Glasgow Jewish

Holocaust Memorial Day community play - Dr Korczak's Example - 7.30pm
2026-01-28, 2026-01-27, 2026-01-26
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/101373

University of Glasgow 25th Anniversary Holocaust Memorial Lecture - 6pm Live and via Zoom
2026-01-27 | Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, 1 University Avenue, Glasgow
25th Anniversary Holocaust Memorial Lecture in 2026
The University of Glasgow is honoured to welcome back Professor Bernard Wasserstein, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Chicago, to deliver the 25th Anniversary Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Jewish Resistance and Collaboration during World War II. Professor Wasserstein co-founded this lecture series alongside the late Professor Otto Hutter. This programme is supported by a grant from The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR).
What led some Jews in wartime Europe to become resisters to the Nazis, whether as undercover agents for the Allies, rebel fighters in Warsaw, or maquisards in rural France? And what led some others to become collaborators with the Nazis as informers for the SS, policemen in ghettos, or members of German-appointed Jewish Councils in Holland and Poland? Both resistance and collaboration were fringe phenomena involving only small numbers of Jews but they have aroused fierce controversy among historians. Raul Hilberg discounted Jewish resistance as feeble and insignificant. Hannah Arendt denounced the Jewish Councils as complicit in mass murder. Both those judgements aroused impassioned reactions. Has the time now arrived for a more measured appraisal?
CO-FOUNDED DISTINGUISHED SERIES: Professor Bernard Wasserstein is to deliver the 25th Glasgow University Holocaust Memorial lecture
Professor Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Earlier in his career he served as President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and as Professor of History at Glasgow University. His books include On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War (awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize) and, most recently, A Small Town in Ukraine: The Place We Came From, the Place We Went Back To.
Doors Open 5.30pm
Book https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/holocaustmemorial/upcomingholocaustmemoriallectures/

Jewish Care Scotland - Morph Fit Gentle Exercises - 10.30pm
2026-01-26 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-01-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-01-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-01-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-12-29 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-12-22 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-12-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-12-08 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
JEWISH CARE SCOTLAND – MORPH FIT
Come and join us on Monday mornings for this weekly gentle movement class
Suggested donation – £3

Edinburgh Jewish Community Burns Supper - 6pm for 6.30pm
2026-01-25
Book via Edinburgh Jewish Community Burns Supper Tickets, Provided on registration | TryBooking United Kingdom

Jewish Care Scotland Wellbeing Hub
2026-01-22 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-15 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-08 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-01 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-18 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-11 08:00 - 17:00
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.

Welcome Wednesday at Jewish Care Scotland
2026-01-21 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-01-14 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-01-07 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-17 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-10 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 Care Scotland - Monday Funday - Games Day - 1pm - 3pm
2026-01-12 | Jewish Care Scotland, May Terrace, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6LD, United Kingdom

Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society - Phil Alexander, Klezmer – now and then, there and here - 7.30pm In person
2026-01-11
In this talk, Phil will give a brief history of eastern European Jewish klezmer music, and will also bring the story more up to date, with examples of how this traditional, ritual, place-bound art form functions in different ways and different places around the world today. The talk will include live and recorded musical performance.
Phil Alexander is a musician and academic. He plays and writes about klezmer, jazz, and folk music, with a particular interest in musical life and the city. He is currently lecturer in Music Performance at the University of Edinburgh and is a member of the bands Triptic and Firelight Trio.

JCS Mindful Moments - 10.30am - 12.30pm
2026-01-06 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.

POSTPONED - Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society - Anthony Julius, Abraham: The First Jew - 7.30pm via Zoom
2025-12-14 | Via Zoom
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism’s foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of the origins of a fundamental struggle within Judaism between skepticism and faith, critique and affirmation, thinking for oneself and thinking under the direction of another. Julius describes Abraham’s life as two separate lives, and as a version of the collective life of the Jewish people. Abraham’s first life is an early adulthood of questioning the polytheism of his home city of Ur Kasdim until its ruler, Nimrod, condemns him to death and he is rescued, he believes, by a miracle. In his second life, Abraham’s focus is no longer on critique but rather on conversion and on his leadership over his growing household, until God’s command that he sacrifice his son Isaac. This test, the Akedah (or “Binding”), ends with another miracle, as he believes, but as Julius argues, it is also a catastrophe for Abraham. The Akedah represents for him an unsurpassed horizon—and in Jewish life thereafter. This book focuses on Abraham as leader of the first Jewish project, Judaism, and the unresolvable, insurmountable crisis that the Akedah represents—both in his leadership and in Judaism itself.
Anthony Julius is Chairman of the London Consortium, a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Vice-President of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. The author of several books, including T. S. Eliot: Anti-Semitism and Literary Form, he was the defense attorney in the renowned Irving vs. Lipstadt Holocaust denial case, and continues to be active in the fight against anti-Semitic activities.

Community Chanukah Celebration - 4pm - 6pm
2025-12-14 | Clarkston Halls, Clarkston Road, Glasgow, G76 8NE, United Kingdom
ANNUAL COMMUNITY CHANUKAH EVENT
Organised by the Clarkston Chanukah Celebration Association

Details to follow.
