Glasgow Jewish

Holocaust Memorial Day community play - Dr Korczak's Example - 7.30pm
2026-01-29
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/101373

Jewish Care Scotland Wellbeing Hub
2026-01-29 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-05 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-12 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-19 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-05 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
Join us on a Thursday morning at the Walton Community Care Centre, to catch up over a range of fun activities including yoga, quizzes, card games and more!
Our attendees will also be able to enjoy a tasty, hot two-course Kosher lunch.
This is a registered service, for more information please contact hello@jcarescot.org.uk‘ to the Wellbeing Hub description.

Jewish Care Scotland - Morph Fit Gentle Exercises - 10.30pm
2026-02-02 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-02-09 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-02-16 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-02-23 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-03-02 10:30 - 12:00
JEWISH CARE SCOTLAND – MORPH FIT
Come and join us on Monday mornings for this weekly gentle movement class
Suggested donation – £3

JCS Mindful Moments - 10.30am - 12.30pm
2026-02-03 10:30 - 12:30, 2026-03-03 10:30 - 12:30 | Jewish Care Scotland, May Terrace, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6LD, United Kingdom
Join Jewish Care Scotland from 10.30am – 12.30pm on the first Tuesday of each month.
The free, dementia-informed service offers group activities and emotional peer support for people affected by dementia and their carers/ family. Meet with other carers and family members of people affected by dementia to share experiences in a safe, confidential space while your loved one enjoys meaningful activities with our trained team.
For more information, please contact us by calling 0141 620 1800 or email hello@jcarescot.org.uk.

Welcome Wednesday at Jewish Care Scotland
2026-02-04 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-11 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-18 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-25 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-04 12:00 - 15:00 | Jewish Care Scotland, May Terrace, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6LD, United Kingdom
Welcome Wednesday is a drop-in café session, facilitated by JCS volunteers! Each Wednesday from 12pm to 3pm anyone can drop in and enjoy socialising as well as refreshments, check out our menu!
There’s no need to book, just pop by any time between 12pm and 3pm. Welcome Wednesday is open to everyone.
With optional activity programme including a sing-along with Eddie Binnie twice a month, discussion panel events and a “knit and natter” group weekly.
Please note that there is no access to JCS staff at Welcome Wednesday.

Jewish Council of Scotland - Winter Shabbaton b'Teva - 2pm
2026-02-06

Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society - Adam LeBor, The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945 - 7.30pm
2026-02-08
In Person.
Budapest, autumn 1943. Four years into the war, Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe. The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But Budapest remains at peace, an oasis in the midst of war where Allied POWs, and Polish and Jewish refugees find sanctuary. The riverside cafes are crowded and the city’s famed cultural life still thrives. All that comes to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invade. By the summer, Allied bombers are pounding its grand boulevards and historic squares. Budapest’s surviving Jewish population has been forcibly relocated to cramped, overcrowded Yellow Star houses. By late December, the city is surrounded and under siege from the Red Army. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians die in the savage siege as Budapest collapses into anarchy. Hungarian death squads roam the streets as the city’s Jews are forced into ghettos. Russian artillery pounds the city into smoking rubble as starving residents hack chunks of meat from dead, frozen horses. Using newly uncovered diaries, documents, archival material and interviews with the last survivors, Adam LeBor brilliantly recreates life and death in the wartime city, the catastrophic fate of half of its Jewish population and the destruction of the siege. Told through the lives of a cast of vivid, gripping characters, including glamorous aristocrats, spies, smugglers and SS Officers, a rebellious teenage Jewish schoolboy, Hungary’s most popular actress and her spy chief lover, a Jewish businesswoman who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann, a Christian doctor hiding her Jewish neighbours and a teenage Hungarian soldier, the story of how Budapest slowly dies as the war destroys the city is utterly compelling.
Adam LeBor is a British author, journalist and editorial and media trainer. His clients include the Financial Times, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Citywire, the Arvon Foundation and Mishcon de Reya. He has more than thirty years experience as a journalist and he has written fifteen critically-acclaimed books – eight works of non-fiction and seven thrillers. More information is at https://adamlebor.com/about/ and he is on Twitter or Instagram @adamlebor.

West End Project - Havdalah, Cheese and Wine and Discussion - 7pm - 9pm
2026-02-14
This is for all Jews, as well as friends and partners aged 20-40… or thereabouts! For more details please email glasgowwestendproject@gmail.com.

“The website link is https://westendproject.org.uk“

Scottish Jewish Archives Centre - Speaker event - Lady Linda Reich -12pm
2026-02-22
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/99325

Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society - Judith Olszowy-Schlanger & César Merchán-Hamann, Jewish Languages and Book Culture
2026-02-22
In Person and via Zoom
From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers us an extraordinary insight into the linguistic richness of Jewish life. For over two millennia, Jewish communities have used languages other than Hebrew for daily oral communication, including Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Italian, Yiddish and Ladino. They used the Hebrew alphabet to write these languages down and developed sophisticated systems to transmit texts in them. Many of these vernacular languages became also languages of book culture. Produced and sold cheaply, using the tools of the book cultures of host societies, these publications reached a wide audience. The Bodleian Libraries’ collections host an unparalleled collection of texts in Judeo-languages, giving us a picture of the works created and of the specific ways in which they were produced and communicated. Since some of the languages are now extinct or moribund, these manuscripts and books are also important testimonies to cultures that are no more. Generously illustrated and ranging in time from the Middle Ages to the Emancipation, this collection of essays showcases important hallmarks in the intellectual and social history of the Jews.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Her research concerns medieval Hebrew palaeography and codicology, legal documents, Cairo Genizah Studies, Hebrew Book History, Hebrew linguistic tradition, and intellectual contacts between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours.
César Merchán-Hamann is the Victor Blank Hebraica and Judaica curator in the Bodleian Library and director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the University of Oxford.

Lennie’s Discussion Panel at Jewish Care Scotland - 1.30pm
2026-02-25 | Jewish Care Scotland, May Terrace, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6LD, United Kingdom
Join Lennie for a discussion with a hand picked panel exploring “Women with a voice”
Confirmed panellists and further information to follow.

Many Waters - Jewish Art Exhibition by students and graduates - 12pm - 5pm
2026-02-25, 2026-02-26 | New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street, Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, G3 8TL, United Kingdom

WIZO Presents an Audience with Susan and Gemma Caplan -2pm to 4pm (tbc)
2026-03-01
WIZO Presents an Audience with Mother/Daughter duo, Susan and Gemma Caplan
Details to follow

Cosgrove 'Care Phone Day' - 10am - 4pm
2026-03-01
Care Phone Day

Jewish Care Scotland - Purim Party - 1pm - 3pm
2026-03-02 | Jewish Care Scotland, May Terrace, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6LD, United Kingdom
Join Jewish Care Scotland for a Purim Party!
The event will feature complementary hamantaschen and refreshments, the making of Mishloach Manot parcels for community members, and activities supported by Netaim delegates from Israel.
