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Creative Scotland has awarded a £50,000 grant to a SCoJeC-sponsored documentary photography project by Judah Passow, to record and celebrate Jewish life in Scotland.
http://www.scojec.org/news/2012/12xii_photos/photos.html

Yesterday the UK Foreign Office called in the Israeli Ambassador for a dressing-down after Foreign Secretary Hague condemned the Israeli announcement of plans for 3,000 more homes in the Disputed Territories and the intention to approve planning and zoning for the area of E1 (an area between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim).

It seems that Hague’s unambiguous condemnation of Hamas for forcing Israel to embark on Defensive Pillar was too good to last - the FCO Arabists bayed for red meat and promptly got it.

Just who does Hague think he’s kidding?

The new issue of "Four Corners" (no. 36) is out now! Read it at
http://www.scojec.org/4cs/4cs.html

MEMO 330 A weekly overview of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.
http://www.scojec.org/memo/2012/memo_330_3_december_2012.pdf

Vayishlach 5773

Unresolved endings have long been a feature of literature and film. When Charles Dickins first wrote Great Expectations, a friend complained that the ending was too sad, Pip resigning himself to a single life and Estella marrying someone else. So Dickens wrote another much happier and sentimental ending. Now the writer of the new screenplay, David Nicholls has written his own ending in which Pip and Estella end up together but not so clearly happy.

On radio 4’s Today programme yesterday morning, Sarah Montague introduced a discussion asking whether it is okay to “mess around with the ending of a book” in particular to tie up loose ends. The theatre director and journalist, Imogen Russell Williams argues that she likes such an ending so that her mind is not left like a ‘pin-ball machine, zinging away’ with all the potential endings. She admits that this is a rather ‘lazy’ path. Crime writer, Mark Billingham, suggests that the ending that the original writer commits to is precisely what they want, if so, to leave it unresolved and to leave us with a degree of discomfort.

SCoJeC joined Scottish Jewish Student Chaplaincy this week in a delegation to Edinburgh University to protest at their failure to take adequate steps to protect the rights of Jewish students.
http://www.scojec.org/news/2012/12xi_eu/eu.html

SCoJeC Director Ephraim Borowski wrote "A fine conceit?" for the annual STUC anti-racism brochure.
http://www.scojec.org/pov/stuc/12_st_andrews_day.pdf

http://www.americanthinker.com/video/2012/11/color_red_israeli_kids_lear...

Meanwhile here's what Palestinian children are offered:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=VIi25L4Uavk&NR=1