Sari and Gary McWhir were among more than 400 students and young professionals enjoying Purim in Seville with the European Centre for Jewish Students.

The couple met at ECJS' Purim event in Milan in 2008 and are now married. They are expecting their first child this summer.

An international Israel advocacy organisation which arms students with material and information to help them stand up against anti-Israel speakers is expanding in the UK.

StandWithUs, set up in 2001 and with offices in America, Australia and Israel, aims to educate communities, campuses and the media through speakers and conferences.

The Union of Jewish Students has put together its new executive team to start work on campuses around the country later this year.

Dozens of candidates applied for the available positions, which cover all aspects of Jewish life on campus.

● St Andrews JSoc hosted its first Northern Region Weekend, welcoming students from universities across Scotland and north east England.

The weekend commenced with Friday night dinner, with both an Orthodox and a Progressive service available. After dinner students took to the beach for a game of frisbee.

A surprise party was held in honour of a popular university chaplain's decade of service.

Rabbi Gavin Broder has spent the past 10 years working to help thousands of Jewish students in London.

More than 120 current and former students took part in the evening, held in Golders Green earlier this month.

Finding a kosher meal while living away from home at university can often be a struggle - but not in Oxford.

Students in the city are able to tuck in to quality kosher meat meals thanks to a combined effort from UJS Hillel, the University Jewish Chaplaincy and the local community.