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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.
Community seder 2014/5774 Our community seder will take place on Monday 14th April. All members, friends and visitors are invited to join us. For details and to obtain a booking form see here. Action on Poverty as Purim Approaches The rabbi, Mark Solomon, chair of the community, Norman Crane, and the council of Sukkat Shalom, the Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community, have issued the following statement on 6 March 2014, 4 Adar II 5774. We, as representatives of Liberal Judaism in Scotland, wish to add our voice to those leaders of other faith communities who have expressed a sense of deep indignation at the effects of the UK government's welfare and benefit cuts. These cuts are harsh and punitive. Their effects leave people destitute and without hope. It is the duty of all citizens, particularly those of faith communities, to alleviate grinding poverty and its effects. This poverty is created by the State, and it is the duty of all citizens, particularly those of faith communities, to relieve it. The situation is dire. Even the food banks, in Scotland, the last refuge of those with hungry families to feed, are running out of food. What can we in the Jewish Community do to help? We can take seriously the principles of our own religion. The Festival of Purim, shortly with us, celebrates the deliverance from slaughter of Jews in the Persian Empire of long ago, told in the Book of Esther. One form of celebration of this deliverance is "Matanot La-evyonim" or gifts to the poor. These gifts may be made as food or as cash. We intend to help replenish food banks here in Edinburgh. In the long term we intend to make this action a key feature of our concern for social care. Annual General Meeting Our Annual General Meeting took place on the 2nd of February. Agenda and reports are here and draft minutes should appear shortly.. (Note: you need to be logged in to see the agenda and reports. If you are not registered, click on the link "Login/Register" at the top of the page and fill in your e-mail address. Your registration will be approved very quickly. If you have forgotten your password, click on "Login/Register", then on the link "Forgot your password" at the bottom of the page, and you will receive a code by email that will enable you to create a new password.) Burns Night Ceilidh Our Burns Night Ceilidh on 25th January was a great success, with about a hundred guests, great music from the Belle Star Band, a lot of dancing (making up with enthusiasm what we lacked in expertise), an Address to the Haggis, a rare hurdy gurdy recital, and—the high point of the evening—a recital of Burns songs by Rabbi Mark.
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. |
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