Jewish Telegraphic Agency2y
This young American couple had Scotland’s first-ever queer Jewish wedding
Han Smith and Jennifer Andreacchi had been Jewish for just weeks when they became the first LGBTQ Jews to wed in Scotland. (JTA) — Han Smith and Jennifer Andreacchi recently made international ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency5y
Scottish queer-friendly Jewish community wants to use an abandoned former Orthodox synagogue
(JTA) — A Scottish-Jewish Liberal congregation with many members who are queer is seeking the reopening of an abandoned synagogue that was built in 1926 for Orthodox worshippers from Eastern Europe.
BBC6y
WW2 rescue: The Jewish children Scotland took in
Next year will be the 80th anniversary of their arrival in Scotland, which received Jewish children throughout 1939. But what did they do once they arrived, what were they fleeing and what ...
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Marker for Jewish Founder of UK’s ‘Old Contemptibles’
Danny was born Rezso Engel in 1873, in a tiny village in the Gömör-Kishont region of the Kingdom of Hungary.  He and his ...
Met bans pro-Palestine march near London synagogue
The Metropolitan Police has blocked a pro-Gaza march that was set to go past a synagogue in central London amid fears that ...
The Jewish Chronicle7y
Chief Rabbi launches new £17m faith schools’ campus in Scotland
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was in Glasgow for the official opening of the ground-breaking £17m faith schools’ campus in Newton Mearns, incorporating Scotland’s only Jewish school, Calderwood ...