Death of a caretaker

I am sorry to report that on 21 Sept, our caretaker, Doug Marshall, passed away. Doug was 86 years old, and had been our caretaker for about 30 years (I don't know the exact time, different people tell me different things). During this time he helped our community in numerous ways, far too many to list here. Doug is survived by his wife Gladys, who will continue (at least for the moment) as a shul caretaker.

Doors Open Day, Rosh Hashanah

Summer is over, as always it is a very quiet time for our community. Unfortunately we are having problems with the cooker in our kitchen, which means we can't have a communal dinner, but hopefully this will get resolved soon.

On Sunday, 13 Sept, we opened the shul to the public as part of Doors Open Day; this is the second time we've done this. We had 150 visitors (who gave us over 100 pounds in donations), which was really nice, and shows that there are plenty of people in Aberdeen who are interested in the Jewish community. Many thanks to Debbie and Mark for organising this!

Rosh Hashanah services started on Friday night (18 Sep). Rabbi Eli Kohn once again agreed to come up from London to lead our High Holiday services, which was much appreciated! We had 30 people on Friday night and over 40 on Saturday morning, which is a very good turnout for the Aberdeen Hebrew Community. One of our members, Sarah, organised children's events on Saturday morning during the service, and we had around 15 children there, which was wonderful; its nice to see so many children in the shul!