Auld Lang Schmooze

Schmooze your way through Edinburgh with our quick guide to navigating student life from a Jewish perspective. Whether you’re after social and cultural events with other Jews, kosher eats, or Shabbat and High Holiday services, we’ve got you covered. Your one-stop episode for all things Jewish Edinburgh and stories from students who’ve made this city their home.Edinburgh University Jewish Society (Jsoc)LinkTree - with links to membership, dinner tickets, sports & socials https://linktr.ee/EdinburghJsocSynagoguesEdinburgh Hebrew Congregation https://www.ehcong.comSukkat Shalom http://www.eljc.orgChabad https://www.chabadofedinburgh.comEdinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre (EJCC - that’s us!) Website https://www.jcc.scotInstagram https://www.instagram.com/ejccscot/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/1ayX9AVHwNcNwNzn/?mibextid=LQQJ4dKosher EatsMark’s Deli info@marksdeli.co.uk or 0141 638 8947Kosher Info from EHC https://www.ehcong.com/visiting-edinburgh/kosher-edinburgh/

Musing and schmoozing with Jewish performers at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, showcased at our annual Festival Open Day, including a review of Revenge: After The Levoyah, which won a Fringe First Award.

Rabbits is Hugo Rifkind’s explosive new novel and in this podcast he talks about the inspiration for the novel and much more!Hugo Rifkind is a columnist, critic and leader writer for The Times and a presenter on Times Radio. He’s written for the Spectator, GQ and the Herald. He is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s comedy show The News Quiz, and an occasional guest on television shows that aren’t supposed to be funny at all. Rabbits by Hugo RifkindTommo has just moved to a prestigious boarding school. A product of the middle class, and with new-found independence thrust upon him, he finds himself invited into fading crumbling country houses. It’s the early nineties and the elite he is now surrounded by is struggling for relevance. Alienated from the mainstream, and running low on inherited wealth, his peers have retreated into snobbery and fatalism. In this world, half remembered traditions mix with decadence and an awful lot of small dead animals. And sometimes, not just animals.Rabbits by Hugo Rifkind is published by Polygon

HIV/AIDs Research Pioneer Dr. Mardge Cohen Receives the 2024 Gertrude Herzfeld Prize for Health Presented by the Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre and the Royal College of Surgeons of EdinburghOn 3 March 2024 at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Dr. Mardge Cohen, a prominent figure in HIV advocacy and women's health for over 45 years who serves as the Medical Director of Women Equity in AIDS Care and Treatment Rwanda (WE-ACT×) and practises at Boston Health Care for the Homeless, received the Third Biennial Herzfeld Prize. The award was presented by the official representative of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Kirsty Mozolowski; the Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, Professor David Argyle; Chair of EJCC, Janet Mundy; the Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, the Right Honourable Robert Aldridge, and his Consort, Dr. Colin Cunningham; and Chair of the Herzfeld Prize 2024, Hannah Handelman.The Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre and The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh proudly honour the memory and achievements of the pioneering surgeon who was the second female fellow and the first female practising fellow of the College, Dr. Gertrude Herzfeld (1890-1981). Dr. Herzfeld was one of the first female surgeons to work in Scotland and was a pioneering Jewish female paediatric surgeon in Edinburgh.The Herzfeld Prize Committee is most grateful to all of the supporters whose generosity has enabled us to honour an outstanding Jewish woman in health care:Dr David Argyle, Balmoral Hotel, Dr David Connan, Jan Cutting, Edinburgh Jewish Cultural Centre, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Professor Joe Goldblatt, Kate Goodwin, Dr David Grant, Hannah Handelman, Sarah Hutton, Dr Hynda Kleinman, Dr David Kluth, Adam and Keyeong Leven, Mike Leven, Harriet Lyall, Stephanie Mitchell, N. Dann Moss, Mariette Naud-Betteridge, Pace Print Edinburgh Ltd, Leon Pomerance, Hendersons Restaurant, Rachel Pomerance Berl, Mitch Pomerance, Jewish Renaissance Magazine, The Jewish Telegraph, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Hannah Schlesinger Brodie, Dr Arindam Sinha, Dr Eric Straka and Ten Hill Place Hotel

Rodge Glass is the award-winning author of eight books across fiction and nonfiction. His biography of Alasdair Gray, whose novel Poor Things has recently been adapted into a major new film, won a Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction. Now Rodge is about to publish his own autobiographical memoir, Joshua in the Sky, a chapter of which won the 2023 Anne Brown Essay Prize. Set across England and Scotland, the book tells the story of one man’s attempt to come to make sense of the death of his nephew from a rare blood condition both share. This is an edited version of David Ian Neville's interview with Rodge at the event Writers Live, Writing Lives on 18th February 2024 at Southside Community Centre in Edinburgh, supported by the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Fund and Netherlee & Clarkston Charitable Trust.Image courtesy of Alan Dimmick.

Sara Sheridan is a writer and activist who is interested particularly in female history. She has written more than 20 books. Truth or Dare, her first novel, received a Scottish Library Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire. In 2019 Sara remapped Scotland according to women’s history for Historic Environment Scotland – the resulting book Where are the Women was listed as one of the David Hume Institute’s Books of the Year 2019. In it, she imagined several monuments to the witches. In 2022 her novel The Fair Botanists was chosen as Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Year.This is an edited version of Rodge Glass’s interview with Sara at the event Writers Live, Writing Lives on 18th February 2024 at Southside Community Centre in Edinburgh, supported by the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Fund and Netherlee & Clarkston Charitable Trust.