General Information

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Food

• You can check if a food is kosher at https://www.kosher.org.uk/

• Sainsburys Garthdee has a (very) small amount of Kosher food in its World Food section.  Mark's Deli in Glasgow is the only kosher deli in Scotland (they can deliver to Aberdeen).

• You can buy kosher food online from sites such as https://koshercity.co/ , https://www.sabeny.com/, and  https://israelifooddirect.com/

• There are no explicitly kosher restaurants in Aberdeen.  However there many excellent vegetarian restaurants, such as Foodstory

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History of the Aberdeen Jewish Community

• Aberdeen Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1893. It became the Aberdeen Synagogue and Jewish Community Centre in 2016 (Wikipedia entry)

• The best history of the community is the chapter on Aberdeen in Nathan Abram's book Caledonian Jews.

• Aberdeen University has a summary of the history of Judaica at the university.

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Jewish Visitors to Aberdeen

• Visitors are welcome at our events! Please email aberdeensynagogue@gmail.com if you wish to attend an event.  Note that we rarely get minyans outside of holidays and special events..

• In some cases Jewish visitors can stay in a flat in our building.  Contact us for more information.

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Religious

• There is no rabbi at Aberdeen.  Sometimes rabbis visit us, but otherwise services are led by members of the community

• There is no mikvah in Aberdeen.

• We are very grateful to the Memorial Scrolls Trust for letting use of one of their Torah scrolls, MST 323 (originally from Bohemia and Moravia)

• Shabbat candle-lighting times are available from Chabad and Hebcal

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Useful Organisations​​

• Scottish Council of Jewish Communities - Information about Jewish life, events, etc throughout Scotland

• University Jewish Society - open to students from all universities and colleges in the area