|
Welcome to Sukkat Shalom, the Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community Our aim: to provide services and activities which embody our values, strengthen our Liberal Jewish identity and cater for the wide diversity of our members’ faith, practice and support needs. Our services: we hold Erev Shabbat services on the second Friday of each month, and Shabbat morning service two weeks later. On other weekends (except during July) we hold an early evening Kabbalat Shabbat service. We welcome visitors to any services and we like it if you contact us before you come so we can welcome you properly. Full details of all Sukkat Shalom events and services with times and venues (we don't have our own shul) can be found by following this link to our diary page To contact us: go to our contact page or phone 0131 777 8024. Weekend of 13th to 15th December Our Rabbi, Mark Solomon, will be visiting us this weekend starting with an Erev Shabbat service followed by a Chavurah supper. For details of this and all events, see our diary page .
Happy Hanukah to one and all (first candle 27th November) Everyone, young old or middling is welcome to our Hanukah Party at Marchmont St Giles Church Centre at 4.30 to 6.30pm on Saturday 30th November (cheder kids come before as agreed). Bring your hanukiah's and candles so we can have a show as nice as last year's seen below.
Kol Nidre Appeal
Scottish Defence League Statement ELJC issued the following statement, through our chair, in advance of the Scottish Defence League demonstration on 17th August. Members of ELJC took part in the counter-demonstration: Sukkat Shalom, the Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community, supports the rally on 17th August against the march through Edinburgh by the Scottish Defence League. It beggars belief that the march has been permitted at all, and particularly during the Edinburgh Festival, when our city is teeming with visitors. It underlines the need for us to be ever vigilant, so that the ugly head of of fascism is not raised again in this way. The Festival becomes home, for a while, to performers and visitors from many countries and backgrounds. What are they to make of the narrow-minded and hostile bigotry of the SDL ? It is essential, also for our own sakes, for those of us who live here in Edinburgh to make a stand against the insidious hatred that the SDL is trying to stir up. Edinburgh is a City where people of different faith groups and ethnic backgrounds try their utmost to live and work together in harmony. We must strive to ensure that the SDL does not harm these efforts. We Jews, small in number in Edinburgh, know only too well from other times and other places what can happen if the small voice of unreason is allowed to swell so that communities become endangered. So I would like to add the voice of this Jewish Community in the stand against the SDL march and the fascists responsible for it. Norman Crane, Chair, 14 August 2013
Our aim: to provide services and activities which embody our values, strengthen our Liberal Jewish identity and cater for the wide diversity of our members’ faith, practice and support needs.
July 2011 Summer barbecue at Linlithgow Erev Shabbat Service with a talk from Miri Weingarten of Physicians for Human Rights Israel. A Report on her talk is in the June newsletter. Purim 2011
Shabbat morning service with guest preacher Imam Shaikha Halima Krausen. Her sermon can be read in our March 2011 Newsletter. For website matters contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
_
_
_
_
_
_
