JHSE joins the Jewish Small Communities network

JHSE is pleased to announce that we have recently joined the Jewish Small Communities Network, which is a charity registered in 2016, with its roots as a project founded in 2003.

JSCN serves and advocates for 100 small Jewish communities across 72 towns and remote families around the UK that fall outside the main Jewish conurbations of London, Manchester and Leeds. This represents around 65,000 people, or 25% of the UK Jewish population. JSCN brings people together to share experiences and ideas; promotes resilience through enriching leadership; and works to connect Jews to the support they deserve, enabling them to lead a rich Jewish life wherever they live. To do this, JSCN collaborates with a wide range of Jewish and non-Jewish organisations and statutory bodies, along with those of all different faiths or none. (From the JSCN website -https://jscn.org.uk/)

JHSE plans to cooperate with JSCN in arranging talks, and other events, and in chronicling the history of some of the smaller Jewish Communities, particularly those that developed as a result of unusual local circumstances, such as wartime evacuations to small towns, often in rural or coastal locations where there had not previously been a Jewish Community. If this research is of interest to you, please contact info@jhse.org, or Stuart Diamond at stuart@jscn.org.uk