thursday 21 January
7pm |
Zoom |
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An Exploration with Stuart Duffin
SCoJeC Lecture Series
Stuart Duffin first travelled to Israel in 1996 to work for a month at the Jerusalem Print Workshop as part of an international artists exchange with the Glasgow Print Studio, and can't stop going back. Here he reflects on his understanding of the city, religious conflict, and the resolution found in his art.
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Sunday 24 January
3pm |
Zoom |
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Yiddish Open Mic
Join the Yiddish Open Mic, a monthly event for anyone with an interest in Yiddish. You are invited to perform – each performance should last no longer than 6 minutes and should be sent to yiddishcafe@gmail.com in advance.
To register contact
yiddishcafe@gmail.com |
Sunday 24 January
4pm |
Zoom |
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Matana Club
Tu B’Shvat Seder
For information and to register
contact Sydney
glasgow.youthworker@ujia.org
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Monday 25 January
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
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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Tuesday 26 January
6–7pm |
Zoom |
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Researching the Nazi Dictatorship through the Lens of Primo Levi’s “Grey Zone”
Volker Berghahn
Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History,
Columbia University
University of Glasgow
21st Holocaust Memorial Lecture
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Tuesday 26 January
7.30pm |
Zoom |
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Music of the Jews during the Holocaust
Tamar Machado-Recanati
Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre
Talk about the orchestras in ghettos and transit camps, and songs of the Jews during the Holocaust.
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27 January
to
5 February
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Various |
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Be the Light in the Darkness:
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
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Wednesday 27 January
7pm |
Zoom |
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UK Commemorative Ceremony
for
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
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Wednesday 27 January
7.30pm |
Zoom |
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Sauerkraut-making workshop
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Thursday 28 January
7pm |
Zoom |
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Security – why? A brief history of terrorism
Community Security Trust (CST)
The evolution of terrorism, recent and current threats and how SAFE can put you on the path to improved security.
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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Saturday 30 January
7.30pm |
Zoom |
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Burns Supper
The Giffnock Shul and Newton Mearns Shul joint events group present The Legendary Giffnock Shul Burns Supper from the comfort of your home.
Includes: a four course traditional Burns Supper delivered to your door with some lovely wee surprises (vegetarian and other dietary options available), fantastic speakers including Jackson Carlaw MSP and Marie van der Zyl, and raffle.
£22.50 per ticket (plus booking fee if booked directly online); £10 per ticket for Zoom access only (no meal); Raffle £5.
NB: bookings must be received by midday on Friday 22 January |
Sunday 31 January
8pm |
Zoom |
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Displaced Jews:
Renewal in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Shirli Gilbert
Professor of Modern Jewish History,
University College London
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Between 1945 and 1950, Allied-occupied Germany became the temporary home for over a quarter of a million surviving Jews. In this ‘waiting room’ of history, the world witnessed the most extraordinary renewal of Jewish life and culture. How do we understand the power and vitality of this rebirth, and what lessons might it hold for our Jewish lives today?
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Tuesday 2 February
7pm |
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.
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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Monday 8 February
7pm |
Zoom |
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Hate crime and your community
Community Security Trust (CST)
How to deal with racial and religious hatred – especially in the digital age.
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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Thursday 11 February
7pm |
Zoom |
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Scottish Jewish Climate Network:
Climate Change
Dr. Richard Milne
University of Edinburgh Institute of Molecular Plant Science
The fourth meeting of SCoJeC's Scottish Jewish Climate Network will be a seminar on Climate Change.
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Thursday 11 February
7pm |
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.
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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Sunday 14 February
8pm |
Zoom |
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Not quite a nice Jewish boy:
Jacob Harris, triple murderer,
Sussex: 1734
Tony Kushner
Professor in the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, and History Department, University of Southampton
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
Whilst not denying the deep-rooted nature of antisemitism in culture and in violent manifestations, this talk will also reference what might be called the ‘tough Jew’ tendency in the world outside the law and where integration in the criminal underworld was perhaps the norm.
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Wednesday 17 February
7pm |
Zoom |
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Online security
Community Security Trust (CST)
How to protect yourself and your community from online threats
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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Sunday 21 February
7pm |
Zoom |
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A Very American Comedy Night
Celebrate Purim 2021 with a night full of laughs! Join Chicago’s Jewish comedians Jeremy Drazner, Katharine Herskovic, Jessica Besser-Rosenberg, and Joe Medoff as they poke fun at Jewish life in contemporary America and their take on Scotland. Please note this event is suitable for adult audiences (15+).
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Tuesday 23 February
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
CST webinar of interest to any member of a community that feels vulnerable to violent extremism and hate crime. This will include people who regularly attend a place of worship, and in particular community leaders, managers of places of worship and people who wish to become involved in making their community and place of worship as safe as possible.
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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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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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