Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre

The novelist & poet Ellen Galford will be reading from and talking about her work with David Ian Neville.

Bill Shackman has over twenty years of experience in Jewish education. His graduate work in Jewish Studies focussed on the Zohar and mediaeval kabbalah. This interactive session will make use of texts and diagrams...

We will talk about the music the Jews created, played and sang by their own will during the Holocaust through two different topics: 1. The orchestras in ghettos and transit camps 2. The songs...

Jane Tobias is a Registered Nutritional Therapist and Lecturer at University of the West of Scotland, currently Programme Leader for the Master of Public Health degree. She is in the final stages of her...

There is much concern worldwide about climate change and the increasing havoc it will continue to wreak upon our communities. The dominant causes are no mystery, and while industry is a major culprit, it's...

An exploration of the diverse communities inside Jerusalem's old city walls. Besides the millions of visitors from around the globe that come each year to experience the holy sites, who are the locals that...

The akeidah, the binding of Isaac, is one of the most central—and troubling—stories in the Torah. In this session, we'll examine how the early rabbis drew on the story of the akeidah to make...

Rabbi Zvi David Hoppenstein and his wife Sophia arrived in Edinburgh in the 1880s, and lived in eight different addresses in Leith, Dalry, St Michael, and around the Meadows as they raised their nine...